A/Dip Business, BCom, MInfSys, GCHigherEd, PhD
Contact details for Dr Dale Mackrell
Research expertise
- Business and IT alignment
- Technology transfer in Australian cotton industry
- Knowledge-based decision support systems
- Information systems and gender
- Information systems and structuration theory
- Diffusion of innovations theory
Publications
Refereed journal articles
- Mackrell, D., Kerr, D. and von Hellens, L (2009). ?A qualitative case study of the adoption and use of an agricultural decision support system in the Australian cotton industry: the socio-technical view?, Decision Support Systems, 47(2) 143-153.
- Mackrell, D. (2005) 'We work as a team really': Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms, Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 2: 77-92.
- Gartshore, D. (2004) Communication and Cooperation: Technology Transfer on Australian Family Cotton Farms, Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 1: 443-454.
Book chapters
- Mackrell, D. (2006) Gender and the Use of DSS, in E. Trauth (Ed.), The Australian Cotton Industry, Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Hershey Pennsylvania USA: Idea Group Inc: 494-500.
Refereed conference papers
- Mackrell, D., von Hellens, L. and Nielsen, S. (accepted). ?Harnessing Diversity: Individual Differences in the Use of Farm Management Software?, accepted for the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, August 2009.
- Mackrell, D., and Boyle, M. (accepted). ?The Intersection of Farm Management Software and Gender on Australian Family Cotton Farms?, Interactive Paper at the Academy of Management Meeting (AOM), Chicago, Illinois. August 2009.
- Mackrell, D. (accepted). ?The Work Readiness of Master of Information Systems International Students at an Australian University: A Pilot Study?, Proceedings of the Informing Science and Information Technology Education Joint Conference (InSite), Macon, Georgia, June 2009.
- Mackrell, D. and von Hellens L. (2008). ?An Interpretive Study of Gender Differences in the Use of Farm Management Software?, accepted for the 31st Information Systems Research Seminar (IRIS) in Scandanavia, ?re Sweden, August 2008.
- Mackrell, D. and Nielsen, S. (2007) Structuration Theory in Information Systems Research: Relevance and Rigour from a Pluralist Research Approach, Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, December 2007.
- Gartshore, D. (2004) 'What's the Point?': Women's View of Diffusion and Duality of a Decision Support Tool in the Australian Cotton Industry, Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) International Conference on Decision Support Systems, Prato Tuscany, July 2004.
- Gartshore, D. (2003) Divisibility and Duality: Rural Women and Farm Management in the Australian Cotton Industry, Proceedings of Eighth National Labour History Conference, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, October 2003.
- Gartshore, D. (2003) Rural Women and Farm Management Insights: Decision Support Tools in the Australian Cotton Industry, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology in Asia, Kuching Sarawak, July 2003.
- Gartshore, D., Kerr, D. and Winklhofer, H. (2001) Husband and Wife Partnerships: A Key Factor in the Improved Adoption of Decision Support Systems for Rural Small Businesses, Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute Conference (APDSI), Singapore, July 2001.
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Abstract
- Mackrell D. (2007) A Multi-paradigmatic Approach, in Organizations and Society in Information Systems OASIS Workshop, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, Montreal Canada.