Adrian Bradshaw

James Cook University Singapore · Business

Working on team projects is a common feature in higher education as a way to foster team learning and collaboration. For a team to work well towards achieving project objectives, it is important that there is effective team communication. Conventionally, face-to-face interactions allow students to interact with each other in multiple communication...

Michael, a recent graduate from a prominent university in Malaysia, decides to move back to his home town of Ciamis in Indonesia to take over his family business that sells textile. He is eager to put into practice all of the business knowledge he acquired during his MBA program. In the first month managing the store he has identified several aspec...

Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) depend on consultants to overcome knowledge barriers, especially for IT projects. This paper aims to determine how IT consultants affect the IT knowledge of SMEs when IT consultants and SMEs interact. Data were collected using face-to-face interviews with both IT consultants and SME managers. The study is th...

Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lack in-house resources, including IS knowledge and skills. As a result, they often turn to consultants for assistance with IS projects, eg, helping the firm select and implement a new system. While there is some evidence that this practice increases IS success, there has been no attempt to discover if...

This paper aims to determine the impact that consultants have on the creation of IS knowledge assets in SMEs. Exploratory case studies, involving both SMEs and consultants, are used to investigate the impact of consultants while implementing a new accounting system. Several propositions about the types of IS knowledge assets influenced by consultan...

This paper aims to determine the impact that consultants have on the creation of IS knowledge assets in SMEs. Exploratory case studies, involving both SMEs and consultants, are used to investigate the impact of consultants while implementing a new accounting system. Several propositions about the types of IS knowledge assets influenced by consultan...

Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) turn to consultants for assistance with IS projects, for example, to help the firm select and implement a new system. Prior studies have shown that consultants have a major influence on IS success for SMEs. However, despite its importance to IS success, relatively little research has focused on the rel...

Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) turn to consultants for assistance with IS projects, for example, to help the firm select and implement a new system. Prior studies have shown that consultants have a major influence on IS success for SMEs. However, despite its importance to IS success, relatively little research has focused on the rel...