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Background
Neil Pollock is a Reader in Information Systems at the University of Edinburgh Business School where he is Director of the PhD Programme and (acting) Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group. Neil is also an active member of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI).
Joining academia as a mature student, Neil took a degree in Computing and a Masters in Science & Technology Policy. He completed his PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Lancaster. Prior to moving to Edinburgh he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle where he worked at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies and within the Management School. Whilst at Newcastle he wrote (with James Cornford) ‘Putting the University Online: Information, Technology, and Organisational Change’.
Neil has carried out a number of successful research projects, the most recent of which inlcude an ESRC project on the Biography of Software Packages, an ESRC E-Society project and a European 6th Framework project investigating the social shaping of e-Commerce standards. Based on these projects he wrote a second book (this time with Robin Williams) called ‘Software and Organisation: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System Or How SAP Conquered the World’. The key aim of the book is to set out the 'Biograpy of Artefacts' framework which is an analytical approach for studying the shaping and effects of large-scale technologies.
At the moment Neil is researching the topic of 'market analysts', 'industry analysts', 'IT research firms', and 'commercial research firms'. He was recently awarded an ESRC personal fellowship in order to study and write a book about how industry analysts shape the markets for workplace information and communication technologies.The book will be out late 2013.
Neil supervises a number of PhD students in the School of Business and is always keen to work with prospective students interested in information and communication technologies, particularly those wishing to apply a more sociological approach to their work.
REF Submission
Neil Pollock’s REF submission will likely be drawn from amongst the following articles:
Pollock, N. & Hyysalo, S. (under review, 3rd round) The Business of Being a User: How Reference Sites Figure in the New Politics of Software Acquisition, ABS 4 Journal and FT list
D’Adderio, L. & Pollock, N. (under review, 1st round) Performing Theory: Competing Rules, Materiality and Emergence of “The Modular Organization”, ABS 4 Journal
Pollock N. & D’Adderio, L. (2012) Give Me a Two-by-two Matrix and I Will Create the Market: Rankings, Graphic Visualisations, and Sociomateriality, Accounting, Organizations and Society (ABS 4, FT List)
Williams, R. & Pollock, N. (2012) Moving Beyond the Single Site Implementations Study: Why (and how) we should study the biography of software packages, Information Systems Research (ABS 4, FT list)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2011) Who decides the shape of product markets: the knowledge institutions that name and categorize new technologies, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Pollock, N. , Williams, R. , D'Adderio, L. & Grimm, C (2010) Post local forms of repair: The (extended) situation of virtualised technical support, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2010) The business of expectations: How promissory organizations shape technology and innovation, Social Studies of Science (ARC A*)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2009) The Sociology of a Market Analysis Tool: How Industry Analysts Sort Vendors and Organize Markets, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Management Responsibilities
Director of the PhD Programme
Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Research Interests
Information and communication technologies (ICT) and their social and organisational implications;
Sociology of technology;
Design and use of Software Packages
Virtual universities;
Virtual organisations;
e-commerce;
e-government;
consultancy organisations;
Dissertation Areas Supervised
Projects related to the introduction of new information & communication technologies (i.e., the Internet, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems etc.) and their organisational, social and business implications. Neil has also recently become interested in consultancy organisations and IT research firms as well as the procurement of IT systems.
Background
Neil Pollock is a Reader in Information Systems at the University of Edinburgh Business School where he is Director of the PhD Programme and (acting) Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group. Neil is also an active member of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI).
Joining academia as a mature student, Neil took a degree in Computing and a Masters in Science & Technology Policy. He completed his PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Lancaster. Prior to moving to Edinburgh he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle where he worked at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies and within the Management School. Whilst at Newcastle he wrote (with James Cornford) ‘Putting the University Online: Information, Technology, and Organisational Change’.
Neil has carried out a number of successful research projects, the most recent of which inlcude an ESRC project on the Biography of Software Packages, an ESRC E-Society project and a European 6th Framework project investigating the social shaping of e-Commerce standards. Based on these projects he wrote a second book (this time with Robin Williams) called ‘Software and Organisation: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System Or How SAP Conquered the World’. The key aim of the book is to set out the 'Biograpy of Artefacts' framework which is an analytical approach for studying the shaping and effects of large-scale technologies.
At the moment Neil is researching the topic of 'market analysts', 'industry analysts', 'IT research firms', and 'commercial research firms'. He was recently awarded an ESRC personal fellowship in order to study and write a book about how industry analysts shape the markets for workplace information and communication technologies.The book will be out late 2013.
Neil supervises a number of PhD students in the School of Business and is always keen to work with prospective students interested in information and communication technologies, particularly those wishing to apply a more sociological approach to their work.
REF Submission
Neil Pollock’s REF submission will likely be drawn from amongst the following articles:
Pollock, N. & Hyysalo, S. (under review, 3rd round) The Business of Being a User: How Reference Sites Figure in the New Politics of Software Acquisition, ABS 4 Journal and FT list
D’Adderio, L. & Pollock, N. (under review, 1st round) Performing Theory: Competing Rules, Materiality and Emergence of “The Modular Organization”, ABS 4 Journal
Pollock N. & D’Adderio, L. (2012) Give Me a Two-by-two Matrix and I Will Create the Market: Rankings, Graphic Visualisations, and Sociomateriality, Accounting, Organizations and Society (ABS 4, FT List)
Williams, R. & Pollock, N. (2012) Moving Beyond the Single Site Implementations Study: Why (and how) we should study the biography of software packages, Information Systems Research (ABS 4, FT list)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2011) Who decides the shape of product markets: the knowledge institutions that name and categorize new technologies, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Pollock, N. , Williams, R. , D'Adderio, L. & Grimm, C (2010) Post local forms of repair: The (extended) situation of virtualised technical support, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2010) The business of expectations: How promissory organizations shape technology and innovation, Social Studies of Science (ARC A*)
Pollock, N. & Williams, R. (2009) The Sociology of a Market Analysis Tool: How Industry Analysts Sort Vendors and Organize Markets, Information and Organisation (ABS 3)
Management Responsibilities
Director of the PhD Programme
Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Research Interests
Information and communication technologies (ICT) and their social and organisational implications;
Sociology of technology;
Design and use of Software Packages
Virtual universities;
Virtual organisations;
e-commerce;
e-government;
consultancy organisations;
Dissertation Areas Supervised
Projects related to the introduction of new information & communication technologies (i.e., the Internet, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems etc.) and their organisational, social and business implications. Neil has also recently become interested in consultancy organisations and IT research firms as well as the procurement of IT systems.
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