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Creating business value from Big Data and business analytics : organizational, managerial and human resource implications (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Vidgen, R. T. Creating business value from Big Data and business analytics : organizational, managerial and human resource implications

This paper reports on a research project, funded by the EPSRC’s NEMODE (New Economic Models in the Digital Economy, Network+) programme, explores how organizations create value from their increasingly Big Data and the challenges they face in doing so... Read More about Creating business value from Big Data and business analytics : organizational, managerial and human resource implications.

Developing a Systemic Problem Structuring Method for Use in a Problem- Avoiding Culture (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Shen, C. Y., & Midgley, G. (2014). Developing a Systemic Problem Structuring Method for Use in a Problem- Avoiding Culture

This paper presents a Buddhist systems methodology (BSM) designed for use in Taiwanese Buddhist organisations. The authors argue that the BSM has advantages in Taiwanese contexts compared with Western systemic problem structuring methods, which mostl... Read More about Developing a Systemic Problem Structuring Method for Use in a Problem- Avoiding Culture.

Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach (2013)
Journal Article
Abdul Kadir, M. K., Hines, E. L., Qaddoum, K., Collier, R., Dowler, E., Grant, W., Leeson, M., Iliescu, D., Subramanian, A., Richards, K., Merali, Y., & Napier, R. (2013). Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 27(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2013.747372

A fuzzy logic (FL)-based food security risk level assessment system is designed and is presented in this article. Three inputs - yield, production, and economic growth - are used to predict the level of risk associated with food supply. A number of p... Read More about Food security risk level assessment: A fuzzy logic-based approach.

Complexity and Systems Thinking (2011)
Book Chapter
Merali, Y., & Allen, P. (2011). Complexity and Systems Thinking. In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Complexity and Management (30-52). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446201084.n2

Systems thinking has evolved over the millennia as people have looked for ways to articulate the features of the world around them in a coherent manner.1 Starting from the definition of a system as an integrated whole made up of interconnected parts,... Read More about Complexity and Systems Thinking.

Addressing organisational and societal concerns : an application of critical systems thinking to information systems planning in Colombia (2003)
Preprint / Working Paper
Midgley, G., & Córdoba-Pachon, J.-R. (2003). Addressing organisational and societal concerns : an application of critical systems thinking to information systems planning in Colombia

Most current information system s (IS) planning methodologies are focused on achieving ‘successful’ plans, i.e. plans that provide competitive advantage, can be implemented in a given period of time, and that solve the problems of information needs b... Read More about Addressing organisational and societal concerns : an application of critical systems thinking to information systems planning in Colombia.

The role of boundaries in knowledge processes (2002)
Journal Article
Merali, Y. (2002). The role of boundaries in knowledge processes. European Journal of Information Systems, 11(1), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave/ejis/3000413

Advances in communications and information technology deliver an increasingly dynamic and interconnected competitive context. To survive and prosper in this environment, organisations must be innovative and adaptive. Intellectual and relational capit... Read More about The role of boundaries in knowledge processes.

The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management (1993)
Journal Article
Merali, Y., & McKiernan, P. (1993). The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2(2), 105-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/0963-8687%2893%2990003-S

Although corporate growth through acquisition continues to be a popular strategy for the 1990s, the failure rate of acquired companies remains high at 50 per cent. This paper focuses on post-acquisition integration of information systems (IS) and inf... Read More about The strategic positioning of information systems in post-acquisition management.

A Contextual View of Ethics (1993)
Journal Article
Midgley, G. (1993). A Contextual View of Ethics. The psychologist, 6(4), 175-178

Gerald Midgley examines the arguments presented by Jeffrey Gray, Peter Singer and Richard Ryder in our special issue on animal experimentation (May 1991). He proposes a contextual theory of moral choice to deal with the conflicting ethical principles... Read More about A Contextual View of Ethics.

An observer-relative systems approach to information
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demetis, D., & Lee, A. (2019, January). An observer-relative systems approach to information. Presented at Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, Hawaii

By returning to the foundational principles of second-order cybernetics and resting on the central role of the observer, this essay explores how the distinction between data/information can be conceptualized. Using systems theory, we derive a series... Read More about An observer-relative systems approach to information.

When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, A. S., Demetis, D. S., & Lee, A. When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact. Presented at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Following Demetis & Lee (2016) who showed how systems theorizing can be conducted on the basis of a few systems principles, in this conceptual paper, we apply these principles to theorize about the systemic character of technology and investigate the... Read More about When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact.

Forensic DNA evidence on trial : science and uncertainty in the courtroom
Book
Midgley, G., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Grace, V., & Veth, J. Forensic DNA evidence on trial : science and uncertainty in the courtroom. The University of Hull

When juries hear forensic DNA evidence presented in court, what does it mean to them? And does it mean the same for police officers, lawyers and forensic scientists? If jurors, scientists and others have fundamentally different understandings of DNA... Read More about Forensic DNA evidence on trial : science and uncertainty in the courtroom.