ANU SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
22 January, 2009 (Thursday, 12:00 noon~1:30 pm)

ICTs and Global Working in a Non-Flat World

This presentation will reject the hypothesis of Thomas Friedman that ICT-enabled globalisation is driving us towards a flat world. Instead, it will be argued that the world remains uneven, full of seams, culturally heterogeneous, locally specific, inequitable, not well-integrated and constantly changing. This argument will be supported by an analysis of three areas of ICT-enabled global working, namely global software outsourcing, global IS roll-out and global virtual teams. The presentation will then build on these analyses to put forward an agenda for future IS research on ICTs and global working based on three research themes: identity and cross-cultural working; globalisation, localisation and standardisation; and power, knowledge and control.

Speaker: Professor Geoff Walsham
Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK.
Time/Date: 12.00 noon - 1.30 pm, Thursday, 22 January, 2009
Location: Faculty Suite, 1st floor, H.W. Arndt Building #25a, Followed by light lunch, Room 2110, Crisp Building #26
Cost: No charge
RSVP: Laura.Fitzgibbon, by Wednesday 21 January, 2009
TEL: (02) 6125 8078
Email: Laura.Fitzgibbon@anu.edu.au

Professor Geoff Walsham

Geoff Walsham is Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. His previous academic posts were at the University of Lancaster in the UK, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and Mindanao State University in the Philippines. He was one of the pioneers of the interpretive approach to information systems research. His research interests include globalization and ICTs, IS in developing countries, knowledge management and software outsourcing.

Reference: Walsham, G. (2008) ‘ICTs and global working in a non-flat world’ in Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century, edited by M. Barrett, E. Davidson, C. Middleton and J.L. DeGross, Springer, New York, pp 13-25.

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