BA, MSc, MEd, PhD
Contact details for Dr Bruce Rowlands
Research expertise
- System Development
- The Use of Development Methodologies
- Social Informatics
- Institutional Theory
- Qualitative Methods
- Grounded Theorising
Publications
2009
- A Social Actor Understanding of the Institutional Structures at Play in Information Systems Development, Information Technology & People, 22(1), pp. 51-62.
2008
- The Enactment of an ISDM: an Institutional Account, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 20(2), pp. 21-50.
Institutional Aspects of Systems Development, 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2007
- Power and Authority over Systems Developers by the Business Client, 28th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Montreal, Canada.
- Rowlands B, & Van Akkeren J. An Epidemic of Pain in an Australian Radiology Practice, European Journal of Information Systems, 16(6), pp. 696-711.
- Van Akkeren J, Rowlands B, A Social Informatics Account of the Assimilation of an Enterprise-wide Health Information System, 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems.
2006
- The User as Social Actor: a focus on systems development methodology enactment, 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, pp. 1540-1545.
- A Socio-Technical Account of How a Systems Development Methodology is Used in Practice, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS)[1], Alicante, Spain.
- Carroll, J. Rowlands, B. Standing, C. Frampton, K. & Smith, R. A Framework for Redesigning Information Systems Development Methodologies to enhance global Information Infrastructure, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) 2006, Alicante, Spain.
2005
- Grounded Theorising Applied to IS Research ? Developing a Coding Strategy, Australian Journal of Information Systems, 12(2), pp. 121-133.
- Grounded in Practice: Using Interpretive Research to Build Theory, The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methodology Vol 3(1), pp. 81-92.
- The Enactment of Methodology: Establishing the Plausibility of Social Actor Theory, QUALIT2005, Brisbane, ISBN 1-920952-48-9.
2004
- Grounded Theorising Applied to IS Research ? Developing a Coding Strategy, QUALIT2004, Griffith University.
- The Rational & Political Roles of Methods in Information Systems Development, 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Hobart.
2003
- Why Aren?t Information Systems Development Methodologies Used in Practice ? an interpretive investigation? 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Perth.
- Employing Interpretive Case Research to Build Theory of Information Systems Practice, Australian Journal of Information Systems, 10(2), pp 3-22.
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[1] Winning best research paper award.