Prof Ian McLoughlin - Researcher Profile

Ian McLoughlin

Address

Department of Management
Monash University, Caulfield

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 32058

Email: Ian.McLoughlin@monash.edu


Biography

Professor Ian McLoughlin is distinguished professor of Management and head of the Department of Management.

Ian joined Monash in 2008 and has led the management discipline through a major period of change and development, including a re-launch of the globally-ranked Monash MBA.

He was previously foundation Director of the Newcastle University Business School at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), where he co-founded and directed the Newcastle Centre for Social and Business Informatics.

Ian’s research interests lie in the broad area of technological and organisational change and the management of innovation. He has led and been involved in numerous research projects in the UK, Europe and Australia funded by governments and research councils. His most recent work has focused on digital government and innovation in public service delivery. He is currently conducting research on the digitalisation of health care.

He has published widely in leading international academic journals including the Journal of Management Studies and Human Relations and Work Employment and Society. He is author or co-author of nine books with leading academic publishers. His latest works are, The Management of Complex Projects: Knowledge, Networks and Innovation (Routledge 2013) and Digital Government @ Work: A Social Informatics Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2013).

He was an elected member of the executive committee of the UK Association of Business Schools (2001-6), the British Academy of Management Council (2005-06), and an appointed member of research commissioning and advisory panels for the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Ian holds or has held visiting positions in universities in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Keywords

Management of Innovation, Social Informatics, Public Service Innovation, Digital Health

Qualifications

PHD HUMANTIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Institution: University of Bath (UK)
Year awarded: 1981
BA (HONS) SOCIOLOGY
Institution: University of Kent (UK)
Year awarded: 1978

Publications

Books

McKemmish, S.M., Burstein, F.V., Faulkhead, S., Fisher, J.L., Gilliland, A.J., McLoughlin, I.P., Wilson, R. (eds), 2012, Information, Communication & Society - Special Issue: Working with Communities: Community Partnership Research in Information Technology, Management and Systems, Routledge, Abingdon England.

Book Chapters

McLoughlin, I.P., 2009, Towards digital governance in UK local public services?, in Handbook of Research on Strategies for Local E-government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies, eds Christopher G. Reddick, IGI Publishing, Hershey PA USA, pp. 121-135.

Ivory, C.J., Alderman, N., McLoughlin, I.P., Vaughan, R., 2006, Sense-making as a process within complex projects, in Making Projects Critical, eds Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil, Palgrave Macmillan, New York USA, pp. 316-334.

Badham, R.J., McLoughlin, I.P., Garrety, K., 2003, 'Push people's balls and push people's balls and push people's balls until something comes out': Understanding implementation as a 'configurational practice', in Technological Change and Organizational Action, eds David Preece and Juha Laurila, Routledge, London UK, pp. 77-102.

McLoughlin, I.P., Dawson, P., 2003, The mutual shaping of technology and organisation: 'Between cinema and a hard place', in Technological Change and Organizational Action, eds David Preece and Juha Laurila, Routledge, London UK, pp. 20-36.

Alderman, N., McLoughlin, I.P., Ivory, C.J., Thwaites, A.T., Vaughan, R., 2003, Trains, cranes and drains: Customer requirements in long-term engineering projects as a knowledge management problem, in Management of Technology: Growth through Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, eds Max von Zedtwitz, Georges Haour, Tarek M. Khalil and Louis A. LeFebvre, Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 331-348.

Journal Articles

McKemmish, S.M., Burstein, F.V., Faulkhead, S., Fisher, J.L., Gilliland, A.J., McLoughlin, I.P., Wilson, R., 2012, Working with communities: Community partnership research in information technology, management and systems [Guest Editor's introduction], Information Communication and Society [P], vol 5, issue 7, Routledge, Abingdon England, pp. 985-990.

McLoughlin, I., Preece, D., 2010, Last orders1 at the rural cyber pub: A failure of social learning?, International Journal Of Technology Management [P], vol 51, issue 1, Inderscience Publishers, United Kingdom, pp. 75-91.

Maniatopoulos, G., McLoughlin, I.P., Wilson, R., Martin, M., 2009, Developing virtual healthcare systems in complex multi-agency service settings: The OLDES Project, Electronic Journal of e-Government [E], vol 7, issue 2, Academic Conferences Ltd, UK, pp. 163-170.

McLoughlin, I.P., Maniatopoulos, G., Wilson, R., Martin, M., 2009, Hope to die before you get old?: Techno centric versus user-centred approaches in developing virtual services for older people, Public Management Review [P], vol 11, issue 6, Routledge, UK, pp. 857-880.

Couchman, P., McLoughlin, I.P., Charles, D., 2008, Lost in translation? Building science and innovation city strategies in Australia and the UK, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice: the international journal for innovation research, commercialization, policy analysis and best practice [E], vol 10, issue 2/3, e-Content Management Pty Ltd, Maleny QLD Australia, pp. 211-223.

Ivory, C.J., Alderman, N., Thwaites, A.T., McLoughlin, I.P., Vaughan, R., 2007, Working around the barriers to creating and sharing knowledge in capital goods projects: The client's perspective, British Journal Of Management [P], vol 18, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 224-240.

McLoughlin, I.P., Cornford, J., 2006, Transformational change in the localstate? Enacting e-governmentin English local authorities, Journal of Management and Organization [P], vol 12, issue 3, EContent Management Pty Ltd, Maleny Qld Australia, pp. 195-208.

Badham, R.J., McLoughlin, I.P., 2005, Ambivalence and engagement: Irony and cultural change in late modern organizations, International Journal of Knowledge Culture and Change Management [P], vol 5, issue 4, Common Ground, Altona Vic Australia, pp. 133-143.

McLoughlin, I.P., Badham, R.J., Palmer, G.P., 2005, Cultures of ambiguity: design, emergence and ambivalence in the introduction of normative control, Work, Employment & Society, vol 19, issue 1, Sage Publications Ltd, London UK, pp. 67-89.

McLoughlin, I.P., Badham, R.J., 2005, Political process perspectives on organization and technological change, Human Relations [P], vol 58, issue 7, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 827-843.

Richter, P., Cornford, J., McLoughlin, I.P., 2004, The e-citizen as talk, as text and as technology:CRM and e-government, Electronic Journal of e-Government [E], vol 2, issue 3, Academic Conferences Limited, UK, pp. 207-218.

Dawson, P., Preece, D., McLoughlin, I.P., 2003, From Essex to Cyberspace: Virtual Organisational Reality and Real Organisational Virtuality, Labour and Industry [P], vol 14, issue 4, RMIT, Centre for Workplace Culture Change, Australia, pp. 73-89.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Physicians: A Study of PCEHR in Australia.
Supervisors:
Mcloughlin, I (Joint), Sohal, A (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Developing sustainable action research PhD programs at Monash University.
Supervisors:
Mcloughlin, I (Main), Greenwood, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Effects of stakeholders' pressures and sense-making processes on environmental strategy and organisational performance.
Supervisors:
Prajogo, D (Main), Smith, L (Associate), Mcloughlin, I (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Rashid, N.
Program of Study:
e-Government as a tool to promote transparency and openness: the case of Bangladesh. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Coghill, K (Main), Mcloughlin, I (Associate).