Donncha Kavanagh
Dublin, Ireland
Donncha Kavanagh is Professor of Information & Organisation in the Business School at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland; Director of UCD's Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation and a member of the Management Information Systems subject area. He is also Director of PhD Programmes in the Michael Smurfit School of Business in UCD.
His research interests include the sociology of knowledge and technology, temporality, phronesis, the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing, play and creativity. He is especially interested in the nature of 'management' in atypical forms of organising, while his most recent publications have focused on the relationship between work and play in management theory and practice. He has published widely in the fields of information and organisation, management, marketing, organisation studies, and engineering in leading international journals such as Organization, Organization Studies and Journal of Business Research. Prior to his academic career, he worked in a number of project management and project controller roles. Further details at http://donnchakavanagh.com