Neil McBride’s Research Writings Page
Hi, Welcome to my paper page.
The page is divided up by subject area and then by date. Working papers and draft conference papers are available as PDF files from this page. Journal papers and some articles are accessible from links, which may require your institution’s library to have a subscription.
Where a paper is subsequently published as a book chapter I have included only the original journal reference.
I will add to this page as I produce more.
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Neil
Biologically-Inspired
Computing
McBride, N (2002). Using Molecular Biology as a Metaphor for Generating Architectures for Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. Presented at the EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems. Symposium on Software Evolution and Evolutionary Computation, 7-8 February, University of Hertfordshire, UK. [PDF]
McBride, N (2002). A Biological Metaphor for Adaptive Evolutionary Information
Systems. Feyerabend
Workshop on Biological Framings of Problems in Computing, Santa Fe Institute,
McBride, N (2002). Individuality, Control Networks and Computer Systems. Presented at the EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological and Software Systems, Symposium on Evolvability and Individuality, 18-20 September, St Albans,
McBride, N. (2006) Towards the Development of Computer Systems that Express Individuality. Proceeding of the UK Systems Society Conference, St Annes College, September 11- 13. [PDF]
McBride, N. (2007) On Defining the Grand Challenges of
Systems Development and Looking to Biology for Inspiration. Submitted to the
Complexity Theory
McBride,N. (1998)
Chaos Theory and Information Systems. Unpublished working
paper. [PDF]
McBride, N (2005). Chaos Theory as a Model for
Interpreting Information Systems in Organisations. Information
Systems Journal, 15, 233-254 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/isj/15/3
Computer-Mediated
Communication
McBride, N K and Bazley,
M (1997). Threads of Conversation: The Life of a Public Electronic Mail
Conference. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Information Systems,
Hackney, R and McBride N (1997). Computer-Mediated Communication in the Health
Service: A Research Agenda for the NHSNet. Proceedings
of the 7th Annual Business Information Technology Conference,
Creativity
Critical Research
McBride, N, Lander, R and McRobb, S (1997).
Post-Modernist Information Management. Proceedings
of the 7th Annual Business Information Technology Conference,
Stahl, B C, McBride, N K and Elbeltagi, I (2005).
Combining Postmodernism and Critical Theory in the Study of IS in the
McBride, N and Stahl, B. (2008) Egypt’s ICT Strategy: A Critical Lexicography (paper) [PDF]
Appendix: The Critical Dictionary [PDF]
Geography
McBride, N (2003). Actor-Network
Theory and the Adoption of Mobile Communications. Geography
88, 266-276. [PDF]
IT Service Management
McBride, N (1998). Establishing Frameworks for IT Service Management. Presented at the Annual Conference of the IT Service Management Forum, Blackpool, 3 November 1998. [PDF]
McBride, N (2000). Customer Relationship Model for Managing E-Services. Presented at the Annual Conference of the IT
Service Management Forum,
McBride, N (2001). Promoting Loyalty among Users of your E-Services. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 47 (February 2001), 26, 28.
McBride, N (2001). Promoting Loyalty among E-service Users. Government IT. February 2001, 15-16. [PDF]
McBride, Neil (2001). IT at Whose Service? Computer Bulletin, September 2001, 24-27. http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol43/issue5/index.dtl
McBride, N (2002).
Call Prioritisation. Presented at
East Midland Regional IT Service Management Forum Meeting,
McBride, N (2002). New Service Development and Innovation Workshop. Presented
at East Midlands Regional IT Service Management Forum Meeting, Marval Software,
McBride, N (2002). The Future of Computing and IT Service Management. Presented at the Annual Conference of the IT Service Management Forum, Brighton, 12 November 2002. [PDF]
McBride, N (2002). Autonomic Computing and the Future of IT Service Management. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 53, February 2002, 15-16. [PDF]
McBride, N (2002). Call Prioritisation: Rationing the Help Desk Resource. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 54, April 2002, 31-34. [PDF]
McBride, N (2002). Changing Organisational Structure to Deliver IT Services. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 57, October 2002, 3-4. [PDF]
McBride, N (2002). Scripting, A New Way of Finding Out What Your Users Really Expect. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 58, December 2002, 39-40.[PDF]
McBride, N and Wood-Harper, T (2002). Towards User-Oriented Control of End-User Computing In Large Organizations. Journal of Organisational and End User Computing 14, 31-41. [PDF]
McBride,
N, Elbeltagi, I and Dosanjh,
P (2003). Using Scripting to
Investigate Perception of the IT Help Desk. Information Resources Management Association,
International Conference,
McBride, N (2003). Chaos Theory and IT Service Management. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 59, February 2003, 41-42. [PDF]
McBride, N (2003).
Where is your Line of Visibility? Journal of the IT Service
Management Forum 60, April 2003, 8. [PDF]
McBride, N (2003). Rationing IT
Services - From Problem Management to Customer Management. Journal
of the IT Service Management Forum 60, August 2003. [PDF]
McBride, N (2003). Getting Buy-In to ITIL: Ideas from Actor
Network Theory. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum 64, 35-36, December
2003. [PDF]
McBride, N (2004). The Importance of Culture in an ITIL Implementation. Presented at the Annual Conference of the IT Service Management Forum, Brighton, 8-10 November 2004. [PDF]
McBride, N and Elbeltagi, I (2004). Service-Oriented Human Computer Interaction and Scripting. In Sarmento, A (Ed), Issues of Human Computer Interaction, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 1-20. http://www.igi-pub.com/downloads/excerpts/sarmento.pdf
McBride, N (2004). What is your IT Services Strategy? Journal
of the IT Service Management Forum 65, February 2004.
McBride, N (2005). Understanding and
Managing Culture within the University Information Systems and Services. Keynote Talk at the Universities and Colleges
Information Systems TLIG Advisory Services Symposium,
McBride, N (2005). Information Management in IT Services.
Invited Lecture at the First Meeting of the itSMF
Education Special Interest Group.
McBride,N. (2005) Emotional Labour and IT Services. Journal of the IT Service Management Forum, November 2005. [PDF]
Cater-Steel, A and McBride, N. (2007) IT Service Management Improvement – An
Actor Network Perspective. European Conference of Information
Systems, St Gallen, Switzerland. [PDF]
Information Technology
Adoption
McBride, N (1997). The Rise and Fall of an Executive Information System: a Case Study. Information Systems Journal 7, 277-287. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2575.1997.00021.x
McBride,N. (1999) Using Actor-Network Theory to Predict
the Success of a Communications Network. Unpublished working
paper. [PDF]
Elbeltagi, I, McBride, N and Hardaker, G (2005). Evaluating the
Factors Affecting DSS usage by Senior Managers in Local Authorities in Egypt. Journal
of Global Information Management, 13(2), 42-65. [PDF]
Elbeltagi, I,
McBride, N and Ibekwe, O (2004). Determinants of Small Business Adoption of
ITS in East Midlands,
McBride,
N (2005). An Evolutionary Theory of Information Systems
Diffusion. Proceedings of the
UKAIS Annual Conference,
Alhajeri,S;
Elbeltagi,I; McBride,N and Eid, R. (2006) Trust as a Barrier of E-Government Adoption
in Less Developed Countries: An Exploratory Study in
Information
Systems Evaluation
McBride, N K (1995). Square Systems don't fit into Round Holes. Part 1. IText July 1995, 10-13, Oxford University Press/British Computer Society. [PDF]
McBride, N K (1995). Square Systems don't fit into Round Holes. Part 2. IText September 1995, 22 - 26, Oxford University Press/British Computer Society.
McBride, N K (1994). Assessing the Contribution of
Information Systems to Organisational Knowledge. Proceedings
of the 4th Annual Business Information Technology Conference,
McBride, N K (1995). The Role of Executive Information Systems in
Organisations: An Interpretive Approach.
Proceedings of the 28th Annual
Fidler, C and McBride, N (1996). Creating Effective
Management Support Systems for the Learning Organisation. Presented at the 38th Annual
Conference of the Operational Research Society,
McBride, N K (1999). Public Domain Information
Systems. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Business Information Technology
Conference,
McBride, N and Fidler, C (2003). An Interpretive
Approach to Justification of Investment in Executive Information Systems. Electronic
Journal of Information Systems Evaluation 6, November 2003, http://www.iteva.rug.nl/ejise/index.html.
McBride, N (2002). A
Relationship-Based Approach to IT Investment
Appraisal. Proceedings of the 7th UKAIS
Conference,
Information Systems
Strategy
McBride, N and Rogerson,
S (1995). The
Effect of Global Information Systems on Business Vision and Values. Proceedings
of the 5th Annual Business Information Technology Conference,
McBride, N (1996).
Why Businesses are Joining the Internet: Identifying
the Drivers of Global Information Systems Expansion. Proceedings
of the 4th European Conference on Information Systems,
McBride, N K (1997). Business Use of the Internet: Strategic Decision or Another Bandwagon? European Management Journal 15, 58-67.
McBride, N (1998). Towards a Dynamic Theory of Information Systems Planning. Proceedings
of the 3rd UKAIS Conference,
Watson, R, Hackney, R, and McBride, N
(2000). Out of
Tune, Out of Time, Hermeneutics of Strategic Information Systems Planning. Proceedings
of the 5th UKAIS Conference,
McBride, N and Hackney, R (2001). Cognitive Mapping as a Tool for Understanding
the Development of Information Systems Planning: a Study of Two IT
Managers. Proceedings of the 6th UKAIS Conference,
McBride, N and Hackney, R. (2001). Why Information Systems Plans do not get Implemented: A Case Study of a UK Hospital. Proceedings
of the 9th European Conference on Information Systems, Bled,
McBride, N (2002). The Conceptual Development of Organisational IT Structure and Strategy with a Service Focus. Proceedings of the 7th UKAIS conference, University of Leeds, 10-12 April 2002, 451-459. [PDF]
Wood,
C and McBride, N (2003). Exploring the Barriers to
Business-to-Business E-Commerce: an
Intermediary Stakeholder's Perspective.
Proceedings of
the 8th UKAIS Conference, Warwick, 9-11 April. [PDF]
Information Systems
Research Methods
McBride, N, Stowell, F, West, D, and Wu, Z (1998). An Information Systems Research Workshop. Systemist 20, 107-118.
Hackney, R., Stowell, F., McBride, N., Doherty, N.F. and Allan, G., ''Panel B Debate: This House believes that IS Research in Universities is irrelevant to IS Practitioners in the 21st Century'' , Information Systems in a Digital World , Roberts, M., Moulton, M., Hand, S. and Adams, C. (eds), Zeus Press, Manchester, 6th UKAIS Conference , University of Portsmouth, 2001, p 709 (abstract), ISBN 0-954705-0-X .
McBride, N (2004). Grand Challenges in Information Systems Workshop. Philosophy and Process. Presented at UKAIS Grand Challenges Workshop, De Montfort University, 24 June 2004.
McBride, N. (2005). Grand Challenges in Information Systems Workshop. Philosophy and Process. Presented at UKAIS Grand Challenges Workshop, Portsmouth University, 5 January 2005.
McBride, N. (2006) Performing Software Quality Proceedings
of
McBride.N. (2007) The Death of Computing. Proceedings of the UK Academy of Information Systems Conference, 11-12th April, University of Manchester. [PDF]
Information Systems
Teaching
McBride, N and Hackney, R (2003). Establishing the Principles
of Information Systems Teaching. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 11, 18. http://cais.isworld.org/articles/11-18/article.pdf
McBride, N.K. (2005) A
Student-Driven Approach to Teaching E-Commerce. Journal of Information Systems Education, 16(1) 75-83. http://www.jise.appstate.edu/Current/V16N1P075-Abs.pdf
McBride, Neil (2007) Erase old programme and launch new version. Times Higher Education Supplement, February 9th 2007, p 14.
McBride, Neil (2007) The Death of Computing. British Computer Society Future of Computing, URL: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.9662
McBride,N and Conger, S. (2007) Developing New Model Information Systems
Curricula: From Constructivist To Analytical. Working Paper [PDF]
Systems Development
and Object-Oriented Analysis
McBride, N K (1994). Bridging the Gap between Structured Analysis Methods and Object-Oriented Analysis. In O' Callaghan, A J and Leigh, M (Eds), Object Technology Transfer, Alfred Waller, Henley.
O’Callaghan, A, Farmer, R, Harries, L, McBride N and Yang, H
(1996). Dealing with
Legacy Systems and Legacy Culture.
Presented at Object Technology 96 Conference,
McBride, N (2003). A Viewpoint on Software Engineering and Information Systems: Integrating the Disciplines. Information and Software Technology 45, 281-287.
McBride, N. (2006) Towards a
metaphor-driven information systems design process. Proceedings
of the First International Conference on Design Science Research in Information
Systems and Technology.
Systems
Thinking
McBride,
N (2004). Using SSM in
Systems Integration.
McBride, Neil (2004) Searching for a Systemic
Perspective on Systems Integration. Systemist 26(2), 127 – 141. [PDF]
McBride, N K (1992). Across the Great Divide. Health
Service Journal,
Hackney, R, Dhillon, G and McBride, N (1997). Primary care information technology within the NHS: the concepts of markets and hierarchies on systems exploitation. International Journal of Public Sector Management 10, 388-395. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/0420100506.html
Dhillon, G, Hackney, R, McBride, N and Kesar, S
(1999). Interpreting IS/IT Decision Support in the
Hackney, R and McBride N (2000).
Hackney, R and McBride, N (2002). Non-Implementation of an IS Strategy within a
Hackney, R and McBride, N K (1993). Interpreting Information
Systems in the Public Sector. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Business Information Technology Conference, November
1993,
Hackney, R and McBride, N K (1995). The Efficacy of Information Systems in the Public Sector: Issues of Context and Culture. International Journal of Public Sector Management 6, 17-29. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=16213
Abd-Hadi, Z and McBride, N (1997).
The Tradable Information Concept in Government
Organisations. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Business
Information Technology Conference,
Abd-Hadi, Z and McBride, N (2000). The Commercialisation of Public Sector Information within UK Government Departments. International Journal of Public Sector Management 13, 552-570. http://emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/0420130701.html
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