Prof Stuart Barnes

Job title: Professor of Management

Contact: Stuart.Barnes@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3337

Location: Thomas Paine Study Centre 2.33

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Biography

I am Chaired Professor of Management and Director of Research in Norwich Business School and have been at the University of East Anglia since January 2005. Previously I worked at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the University of Bath. I have been teaching and researching in the information systems field for over a decade and a half.

My academic background includes a first class degree in Economics from University College London and a PhD in Business Administration from Manchester Business School.

My primary research interests centre on the successful utilisation of new information and communications technologies by businesses, governments and consumers. I have published five books (one a best-seller for Butterworth-Heinemann) and more than a hundred and fifty articles including those in journals such as Communications of the ACM, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information & Management, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Communications of the AIS, Data Base, and Psychology & Marketing.

My work has received more than 3000 citations. I am associate editor of Information & Management and editorial board member of eight other journals. I have been involved in conference organisation for more than forty conferences. I am actively involved in the international research community and reviews research grant proposal for many international research grant awarding bodies (see external activity page).

Citations:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ajrBfpIAAAAJ

I am particularly interested in supervising PhD students in:
1. All aspects of mobile business and wireless communications
2. Quality assessment for electronic commerce
3. Acceptance and consumer behaviour with respect to Web 2.0 technologies, including virtual worlds.

Notes:
• H-Index of 28 for my publications and 3360 citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ajrBfpIAAAAJ. Mingers (2008), in a paper in the Journal of the Operations Research Society, suggested that an h-index of 20 using Harzing’s software represents very high research productivity.
• Member of the Peer Review Panel for Mathematical and Information Sciences and Technology for the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). This is New Zealand’s equivalent of the UK’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
• Recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research from Victoria University of Wellington in 2004. This is a personal award from the Vice-Chancellor. The value of the award is $6000.
• The quality of my research was independent assessed as ‘A’ in the NZ PBRF. This is the highest rating and given to less than 10% of researchers. It denotes ‘World-Class’ research.
• The 2008 RAE report for Business and Management stated for my area (with 6 members): “Much of the Business Relationships research was judged as internationally excellent with some being world-leading”

Research Interests
My primary, multidisciplinary research interests centre on the successful utilisation of new information and communications technologies by businesses, governments and consumers. I have particular interests in Website quality, mobile business and social media, each of which are areas in which I am well known and cited: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ajrBfpIAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Recent Publications:
• Barnes, S.J. and Vidgen, R.T. (2012). User acceptance and Corporate Intranet quality: an evaluation with iQual. Information & Management (in press).
• Barnes, S.J. and Pressey, A. (2012). In Search of the ‘Meta-Maven’: An Examination of Market Maven Behavior across Real-Life, Web and Virtual World Marketing Channels. Psychology & Marketing (in press).
• Barnes, S.J. (2011). Understanding Use Continuance in Virtual Worlds: The Effects of Habit and Absorption. Information & Management, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 313-319.
• Guo, Y. And Barnes, S.J. (2011). Explaining purchasing behaviour in virtual worlds: the case of Second Life. Information & Management, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 303-312.
• Barnes, S.J. and Mattson, J. (2011). Exploring the Fit of Real Brands in the Second Life Virtual World. Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 27, nos. 9-10, pp. 934-958.

Some recent research projects:
• “Estudio comparativo de consumidores online de banca Españoles e Ingleses,” (a comparative study of Spanish and English online banking consumers) jointly with Prof Frederic Marimon of Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2012).
• Assessing brand value for several tourist boards in Sweden (with Jan Mattsson of Roskilde University).
• Pathological behaviour and addiction in virtual worlds, funded by Lancaster University Management School (with Andrew Pressey and Laura Salciuviene of Lancaster University).
• Evaluating brand value for a major German car manufacturer (with Jan Mattsson of Roskilde University)
• Modelling determinants of the quality of delivery and continued use of a major European telecommunication firm’s Web site (with Richard Vidgen, University of New South Wales).
• Evaluating the determinants of quality of a major international pharmaceutical company’s intranet (with Richard Vidgen, University of New South Wales).

Teaching Interests

I teach at all levels in Norwich Business School, from undergraduate to PhD, and have had numerous PhD completions in the past few years. Recent courses taught include NBS-M005: Information Systems for Management on the full-time MBA and NBS-MA50: Strategic Information Systems on the MSc in Strategic Information Systems.

Key Responsibilities

I am currently Director of Research in Norwich Business School. Previously I was Chair of MBA boards of examiners and Director of the MSc in Strategic Information Systems.

External Activities and Indicators of Esteem

Reviewing for International Research Grant Awarding Bodies:
• Reviewer of research proposals for UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ERSC)
• Reviewer of research proposals for British Academy
• Reviewer of research proposals for Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium)
• Reviewer of research proposals for Australian Research Council (ARC)
• Reviewer of research proposals for the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
• Reviewer of research proposals for Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Reviewer of research proposals for Academy of Finland
• Review of research proposals for Swiss National Science Foundation

Fellowships and Memberships (past and present):
• FRSA, Fellow of the Royal Society for Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
• MRSNZ, Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• MNZCS, Member of the New Zealand Computer Society
• Member of European Academy of Management
• Member of European Marketing Academy
• Member of American Marketing Association (AMA)
• Member of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
• Member of UK Council of Information Systems Professors (CISP)
• Member, The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society
• Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Conference Organisation Activity and Keynotes:
• Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Cyprus 2011 (programme committee)
• Invited keynote speaker at Public Seminar on E-Business and Modernization of Commodity Circulation, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China, May 2011.
• International Conference on Mobile Business 2002-2004 (reviewer, programme committee), 2005 and 2007 (programme committee, track chair), 2009-2010 and 2012 (programme committee), 2011(conference academic co-chair)
• The International Conference on Security-enriched Urban Computing and Smart Grids (SUComS), Korea 2010; Taiwan 2011 (Programme Committee)
• The International Conference on Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting (MulGrab), 2009, Taiwan, 2010; Korea 2011(programme committee)
• Global Mobility Roundtable 2006, 2009-2010 (programme committee)
• European Academy of Management 2007- 2009 (track chair for eBusiness)
• American Marketing Academy Summer Educator's Conference, Chicago 2009 (session chair)
• International Conference on Enterprise Systems for Best Management Practices (ICES 2008) (International Co-Chair)
• Conference on Information Systems Technology and Management (CISTM) 2006 (keynote speaker)
• i-Society 2006, 2007 (programme committee)
• IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (programme committee)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007 (programme committee)
• E-Commerce 2006, 2007 (programme committee)
• Mobile Multimedia (MoMM) Conference 2003, 2004 (reviewer, programme committee)
• European Conference on Mobile Government (mGov) 2005, 2006 (programme committee)
• IACIS Pacific 2005 Conference (programme committee)
• European Conference on Information Systems (reviewer, session chair 2001)
• Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) Conference 2004, 2005 (reviewer, programme committee)
• International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications 2005 (prog. committee)
• Ubiquitous Smart Worlds 2005 (advisory and technical committee)
• ISE-2001 – Workshop on Knowledge Management Systems (programme committee)

Editorial Activity for Journals:
• Information and Management (associate editor)
• Journal of Computer Information Systems (editorial board)
• Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (editorial board)
• International Journal of Mobile Communications (editorial board)
• International Journal of Electronic Finance (editorial board)
• Electronic Government (editorial board)
• Journal of Systems and Information Technology (editorial board)
• Industrial Management and Data Systems (editorial board)
• International Journal of Services and Standards (editorial board)
• International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (editorial board)