Research interests and selected publications

The LSE Identity Project

• Whitley Edgar A. (2005) LSE Identity Project (Interim Report) (Research co-ordinator)
• Whitley Edgar A. (2005) LSE Identity Project (Main Report) (Research co-ordinator)
• Press coverage

Technology and regulation

• Whitley Edgar A. and Ian Hosein (2005) Policy discourse and data retention: The technology politics of surveillance in the United Kingdom. Telecommunications Policy 29(11), 857-874.
• Mlcakova Adela and Edgar A. Whitley (2004) Configuring peer-to-peer software: An empirical study of how users react to the regulatory features of software. European Journal of Information Systems 13(2), 95-102. (ISSN 0960-085X)
• Hosein Ian, Prodromos Tsiavos and Edgar A. Whitley (2003) Regulating Architecture and Architectures of Regulation: Contributions from Information Systems. International Review of Computing Law and Technology 17(1), 85-97. (ISSN 1360-0869)
• Tsiavos Prodromos, Ian Hosein and Edgar A. Whitley (2003) The footprint of regulation: How information systems are affecting the sources of control in a global economy. In Organizational information systems in the context of globalization (Korpela Mikko, Ramiro Montealegre and Angeliki Poulymenakou eds.), 355-370, Kluwer, Athens, Greece. (ISBN 1-4020-7488-3)
• Hosein Ian and Edgar A. Whitley (2002) The regulation of electronic commerce: learning from the UK's RIP act. Journal of Strategic Information Systems 11(1), 31-58. (ISSN 0963-8687)
• Tsiavos Prodromos, Edgar A. Whitley and Ian Hosein (2002) An exploration of the emergence, development and evolution of regulatory characteristics of Information Systems. In 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (Applegate Linda, Robert D. Galliers and Janice I. De Gross eds.), Barcelona, Spain.
• Whitley Edgar A. and Ian Hosein (2001) Doing politics around electronic commerce: Opposing the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill. In Realigning Research and Practice in IS Development: The Social and Organisational Perspective (Russo Nancy, Brian Fitzgerald and Janice I. De Gross eds.), 415-438, Kluwer, Boise, Idaho. (ISBN 0-7923-7420-7)

Actor-Network Theory

• Whitley Edgar A. and Athanasia Pouloudi (2001) Studying the translations of NHSnet. Journal of End User Computing 13(3), 30-40. (ISSN 1063-2239)
• Pouloudi Athanasia and Edgar A. Whitley (2000) Representing human and non-human stakeholders: On speaking with authority. In Organizational and social perspectives on information technology (Baskerville Richard, Jan Stage and Janice I De Gross eds.), 339-354, Kluwer, Aalborg, Denmark. (ISBN 0-7923-7836-9)
• Whitley Edgar A. (1999) Understanding participation in entrepreneurial organisations: Some hermeneutic readings. Journal of information technology 14(2), 193-202. (ISSN 0268-3962)

Philosophically and sociologically based interpretations of information systems

• Whitley Edgar A. and Mary Darking (2006) Object lessons and invisible technologies. Journal of information technology
• Whitley Edgar A. (2005) Visiting the red-light zones with Claudio. European Journal of Information Systems 14(5), 477-479. (ISSN 0960-085X)
• Cadili Sarah and Edgar A. Whitley (2005) On the interpretative flexibility of hosted ERP systems. Journal of Strategic Information Systems 14(2), 167-195. (ISSN 0963-8687)
• Wynn Eleanor H., Edgar A. Whitley, Michael D. Myers and Janice I. De Gross (eds) (2003) Global and organisational discourse about information technology Kluwer, Boston. (ISBN 1-4020-7325-9)
• Lee Heejin and Edgar A. Whitley (2002) Special issue on Time and information technology: Temporal impacts on individuals, organizations, and society. The Information Society 18(4), (ISSN 0197-2243)
• Whitley Edgar A. and Lucas D. Introna (1998) Special issue on Heidegger and information technology. Information technology and people 11(4), (ISSN 0959-3845)

Stakeholder analysis

• Pouloudi Athanasia and Edgar A. Whitley (1997) Stakeholder identification in inter-organizational systems: Gaining insights for drug use management systems. European journal of information systems 6(1), 1-14. (ISSN 0960-085X)

Use of methods in systems development

• Whitley Edgar A. (1998) Method-ism in practice: Investigating the relationship between method and understanding in web page design. In 19th International Conference on Information Systems (Hirschheim Rudy, Michael Newman and Janice I De Gross eds.), 68-75, ICIS, Helsinki, Finland.
• Introna Lucas D. and Edgar A. Whitley (1997) Against method-ism: Exploring the limits of method. Information technology and people 10(1), 31-45. (ISSN 0959-3845)

Research methodology

• Introna Lucas D. and Edgar A. Whitley (2000) About experiments and style: A critique of laboratory research in information systems. Information technology and people 13(3), 161-173. (ISSN 0959-3845)
• Introna Lucas D. and Edgar A. Whitley (1997) Imagine: Thought experiments in information systems research? In Information systems and qualitative research (Lee Allen S., Jonathan Liebenau and Janice I. De Gross eds.), 481-496, Chapman and Hall, Philadelphia. (ISBN 0-412-82360-8)

The Information Systems community

• Avison David, Karlheinz Kautz, Marianna Sigala, Edgar A. Whitley and Robert Winter (2005) Becoming engaged with conferences: Reputations and networks. Communications of the AIS 16(46), 895-903. (ISSN 1529-3181)
• Whitley Edgar A., Sandra Sieber, Cristina Cáliz, Mary Darking, Chiara Frigerio, Edoardo Jacucci, Anna Nöteberg and Michael Rill (2004) What is it like to do an Information Systems PhD in Europe? Diversity in the practice of IS research. Communications of the AIS 13(21), 317-335. (ISSN 1529-3181)
• Galliers Robert D. and Edgar A. Whitley (2002) An Anatomy of European Information Systems Research ECIS 1993-ECIS 2002: Some Initial Findings. In 10th European Conference on Information Systems, (Wrycza S ed.) 3-18, Gdansk, Poland. (ISBN 83-7326-077-3)

Student diversity and academic writing

• Hayes Niall, Lucas D. Introna and Edgar A. Whitley (2005) Plagiarism, values and computing: differing cultural expectations of academic work in information systems education. In Proceedings of the BEST Conference Ealing, London. (ISBN 3-937195-09-2)