Geoff Walsham

Emeritus Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems)

BA, MA (Univ. of Oxford), MSc (Univ. of Warwick), LittD (Univ. of Cambridge)

Professional experience

Professor Walsham worked for four years as an operational research analyst at BP Chemicals before taking up academic posts in operational research and then information systems. He has extensive international experience having worked as a teacher, researcher or consultant in over 25 countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He was part of the senior management team for the telecommunications company Analysys during its start-up and early growth phases. Professor Walsham has also held university management posts including being Director of the Cambridge MBA. He has wide editorial experience, having been a Senior Editor of both MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and he is currently an editorial board member of a number of other academic journals.

Previous appointments

Professor Walsham has held lectureships at Mindanao State University in the Philippines, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Cambridge, and a professorship at the University of Lancaster.

Research interests

The development, use and management of information and communication technologies and systems; and implications for work, organisations and societies.

Geoff Walsham is a member of the Operations, Information & Technology subject group.

Selected publications

Walsham, G. (1993) Interpreting information systems in organizations. Chichester: Wiley.

Walsham, G. (2001) Making a world of difference: IT in a global context. Chichester: Wiley.

Krishna, S., Sahay, S. and Walsham, G. (2004) "Managing cross-cultural issues in global software outsourcing." Communications of the ACM, 47(4): 62-66

Walsham, G. (2006) "Doing interpretive research." European Journal of Information Systems, 15(3): 320-330

Walsham, G., Robey, F. and Sahay, S. (2007) "Foreword: special issue on information systems in developing countries." MIS Quarterly, 31(2): 317-326

Vaast, E. and Walsham, G. (2009) "Trans-situated learning: supporting a network of practice with an information infrastructure." Information Systems Research, 20(4): 547-564 (DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0228)

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