Chris Kimble Email & Phone Number

France

Information Research is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.

Published by Wiley for 40 years, Global Business and Organizational Excellence (GBOE) is published six times a year, has a strong practical orientation, and a readership that includes both academics and practitioners.

Published by Wiley for almost 40 years, Global Business and Organizational Excellence (GBOE) publishes case studies and applied research that offer concrete guidance to organizations on operational issues. It is published six times a year, has a strong practical orientation, and a readership that includes both academics and practitioners.

Marseille Area, France

Although this might look like a change of jobs, in fact it is just a change of name. In July 2013, Euromed joined with BEM to become Kedge Business School. My research and teaching remain the same - information systems, Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management

Marseille Area, France

In July 2013, Euromed merged with BEM and became Kedge Business School

Most of my work at York focused on Communities of Practice and the generation and maintenance of knowledge. In particular, I looked at how technology could support collaborative forms of work such as Communities of Practice when they are geographically distributed and how Communities of Practice could provide a counter balance to more techno-centric views.

I presented a number of workshops for Soft Capital on "How to Facilitate On-line Knowledge Networks" based largely on the book I produced with Paul Hildreth

Spent part of 6 months study leave from the University of York studying Social Networks and Communities of Practice

My main concern at this time was with the way in which information systems were used within organisations. My particular interest was the relationship between Information Systems and the role of managers. My work at this time focused on the extent to which Information Technology de-skills managers and the ways in which it leads to the development of new.

I worked on an inter-disciplinary project involving the Departments of Computing, Management and Applied Social Studies. The aim of the project was to assess the state of development of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in the North East of England. Later I worked on a project on the evaluation of the competitive impact of CIM in the North East.