Dr Karyn Rastrick
Lecturer in Digital Business
Qualification Convenor Master of Digital Business (MDigiBus)
Qualifications: BMS(Hons), PhD
Contact Details
Email: karyn@waikato.ac.nzRoom: MSB.2.32E
Phone: +64 7 838 4207
Papers Taught
About Karyn
Karyn Rastrick is a Digital Business Lecturer at the Waikato Management School. She holds a PhD and BMS (Hons) from Waikato. Her research interests include how digital business systems develop and evolve. Key research focuses are the area of social media, critical incidents and digital health solutions.
Research Supervised
Current PhD Supervision
- Heidi Lu “An Exploration of Cloud-based Technologies in Enhancing Emergency Management Capabilities”
- Arafat Alshawaf "The Use of Social Networking Technologies for Home-Based Business: The Case of Saudi Arabian Female Entrepreneurs"
Past PhD Supervision
- Debashish Mandal (2015) “Social Media Adoption By Micro Businesses”
Recent Publications
Mandal, D., McQueen, R., Dillon, S. M., & Rastrick, K. (2017). The influence of small enterprise owner personality traits on Facebook use. Small Enterprise Research, 24(2), 120-131. doi:10.1080/13215906.2017.1338194
Lu, Y., Dillon, S., Rastrick, K., & Vossen, G. (2017). Assessing the perceived value of cloud-based technologies in natural disasters. In 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management. Conference held Munster, Germany.
Rastrick, K., Stahl, F., Vossen, G., & Dillon, S. (2015). WiPo for SAR: Taking the web in your pocket when doing search and rescue in New Zealand. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 7(4), 46-66. doi:10.4018/IJISCRAM.2015100103
Dillon, S., Rastrick, K., Stahl, F., & Vossen, G. (2014). Cases for the web in the pocket (WiPo): Surviving offline with online data. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 9(3), 20 pages. doi:10.4018/ijitwe.2014070103
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