On-Line Resources
Last Update 30 January 2010
On-Line ResourcesLast Update 30 January 2010 |
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| Web Sites | Papers | Additional Material | Publications from Collaborative Projects |
| Design and Determination | as established to discuss the design and determination of globalised technologies. It is a working site created on the publication of the book of the same name by Ashgate in September 2004. |
| Knowledge Links | is a working site created to allow discussion of issues raised in the Open University Business School MBA elective "Managing Knowledge", currently completing its sixth presentation. |
| Archiving_Practice | is the site created as an on-line archive for the 10th APROS Colloquium held in Oaxaca, Mexico in December 2003. |
| savethePicket | is a campaign site in support of the Picket music venue in Liverpool which is under threat, in part as a consequence of the city's success in its bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2008. |
| Transport and Society Network | contains a range of transport related resources, and access to the full range of virtual journeys developed by the members of the Odyssey Group. |
| Township Transport | was created collectively in Africa in 1998 and has inspired two related sites looking at the convergence of technologies which permit intelligent transport strategies. |
| Townsville Transport | was created in December 2000 and collates Australian material. |
| Tatra Transport | was established in 2002 as a collecting point for examples of practice, good and bad from around the world. |
| Odyssey Group 2008 | A series of meetings for 2008 held during 2008.
To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
| Odyssey Group 2007 | is the site for the 2007 Odyssey meeting on
Accessibility, Tourism and Development jointly hosted by the Open
University, U.K., Erasmus University, Netherlands and Rikkyo University, Japan.
The meeting use face-to-face and remote participation to develop open source
learning materials. To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
| Odyssey Group 2006 | records three meetings held between February and
September in New York, Lancaster and Ljubljana which explored the themes of
global unionism, social movements and the internet. To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
| Hagerstrand and an exercise in recontextualisation |
A return visit to Stockholm after 34 years: a web resource
constructed with the Odyssey Group during
the37th World
Congress of the IIS, Stockholm, July 2005 |
| Migration, Identity and New Information Technology | is the site created during the 2004
Odyssey Group meeting hosted by
the University of
Ulster, Jordanstown in August 2004. To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
| North_East_Age | is a site developed to host an on-line symposium at the
Moor Park Community
Centre, North Tyneside, U.K. in July 2003. To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
| csps_maps | was created in 2001 as part of an
Odyssey Group meeting hosted by the
CSPS, University of Ghana,
Legon. It made existing social data produced within Ghana available globally.
To be archived at Odyssey Group site. |
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A review of Dragons at Your door: How Chinese
Cost Innovation is Disrupting Global Competition by Ming Zeng and Peter J.
Williamson. This is a preprint of an article which appeared
inPrometheus, Vol. 26 no.4, December 2008 [copyright Taylor &
Francis] |
Draft available here. |
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"Science entrepreneurs need better business skills" New Scientist 23 February 2008. Stephen Little was among a number of business and management educators and students who contributed to this article which discusses the value of business knowledge to scientists and technologists. |
available here |
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Little S. & Kale D. (2006) Flows and Cohesion: balancing capabilities across an expanded unionpresented at Regional Studies Association Conference Shaping EU Regional Policy: Economic Social and Political PressuresLeuven, June 2006 |
Paper and PowerPoint slideshow here |
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Little S.E. & Grieco M.S. (2006) Big Pharma, international labour, social movements and the internet: coordination and critical perspectives on international business presented to the panel on Global Unionism in the 'Information Age': Information Communication Technologies and Effective Bargaining at the International Conference on Global Companies - Global Unions, Global Research - Global Campaignsorganised by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, New York, 9-11 February 2006 |
Paper and PowerPoint slideshow here |
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Little S.E. (2006)The social impacts of intelligent infrastructure on transport (644kb pdf format) a "state of science review" for the DTI Foresight Project on Intelligent Infrastructure Systems. |
Social_Impacts.pdf |
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Grieco M. & Little S (2005) Performing borders: sustaining culture and identity, challenging global organization presented at APROS 11 the Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies 11th International Colloquium Melbourne, Australia 4-7 December 2005 |
PowerPoint slideshow here |
| Little S.E. (2004) Twin Towers, Amoy Gardens and Transport Choices Plenary presentation to Alternative Mobility Futures Conference, Centre for Moblilities Research, Lancaster University, January 2004. | altfutures.ppt |
| Little S.E. & Grieco M.S. (2003) From Bletchley Park to the NSA: scientific management and "surveillance society" in the Cold War and beyond presented at Critical Management Studies 3 Conference, Stream 9: Cold War and Management. Lancaster University, July 2003. | cms03.pdf |
| Little S.E. & Grieco M. S. (2003) Electronic Stepping Stones: a mosaic metaphor for the production and re-distribution of skill in electronic mode presented at the 19th EGOS Colloquium: Organization Analysis Informing Social and Global Development Copenhagen Business School, July 2003. | stones.html |
| Little S.E. (2002) "Building on Virtual Common Ground: design participation for the network age" presented at Common Ground: DRS Conference 2002. | commonground.html |
| Little S.E. (extended abstract) "Cultural barriers to virtual co-location: Distributed creativity in the information age" presented at APROS 2001 Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, P.R.C. | barriers.pdf |
| Little S.E. & Ray T.E. (extended abstract) "Relocating skill in an information age: an African experience" presented at APROS 2001. | skill.html |
| Ray T.E. & Little S.E. (2001) "Communication and context: collective tacit knowledge and knowing in Japan's workplace ba" Creativity and Innovation Management . | ba.pdf |
| Little S.E. (2001) "Managing Knowledge at a Distance: Knowledge management and electronic learning tools in the UK Open University MBA" BHERT News No.11, Business/Higher Education Round Table, Melbourne Australia. | bhert.pdf |
| Little S. Holmes L. & Grieco M. (2000) "Island histories, open cultures?: the electronic transformation of adjacency" Southern African Business Review, 4 (2) December 2000, 21-25. | island.pdf |
| Little S. Holmes L. & Grieco M. (2000) "Calling up culture: information spaces and information flows as the virtual dynamics of inclusion and exclusion" Presented at IFIP WG 9.4 Conference: Information Flows, Local Improvisations and Work Practices, Cape Town, May 2000, revised for Information Technology & People. | callup.pdf |
| Kaye G.R. & Little S.E. (2000) "Non-linear and Dysfunctional Development Paths of Information and Communication Technology: Cultural conflicts" Journal of Global Information Management Vol.8 no.1 Jan-Mar 2000, pp.5-13. | nonlin.html |
| Little S.E. (1999) “Global Production and Global Consumption: Designing Organisations and Networks for the Next Century” Creativity and Innovation Management Vol. 8 no.1, March 1999, pp.8-19. | global.html |
| Design and Determination: the role of information technology in redressing regional inequities in the development process is a book in the Voices in Development Series with Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. | |
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Beyond Integration: the uses of disorder a 340kb PowerPoint show of the Discussant's response to Session 9: 'Integration Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing', IFIP WG-8.2 Working conference: Designing Ubiquitous Information : Socio-technical Issues and Challenges, Wetherhead School of Management, Case Western University, Cleveland, August 2005 |
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| Space, Location and Knowledge includes a 300kb pdf file consisting of a set of overheads prepared for a presentation at the Transport Research Institute, Napier University in April 2001. | slk.html |
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Relocating Skill in an Information age - an African experience includes a 272kb pdf file consisting of a set of overheads prepared for a MKIRU Seminar at the Open University Business School in October 2001. |
skill.html |
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