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I am a Senior Lecturer of Systems and Organisation in the School of Management, University of York. He is interested in the application of complex systems theory in organisations, and how organisational culture, memory, and knowledge can be theorised as an emergent property of the system itself. I am also interested in the role of technology including, AI and machine learning on organizational decision making.
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Category Archives: Work Updates
Images for Academic Work
I am always searching for places to get images that I can use in my academic work, teaching slides, presentations etc. To help me, and perhaps others, I have made a list of sources. Creative Commons, and their search facility. … Continue reading
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Tagged art work, images, photographs, royalty free
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Crypto Wars 2.0
I was invited to give a talk at Oxford University on Crypto Wars 2.0 for the Cyber Security DTC that is jointly ran by Oxford and Royal Holloway. I have given a talk on the Crypto Wars at Durham in the past … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Rights, Encryption, Work Updates
Tagged crypto wars, digital rights, encryption
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Business History – Banks, births, and tipping points
We have a new piece published in Business History, Complexity in History: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector. Continuing our work modelling the British banking sector we have responded to the very interesting comment by J Bissell, … Continue reading
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Tagged banks, business, demographics, finance, history
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RGS Panel: Risk and Complexity in Finance and Beyond
Our Royal Geographical Society panel, “Risk and Complexity in Finance and Beyond” has been accepted for this years RGS annual conference! Some details below: Session organiser/s: Philip Garnett, The University of York, UK; John H. Morris, Durham University, UK Session … Continue reading
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Tagged complex systems, complexity, finance
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Twitter Data Grant
I recently applied for one of the Twitter data grants. My application was declined which was a shame. I think I probably wanted too much data. Not to be deterred I have applied for money elsewhere. I want data to … Continue reading
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Journal of Management Studes at 50: Trends over Time
This was an interesting paper that I contributed a section too. It was a look back, and in a sense, a look forwards at four leading management studies journals, ASQ, JMR, JMS and HRM. My involvement was to look at … Continue reading
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Tagged networks, papers, trends, words
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