Dr Luke Houghton

B Business Information Systems, M Business Research, PhD

Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Dr Luke Houghton

Research expertise

  • Real world 'messy' problem solving
  • Perspective shifting as problem solving
  • Feral systems
  • The role of management practice in the development of enterprise systems,
  • The use of web 2.0 technologies in teaching practice and systems thinking as it applies to management theorising

Current teaching areas

  • Business informatics
  • Information policy and governance
  • Mobile workforce technologies

Publications

Refereed journal articles

  • Kerr, D. V., Houghton, L. and Burgess K., 2007, 'Power Relationships That Lead To The Development Of Feral Systems', Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 141-152.
  • Houghton, L. and Kerr, D., 2006, 'A study into the creation of feral information systems as a response to an enterprise resource planning systems implementation within the supply chain of a large government-owned corporation', International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 135-147.
  • Houghton, L. and Ledington, P., 2004, 'The Engagement Approach to Real-World Problem Solving: Towards a coherent Soft-Systems-based theoretical platform for real-world problem solving', Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 497-510.

Refereed conference papers

  • Hobson, D., Kerr D., Burgess K. and Houghton L., 2005, 'The inefficiencies and excess's of enterprise resource planning systems', Excess and Organization: Proceedings of SCOS XXIII: Stockholm 2005, Stockholm Sweden.
  • Gururajan, R., Kerr, D., Moloney, C. and Houghton, L., 2005, 'An investigation into the factors of adoption of wireless applications for data management by nurses', Asia-Pacific Decision Sciences Institute 10th Conference, Taiwan.
  • Kerr, D., Hobson, D., Burgess, K. and Houghton, L., 2005, 'Enterprise resource planning systems Implementations - the pitfalls of a positivist outlook', Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of Asia-Pacific Decision Sciences Institute, Taiwan.
  • Burgess, K. and Houghton, L., 2005, 'The role of information technology in innovation within Supply Chains: is the research framework the problem', 4th Annual Critical Management Studies Conference Proceedings, Cambridge, UK.
  • Houghton, L., Kerr, D. and Burgess, K., 2004, 'SAP - is it systematic research bias, which is to blame for such post implementation disappointment?', 15th Australian Conference on Information Systems 2004. Managing New Wave Information Systems: Enterprise, Government and Society, Hobart Tasmania.

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