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A/PROF RENS SCHEEPERS



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/rens/
Work: 8344 1575
Fax: 9349 4596
Room: 3.48
Level: 03
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
The implementation of, and business value derived from, complex business systems Business value of information technology, information systems implementation, Enterprise information portals, intranets, mobile technology Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Denmark Aalborg University Research
Canada Ryerson University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Pretoria 31-Dec-1987
Master of Business Administration University of Pretoria 31-Dec-1993
Doctor of Philosophy Aalborg University 31-Dec-1999

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group 8.2 Member 01-Jan-2007
Member Association for Information Systems Member 01-Jan-2000

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) Best Paper in Track Award "Other settings generalization in IS Research" Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 01-Jan-2007
Other (Award) (IADIS) Amsterdam, The Netherlands Best Paper award "Party Trust, Control Trust and "Blind" Trust in business to consumer Electronic Commerce 25-Jul-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
ASSESSING ORGANISATIONAL IT INFRASTURCTURE CAPACITY FOR KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY SUPPORT Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2005
SECURING KNOWLEDGE PROCESSES IN ORGANISATIONS Chief Investigator SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
Cross-Community Information Systems: Understanding Technology-Practice Fit in Healthcare Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Competing on Business Analytics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
CELL PHONE APPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC THERAPEUTIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH USE BY FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS Chief Investigator MICROSOFT RESEARCH 07/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • IDENTIFYING CAPABILITIES FOR THE IT FUNCTION TO CREATE AGILITY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
    Year: 2009
    Event name: PACIS 2009
    Conference Publication: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
    Volume: Paper 20
    Publisher: Association for Information Systems(Texas)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A process-focused decision framework for analyzing the business value potential of IT investments
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Information Systems Frontiers: a journal of research and innovation
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 321-330
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  • Communicating Content Through Configurable Media: A theoretical framework
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Informations Systems
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-68
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Living the Good Life: How Content Providers Can Better Conceptualize the Content Requirements of the Ubiquitous Technology User


    Year: 2008
    Event name: ACIS2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference of Information Systems 2008
    Page numbers: 949-958
    Publisher: Canterbury University Press(Christchurch)
    Author(s):
  • Party Trust, Control Trust and ‘Blind’ Trust in Business to Consumer Electronic Commerce
    Year: 2008
    Event name: THE IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-COMMERCE 2008
    Conference Publication: PROCEEDINGS OF THE IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-COMMERCE 2008
    Page numbers: 55-62
    Publisher: IADIS Press(Lisbon)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • E-Commerce research in Australia: inviting a comparative analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Informations Systems
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-58
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  • Towards a model to explain knowledge sharing in complex organizational environments
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Knowledge Management Research & Practice
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 93-109
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Explaining organizational investment in CRM point solutions
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 15th European Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 203-214
    Publisher: 15th European Conference on Information Systems
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Other-Settings Generalization in IS Research
    Year: 2006
    Event name: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
    Page numbers: 1141-1158
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  • Why ERP Systems Fail to Generate Intended Benefits in Developing-country Organisations
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th Australian Conference on Information Systems
    Publisher: Australasian Association for Information Systems(North Sydney)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The adoption of web services based architectures in Australian organisations: An exploratory study
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: ACIS 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems: ACIS 2005
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Australasian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (Sydney)
    Author(s):
  • The quality-of-relationship construct in IT outsourcing
    Year: 2005
    Event name: PACIS 2005: It and Value Creation
    Conference Publication: PACIS 2005: IT and Value Creation
    Page numbers: 1118-1131
    Publisher: The University of Hong Kong
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Knowledge strategy in organisations: Refining the model of Hansen, Nohria and Tierney
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Strategic Information Systems
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 201-222
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Distributed cognition and IT support for knowledge work in breakdowns: Match or mismatch?
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2004
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: School of Information Systems, The University of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Formulating an organisational knowledge strategy: The influence of existing IT infrastructure
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 12th European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2004: The European IS Profession in the Global Networking Environment
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Turku )
    Author(s):
  • Impact of configuration on IT outsourcing relationships
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2004
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Association for Information Systems(Texas)
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  • The implementation of mobile technology in organisations: Expanding individual use contexts
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Twenty-Fifth Annual International Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Capital Exchange: Crossing Boundaries and Transforming Institutions through Information Systems, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual International Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 171-182
    Publisher: Association for Information Systems(Texas)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A taxonomy of intranet implementation strategies: to make or to buy?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Global Information Management
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 39-62
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  • Key roles in intranet implementation: the conquest and the aftermath
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Information Technology
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 103-119
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A model for studying IT outsourcing relationships
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2003)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Page numbers: 1297-1312
    Publisher: University of South Australia Library(Adelaide)
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  • Contexts of relevance in exploratory case studies in information systems: ubiquitous information technology implementation in organizations
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2003)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Page numbers: 25-35
    Publisher: Washington State University (Washington)
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  • Supporting knowledge strategy in consulting organizations: codification, personalization or both
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS 2003
    Page numbers: 1234-1246
    Publisher: University of South Australia Library(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Configuring web-based support for dispersed project groups
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 6th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
    Conference Publication: The next e-what? for business and communities
    Page numbers: 81-95
    Publisher: The Japan Society for Management Information (JASMIN)(Tokyo)
    Author(s):
  • IT support for communities of practice in organisational settings
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Thirteenth Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 369-378
    Publisher: School of Information Systems, Victoria University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Towards web support for tacit knowledge exchange
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 25th Information Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS25)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 25th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS25)
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Roskilde University
    Author(s):
  • Web-based work practices in dispersed project groups
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 25th Information Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS25)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 25th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Roskilde University
    Author(s):

Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Harnessing intranet technology for organisational knowledge creation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Information Systems
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-15
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