About Stephen Little

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Stephen Little, Milton Keynes, 2007

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As Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Management in The Open University Business School, Dr Stephen Little is a member of the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise and of the University's Centre on Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD).

He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN), a company limited by guarantee. The aim of the company is to raise awareness of the developments occurring in high technology in Asian countries and to encourage collaboration between companies in the UK (and wider Europe) and those in the Asia-Pacific region. Previously as a member of APTN he had attended meetings and conferences in the UK, China and South Korea.

He is also a visitor at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and holds a Visiting Chair in Business Logistics, Innovation and Systems (BLIS) at the University of Bolton, is a council member of the Design Research Society (DRS) and an associate of the British Institute of Information Technology and Ecommerce (BITE). Currently he is an external examiner for the course components of the DBA and PhD programme at Birmingham Business School and a member of the International Board of the Masters programme, Hotelschool, Den Haag.

He is currently researching the flows of knowledge and capability between regions in the global economy with colleagues at the Open University and elsewhere and has co-edited books and journal issues covering the influence of the Asian economies in the twenty-first century, intelligent urban development and meta-governance.

Details of these research interests can be found here.

A full curriculum vitae is available here.

He has degrees in Architecture and Applied Psychology. He has been researching technology and organisations since leaving architectural practice in 1981 to undertake a PhD on the organisational dynamics of innovation in computer aided architectural design. This was undertaken at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London where he made extensive use of on-line information resources and the ARPANet, precursor of the Internet.

He joined the OU in 1999 as course team chair for the presentation of a new MBA elective course Managing Knowledge. As well as involving students across Western and Eastern Europe, this course was also presented by affiliated institutions in South Africa and Hong Kong.

Currently he chairs the MBA (Life Sciences) and presentation chair of the key course Strategic Management in Life Sciences and Heath Care.

His earlier experience includes a decade as an architect in the U.K. public housing sector, prior to his PhD at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London. This was followed by eleven years in Australia based at Griffith University, Brisbane, and the University of Wollongong NSW.

While in Australia Steve held visiting appointments to the Urban Research Program at the Australian National University and the Fujitsu Centre for Managing Information Technology in Organisations at the Australian Graduate School of Management. At the former he investigated non-place aspects of community. At the latter he studied the deployment of knowledge-based computer systems in a number of key sectors, including rail transportation.

In 1996 he joined the Department of Business Information Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a final year subject preparing computing professionals for work in a globalised economy and has published a number of papers on the cross-cultural dimensions of information systems in this context.

In continuing his interest in the Asia Pacific he undertook Japanese language courses at the North West Japan Centre.

 
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Steve Little attended APROS 13, hosted by EGADE, the graduate management school of Tecnologico Monterrey, Mexico.

He presented the paper CERN Through The Looking Glass: Narrative, Meta-Narrative and Strategy in a Twenty-First Century Organisation

The paper 'Globalisation, migration and knowledge transfer: The reconfiguration of R&D capability in Indian pharmaceutical firms' presented by Stepehen Little and Dinar Kale at APROS-12, held in Gurgaon, India in December 2007 has now been published as a chapter in Singh and Verma (eds) Organizing and Managing in the Era of Globalization, Sage, New Delhi

On 21 November 2009 Stephen Little delivered a keynote address to the Japan Institute for Tourism Research at RARC, Rikkyo University, Japan.

This was part of a follow-on meeting to the 2007 Odyssey group meeting hosted at the Open University.

Due to the discontinuation of the Geocities free hosting service, the Odyssey meeting web sites are currently being archived at the main Odyssey site www.odysseygroup.org.uk

 
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