Professor John Gammack

B Science (Hons), PhD

Professor, Griffith Business School

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Research expertise

  • Knowledge modelling and knowledge management
  • Information systems development processes
  • Decision making in complex organisations and communities
  • Internet enabled business
  • IT and tourism
  • Perception

Current teaching areas

  • Business informatics
  • Applied management project
  • Organisational processes
  • Business intelligence systems

Publications

Books

  • Donald, S.H. and Gammack, J.G., 2007, Tourism and the branded city, Ashgate London.
  • Gammack, J., Hobbs,V., and Pigott, D., 2006, The book of Informatics, Thomson Melbourne.

Monographs

  • Gammack, J.G. and Barker, M.E. 'Democracy and public participation: a global overview of policy and activity'. Confidential research report commissioned by Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet, 57 pages 2003.
  • Gammack, J., Amaya C.M., Chu, K. and Chanpayom, B. 2004, 'Development Needs of Small to Medium Size Tourism Enterprises'. Research report commissioned by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation International centre for Sustainable Tourism, 353 pages.

Refereed journal articles and book chapters

  • Shah Jahan Miah, Don Kerr, John Gammack and Tom Cowan, 'A Generic Design Environment for the Rural Industry Knowledge Acquisition', in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 7 April 2008.
  • Miah, Shah J., Kerr, Don and Gammack, John, 2007, 'A methodology to allow rural extension professionals to build target-specific expert systems for Australian rural business operators', Expert Systems with Applications.
  • Gammack, J.G., 2006, 'Wine Tourism and Sustainable Development in regional Australia', in J. Carlsen and S. Charters, editors, Global Wine Tourism. pp59-66, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International, Wallingford.
  • Donald, S.H. and Gammack, J.G., 2006, 'Competing Regions: The Chromatics of the Urban Fix'. In Marchetti, G. and Tan, K., editors, Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: Routledge.
  • Twati, J.M. and Gammack, J.G., 2006, 'The impact of organisational culture innovation on the adoption of IS/IT: The case of Libya', Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 19 (2) 175-91.
  • Sawyer, K. and Gammack, J., 2006, 'Developing and Analysing Core Competencies for Alignment with Strategy', International Journal of Knowledge Management 2 (1) 58-71.
  • Gammack, J. and Denby, E., 2006, 'The true hue of grue'. New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 24, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 82-97.
  • Gammack, John and Hemelryk, Donald S. Hemelryk, 2006, 'Collaborative Methods in Researching City Branding: Studies from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney', Tourism Culture and Communication, Volume 6, Number 3, 2006, pp. 171-180(10).
  • Donald, S. Hemelryk and J. Gammack, 2005, 'Drawing Sydney: Flatlands, Chromatics and the Cinematic Contours of a World’s Global City'.
  • Pigott, D.J., Hobbs, V.J. and Gammack, J.G., 2005, 'The Noetic prism'. Computing and Information Systems Journal, vol 9 (2) 478-488.
  • Gammack, J.G. and Hodkinson, C., 2004, 'Virtual reality, involvement and the consumer interface', chapter 9 in Mo Adam Mahmood Advanced Topics in End User Computing, Volume 3, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA. Reprinted from Journal of End User Computing, 15, 4, October-December, 80-98.
  • Gammack, John, Desai, Pranay, Sandhu, Kuldeep and Winklhofer, Heidi, 2004, 'Knowledge Management in Indian Companies: Benchmarking the Pharmaceutical Industry', Chapter 18 In Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations, edited by Dr. Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Dr. Jatinder, N. D. Gupta and Dr. Sushil K. Sharma. 235-253 Idea Group.
  • Rowe, G. and Gammack, J., 2004, 'Promise and perils of electronic public engagement'. Science and Public Policy, 31, (1) 39-54.
  • Pigott, D., Gammack. J. and Hobbs, V., 2003, 'The cat’s cradle network', Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, Vol. 2, No. 2 87-92.

Refereed conference papers

  • Miah, Shah J., Gammack, John and Kerr, Don, 2007, 'Ontology Development for Context-Sensitive Decision Support', in Third International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Xian China, October. 475-478 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3007-9 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SKG.2007.98.
  • Miah, S.J., Kerr, D. and Gammack, J., 2006, 'Development Of A Design Environment For End Users To Build Target-Relevant Decision Support Tools In Rural Industry'. In Ruth, A., editor, Quality and Impact of Qualitative Research. 3rd annual QualIT Conference, Brisbane, Australia: Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University.
  • Miah, S.J., Kerr, D. and Gammack, J., 2006, 'A Design Environment Ontology for Stakeholder-developed Decision Support Tools in the Australian Dairy Industry', in Koronios et al., editors, Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 6-8 December 2006, Adelaide CD.
  • Jewels, T., Gammack, J. and Heredero, C. de Pablos, 2006, 'Culture and Knowledge Sharing in University Internet-based Networks', in Burstein, F. and Linger, H., editors, The Local and the Global in Knowledge management : why culture matters, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty
  • Pigott, D., Hobbs, V. and Gammack, J., 2006, 'A Knowledge Development lifecycle for reflective practice', proceedings of the 9th Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support, Melbourne, December 11-12.
  • Duxbury-Smith, P. and Gammack, J.G., 2005, 'Forgetting the Local Knowledge Model – A Fundamental Problem for Autonomic Communications in Future Generation Networks', proceedings of Workshop on Autonomic Systems, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh.
  • Sawyer, K. and Gammack, J., 2005, 'Core competency analysis for knowledge strategy'. Proceedings of Australian Conference for Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support, Melbourne
  • Gammack, J., 2005, 'National ICT policy and regional small business development: Australia and Thailand' in Madden, Gary, Editor; International Telecommunications Society Africa–Asia–Australasia Regional Conference Proceedings- ICT Networks: Building Blocks for Economic Development ISBN 0-646-42493-9, 01 August 2005, CD-ROM, Publisher: CEEM. Curtin University.
  • Gammack, J. and Goulding, P., 2004, 'Community issues with a local government portal', Sudweeks and Ess, Editors, proceedings of Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 04, Karlstad. Murdoch University. 454-468 ISBN 0869058622.
  • Gammack, J. and Donald, S.H., 2004, 'Establishing identity: collaborative methodologies in film and tourism', proceedings of International Tourism and Media Conference, Latrobe University Nov 26-8 extended abstract p54.
  • Kerr, D. Gammack, J. and Khan, J., 2004, 'A comparative study of private and public sector attitudes to and deployment of knowledge management in Australia', in Burstein, F. and Linger, H., Editors, Managing Knowledge with Technology. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
  • Pigott, D., Hobbs, V. and Gammack, J., 2004, 'Just below the surface: developing knowledge management systems using the paradigm of the noetic prism', in Burstein, F. and Linger, H., editors, Managing Knowledge with Technology. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
  • Twati, J.M. and Gammack, J.G., 2004, 'The impact of organisational culture innovation on the adoption of IS:The case of Libya', in M. Radaideh, editor, proceedings International Research Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, 4-6 October.
  • Gammack. J., 2004, 'Business development needs for sustaining Australian wine tourism', International Wine Tourism Conference, Margaret River, May (CD) edited by Jack Carlsen, Curtin University.
  • Donald, S. and Gammack, J., 2004, 'Branding Cities: a case study of collaborative methodologies in Cultural, Film, and Marketing research', in Mark Gibson, Debbie Rodan, Felicity Newman, Ron Blaber, Wendy Parkins, Geoffrey Craig and Christina Gordon, Proceedings of Cultural Studies Association of Australia, conference, Perth, December.
  • Hobbs, V., Pigott, D. and Gammack, J., 2003, 'Inaccuracy, ambiguity and irrelevance: An analysis of the nature of quality in knowledge management using the noetic prism', in Burstein, F. and Linger, H., editors, The Role of Quality in Knowledge Management. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 42-54.
  • Ohl, R., Greenhill, A. and Gammack, J., 2003, 'Managing the Integration of a Management System into a Virtual Private Network', in Jo Hanisch, Don Falconer, Sam Horrocks, Mathew Hillier, editors. Proceedings of 7th Pacific Asian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, 2003, (7th PACIS) p310-331 Adelaide: University of South Australia.

Other published contributions

  • Gammack, J., 2006, 'Designing Service Environments for Virtual Scene Applications', p. 85, Second International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge, and Grid, Guilin, November 1-3, 2006.
  • Gammack, J., 2005, 'A slogan for Golden Bay'. Golden Bay Good times, April 2005 page 9.
  • Gammack, J., 2005, 'Tourism and Media', review of conference, Annals of Tourism Research, 32 (4) 1148-1149.
  • Gammack, J., 2005, 'Turismo y medios de comunicación', Annals of Tourism Research en Español 7 (2) 450-452.
  • Gammack, J., 2005, 'E-research methods and information systems', The Information Institute International Symposium on research methods, Sydney, November.
  • Gammack, J. and Hemelryk, Donald. S., 2004, 'Images of Cities: a psychological method for mapping conceptual understandings'. Talk given at Fulbright Symposium, Hong Kong/Hollywood at the borders, Hong Kong/Macau, April 1-5, accompanying paper in preparation.
  • Gammack, J., 2004, 'Colour and the City: Sydney', in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, convenor, Creative Cities: Cinema and The Built Environment Symposium, Qeensland University of Technology, October 2003 p42-48 ISBN 1 74107 061 9.
  • Teoh, S.N. and Gammack, J., 2003, 'The labour response to eGovernment: silence, complacency or opportunity for action', in Bowden, B. and Kellett, J., editors, Transforming Labour: Proceedings of 8th national labour history conference, Brisbane, October 3-5. Brisbane Labour History Association p358-361.

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