[LINK] ICTs and Global Working in a Non-Flat World, Canberra, 22 January 2009
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Jan 14 17:00:27 AEDT 2009
Professor Geoff Walsham, University of Cambridge, will talk on "ICTs
and Global Working in a Non-Flat World" at the ANU in Canberra, 22
January 2009 (free lunch included). Professor Walsham rejects Thomas
Friedman's hypothesis that ICT globalisation has made it possible to
do business globally with a connected global workforce (all that
stuff about Lexuses and olive trees):
National Centre for Information Systems Research
ANU College of Business and Economics
Australian National University
Seminar Series
ICTs and Global Working in a Non-Flat World
Time: 12 noon -1.30 pm
Date: 22 January, 2009
Place: Faculty Suite, 1st floor, H.W. Arndt Building #25a
http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaymap.asp?grid=gh32
Followed by light lunch, Room 2110, Crisp Building #26
RSVP: Laura.Fitzgibbon at anu.edu.au for catering purposes by 21 January
Presenter: Geoff Walsham
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
Outline:
This presentation will reject the hypothesis of Thomas Friedman
that ICT-enabled globalisation is driving us towards a flat world.
Instead, it will be argued that the world remains uneven, full of
seams, culturally heterogeneous, locally specific, inequitable, not
well-integrated and constantly changing. This argument will be
supported by an analysis of three areas of ICT-enabled global
working, namely global software outsourcing, global IS roll-out and
global virtual teams. The presentation will then build on these
analyses to put forward an agenda for future IS research on ICTs and
global working based on three research themes: identity and
cross-cultural working; globalisation, localisation and
standardisation; and power, knowledge and control.
Reference:
Walsham, G. (2008)
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