Business information systems research
We are dedicated to developing collaborations with the business community through qualitative, engaged research approaches to a wide range of phenomena of organising with digital technology.
Our work with industry partners extends from short-term engagements such as workshops and events to consulting, directly funded research in partnerships, and larger public-private funded initiatives such as Australian Research Council Linkage Projects.
We are known for our influential, analytical thinking on matters of information technology design, implementation, management and use, at the intersection of people, work practices and organisation.
Generally, we take a balanced and socio-technical view of technology with a sensitivity for both new opportunities from digital innovation and transformation for individuals, business and society, as well in relation to matters of individual privacy, agency and freedom, market disruptions, or power and inequality in organisations and society.
Our areas of interest include:
- agile project management
- algorithmic management
- assurance and accountability
- business intelligence
- change management
- data privacy
- digital innovation, transformation and disruption
- e-commerce
- enterprise systems
- fintech
- information governance
- research methods
- risk management
- social media
- sustainability
- systems interoperability
- the future of work
- the philosophy of technology.
We are home to the newly founded Motus Research Lab, which explores the role of new visual interfaces and artificial intelligence in increasing trust and emotive user involvement with technological devices. Our aim is to improve service effectiveness in areas such as business advisory, healthcare, education and personal assistance. The lab has a strong focus on ethical and societal implications of technology, including AI personal assistance and 'digital humans'.
Our people
Meet our academics and research students.
Professor Carol Hsu
Dr Sebastian Boell (Education)
Associate Professor Manoj Thomas (Research)
Professor John Buchanan
Professor Uri Gal
Professor Dirk Hovorka
Professor Carol Hsu
Professor Kai Riemer
Professor Daniel Schlagwein
Associate Professor Daniel Gozman
Associate Professor Catherine Hardy
Associate Professor Sandra Peter
Associate Professor Manoj Thomas
Honorary Professors
Professor Emeritus Deborah Bunker
Professor Robert Johnston
Professor Karl Kautz
Professor Allen Lee
Professor Suprateek Sarker
Honorary Senior Principal Research Fellow
Linda Levine
View our current higher degree by research students.
Research groups
Research seminars
The Discipline of Business Information Systems seminar series is organised by Dr Mylène Struijk.
Digital Eco-Innovation in UK Municipalities: an institutional perspective
- 28 November 2018
- Professor Ray Hackney, Brunel University London
Anthropogenic climate change threatens human society on a global scale. The scientific consensus is that greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) related to human activities are the cause. This paper argues that municipalities need to focus on eco-sustainability objectives if GHG are to be reduced.
Exploring the role of trust and privacy on e-Government adoption
- Date: 5 September 2018 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Lemuria Carter, University of New South Wales
Crafting theory to satisfy the requirements of interpretation
- Date: 1 August 2018 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4150, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Emeritus Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University; Associate Professor Dirk Hovorka, The University of Sydney
The emergence of new product categories within stigmatised industries: The case of e-Cigarettes
- Date: 6 June 2018 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State University
Taming our algorithms: A critical review of people analytics
- Date: 30 May 2018 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Associate Professor Uri Gal, University of Sydney Business School
Researcher perspective in the 'Basket of 8' IS journals: A weakness in disciplinary scope?
- Date: 2 May 2018 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Prof Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong
The Role of Social Media in Disaster Response
- Date: 31 October 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4022, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Dr Rajib Subba, Westcliff University
IoT Design Challenges and the Social IoT Solution
- Date: 25 October 2017 at 9.30am
- Venue: Rm 4150, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: David Goad, The University of Sydney Business School
Revising “Architecture as a reference discipline for MIS”
- Date: 18 October 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5050, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor (Emeritus) Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University
Developing Indigenous theory
- Date: 17 October 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4022, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong
Sports digitalisation: A new game for IS research
- Date: 7 October 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4150, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Associate Professor Xiao Xiao, Copenhagen Business School
Building a Dynamic Picture of Disaster Recovery
- Date: 6 September 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Deborah Bunker; Dr Linda Levine, University of Sydney Business School
IT, Information, and Organisational Change
- Date: 30 August 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4022, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Dr Sebastian Boell, University of Sydney Business School
MEETMIKE: Actors, Agents and Avatars
- Date: 16 August 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4150, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Mike Seymour, Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School
Designing business systems in complex and disruptive environments
- Date: 14 June 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney
Exploring the sources and persistence of ineffectiveness in professional online communities
- Date: 19 May 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5070, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School
What makes technology-driven innovation disruptive? The role of interpretive discontinuity
- Date: 17 May 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Kai Riemer, University of Sydney Business School
The bitcoin game: Ethno-resonance as method
- Date: 10 May 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 4150, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Donncha Kavanagh, University College Dublin
The opportunities and challenges of big data and algorithmic decision making
- Date: 12 April 2017 at 11am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Sue Newell, University of Sussex
From IS plans to IS strategising: Lessons from the past; an agenda for the future
- Date: 12 April 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Bob Galliers, Bentley University
Unpacking the enigma of theory
- Date: 5 April 2017 at 2pm
- Venue: Rm 5050, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Jörgen Sandberg, School of Business, University of Queensland
Entering the digital: Exploring prototype ambiguity and membership Gestalts in movement organisations
- Date: 22 March 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Lisen Selander, University of Gothenburg
Towards a typology of relevance
- Date: 15 March 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Dr Kaveh Mohajeri, Department of Informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management
Strategy and the moral dimension of practice: Developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics
- Date: 15 February 2017 at 10am
- Venue: Rm 5050, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Haridimos Tsoukas, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
A collaborative approach to innovation research: A presentation about the KIN Research Group at VU, Amsterdam
- Date: 1 January 2017 at 11am
- Venue: Rm 5040, Abercrombie Building (H70)
- Speaker: Professor Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam