Projects

Funding detail: KTP (TSB)
Duration: 2009-2011
Grant: £79,000
Centre member(s): Gordon Fletcher, Maria Kutar
Research: Develop the POS Store system - An online design and ordering systems for Point of Sale materials.

Funding detail: KTP (TSB)
Duration: 2011-2013
Grant: £81,000
Centre member(s): Gordon Fletcher, Aleksej Heinze, Andrew Goudie
Research: Development of a Dynamic Campaigns dashboard logic and its implementation.
Dissemination: Ongoing

Funding detail: KTP (TSB/ESRC)
Duration: 2011 - 2013
Grant: £81,000
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze,  Gordon Fletcher, Yiannis Polychronakis
Research: Development of E-Law concept and infrastructure.
Dissemination: Ongoing.

Funding detail: KTP
Duration: 2009 - 2011
Grant:  £118,001
Centre member(s): Marie Griffiths, Aleksej Heinze
Research: Back office operations review and ERP solution refinement.
Dissemination: Ofoegbu, AC, Griffiths, M and Heinze, A 2011, Themes and challenges for service management solutions in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) , in: UK Academy for Information Systems 16th Annual Conference 2011, 11 - 13th March 2011, Oriel College, University of Oxford.

Griffiths, M., Heinze, A. and Ofoegbu A. C. (2012). The real SAP Business One cost: a case study of ERP adoption in an SME. International Journal of Management Practice (IJMP), Forthcoming. Special Issue on: "Challenges and Issues of Technology Adoption in Small Businesses – Beyond the Rhetoric" Forthcoming

Funding detail: KTP
Duration: 2012 - 2013
Grant:   £60,577
Centre member(s): Marie Griffiths
Research: To bring empty homes back into use through the development of an innovative and sustainable empty homes engagement strategy.

Funding detail: KTP
Duration: 2009
Grant:   £136,852
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze, Marie Griffiths
Research: Enterprise 2.0 - Customer Relationship Networking and impact on its use in business.
Dissemination:Griffiths , M, Heinze, A, Light, B, Kiveal, P and Sethi, T 2010, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace: can Web 2.0 social networking sites nudge the boardroom – the evolution of CRN 2.0 research agenda? , in: UK Academy for Information Systems 15th Annual Conference 2010 “Information Systems: Past, Present and Looking to the Future” , 23rd - 24th March 2010, Oriel College, University of Oxford.

Funding detail: Research Bidding Support
Duration: 2010
Grant: £3,000
Centre member(s): Maria Kutar, Gordon Fletcher, Marie Griffiths
Research: Exploratory research to develop a systematic methodology for identifying digital identity.
Dissemination: Ongoing

Funding detail: EPSRC
Duration: 2009
Grant: £165,353
Centre member(s): Maria Burke
Research: Tales of Things: Electronic Memory.

The purpose of the project is to revolutionise existing social and business processes, using technologies available to us through the digital economy. The digital economy is defined by the Research Councils as "the novel design or use of information communication technologies to help transform the lives of individuals, society or business". In this context the objectives for the TOTeM project are to provide the necessary platform for people to tag existing objects with stories that describe a personal and social value.

Funding detail: HEA
Duration: 2010
Grant: £10,000
Centre member(s): Maria Burke

Funding detail: ESRC
Duration: 2012
Grant: £2,162
Centre member(s): Maria Kutar, Gordon Fletcher, Marie Griffiths
Research: Exploratory research to develop a systematic methodology for identifying digital identity.
Dissemination: Ongoing

Funding detail: Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (University of Sheffield)
Grant:   £3,950
Centre member(s): Maria Kutar, Marie Griffiths
Research: Griffiths, M, Kutar, M and Wood, J 2010, 'Introducing digital literacy skills through IBL: A comparative study of UG and PG business information systems students' , Italics, 9 (2)

Funding detail: University of Salford
Duration: 2009 - 2010
Grant: £10,000
Centre member(s): Gordon Fletcher, Aleksej Heinze, Ben Light, Alison Adam
Research: Development of innovation bazaar concept as a forum for community open innovation.
Dissemination: Ongoing including input into papers about SF prototyping.

Funding detail: University of Salford staff placement
Duration: 6 months during 2008
Grant:   £1,500
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Identification of motivational typology driving online market research communities participation.
Dissemination:  Ferneley, E, Heinze, A and Child, P 2009, Research 2.0: Improving participation in online research communities , in: European Conference in Information Systems, 2009, Verona, Italy.
Ferneley, E, Heinze, A and Child, P 2009, Research 2.0: encouraging engagement in online market research communities , in: UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS), 2009, Oxford.

Funding detail: Manchester City Council and Salford City Council
Duration: 4 months
Grant: £10,000
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Evaluation of enterprise culture development projects in Manchester and Salford.
Dissemination: Vasilieva, E, Avramenko, A, Heinze, A, MacLean, C, Rouse, J and Crompton, H 2008, Building bridges: Manchester Salford enterprise initiative. Enterprise support and engagement in deprived communities pilots: final evaluation report and recommendations towards a model for developing enterprise culture in deprived communities, Project Report, University of Salford.

Funding detail: Vice Chancellor Enterprise Development Fund
Duration: 2008 - date
Grant: £1,800
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Professionalisation of the Search and Social Media Marketing industry.
Dissemination: Heinze, A and Wells, S 2009, Open enrolment programmes at Salford Business School: challenges and opportunities , in: Fifth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Critical Voices, Critical Times , September 2009, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester.

Heinze, A, Fletcher , G and Chadwick , C 2010, From search engine optimisation to search engine marketing management: development of a new area for information systems research , in: UK Academy for Information Systems 15th Annual Conference 2010 “Information Systems: Past, Present and Looking to the Future” , 23rd - 24th March 2010, Oriel College, University of Oxford.

Heinze, A and Fletcher, G 2011, Can we make higher education relevant to the needs of the search & social media marketing industry? , in: 6th Education in a Changing Environment Conference, Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, 6-8 July 2011, Salford, Greater Manchester.

Funding detail: EU
Duration: 2011 - date
Grant: £262,000
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Identification of European business culture in 31 countries in particular the use of social media and student placements.
Dissemination:  http://businessculture.org/

Funding detail: Interreg IVC
Grant: £1,206,734
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Study of innovation triple helix: universities, policy makers and commercial operators located in University City Regions in Europe (regions with over 100k student of population).
Dissemination: http://www.knowledgecities.eu

Funding detail: LLP
Duration: 2010
Grant: €353,207
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research: Identification of a new innovation concept in Enterprise Cultural Heritage to help craft sector SMEs in 5 European countries.
Dissemination: http://www.enterpriseculturalheritage.org

Aaltonen, S, Heinze, A, Ielpa, G, Klosova, A, Papadopoulou, T, De Tommaso, D, Vasilieva, E and Zygiaris, S 2011, Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival? , in: RENT XXV Conference - Entrepreneurial, Business and Society, November 16-18, Bodo, University of Nordland - Norway.

Aaltonen, S, Avramenko, A, Catalani, A, Heinze, A, Kakderi, K, Klosova, A, Ielpa , G, Papadopoulou, N, deTommaso, D, Taylor, M, Vasilieva, E and Zygiaris, S 2011, Enterprise cultural heritage management: in search of inspiration for innovation and sustainability , in: EBES 2011 Conference, October 13-15 2011, Zagreb¿¿, Croatia.

Aaltonen, S, Avramenko, A, Heinze, A, Ielpa, G, Klosova, A, Papadopoulou, T and de Tommaso, D 2011, Enterprise cultural heritage skill gap - the study of established craft sector firms , in: ISBE 2011 Conference - Sustainable Futures: Enterprising Landscapes and Communities, November 9-10 2011, Sheffield, UK.

Funding detail: HEIF
Duration: Forthcoming placement of 10 days
Grant: Staff grant of £1,500
Centre member(s): Marie Griffiths
Research: This is a scoping exercise for the BIITN. BIITN are aware that the sales of print media have declined over the past two decades and that this is accelerating as more media are available online. The organisation has been radically affected by this. The research aims to target BIITN readers who are generally from social groups ABC1, more likely to be women than men, and largely over 40, who have grown up with the street vendor concept. We aim to continue meeting this target market, but additional new audience sectors will also be explored, through raising an awareness of the brand via digital media.

Developing a New Business Model Due to Disruptive Technologies

Duration: 2008
Grant:  £29,000
Centre member(s): Aleksej Heinze
Research:  Evaluation of HEFCW’s Third mission and its impact in Wales.
Dissemination: http://www.hefcw.ac.uk/documents/publications/external_reports_and_studies/3%20mission%20fund%20full%20report%20Oct%2009.pdf

Funding detail: European Social Fund
Duration:1 year project Jan-Dec 2007
Grant: £85,000
Centre member(s): David Kreps
Research: Examined the accessibility of jobs websites both nationally and in the North West of the UK to disabled people using assistive technologies to access the web. Findings were that none were particularly accessible.
Dissemination: Kreps, D & Wheeler, P (Dec 07) 'Language, Technology & the Body: Critical Research into Disability, Impairment & Web Accessibility for UK JobSeekers' paper at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Dec 2007, Montreal, Canada.

Wheeler, P & Kreps, D (2008) 'User Testing is Not a Luxury' Electronic Markets - The International Journal Routledge, London 18(4), 324-332.

Funding detail: European Commission Framework Programme 7
Duration: 2008 - 2011
Grant:   £295,000
Centre member(s): David Kreps
Research: This project is about people. We began by interviewing over 1000 people in the UK and Bulgaria about their energy consumption. Many of them then joined the project to help us design the equipment that would help meet their needs in terms of monitoring the energy they consumed. The final goal being to enable people to reduce their household energy consumption and cut the cost of running their homes. The project has become increasingly relevant to the lives of all of us. Energy prices have increased dramatically since we started work on DEHEMS in 2008 and it seems safe to assume that that this will continue in the long term.
Dissemination: Kreps, D. 2010, Introducing Eco-Masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the Individual Differences Theory of Gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project, in: AMCIS 2010 Proceedings, (Americas Conference on Information Systems) AIS, Lima, Peru, p.277. Conference details: Nominated for Best Paper.

Funding detail: AHRC
Duration: 2009 - 2010
Grant:  £10,000
Centre member(s): David Kreps
Research:  As part of the developing Research Councils UK (RCUK) Digital Economy Programme the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has collaborated with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) to commission a study to review the capital needs to support leading edge research using new and related media technologies. The goals of the study are to broadly assess the current situation, identify any gaps in provision and comment on modes of support provision. Specifically, regarding the latter, to consider whether there is a need for the large-scale provision of facilities, infrastructure and equipment for particular communities over existing modes that are tied to individual research projects.
Dissemination: Report to AHRC