Isam Faik
BSc, MSc (McGill Univ., Montreal)
Year of entry
2007
Research topic
Modernisation through ICTS: National Policy, Organizational Change and Epistomological Shifts
Supervisor
Biography
Isam Faik is a doctoral candidate in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Isam is part of the Operations, Information & Technology subject group. His research is concerned with current modernisation discourses and how they relate to the adoption and use of information and communication technologies. Isam explores modernisation processes as socio-technical change at the level of national policy, organisation practice, and individual knowledge. Isam's doctoral research is supported by a Gates scholarship.
Isam holds masters and bachelor degrees in engineering from McGill University in Canada. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, he worked in the biomedical and aeronautic industries as a process analyst and developer.
Research interests
Technological innovation and organisational change; information technologies for development; dynamics between expert and local knowledge systems; public sector innovation; judicial information systems; multilevel research.
Publications
Faik, I. (2009) "An actor network approach to the study of modernization processes: The case of the health care scheme in Morocco." Conference of the Association Information and Management (AIM) (14th), 10-12 June 2009, Marrakech, Morocco.
Faik, I. (2009) "Modernization through ICTs: an actor-network analysis of administrative reforms in Morocco." International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral Consortium, 15-18 December 2009, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Faik, I. (2010) "Can alternative ontologies open new ways for multilevel research? " Proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting, 6-10 August 2010, Montréal, Canada.
Contact details
Isam Faik
Cambridge Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1AG
UK
Email: if233@cam.ac.uk