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MIS40670 – The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
The book is a journal record of a computer engineering team in their quest to design the next generation computer Eclipse MV/8000 at a Silicon Valley minicomputer vendor called Data General in 1980. The book was published in 1981 and … Continue reading
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MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Collecting and Analysing Evidence
1.Scherer, F.M. (2001) ‘The Innovation Lottery’, in R. C. Dreyfuss, D. L. Zimmerman and H. First (eds.) Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [13MB!] 1.Scherer2001-The Innovaton Lottery 2.Orlikowski, Wanda J, … Continue reading
MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Writing Up and Presenting Research
1. Flyvbjerg, B. (2011) Case Study. IN DENZIN, N. K. & LINCOLN, Y. S. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1.Flyvbjerg2011-Sage Handbook Of Qualitative Research 2. Fitzgerald, B. & Howcroft, D. (1998) Towards … Continue reading
MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Research Ethics
1. March, James G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2(1), 71–87. 1.March1991-Exploration & Exploitation 2. Lazarsfeld, Paul F. (1935). The Art of Asking WHY in Marketing Research: Three Principles Underlying the Formulation of Questionnaires. National Marketing … Continue reading
MIS40670 – Readings: Architecture and Agility
Foote, B. & Yoder, J. (2000) Big Ball of Mud. IN HARRISON, N., FOOTE, B. & ROHNERT, H. (Eds.) Pattern languages of program design 4. Addison Wesley. FooteYodder_BigBallOfMud_1999 Beck, K. (1999) Embracing Change with Extreme Programming. Computer, 8. Beck_EmbracingChangeWithExtremeProgramming_1999 Foote … Continue reading
MIS40670 – IONA Case Studies
Allen provided the class with two case studies on IONA Technologies. IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991. The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, … Continue reading
MIS40910 – Critique – Dahlander, L. and Gann, D. M. (2010) ‘How open is innovation?’
The main motivation of the paper as remarked at its outset is to clarify the definitive of “openness” as currently used in the literature on open innovation and to re-conceptualize the idea for future research on the topic. To examine … Continue reading
MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Theory and Theorizing
1. Dahlander, L. and Gann, D. M. (2010) ‘How open is innovation?’, Research Policy, 39(6): 699-709. 1.Dahlander2010 – How open is Innovation 2. Wacker, J. G. (1998). A definition of theory: Research guidelines for different theory-building research methods in operations … Continue reading
MIS40910 – Skills for Business Enquiry – Rhetoric, Fallacies and Argument
1.Sutton, R. I. and Rafaeli, A. (1988) ‘Untangling the relationship between displayed emotions and organizational sales: The case of convenience stores’, The Academy of Management Journal, 31(3): 461-487. 1.Sutton1988-Untangling Emotions & Organisational Sales 2.Stearns, P. N. (2012) ‘The history of … Continue reading
MIS40670 – The Activity Checklist
The Activity Checklist – V. Kaptelinin, B. Nardi & C. Macaulay This paper presents a tool shaped by general theoretical approach of Activity Theory. Activity theory provides a broad theoretical framework for describing the structure, development, and context of human … Continue reading
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