2010 - ERCIS

University College Dublin –
School of Business –
Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO)
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About the Centre
The Centre for Innovation, Technology
& Organisation (CITO) is a multi-disciplinary
research community
that is concerned with how information
and communication technology
(ICT) may be used to facilitate innovative
modes of working and organising
within and between business
corporations and broader social institutions.
The research activities of CITO are
focused on understanding the relationship
between innovation, technology
and organisation, and the
associated policy and management
implications. Our approach is guided
by the assumption that a sophisticated
understanding of technology,
and its role in the constitution of social
and organisational life, should
be based on an appreciation of how
it comes to be embedded within
broader institutional (organisational,
cultural, economic, political) contexts.
Research Approach
Our research work uses indepth
empirical studies of technology implementation
and use that are especially
attentive to the underlying
social relations and practices within
which such systems are embedded.
We are committed to developing ap-
Events
Recently, we co-hosted the 37th
ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium
on Principles of Programming Languages,
POPL2010, and chaired some
of its associated events, such as the
Workshop on Functional and Logic
Programming, WFLP2010.
Among the planned activities, we
have:
• Hosting the 2012 International
Conference on Mathematics of
Program Construction.
• Organising the 3rd Spanish
Workshop on Functional Programming.
propriate theoretical perspectives
for illuminating such processes by
drawing from a variety of intellectual
traditions including: philosophy, sociology,
political science, psychology,
economics and organisation
theory. The emphasis is on the pragmatic
use of theory to make tangible
and insightful contributions to technology
management practice.
Research Topics
CITO has several research streams:
• Understanding and managing
ICT-enabled social / organisational
change
• Knowledge, innovation and
organisation
• ICT and new modes of organising
in a globalised world
• The production and consumption
of technological artefacts
• Evolution of Information Infrastructures
and IOIS
Our work has applications in corporate
knowledge management, IT