Professor Theodore Vurdubakis
Director, Professor

Organisation Work and Technology
Charles Carter BuildingLancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YX
Other affiliations: Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation, Centre for Science Studies
Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
OWT.229 Business Ethics: Contempory Issues in Management
OWT.230 Management and its Environments
Postgraduate:
ITO.001 Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations
OWT.501 Organisations in the 21st Century
Qualifications
PhD (Manchester) BA (Athens)
Professional Role
Director of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
Research Grants
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Knowledge Management and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP). With Damian O'Doherty and Chris Westrup (Mancheter Business School)
Profile
Theo Vurdubakis is Professor of Organisation and Technology. A graduate of Athens University he completed his MSc and 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).
Recent publications
- Enacting the Global in the Age of Enterprise Resource Planning
Knox, H., O’Doherty, D., Vurdubakis, T. & Westrup, C. 1/03/2012 In: Anthropology in Action. 19, 1, p. 32-46. 15 p.
Journal article - Code and Codings in Crisis : Signification, Performativity and Excess
Mackenzie, A. & Vurdubakis, T. 11/2011 In: Theory, Culture and Society. 28, 6, p. 3-23. 21 p.
Journal article - Bodies, technologies and action possibilities: when is an affordance?
Bloomfield, B P., Latham, Y. & Vurdubakis, T. 06/2010 In: Sociology. 44, 3, p. 415-433. 19 p.
Journal article - The devil and customer relationship management
Knox, H., O'Doherty, D., Vurdubakis, T. & Westrup, C. 2010 In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 3, 3, p. 339-359. 21 p.
Journal article - When is an Affordance?
Bodies, Technologies and Action Possibilities
Bloomfield, B P., Latham, Y. & Vurdubakis, T. 2009 Lancaster : Lancaster University, (Organisation, Work and Technology Working Paper Series)
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