Twitter:
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Video:
2024, Oct. VSM and Ethics. Metaphorum, 2nd Oct., 2024. Link
2024, Mar. Sustainability in the Curriculum: getting back to basics. Talk given as part of a UCL, MAPS interdisciplinary sustainability event, 13th March 2024. Link
2023, Nov. Cybersystemics: what is it and why it is a useful new way to think about complex problems? UCL Minds Lunch, 21st Nov., 2023. Link
Blogs - Articles:
2024, Nov. A lost childhood in Sudan. Tomorrow's Affairs. 20th November 2024. Link
2024, Jul. All is Well: Humanity Saves Itself, but if... (2). Tomorrow's Affairs. 20th July., 2024. Link
2024, May When 'Proceed with Caution' is ignored, Accountability must still Prevail. Tomorrow's Affairs. 27th May, 2024. Link
2024, Apr. All is Well. Planet Earth is Safe (1). Tomorrow's Affairs. 22nd Apr., 2024. Link
2024, Apr. The 'Twin Transitions' of sustainability and digital tech and the implications for learning. 16th Apr., 2024. Link
2024, Mar. Proceed with Caution. Tomorrow's Affairs. 21st Mar., 2024. Link
2023, Dec. Leveraging Technology for Sustainable Development. 4th Dec., 2023. Link
2023, Nov. Organisational Change Revisited. 28th Nov., 2023. Link
2022, Dec. The Multiple Dimensions of EDI in the Workplace. Webex Ahead Thought Leadership. 6th Dec., 2022. Link
2022, Nov. Do We Need To Think About Digital Technology In A New Way? Webex Ahead Thought Leadership. 22nd Nov., 2022. Link
2022, Oct. The work-place MUST go Digital & NOW. Really? Should we not think about this? 29th Oct., 2022. Link
2022, Oct. My Kingdom for Digital Data. 26th Oct., 2022. Link
2022, Jul. In Tech We Trust. 26th Jul., 2022. Link
2022, Apr. Envisioning the future of work.: WEBEX by CISCO. 8th Apr., 2022. Link
2021, Feb. How to Organise in Order to Manage Complexity. 19th Feb., 2021. Link
2021, Jan. The Multiple Views of Cybernetics. 30th Jan., 2021. Link
2021, Jan. Making sense of complex situations. 10th Jan., 2021. Link
2020, Jul. View of tourism in Scotland & Edinburgh - insights from nearly two decades of research. 20th July, 2020. Link
2020, Jun. Transforming my university course for a COVID world – but how? 10th June, 2020. University of Edinburgh. Link
2020, May To be tracked or not to be tracked, that is the question. 19th May 2020. Link
2020, Mar. A life beyond Singularity - artificial general intelligence. robots & the rest? 16th March, 2020. Link
Books:
2002 ERP: the implementation cycle. (2003) [formerly Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann]. NOW Routledge (imprint of Taylor and Francis) [Turkish edition (Bilesim: summer 2005) Chinese edition (Tsinghua University Press: Dec. 2005)
Book Chapters:
2019 Systems Thinking and Sustainable Development. In: Filho, W.L. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer
2018 The emergence of makerspaces, hackerspaces and fab labs: Dewey’s democratic communities of the 21st Century? [Eaves, S. & Harwood, S.] In: Ruth Heilbronn, Christine Doddington, Rupert Higham, (Eds), Dewey and Education in the 21st Century: fighting back. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Journals:
2024 A Cybersystemic view of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS). Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 205, August 2024, 123514
2023 The Three Pillars of Autonomous Weapon Systems. Steven Umbrella (2022). Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots. Budapest: Trivent Publishing. Journal of Responsible Technology, 14, 1-14.
2023 Complex Problems and Dealing with them on a Research Methods Course in a Business School. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 36, 587-607.
2021 A Tech Hardware Dragon Service: a case study on a Chinese approach to promoting innovation (co-authored with Wu, W., Lin, F., & Webb, H.). International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Governance in Cognitive Cities, 2(1), 1-13.
2021 Introducing the VIPLAN Methodology (with VSM) for handling messy situations – nine lessons. Systemic Practice and Action Research. 34, 635-668.
2020 Conceptualising technology, its development and future: The six genres of technology (co-authored with Eaves, S.). Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 160, 1-15.
2019 VIEWPOINT: Whither is Problem Structuring Methods (PSMs)? Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70(8), 1391-1392.
2018 A SHORT COMMUNICATION: A Question of Interpretation: the Viable System Model? European Journal of Operational Research, 274(3), 1198-1201.
2018 In Search of a (WEF) Nexus Approach. Environmental Science and Policy, 83, 79-85.
2012 The Management of Change and the Viplan Methodology in Practice. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 63, 748-761.
2011 The Domestication of Online Technologies by Smaller Businesses and the ‘busy day’. Information and Organization, 21(2), 84-106. (submitted 25th Jan. 2011; ‘conditional’ acceptance by editor ‘subject to some directed revision’, 11th Feb. 2011; accepted 14th Mar.2011) EDITOR'S CHOICE, June 2015
2011 Can a Cybernetics Lens Contribute to the Business Strategy Domain? Kybernetes, (special issue: Progress in Organisational Cybernetics) 40(3/4), 507-527.
2011 VIEWPOINT: Mixing methodologies and paradigmatic commensurability. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62, 806-809. [ABS3]
2009 The changing structural dynamics of the Scottish tourism industry examined using Stafford Beer’s VSM. Systemic Practice and Action Research, (special issue: Action Research in Organisational Cybernetics), 22(4) 313-334. [ABS2]
1996 Re-thinking the Business. Business Change and Re-engineering, 3(3), 37-46.
1995 A View of Business Process Re-engineering. Systemist, 17(3), 129-132.
1995 Thoughts about the Business. Systemist, 17(4), 201-218.
1990 Book Review: ‘Managing Quality’. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2(2), 201-202.
Conferences:
2024, Sep. Ontological Cybernetics Revisited. WOSC 19th Congress 2024, Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK, 11th-13th September, 2024
2024, Sep. Why am I stuck at this (airport, all going well) hotel tonight?'' – A critical reflection on airport operations and commercial aviation. [Tomasella, M., Walch, D. & Harwood, S.A]. The OR Society's Annual Conference (OR66). Bangor University, 10th-12th September, 2024
2023, Sep. Aiding Social Enterprises: A Second Order Cybernetics Perspective. [Small, A., Harwood, S.A. & Dutson, R.]. The OR Society's Annual Conference (OR65). University of Bath, 12th-14th September, 2023
2022, Sep. In Search of a Meta-Methodology: the VIPLAN Methodology? The OR Society's Annual Conference (OR64). University of Warwick, 13th-15th September, 2022
2019, Apr. The Six Genres of Technology [Harwood, S.A. & Eaves, S.] 24th UKAIS Annual Conference, St Catherine’s College Oxford, UK, 9th-10th April 2019
2018, Jul. Mind the Gap: But does the gap matter in social science research? [Harwood, S.A. & Eaves, S.] 17th European Research Methods Conference, ECRM2018. The University of Roma, Rome, Italy, 12-13th July 2018. link
2018, Jul. A Refreshed Pedagogical Agenda for PSMs. [Harwood, S.A. & Tomasella, M.] EURO2018 (Association of European Operational Research Societies): EUROXXIX Conferences, Valencia, Spain 8-11th July, 2018.
2017, Jun. In Search for an Autoethnographic Method. [Harwood, S,A. & Eaves, S.] 16th European Research Methods Conference, ECRM2017. Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, 22nd-23rd June 2017
2017, Apr. Homeostasis: from metaphor to mechanism in the tech – human relationship. [Harwood, S.A. & Eaves, S.] 22nd UKAIS Annual Conference, St Catherine’s College Oxford, UK, 4th-5th April 2017 HIGHLY COMMENDED link
2017, Apr. ‘Affordance’ - what does this mean? [Harwood, S.A. & Hafezieh. N.] 22nd UKAIS Annual Conference, St Catherine’s College Oxford, UK, 4th-5th April 2017 link
2016, Sep. The emergence of makerspaces, hackerspaces and fab labs: Dewey’s democratic communities of the 21st Century? [Eaves, S. & Harwood, S.A.] John Dewey's "Democracy And Education" 100 Years On: Past, Present, And Future Relevance, A conference celebrating the centenary of the publication of John Dewey's Democracy and Education, University of Cambridge, 28thSep. to 1st Oct. 2016
2016, Jul. VSM and the Quest for Resilience. [Harwood, S.A.,Tomasella , M. & Vancova, Z.] EURO2016 (Association of European Operational Research Societies): EUROXXVIII Conferences, Poznan, Poland 3rd-6th July.
2016, Jun. The VIPLAN Methodology In Management Research. European Research Methods Conference, ECRM2016, Kingston University London, UK, 9th-10th June. In Benson, V. & Filippaios, F. (Eds). Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies.
2016, Apr. The Co-Development of Organisation and Online Technology – ‘Tailoring’ The Local Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO). 21st UKAIS Annual Conference, St Catherine’s College Oxford, UK. 12th-13th April 2016. Proceedings
2015, Sep. Information artefacts in practice: institutional context and self-awareness in enactment of collective affordances. [Hafezieh, N., Eshraghian, F. & Harwood, S.A.]. British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference. University of Portsmouth, England. 8th to 10th Sept. 2015. link
2015, Jul. Information Product: How Information Consumers’ Perception Of ‘Fitness For Use’ Can Be Affected. [Eshraghian, F. & Harwood, S.A.]. The 20th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 24th July, 2015. link
2015, Jul. Configuring professionalisation: Exploring socio-material arrangements in a voluntary-based sport association. [Eshraghi, A. & Harwood, S.A.]. 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece
2nd – 4th July 2015.
2014, Aug. Biography Of Data: A societal level perspective on data quality. [Eshraghian, F., Llyod, A.D., & Harwood, S.A.] The 19th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), Xi'An, China. 1st – 3rd August 2014. link
2013, Jul. Rethinking Affordances: Three Stories about the (Non-)Adoption of Digital Technologies. [Eshraghi, A. & Harwood, S.A.] Proceedings of the 6th Communities and Technologies Conference 2013, Munich Germany. Wolfgang Prinz, Christine Satchell, Michael Koch, Johann Schlichter (eds). Published by ACM and the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). link
2013, Mar. Framing authenticity in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. na:wh [0728] Conference on World Heritage, 15th Mar, 2013 University of Edinburgh. link
2012, Sep. Is there still life in Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM)? 54th Conference of the UK OR Society, 4-6th September 2012, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Reports:
2021, Aug. An Audit of a UNESCO World Heritage site – the Royal Mile, Edinburgh: a preliminary search for authenticity - Ten years later. Report, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-912669-43-1].
2021, Jul. An Audit of a UNESCO World Heritage site – the Royal Mile, Edinburgh: a preliminary search for authenticity - Three years later. Report, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-912669-42-4].
Working Papers:
2018, Jan. The Parrot is Not Dead, Just Resting: The UK Universal Credit System – an empirical narrative. Working Paper, Series, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-9999205-5-5].
2016, Mar. Multi-level research into the social: an old wine in an old forgotten bottle?. Working Paper, Series: 16.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-10-0].
2013, Aug. An Audit of a UNESCO World Heritage site – the Royal Mile, Edinburgh: a preliminary search for authenticity - Two years later. Working Paper, Series: 13.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-09-4].
2012, Oct. The Performativity Turn in Tourism. Co-authored with Dahlia El-Manstrly. Working Paper, Series: 12.05, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-08-7].
2012, Aug. ‘Authenticity’: a familiar word but what are the implications for a destination if it is a popular tourism destination as well as a UNESCO World Heritage site? Co-authored with Dahlia El-Manstrly. Working Paper, Series: 12.04, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-07-0].
2012, Jul. An Audit of a UNESCO World Heritage site – the Royal Mile, Edinburgh: a preliminary search for authenticity - One year later. Co-authored with Dahlia El-Manstrly, Business School, University of Edinburgh. Working Paper, Series: 12.03, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-06-3]
2012, May An Audit of a UNESCO World Heritage site – the Royal Mile, Edinburgh: a preliminary search for authenticity. Co-authored with Dahlia El-Manstrly. Working Paper, Series: 12.02, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-18-6].
2012, May 'From the spatial to the digital domain' : a need for hotelier reconfiguration? Co-authored with Dahlia El-Manstrly. Working Paper, Series: 12.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh [ISBN: 978-1-906816-17-9].
2010, Jun. Business Strategy: thinking, discourse and action through a Cybernetics lens. Working Paper, Series: 10.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
2009, Jul. Conceptualising Supply Chain Management: The 'Sourcing Triangle'. Working Paper, Series: 09.03, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
2009, Feb. Governmental Developments To Support The Uptake Of Online Technologies: EU, UK & Scotland from early 1990s to around 2005. Working Paper, Series: 09.02, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
2009, Jan. A Difference Of Interpretation? A content analysis of the ‘Evidence’ of the Scottish Area Tourism Board Review, 2002-2004. Working Paper, Series: 09.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
2008, Nov. A Narrative About Institutional Developments In Scottish Tourism 1969-2008. Working Paper, Series: 08.04, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
2007, Sep. A Quantitative Analysis of Serviced Accommodation Providers in Scotland over the Period 2003 to 2007. Working Paper, Series: 07.01, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
PhD Thesis
2010 The Domestication of ICTs - the case of the online practices of Scottish serviced accommodation providers. Business School, University of Edinburgh.
Other:
2024, Nov. cited in Impact (Operational Research Society), 'Seen Elsewhere' (page 3)
2023, Apr. submission of evidence to House of Lords 'AI in Weapon Systems Committee', UK Parliament, London. Written Evidence (AIW0010) [cited in official report: Proceed with Caution: Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems, 1st December, 2023]
2010, Oct. Irresponsible or the victim of a witch-hunt? BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Teaching Case-study.
2007, May submission of evidence (by invitation) to Public Petitions Committee, Scottish Parliament (PETITION: National Tourism Website (Public Ownership) (PE1015)
1980, Oct. Design of Underground Openings In Layered Strata: A Model Study. Oct 1980. Newcastle University. link
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