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Dr Yingqin Zheng

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EBS - Management and Marketing
Dr Yingqin Zheng

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Perspectives on Technology, Organisation and Society (BE437)

  • Research Methods in Marketing (BE965)

  • Research Methods in Management (BE969)

  • Research Methods in Management and Marketing (BE425)

  • The Management of Innovation and Organizational Change (BE885)

Publications

Journal articles (19)

Pandey, P. and Zheng, Y., (2023). Social positioning matters: A socialized affordance perspective of mHealth in India. Information Systems Journal. 33 (4), 703-732

Pandey, P. and Zheng, Y., (2023). Technologies of Power in Digital Inclusion. Journal of the Association of Information Systems. 24 (5), 1334-1357

Chib, A., Ang, MW., Zheng, Y. and Nguyen, SH., (2022). Subverted agency: The dilemmas of disempowerment in digital practices. New Media & Society. 24 (2), 458-477

Zheng, Y. and Wu, PF., (2022). Producing speed on demand: Reconfiguration of space and time in food delivery platform work. Information Systems Journal. 32 (5), 973-1004

Zheng, Y. and Walsham, G., (2021). Inequality of what? An intersectional approach to digital inequality under Covid-19. Information and Organization. 31 (1), 100341-100341

Jiménez, A. and Zheng, Y., (2021). Unpacking the multiple spaces of innovation hubs. The Information Society. 37 (3), 163-176

Qureshi, I., Pan, SL. and Zheng, Y., (2021). Digital social innovation: An overview and research framework. Information Systems Journal. 31 (5), 647-671

Azer, E., Harindranath, G. and Zheng, Y., (2019). Revisiting leadership in information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled activism: A study of Egypt’s grassroots human rights groups. New Media & Society. 21 (5), 1141-1169

Zheng, Y., Hatakka, M., Sahay, S. and Andersson, A., (2018). Conceptualizing development in information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). Information Technology for Development. 24 (1), 1-14

Jiménez, A. and Zheng, Y., (2018). Tech hubs, innovation and development. Information Technology for Development. 24 (1), 95-118

Zheng, Y. and Yu, A., (2016). Affordances of social media in collective action: the case of Free Lunch for Children in China. Information Systems Journal. 26 (3), 289-313

Abbott, P., Zheng, Y., Du, R. and Willcocks, L., (2013). From boundary spanning to creolization: A study of Chinese software and services outsourcing vendors. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 22 (2), 121-136

Ai, S., Du, R., Abbott, P. and Zheng, Y., (2012). Internal and contextual factors, knowledge processes and performance: From the Chinese provider’s perspective. Expert Systems with Applications. 39 (4), 4464-4472

Zheng, Y., Venters, W. and Cornford, T., (2011). Collective agility, paradox and organizational improvisation: the development of a particle physics grid. Information Systems Journal. 21 (4), 303-333

Du, R., Ai, S., Abbott, P. and Zheng, Y., (2011). Contextual Factors, Knowledge Processes and Performance in Global Sourcing of IT Services. Journal of Global Information Management. 19 (2), 1-26

Feng, J., Du, R., Ai, S., Zheng, Y. and Abbott, P., (2011). An empirical research of relation norms on IT outsourcing performance. Procedia Engineering. 24, 214-218

Zheng, Y. and Stahl, BC., (2011). Technology, capabilities and critical perspectives: what can critical theory contribute to Sen’s capability approach?. Ethics and Information Technology. 13 (2), 69-80

Zheng, Y., (2009). Different spaces for e-development: What can we learn from the capability approach?. Information Technology for Development. 15 (2), 66-82

Zheng, Y. and Walsham, G., (2008). Inequality of what? Social exclusion in the e‐society as capability deprivation. Information Technology & People. 21 (3), 222-243

Books (2)

Jones, M., Mukherjee, A., Thapa, D. and Zheng, Y., (2023). Preface. 9783031501531

Zheng, Y., Abbott, P. and Robles-Flores, JA., (2022). Preface. 9783031194283

Book chapters (13)

Jones, M. and Zheng, Y., (2023). Beyond the snapshot: Reconceptualising human agency and context in qualitative IS research. In: Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems: New Perspectives. 340- 359. 9781802205381

Roberts, T. and Zheng, Y., (2022). Datafication, Dehumanisation and Participatory Development. In: Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World. Springer International Publishing. 377- 396. 9783031194283

Pandey, P. and Zheng, Y., (2020). Power, Technology and Empowerment. In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing. 165- 179. 9783030646967

Thapa, D. and Zheng, Y., (2019). Capabilities and Affordances in the ICT4D Context. In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing. 49- 59. 9783030191146

Pandey, P. and Zheng, Y., (2019). Unpacking Empowerment in ICT4D Research. In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing. 83- 94. 9783030191146

Jiménez, A. and Zheng, Y., (2017). A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK. In: Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Springer International Publishing. 171- 181. 9783319591100

Eades, G. and Zheng, Y., (2014). Counter-Mapping as Assemblage. In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 79- 94. 9783662457078

Abbott, P., Zheng, Y. and Du, R., (2014). Innovation in a Collaborative Project. In: Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks. Springer International Publishing. 45- 54. 9783319144207

Abbott, P., Zheng, Y. and Du, R., (2014). VanceInfo’s Reconfigurative Strategy. In: Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks. Springer International Publishing. 35- 44. 9783319144207

Stahl, B., Carroll-Mayer, M., Elizondo, D., Wakunuma, K. and Zheng, Y., (2012). Intelligence Techniques in Computer Security and Forensics: At the Boundaries of Ethics and Law. In: Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 237- 258. 9783642252365

Zheng, Y. and Stahl, BC., (2012). Evaluating Emerging ICTs: A Critical Capability Approach of Technology. In: The Capability Approach, Technology and Design. Springer Netherlands. 57- 76. 9789400738782

Zheng, Y. and Zhang, C., (2012). Cyberactivism and Collective Agency: Cases from China. In: ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 310- 319. 9783642333316

Abbott, P., Zheng, YQ., Du, R. and Willcocks, LP., (2012). Offshoring: Cross-Cultural Strategies from the Offshore Provider’s Perspective. In: The New IT Outsourcing Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 206- 221. 9781349595327

Conferences (18)

Jones, M., Mukherjee, AS., Thapa, D. and Zheng, Y., (2023). After Latour

Kumaralalita, L. and Zheng, Y., (2023). Digital Financial Inclusion and Resilience – A Crowd-Funded Microloan Platform in Indonesia

Pandey, P. and Zheng, Y., (2020). Power, Technology and Empowerment: A Case Study of Community Health Workers in India

Thapa, D. and Zheng, Y., (2019). Capabilities and Affordances in the ICT4D Context: Similarities, Differences, and Complementarities

Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, A. and Zheng, Y., (2018). Engendering Virtual Communities of Practice: A study of a Globally Distributed Grid Development Project

Jimenez, A. and Zheng, Y., (2016). A capabilities approach to innovation: A case study of a technology and innovation hub in Zambia

Eades, G. and Zheng, Y., (2014). Counter-mapping as assemblage reconfiguring indigeneity

Zheng, Y. and Yu, A., (2014). Social media, institutional innovation and affordances: The case of free lunch for children in China

Zheng, Y. and Abbott, P., (2013). Moving up the value chain or reconfiguring the value network? An organizational learning perspective on born global outsourcing vendors

Abbott, P., Zheng, Y., Modi, S. and Du, R., (2012). Moving up the value chain: Exploring the issues for chinese software & services outsourcers

Stahl, B., Elizondo, D., Carroll-Mayer, M., Zheng, Y. and Wakunuma, K., (2010). Ethical and legal issues of the use of computational intelligence techniques in computer security and computer forensics

Abbott, P., Zheng, Y., Du, R. and Willcocks, L., (2010). From boundary spanning to creolization: Cross-cultural strategies from the offshore provider's perspective

(2009). The Interpretive Flexibility of an E-Government Project: From an Actor-Network Theory Perspective

Zheng, Y., Venters, W. and Cornford, T., (2009). Social capital in distributed system development: A case of grid development in particle physics

Zheng, Y., Venters, W. and Cornford, T., (2007). AGILITY, IMPROVISATION, OR ENACTED EMERGENCE? DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT OF A PARTICLE PHYSICS GRID

Zheng, Y., Venters, W. and Cornford, T., (2007). Agility, improvisation, or enacted emergence? distributed development of a particle physics grid

Zheng, Y., (2007). A structurational conceptualization of information literacy: Reflections on research in rural South Africa

Yingqin Zheng, (2005). Information Culture and Development: Chinese Experience of E-Health

Reports and Papers (1)

Zheng, Y. and Heeks, R., Conceptualising Information Culture in Developing Countries

Grants and funding

2023

Interdisciplinary Network Assessing Women's Digital Inclusion as a Social Determinant of Health

Academy of Medical Sciences

Contact

y.zheng@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus

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