Dr Will Venters' Publications

Journal Publications

Venters,W and Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou,A (2012 - Forthcoming) "Interventionist Grid Development Projects: A research framework based on three frames." Information Technology and People.

 

Zheng,Y.,W. Venters and T. Cornford (2011) "Agility, Paradox and Organizational Improvisation: The Development of a Particle Physics Grid" Information Systems Journal 21(4) 303-333. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2010.00360.x

 

Venters, W (2010) "Knowledge Management Technology-in-Practice: A social constructionist analysis of the introduction and use of Knowledge Management Systems" Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP).8(1) 161-172 DOI:10.1057/kmrp.2010.8

 

Mitev, NN., W. Venters. (2009) Reflexive Evaluation of an Academic-Industry Research Collaboration: Can Mode 2 Management Research be Achieved? Journal of Management Studies 46(5) 733-754. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1410339 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00846.x

 

Venters,W. & E. Ferneley (2009) "Editorial: To codify or collaborate: Introduction to the special issue on Knowledge Management and e-Research technologies" Knowledge Management Research and Practice 7(3) 192-195.

 

Venters,W. & B. Wood (2007) "Degenerative structures which inhibit communities of practice: A case study of the British Council". Information Systems Journal, 17(4), 349-368. version available here

 

Venters, W. (2006). The use of Technology within Knowledge Management: A Review. Journal of Intelligent Systems. 15(1-4) 329-356. ISSN 0334-1860.

 

Venters, W., T. Cornford and M. Cushman (2005). "Knowledge about Sustainability: SSM as a Method for Conceptualising the UK Construction Industry's Knowledge Environment." Journal of Computing and Information Technology 13(2) 137-148. ISSN: 1330-1136.  http://cit.zesoi.fer.hr/browseIssue.php?issue=10 

Industry Articles and Consulting Reports

E. Meyer, M. Bulger, A. Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, L. Power, P. Williams, W. Venters, M. Terras, S. Wyatt (2012) "Collaborative yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences" Research Information Network. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1991753

 

Willcocks,L, W. Venters, E. Whitley, J. Hindle (2011) "Understanding the Business Impacts of Cloud Computing", European Business Review, September-October, 66-67. http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4587

 

Willcocks,L., W. Venters, E. Whitley (2011) Cloud and the Future of Business: From Cost to Innovation. Accenture. (4 reports: Part 1: Promise. Part 2: Challenges. Part 3: Impact. Part 4:Innovation. Part 5: Management)

 

Willcocks,L., E. Whitley, W. Venters (2010) "The Coming of the Cloud Corporation". Accenture Outlook, No. 2. December. http://www.accenture.com/Outlook

 

Book Chapters

Lichtner,V. Venters,W (2011) Journey to DOR: A retro science-fiction story on researching ePrescribing. IFIP 8.2. Researching the Future. Chiasson, M., Henfridsson,O (Eds.). Springer.

 

Pearce, S. Venters, W (2011) How particle physicists constructed the world's largest grid: A case study in participatory cultures. Routledge Handbook of Participatory Cultures. D. Aaron and J Henderson (Eds), Routledge.

 

Scott,SV, Venters,W (2007) The Practice of e-Science and e-Social Science: Method, Theory, and Matter.  IFIP 8.2. Virtuality and Virtualization. Crowston, K., Sieber, S., Wynn, E. (Eds.), Vol. 236ISBN: 978-0-387-73024-0, Springer.

 

Working Papers and Thesis

Zheng, Y., W. Venters, T. Cornford (2007) "Distributed Development and Scaled Agility: Improvising a Grid for Particle Physics" (LSE working paper 163 -http://is2.lse.ac.uk/wp/pdf/wp163.pdf ).

 

Kyriakidou, A., W. Venters (2007) "The Multi-Disciplinary Development of Collaborative Grids: The Social Shaping of Mammogrid", London School of Economics Working Paper Series - 154, London: http://is2.lse.ac.uk/wp/pdf/wp154.pdf ISSN 1472-9601

 

Scott, SV., W. Venters (2006) "The Practice of e-Science and e-Social Science: Method, December, Theory and Matter", London School of Economics Working Paper Series - 151, London: http://is2.lse.ac.uk/wp/pdf/wp151.pdf ISSN 1472-9601

 

Venters,W. (2006) "Software Engineering: Theory and Practice" University of London External Programme Subject Guide, UK. First three chapters available here

 

Venters,W (2003 - viva in Feb 2004) The Introduction of Knowledge Management Technology within the British Council: An Action Research Study. University of Salford PhD Thesis. Available online here

 

Venters,W. M. Cushman, T. Cornford (2002), "Creating Knowledge for Sustainability: Using SSM for Describing Knowledge Environments and Conceptualising Technological Interventions" March, London School of Economics Working Paper Series - 107, London: http://is2.lse.ac.uk/wp/pdf/WP107.PDF ISSN 1472-9601

 

Venters,W (2001) Review of the literature on Knowledge Management . C-SanD Working Paper: http://www.c-sand.org.uk/Documents/WP1001-02-KMLitRev.pdf

Conference Publications

 

Willcocks, L, W. Venters, E. Whitley (2012) "Cloud Sourcing: Implications for Managing The IT Function" Global Sourcing Workshop, Courchevel France.

 

Lichtner V, D. Petrakaki, R. Hibberd,W. Venters, T. Cornford, N Barber (2010) Mapping stakeholders for system evaluation - the case of the Electronic Prescription Service in England 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics Cape Town, South Africa

 

Kyriakidou, A. W. Venters (2009) Distributed large-scale systems development: Exploring the
collaborative development of the particle physics Grid. 5th International conference on e-Social Science, Cologne.

 

Zheng, Y., W. Venters.,T. Cornford (2009) Social capital in distributed system development: A case of grid development in particle physics. In 17th European Conference on Information Systems (Newell S, Whitley EA, Pouloudi N, Wareham J, Mathiassen L eds.), 2912-2923, Verona, Italy. (ISBN 978-88-6129-391-5)
 

Kyriakidou, A., W. Venters (2008) Distributed development of large-scale global systems: Exploring the collaborative practices of particle physicists as they develop a Grid for the LHC. OASIS - IFIP 8.2, Paris.

 

Venters, W., Cornford, T., Zheng, Y (2008) Grids: A Knowledge Infrastructure requiring a Knowledge Infrastructure. UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM2008).

 

Zheng,Y., Venters,W., Cornford.T (2007) Agility, Improvisation, or Enacted Emergence. International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, Canada. (Best Paper Finalist)
 

Venters,W., Zheng,Y., Cornford,T. (2007) Collaborative construction of grid technology: Researching the usability of Grids within Particle Physics. Third International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan US.

 

Kyriakidou, A., Venters, W (2007) The Multi-Disciplinary Development of Collaborative Grids: The Social Shaping of a Grid for Healthcare 15th European Conference on Information Systems, St Gallen, Switzerland. (Nominated for best paper award). Available Here

 

Venters,W., Giustiniano,L., Lundell,B., Pries-Heje,J.,Rowe,F (2006) Post-PhD Research - The Trails and Tribulations of Beginning Post-Doctoral Research Following a PhD. Panel  at the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden. Available Here

 

Venters,W., Cornford,T. (2006) Introducing Pegasus: An ethnographic research project studying the use of Grid technologies by the UK particle Physics Community. Second International Conference on e-Social Science, 28-30 June 2006, Manchester, UK. Available here.

 

Mondale, J., Scott,SV., Venters,W (2006) Knowledge Management as an Image of the Organization: Industry Standards and the Processes of Knowing in Credit Risk Management Paper to be presented at the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden. Available Here

 

Venters,W (2006) Knowledge Management: The fad that forgot technology. International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC), Warwick, March 2006.

 

Venters, W., & Wood, B. (2005, 17-19 March, 2005). Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities in action: The case of the British Council. Paper presented at the The Sixth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities, Bentley College, Boston,MA.

 

Venters, W., Darking, M., Light, B., Heje, J. P., & Lundell, B. (2005). Panel: Jumping the high-jump and landing in the sand - the issues involved in moving from being a Ph.D student to being a full member of the is community. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference on Information Systems (Bartmann D, Rajola F, Kallinikos J, Avison D, Winter R, Ein-Dor P, Becker J, Bodendorf F, Weinhardt C eds.), Regensburg, Germany. (ISBN 3-937195-09-2) Available here.

 

Cushman, M. and W. Venters (2004). Making Sense of Rich Pictures: Combining SSM and Oval Mapping. Operational Research Society 46th Annual Conference (OR46), University of York, The OR Society.

 

Mitev, N and Venters, W (2004) Knowledge management practices for sustainable construction: Political tensions in engineering ICT knowledge tools in the private and public sectors. Information, Knowledge and Management Workshop, Bologna, Italy.

 

Venters, W. M. Cushman, T. Cornford (2003) Motility of Practiced Knowledge : An Exploration Within the UK Construction Industry. Organisational Knowledge Learning and Capabilities Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

 

Venters, W and T. Cornford (2003) A Prologue For Knowledge Management : The Case of Sustainable Construction Practice. C-SanD Working Paper Available Here

 

Venters, W. T. Cornford, M. Cushman (2002), The Motility of Construction Knowledge. E-Smart and CISEMIC Conference, Salford, UK. Available Here

 

Venters, W. M. Cushman, T. Cornford. (2002), Creating Knowledge for Sustainability: Using SSM for Knowledge Mapping and Conceptualising Knowledge Systems. 3rd European Conference on Knowledge, Learning and Organisational Capabilities. Athens, Greece.

 

Cushman, M. and W. Venters (2002), Understanding Sustainability as Knowledge Practice. British Academy of Management Conference, London, United Kingdom.

 

Brophy, R. and W. Venters (2001), Work, the Workspace and Workspace portals. Cognitive Technologies: Instruments of Mind, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. p 421-431.

 

Venters, W., M. Khalid, et al. (2000), Working with a strategy: An action research project within the British Council. First European Conference on Knowledge Management, Bled, Slovenia.

 

Venters, W. and J.R.G. Wood (2000), Knowledge tools within a knowledge organisation. GEMISIS Millennium Conference, Salford, UK.

 

Venters, W. and J.R.G. Wood (2000), Knowledge tools within a knowledge organisation: How to support communication in a multinational organisation. UKAIS Conference, Cardiff, UK.

 

Venters, W. and J.R.G. Wood (1999), Sharing knowledge in large multinational organisations. BITWorld 99, Cape Town, South Africa.

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