My recent research focuses on three areas: the digitalisation and reorganization of large companies, emerging markets, development and information and communication technologies; and the managing of religious minorities at work. I am interested in supervising PhDs in these areas.
Since 2009 I have been chair of the international IFIP9.4 group on ICTs and Development. The website for latest information can be accessed http://www.ifipwg94.org/
I am a member of the Organisation and Society Group in the School; a member of the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) and the Centre for Development Informatics within the University of Manchester.
Teaching
In 2011-2012 I am teaching:
BMAN31420 Global Management, People and the Digital Divide (20 credits) Final Year Students - all programmes
BMAN30180 Business Information Systems Projects (30 credits) Final Year BSc. AMAIS Students
BMAN 72152 Digital Technologies, Development, and Emerging Markets (15 credits) Masters programmes
Global Management, People and the Digital Divide (Singapore Programme)
My room is D37 MBS East and my office hours are 11-1 on Mondays. Please email for an appointment.
Research Projects
My most recent funded research project has looked at the role of Islamic staff in large organisation and their use of technologies to regulate their prayer patterns. This was completed in July 2011 and was funded by a small grant from the Fairness at Work Programmed (£800 (with Heba El-Sayed and Anita Greenhill). My previous funded research project was entitled 'Adopting Web 2.0 collaborative technologies in business: The implications for Management accountants' funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) (£36.5k) (with Heba El-Sayed) which ran between January 2009 and June 2010. The focus on this study was the transformative/disruptive effects attributed to Web2.0 and how management accountants in three large companies in the UK act, react and reassess their expertise.
Recent funded research projects include
2007-2008 Women in Shared Services in North West England funded by European Social Fund (£154k) (with Debra Howcroft (joint PI) and Susanne Langer).
2003-2006 The role of ICT based practices in business knowledge preocesses, part of the ESRC Evolution of Business Knowledge Programme (£86k) PI (with Theo Vurdubakis (Lancaster), Damian O'Doherty (MBS) and Hannah Knox (CRESC, Manchester).
Current PhD Supervision
Fani Dima (2010 -) On technologies, development and social enterprise (with Richard Duncombe)
Mostafa Mohamed (2009 -) ICTs, micro entreprises and m-banking in Egypt (with Heba El-Sayed)
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