Dr Lorraine Morgan
Lecturer in Business Information Systems; Associate Head of Graduate Studies; Acting Vice-Dean Graduate Studies
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway
Lorraine's principal teaching and research interests include open innovation, open business models, value networks, inner source and open source software. Lorraine is a funded investigator with Lero, the Irish Software Innovation Centre, and her work in this regard focuses on establishing an industry-focused network of excellence around open and inner source software. She is also Past-President of the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice (SIGOPEN), the largest founding AIS group. She was also General Chair for the Open Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2017) and the 8th Inner Source Summit (ISS 2019). She has served as Organising Chair and Local Committee Chair for numerous international conferences.
Lorraine's work contributes to these SDGs
Pastoral care in role of programme director, Associate Head of Graduate Studies, Acting Vice-Dean Graduate Studies.
Key Target: 17.6 Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation
Teaching
Lorraine continuously tries to align her teaching with theory, research and evolving industry demands, as well as society as a whole. Hence, her ambition for student learning is that any theoretical or practical knowledge gained during their studies can later be applied to real-world situations. This real-world application is something she incorporates consistently within her modules, particularly modules on Managing the Digital Enterprise (which is taught to MBA students), IS Innovation and Business Information Systems. Furthermore, as part of her module on the Future of Work and Society, she organises a seminar series for students where she invites key speakers, both academics and practitioners, to present their work. In 2021 Lorraine received the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence, as well as the National Forum Teaching Hero 2021 Award (student-led teaching award involving the Union of Students in Ireland and other students’ unions nationwide).
Sustainable
A feature of the majority of Lorraine's assessments is that students develop solutions to real business problems. Students are typically presented with a semi-structured brief and encouraged to collaborate in groups where they apply their creative problem-solving skills in the production of innovative, original outputs. For example, for two years, she brought her Business Information Systems class on a field visit to Killary Adventure Centre. She arranged with the owners of the adventure centre to give a talk to the class on how their business operates and the current and future challenges they face. The students were then given a group assignment where they had to determine how a specific technology can add real value to Killary Adventure Centre. She also brought a group of BIS students to Toulouse Business School and companies such as Airbus. This trip was an incredible and unique opportunity for the students to network on a global scale with other students, professionals and lecturers they met during the trip.
Focusing on Targets: 17.6 Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation, 17.17 Encourage effective partnerships
Engagement
Deep integration with industry has always underpinned Lorraine's research and she has established strong industry links that have arisen from various research projects over the years. Indeed, she has co-authored journal papers with leading industry practitioners from Zalando (e.g. California Management Review), Capital One and Nokia (conference paper presented at Grace Hopper Conference). She has led or been part of a core team that has consistently brought conferences to Ireland. The intention here is to increase the profile of Irish research generally and University of Galway specifically in this area. For example, Lorraine served as General Chair of the Inner Source Summit in 2019 and the 8th International Conference on Open Collaboration in 2017, which were both hosted in University of Galway. This was the first time any of these conferences were held in Ireland.
Direct impact SDG Targets
5.5 - Ensure full participation in leadership and decision-making
9.C - Universal access to information and communications technology
16.7 - Ensure responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making
17.6 - Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation
17.17 - Encourage effective partnerships
17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data
Research
Featured Publications
Lorraine’s research areas include: Open Innovation, Open Source Software, Inner Source, Peer-Production, Open Business Models, Value Networks, Crowdsourcing
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Unterkalmsteiner, M., Abrahamsson, P., Wang, X. F. and 24 more (...) (2016).Software startups-A research agenda. E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal, 10(1), 89-123. |
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Morgan, L., Conboy, K. (2013). Factors affecting the adoption of cloud computing: An exploratory study. ECIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems. |
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Clohessy, T., Acton, T., Morgan, L. (2014). Smart city as a service (SCaaS): A future roadmap for e-government smart city cloud computing initiatives. Proceedings - 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014, 836-841. |
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Schlagwein, D., Conboy, K., Feller, J. and 2 more (...) (2017)."Openness" with and without Information Technology: A framework and a brief history. Journal of Information Technology, 32(4), 297-305. |
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Morgan, L., Finnegan, P. (2014). Beyond free software: An exploration of the business value of strategic open source. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 23(3), 226-238. |
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Whelan, E., Conboy, K., Crowston, K., Morgan, L., Rossi, M. (2014). The role of information systems in enabling open innovation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 15(11), 4. |
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Gleasure, R., Conboy, K., Morgan, L. (2019). Talking up a storm: How backers use public discourse to exert control in crowdfunded systems development projects. Information Systems Research, 30(2), 447-465. |
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Cullina, E., Conboy, K., Morgan, L. (2016). Choosing the right crowd: An iterative process for crowd specification in crowdsourcing initiatives. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4355-4364. |
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Mooney, P., Morgan, L. (2015). How much do we know about the contributors to volunteered geographic information and citizen science projects? ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2(3), 339-343. |
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Clohessy, T., Morgan, L., Acton, T. (2014). An exploratory study into IT governance implementations in living laboratory ecosystems and their impact on open innovation effectiveness. ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems. |
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Clohessy, T., Morgan, L., Acton, T. (2014). A theoretical framework for examining IT governance in living laboratory ecosystems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 429334-429344. |
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