Associate Professor Stuart Dillon

Head of School of Management & Marketing

Keywords

E-commerce; Social Networks; Technology; Web

Digital Business; Cloud Computing; Beacons; Contemporary Technologies, Mobile Commerce; IT Consumerisation; Electronic Government; IT Project Management, Wearables, Grounded Theory

Qualifications: BSc, PGDipMgtSys, MMS, PhD Waikato

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About Stuart

Associate Professor Stuart Dillon is the Head of the School of Management & Marketing, within the Waikato Management School.  Most of Stuart's teaching and research is in the broad area of emerging digital business technologies.  In particular, he explores how business adopts contemporary technologies and the impact such adoption has on them.

Recent projects include behavioural competencies of IT Project Managers, Data Curation as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Computing. He has published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Global Information Management, International Journal of Project Management, and Scientometrics. The Department is the sole New Zealand member of the European Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and Stuart collaborates with number of researchers from other ERCIS members, in particular from the University of Münster

Much of Stuart's research is qualitative and he has a particular interest in interpretative approaches - especially Grounded Theory. He is willing to consider quality proposals from prospective PhD students aligned with his research interests and methods.

Research Supervised

Current PhD Supervision

• Dannie Jefferies "The Role of Gamification for Enhancing Health Outcomes"
• Gina Millar "A cross-genre study of online gaming: Relationships between micro-transactional purchase intention and player loyalty."

Completed PhD Supervision

• Arafat Alshawaf (2020) "The Use of Social Networking Technologies for Home-Based Business: The Case of Saudi Arabian Female Entrepreneurs" - Chief Supervisor
• Heidi Lu (2019) “An Exploration of Cloud-based Technologies in Enhancing Emergency Management Capabilities” - Chief Supervisor
• Bridget Sheffer (2018) “Innovation-to-Internationalization: Small and medium cloud-based software firms’ communication strategies and needs”
• Debashish Mandal (2015) “Social Media Adoption By Micro Businesses”
• Said Al Saifi (2014) “The Nature of the Relationships between Social Networks, Interpersonal trust, Management Support, and Knowledge Sharing” - Chief Supervisor
• Hamed Al Namani (2014) “A Multi-Level Technology Acceptance, Adoption, and Implementation Model for Achieving Government –Citizen Dialogue” 
• Jihong Chen (2010) “Exploring Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Building at Offshore Technical Support Centers”
• Chansit Siritanachot (2008) “The Impact of Intervential Change Techniques, on an Internet Banking Cross-functional Team”
• Frank Hung (2006) “Supporting Organisational Critical Activities from Websites”

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