Dr Dale Mackrell

Office: 11C49

Phone: (02) 6201 2515

Fax: (02) 6201 5231

Email: Dale.Mackrell@canberra.edu.au

Mail:

11C49, Building 11

Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering

University of Canberra, ACT, 2601

Research Areas

• Technology transfer in the rural sector
• Knowledge-based decision support systems
• Information systems and gender
• Structuration theory and diffusion of innovations theory
• Sustainable business intelligence
• Work-integrated learning in ICT

Recent Publications

B - Book Chapter

Mackrell, D. (2006). Gender and the Use of DSS in the Australian Cotton Industry. Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, E. Trauth (Ed.), Idea Group Inc (Hershey PA USA) 494-500

C1 - Article in a scholarly refereed journal

Mackrell, D., Kerr, D. & von Hellens, L. (2009). A qualitative case study of the adoption and use of an agricultural decision support system in the Australian cotton industry: the socio-technical view. Decision Support Systems, 47(2), 143-153

Mackrell, D. (2009). The Work Readiness of Master of Information Systems International Students at an Australian University: A Pilot Study. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 6, 179-191

Mackrell, D. (2005). ‘We work as a team really’: Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 2, 77-92

Full written paper - refereed

Mackrell, D. (Accepted). A project to improve the employability skills of postgraduate ICT students through workplace cultural awareness. Accepted for the Informing Science and Information Technology Education Conference, Southern Italy, June 2010.

Mackrell, D., von Hellens, L. and Nielsen, S. (2009). Harnessing Diversity: Individual Differences in the Use of Farm Management Software. Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, August 2009.

Mackrell, D., and Boyle, M. (2009). The Intersection of Farm Management Software and Gender on Australian Family Cotton Farms. Interactive Paper at the Academy of Management Meeting (AOM), Chicago, Illinois, August 2009.

Mackrell, D. and Nielsen, S. (2009). Towards a Pluralist Approach in Design Science: Case Study of an Agricultural DSS. Accepted for the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar (IRIS) in Molde, Norway, August 2009.

Mackrell, D. and von Hellens L. (2008). An Interpretive Study of Gender Differences in the Use of Farm Management Software. Accepted for the 31st Information Systems Research Seminar (IRIS) in Åre Sweden, August 2008.

Mackrell, D. and Nielsen, S. (2007). Structuration Theory in Information Systems Research: Relevance and Rigour from a Pluralist Research Approach. Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, December 2007

Abstract

Mackrell D. (2007). A Multi-paradigmatic Approach. In Organizations and Society in Information Systems OASIS Workshop, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, Montreal Canada, December 2007.