RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

 

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Video:

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:

2023, Mar.          Proceed with Caution.  Tomorrow's Affairs21st 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. 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. London, Emerald Publishing

                          

Journals:

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:

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. & 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. & 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,  &  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. & 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. & 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.] 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.] 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:

2023, Apr.       submission of evidence to House of Lords 'AI in Weapon Systems Committee', UK Parliament, London (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)

 

CITATIONS:  

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