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March 24, 2008
Geoff Walsham, a professor of management studies at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, will present a seminar at LSU focused on how global organizations design computer-based systems for knowledge sharing. The seminar will take place Monday, April 7, 2008 from 10:30 a.m. to12:00 p.m. in Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Room 1116, and Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Tureaud Hall, Room 221.
During the seminar, a case study of leading pharmaceutical company GP will be analyzed through the theoretical lens of third-generation activity theory. Some theoretical and practical implications will be discussed and additional material will be drawn from the following published paper: ‘Balancing local knowledge within global organizations through computer-based systems: an activity theory approach’ by Joshi, S., Barrett, M., Walsham, G. and Cappleman, S. (2007). The paper was published in the Journal of Global Information Management.
Walsham, in addition to his duties at Cambridge, has held various academic posts at the University of Lancaster in the U.K., the University of Nairobi in Kenya and Mindanao State University in the Philippines. He was one of the early pioneers of interpretive approaches to research on information systems, and his publications include ‘Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations’ and ‘Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context.’
For more information about this event, contact Julianna Dawes Richard at jrichard@lsu.edu.
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