Professor Theodore Vurdubakis
PhD (Manchester) BA (Athens)
Chair
Department
Organisation Work and Technology
Professional Role
Member of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
OWT.229 Business Ethics: Contempory Issues in Management
OWT.230 Management and Environments
Postgraduate:
ITO.001 Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations
OWT.501 Organisations in the 21st Century
Research Grants
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Knowledge Management and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP). With Chris Westrup (Mancheter Business School)
Profile
Theo Vurdubakis is Professor of Organisation and Technology. A graduate of Athens University he completed his PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he taught for fifteen years. His research interests include the role of technologies in social organisation and is currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project looking at knowledge management and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP).
Publications
- Knox H, O'Doherty D, Vurdubakis T and Westrup C, 2010, 'The devil and customer relationship management', Journal of Cultural Economy, vol 3, no. 3, pp. 339-359.
View details - Bloomfield B P, Latham Y and Vurdubakis T, 2010, 'Bodies, technologies and action possibilities: when is an affordance?', Sociology, vol 44, no. 3
View details - Bloomfield B P, Latham Y and Vurdubakis T, 2009, 'When is an Affordance?
Bodies, Technologies and Action Possibilities', Organisation, Work and Technology Working Paper Series
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View PDF - Knights D, Vurdubakis T and Willmott H, 2008, 'The night of the bug: technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siecle', Management and Organizational History, vol 3, no. 3-4, pp. 289-309.
View details - Knox H, O'Doherty D and Vurdubakis T, 2008, 'Enacting airports: space, movement and modes of ordering', Organization, vol 15, no. 6, pp. 869-888.
View details - Knox H, O'Doherty D, Vurdubakis T and Westrup C, 2008, 'Screenworlds: information technology and the performance of business knowledge', in The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 273-294, ISBN: 0199229600
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 2008, 'IBM's chess players: on artificial intelligence and its supplements', The Information Society, vol 24, no. 2, pp. 69-82.
View details - Knights D, Noble F, Vurdubakis T and Willmott H, 2007, 'Electronic cash and the virtual marketplace: reflections on a revolution postponed', Organization, vol 14, no. 6, pp. 747-768.
View details - Knox H, O'Doherty D, Vurdubakis T and Westrup C, 2007, 'Rites of passage: organisation as an excess of flows', MST News (VDI/VDE Technologiezentrum Informationstechnic), vol 23, no. 3, pp. 265-284.
View details - Knox H, O'Doherty D, Vurdubakis T and Westrup C, 2007, 'Transformative capacity, information technology and the making of business 'experts'', The Sociological Review, vol 55, no. 1, pp. 22-41.
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