Here are some of my papers about digital media and work. I don’t do as much of this now as I used to as I’m more interested in society more generally.
Journal Papers
Howcroft, D. and Light, B. (2010) “The Social Shaping of Packaged Software Selection,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems 11 (3), Article 2. http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol11/iss3/2
Griffiths, M. and Light, B. (2009) An Investigation into Resistance Practices at an SME Consultancy, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 22(1/2), 119 – 136.
Light, B. Fletcher, G. and Adam, A. (2008) Gay Men, Gaydar and the Commodification of Difference, Information Technology and People, 21(3), 300-314.
Griffiths, M. and Light, B. (2008) Social Networking and Digital Media Convergence: Classification and its Consequences for Appropriation, Information Systems Frontiers, 20(4), 447-459.
Avila-Porro, D., Light, B. and McLean, R. (2008) Web Mediated Market Interactions and Enterprise Software, Cutter IT Journal, 21(6), 29-33.
Ferneley, E. and Light, B. (2008) Unpacking End-User Relations in an Emerging Ubiquitous Computing Environment: Introducing the Bystander, Journal of Information Technology, 23(3), 163-185.
Howcroft, D. and Light, B. (2008) IT Consultants, Salesmanship and the Challenges of Packaged Software Selection In SMEs, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 21(6), 597-615.
Burns, B. and Light, B. (2007) Users as Developers: A Field Study of Call Centre Knowledge Work, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, 19(4), 42-56.
Ferneley, E. and Light, B. (2006) Secondary User Relations in Emerging Mobile Computing Environments, European Journal of Information Systems, 15(3), 301-306.
Howcroft, D. and Light, B. (2006) Reflections on Issues of Power in Packaged Software Selection, Information systems Journal, 16(3), 215-235.
Light, B. and Wagner, E. (2006) Integration in ERP Environments: Rhetoric, Realities and Organisational Possibilities, New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 215-228.
Light, B. Going Beyond ‘Misfit’ as a Reason for ERP Package Customisation, Computers in Industry, 56(6), 2005, 606-619.
Light, B. (2005), Potential Pitfalls in Packaged Software Adoption, Communications of the ACM, 48(5), 119-121.
Conference Papers
Griffiths, M and Light, B. (2007) Risky Business: When a CRM Vendor Masqueraded as an ERP Specialist, European Conference on IS, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Pinnington, B., Light, B. and Ferneley, E. (2007) Too Much of a Good Thing? A Field Study of Challenges in Business Intelligence Enabled Enterprise System Environments, European Conference on IS, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Burns, B. and Light, B. (2006) Rewriting the Rules: Professionals, Technologies and Call Centre Working, in Proceedings of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Burns, B., Light, B. and Adam, A. (2006) Users as Professionals: A Study of IT Deployment and its Relationship to Professional Autonomy, in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gotenberg,Sweden.
Griffiths, M. and Light, B. (2006) User Resistance Strategies and the problems of Blanket prescriptions: A Case Study of Resistance Successes, in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gotenberg,Sweden.
