Newcastle University

JOURNAL EDITING

Senior Editor, Organization Studies
Member of Editorial Board, Academy of Management Journal.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Management Studies.
Member of Editorial Board, Organization Studies.
Member of Editorial Board, Management Communication Quarterly.
Guest Editor Special Issue on Organizational Rhetoric (2008) of Management Communication Quarterly
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Technology and Management.
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Virtual Teamwork (1999) of Information Systems Journal.
Member of Editorial Board, Transactions in International Information Systems.

CONTACTS

Advisory Board member, Strategy as practice. Practices as enablers of meaningful work and strategy realization. Project application for Finnish national funding submitted September 2003, Helsinki University of Technology.
Advisory Board Member, Knowledge Flow within Innovation Network Project (KnowFIN), 2003, Helsinki University of Technology
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Managing Knowledge and Social Capital in Knowledge Intensive Organizations Project (MAKS), 2003, Helsinki University of Technology
External Promotion Reviewer, Department of Management, WPI, Worcester, USA, 2000.
Reviewer currently  for Academy of Management Journal, Communication Theory, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Human Relations, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, British Journal of Management.
PhD examiner of Investigation into the impact of software development technologies, N.M.Onodu, Dept of Manufacturing and Engineering, University of Birmingham, October, 1996; A.Karamanos, Stakeholder networks and the value of the firm, Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, 2001; S.Stumpf, Analysis and representation of rhetorical construction of understanding in design teams experiential learning, Computer Science Dept, University College London, 2001;  L.Carver, MESS Mod For More Effective Management of Information System Under Conditions of Centralisation / Decentralisation, School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, 2001; Carol (W.Y.) Hsu, Contextual issues of online education that affect student appropriation of technology and the consequent learning outcomes, Information Systems Dept., LSE, 2003; Alexandra Steinberg, Making a difference: exploring emergent knowledge dynamics in entrepreneurial innovation, Dept. of Social Psychology, LSE. 2005; Ming Lim, Actor-Networks and Technology Development: Perspectives on e-learning in the Asia-Pacific, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University, 2008; Andrew Kelly. Was Burns rights?: leadership and power in the knowledge economy. Strathclyde University Business School. 2008; Aidan McQuade. Why do good people do bad things? Strathclyde University Business School. 2009.
Research grant reviewer for several ESRC applications. Most recent ones were (Business Process Reengineering, £205K, June 1995); (Virtual teamwork, £196K, April 1996); (Team working in virtual environments, £152K, February 1997); (Dynamic multi-agent models for abstract organizational experiments, 130K, May 1997); (Priority networks proposal ESRC, Communication and performance in top management teams, £199K, Feb 1999); (Cross sectoral learning in the Virtual Enterprise, £110K, Mar 1999); (Ethnography of NICE, £220K, Jan 2001).
Research grant reviewer for Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW) J.A.van Laar, One-sidedness in argument, criticism and public reasoning, July 13 2004.
Referee for European Research and Technological Development Programme in Information Technologies (Esprit) for area of Long Term Research during 1997-2000.
Session Chair at IFIP WG8.2 Working Conference on Information Technology and New Emergent Forms of Organizations, University of Michigan, August 13-15, 1994.
Session Chair at the International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD98) Bled, Slovenia, September 1998.
Member of Programme Committee for the Second International Conference on Cognitive Technology 97, Humane Interfaces: Methodology and Practice, University of Aizu, Japan, 1997, (90 delegates from computer science, psychology, and technology management, thirty papers published in a book, a distinctly new approach to the subject of increasing user control of interface use and design).
Organizer (with Dr Harindranath, Dr Saeedi, and Dr Rosenberg) of International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2001) Royal Holloway, University of London, September 2001.
Member of Program Committee of 9th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2000), Kristiansand, Norway 14-16 August 2000.
Organizer (with Dr Saeedi, and Dr Rosenberg) of two day meeting on argumentation software 19/20th March 2001 at Royal Holloway (Visitors from University of Tokyo Civil Engineering Dept and  University College London Computer Science Dept).
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Information Resource Management Conference 18-21 May 2003 Philadelphia, USA.
Member of Organizing Committee of Knowledge Management at Aston Conference (KMAC 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

EDUCATION

Birmingham University Sept 1988-Sept 1989;
Coventry Polytechnic (Part time) Sept 1983-Sept 1988;
London University Sept 1971-Sept 1973;
Manchester University Sept 1963-Sept 1967.
QUALIFICATIONS
M.Sc in Computer Science (1989 Birmingham University);
1st class BSc Hons in Mathematics (1988 Coventry  University);
PhD in Social Science (1979 London University);
2.1 class BA Hons in Town Planning (1967 Manchester University).

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Organization Studies and Management, University of Strathclyde , Business School, Department of Management, 199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0QU. Tel. 0141 553 6107 (or 6040). Fax. 0141 552 8851. john.sillince@gsb.strath.ac.uk. http://www.intranet.sbs.strath.ac.uk/profile/?17513:johnasillince
Professor of Knowledge Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, (June 2001-May 2007).                 
Professor of Management Information Systems at the Management School, Royal Holloway, University of London, (Sept 1999-June 2001).
Reader at the Management School, Royal Holloway, University of London, (May 1998-Sept 1999).
Senior Visiting Fellow, Management School, University of Sheffield, (Feb 1996-Feb 1999).
Senior Lecturer at the Management School, Royal Holloway, University of London, (Feb 1996-May 1998).
Lecturer in Management Information Systems in the Management School at Sheffield University (1991 - Feb 1996). 
Senior Lecturer in Department of Computer Science at Coventry Polytechnic (1988-1991);
8Senior Lecturer in Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Coventry Polytechnic (1973-1988) department closed along with 3 other planning depts in “Thatcher cuts”;  
Planning Assistant at East Sussex County Council (1968-1971)    
Planning Assistant at Portsmouth City Council (1967-1968).

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Dept of Speech Communication and Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, Penn State University, USA, 2000-2003.
Argumentatietheorie en Retorica, Faculty of Letters, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2000-2003.
Centre for Computer Assisted Management, School of Business, Carleton University, Canada, 2000-2003.
Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo University, Japan, 2003-2004.
Bordeaux Business School, Bordeaux University, France, 2004-2005.
Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2000-2006.
Department of Management and Organization, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki. Finland. 2008

PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

Mentoring of academic staffs research
Dept. Director of Research role University of Strathclyde Management Dept. July 2007 to December 2009
Administered £35k p.a. Research Support Fund 2007-8 and 2008-9
Published Research Support Fund policy 2007
Administered 30k p.a. Conference Fund 2007-8 and 2008-9
Published Conference Fund policy 2007
Published sabbaticals policy 2008
Organized and mentored 2 Writers Retreats in 2009
Organized and hosted 10 invited speakers 2007-8 and 2008-9
Organized and hosted Monthly staff research seminars
Individual 1-1 research mentoring and reading drafts
Facilitated and encouraged 3 staff given 6 month sabbaticals Sept 2009
Collaborative authoring with 6 staff within dept. 
Member of Strategy Forum at Aston Business School 2001-2006.
Research Convenor and Leader of Knowledge Management Group Aston Business School.
Writer in residence at Writers Retreat July 2005 and April 2006 Aston Business School.
Member of Executive Committee, Royal Holloway Management School.
Developer of new course and then Course Director Msc in Business Information Systems Royal Holloway Management School which started in September 1998.
Chairman of Sheffield University Management School Library Committee Sept 1994 to Sept 1996.
Member of 1994 Visiting Course Validation Panel for the MSc Information Systems at Luton University Business School, June 1994.
Member of Faculty of Social Science Library Committee as Sheffield University Management School representative Sept 1994 to Sept 1996.
Member of Sheffield University Management School Undergraduate Admissions Group 1990 to 1996.
Member of  Computer Committee, Sheffield University Management School, Jan 1991- Dec 1991.
Admissions Tutor, Urban and Regional Planning Department, Coventry Polytechnic, 1978-1982.
Faculty Research Seminars Convener, Social Science Faculty, Coventry Polytechnic, 1977-1982.
Short Course Administrator, Urban and Regional Planning Department, Coventry Polytechnic, 1977-82.
Set up academic link between Coventry Polytechnic and Budapest Technical University for period 1984-87. 
 

LARGE RESEARCH GRANTS APPLICATIONS SUCCESSFUL

 1.      EU European Commission IST-1999-10664. Sillince J.A.A. (Project Coordinator from pre-application July 1998 until project start March 2001; passed coordination role over to Royal Holloway colleagues on appointment with Aston Business School) Internet-based intelligent tool to Support Collaborative Argumentation-based LEarning in secondary schools (SCALE); The project centres on the specification, design and implementation of an Internet-based software tool to support argumentation-based collaborative learning in secondary schools. Knowledge would be elicited from teachers in their classrooms and coded into the software, which would be continuously prototyped, tested within three schools in each of the applicants countries, and then disseminated to a larger number of schools.   Collaborative use of the software will be encouraged, including interactions between children from different countries via the Internet. Partners are (1) Royal Holloway University of London (lead partner, Sillince, Saeedi, Rosenberg, Saxton), (2) GRIC (Groupe de Recherche sur les Interactions Communicatives — Research Group on Communicative Interactions), Université Lumière Lyon 2; (3) Dept of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University; (4) University of Jyväskylä, Department of Education; (5) Departamento de Didáctica e Tecnologia Educativa, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro; (6) Department of Computing and Management Science, Sheffield Hallam University; (7) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de St. Etienne; (8) Mediamatic Interactive Publishing, Amsterdam; (9) Szamalk Training and Consulting Centre, Budapest. Project number IST-1999-10664 2000-2003, 2.097 m Euro (Royal Holloway share £412,526; total £1,310,695 for period 2001-2003).

 2.      ESRC August 2005 Collaborative CASE Award. Sillince J.A.A. (Principal Investigator) and Cooper, S. ESRC Collaborative Studentship Effectiveness in Public and Private Partnership Working in Capital Based Projects, 2005-2009, £100,000, Aston Business School in collaboration with Balfour Beatty Capital Projects.

NOVEL CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHING

• Developed and teaching Worldwide management of IT course to final year UG students at Aston 2001-2006. Case study based with alternating lecturer and student presentations. Good student questionnaire feedback.
• Developed, marketed, validated MA Electronic Commerce aimed at young graduates wishing to acquire a management label plus topically relevant and up to date knowledge; September, 2000.
• Developed, marketed, validated MSc Business Information Systems in partnership with Computer Science Dept. aimed at science graduates wishing to become what British Computer Society called Hybrid Managers; September, 1998. Initial intake was 20, rising to 33 by 2001.
• Developed new Risk Management Information Systems course for the new Flemings MBA run by the Royal Holloway Management School, 1998.
• Developed Advanced Topics in Information Systems final year course based on 4 mini-projects and taught as one-to-one supervisions; Sheffield University, 1994.
 
PREVIOUS TEACHING

• Management Development UG3
• Doctoral programme
• Change Agency MBA
• Strategy UG3
• Strategy UG4 
• MSc and MBA dissertation supervision on human resource management, e-marketing and information systems development; Aston Business School. Final Year UG Worldwide Management of IT on business strategy, alliances, knowledge management, and organizational learning in multinationals; Aston Business School.
• Doctoral Programme. Research Methods.
• 3 courses to PhD students at Helsinki University of Technology Dept of Industrial Engineering and Management. (Began in 1999, continuing in 2006). Courses are: qualitative research methods; How to publish; Organizational discourse.
• At Royal Holloway University of London.  Curriculum development. (1) First year Management Information Systems teaching. This course has involved substantial reworking by me. (2) Course initiator and developer of the  Msc in Business Information Systems in the Management School which started in September 1998, run jointly by Management and Computer Science at Royal Holloway. This involved inter-departmental coordination, curriculum development, validation, and marketing to get the course up and running. The first intake comprised 17 students. The second intake in Sept 1999 was 22 students. The third intake (Sept 2000) was 35 students. (3) Course developer of the MA Electronic Commerce. This involved discussions with 25 companies, 5 government departments to assess target market, curriculum development, and validation (in May 2000). (4) Development of a new Risk Management Information Systems course for the new Flemings MBA run by the Royal Holloway Management School, 1998.  Teaching. All these courses have been newly developed or have involved substantial reworking by me. MBA module on Information Management. Final year Project Management teaching. Supervising MSc and MBA dissertations.  
• At the University of Sheffield Management School: Course Leader (Sole developer) Third Year Information Management (mgt331). Joint teacher on First Year  Information Management (mgt109). Taught on full-time  MBA course and part-time Executive MBA, Information Management subjects. Joint developer with Computer Science Dept. of new second year undergraduate course (mgt 327) covering Systems Analysis and CASE tools.
• At the Dept of Computer Science, Coventry Polytechnic. Computer science to BSc undergraduates (1988-1991); software engineering and Programming (C and Pascal); data structures; operating systems with Unix as example; databases with Smart and DB2 as examples; formal methods, including specification using Z, VDM, and UNITY, and verification using Floyd-Hoare proofs. Wrote one new course for which I was Course Leader: Formal methods (a new first year undergraduate courses). Visited students in their software engineering  placement posts in industry.
• At the Dept of Urban and Regional Planning, Coventry Polytechnic. Urban and regional planning to BA and MA students (1973-1988); Analytical Methods; Planning Theory; Planning and Development; Design Methods. Supervised Third Year and MA dissertations.

• Diefenbach T, Sillince JAA. Crossing of boundaries - subordinates' challenges to organisational hierarchy. In: Diefenbach, T, ed. Reinventing bureaucracy and hierarchy: from the bureau to network organisations. Bradford: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2012, pp.143-173. In Press.
• Diefenbach T, Sillince JAA. Formal and informal hierarchy in different types of organisations. Organization Studies 2011, 32(11), 1515-1537.
• Sillince JAA. Linguistic coherence in organisations. In: Hawaii Conference on Business. 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Shipton H, Sillince JAA. Organizational learning and emotion. In: Organization & Management Theory track. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 2011, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
• Maclean M, Sillince JAA, Harvey C. Sensemaking and ideology in Organisational Transition at P&G, 1950-2000. In: British Academy of Management Conference Management and Business History Track. 2011, Aston, Birmingham.
• Maclean M, Sillince JAA, Harvey C. Sensemaking and ideology in Organisational Transition at P&G, 1950-2000 sub-theme 08 Historical Perspectives in Organisation Studies. In: 27th EGOS Colloquium. 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Sillince JAA, Jarzabkowski P, Shaw D. Shaping strategic action through the rhetorical construction and exploitation of ambiguity. Organization Science 2011, (epub ahead of print).
• Sillince JAA. The impossibility of an integrated information policy in the European Community . In: Proceedings of the Second ECSA-World Conference. 2011, Brussels.
• Mantere S, Schildt H, Sillince JAA. The reversal of strategic change. Academy of Management Journal 2012, 55(1), 172-196.
• Sillince JAA. Can CCO Theory Tell us How Organizing is Distinct from Markets, Networking, Belonging to a Community, or Supporting a Social Movement?. Management Communication Quarterly 2010, 24(1), 132-138.
• Sillince JAA, Diefenbach T. Challenges to Superiors and Subordinates Hierarchical Relationship - Crossing of Boundaries. In: IABE Summer Conference, International Academy of Business and Economics. 2010, Bangkok.
• Maclean M, Sillince JAA, Harvey C. Living up to the Past? Sensemaking and Ideology in Organisational Transition at Procter & Gamble, 1930-2010. In: Management History Research Group Conference. 2010, St Andrews University.
• Simpson B, Sillince JAA. Mapping the Moods of Creative Practice. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 2010, Montreal, Canada.
• Diefenbach Y, Sillince JAA. Paradoxes in subordinates challenges to organisational hierarchy. In: International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, IFSAM. 2010, Paris, France.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. Reformulating identity and re-imagining strategy. In: Sub-theme/workshop 16: Investigating Organization as Becoming in a World on the Move. 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Mantere S, Schildt H, Sillince JAA. Reversal of Strategic Change. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. 2010, Helsinki, Finland.
• Jarzabkowski P, Sillince JAA, Shaw D. Strategic ambiguity as a rhetorical resource for enabling multiple interests. Human Relations 2010, 83(2), 249-279.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. The strategy and identity relationship: towards a processual understanding. Advances in Strategic Management 2010, 27, 111-143.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. A rhetorical analysis of shifting identities. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium. 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
• Diefenbach T, Sillince JAA. Crossing boundaries: Why hierarchical social order (almost always) persists over time when it is being challenged. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium. 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
• Mantere S, Schildt H, Sillince JAA. Managing False Starts: Managerial Sensegiving and Sensebreaking in Response to an Interrupted Strategic Change Effort. In: Academy of Management Conference. 2009, Chicago, USA.
• Sillince JAA, Brown AD. Multiple Organizational Identities and Legitimacy: The Rhetoric of Police Websites. Human Relations 2009, 62(12), 1829-1856.
• Shipton H, Sillince JAA. Organizational learning: creating capability through building belief. In: Academy of Management Conference. 2009, Chicago, USA.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. Relating identity and strategy together. In: Academy of Management Conference. 2009, Chicago, USA.
• Diefenbach T, Sillince JAA. The Persistence of Social Dominance in Different Organisational Forms. In: 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA). 2009, Sydney, Australia.
• Hibbert P, Sillince JAA, Diefenbach T. Why new theories of organization are unlikely and what to do about it. In: Academy of Management Conference. 2009, Chicago, USA.
• Golant B, Sillince JAA. Studying Path Dependencies of Businesses. In: Institutions and Technology Conference. 2008, Free University of Berlin.
• Sillince JAA, Manochin M. Group Identity and trust discourse in a negotiation setting. In: 31st Congress European Accounting Association. 2008, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• Jarzabkowski P, Sillince JAA, Shaw D. Internationalization in a business school: Co-existing and entwined professional and organizational narratives. In: ANZAM 2008 Conference. 2008, University of Canberra.
• Sillince JAA, Suddaby R. Organizational rhetoric: bridging management and communication scholarship. Management Communication Quarterly. Special Issue on Organizational rhetoric 2008, 22(1), 5-13.
• Sillince JAA, Jarzabkowski P, Shaw D. Rhetoric in organized anarchies. In: 4th Organization Studies Summer Workshop. 2008, Pissouri, Cyprus.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. The emotional choreography of complex relational processes. In: 4th Organization Studies Summer Workshop. 2008, Pissouri, Cyprus.
• Sillince JAA, Simpson B. The Emotional Choreography of Creative Social Practices. In: ANZAM 2008 Conference. 2008, University of Auckland, Australia.
• Sillince JAA, Jarzabkowski P, Shaw D. Using rhetoric to put the structure back in the garbage can. In: 24th EGOS Colloquium Upsetting Organizations in sub-theme 37: Transforming Others: The Discourse Strategies and Practices of Change. 2008, Amsterdam.
• Jarzabkowski P, Sillince JAA. A rhetorical approach to building commitment to multiple strategic goals. Organization Studies 2007, 28(11), 1639-1666.
• Jarzabkowski P, Sillince JAA, Shaw D. Internationalization in a business school: Co-existing and entwined professional and organizational narratives. In: EGOS Standing Working Group 3: Professional service organizations and knowledge-intensive work. 2007, Vienna, Austria.
• Mantere S, Sillince JAA, Hamalainen V. Music as a metaphor for organizational change. Journal of Organizational Change Management 2007, 20(3), 447-459.
• Sillince JAA. Organizational context and the discursive construction of organizing. Management Communication Quarterly 2007, 20(4), 363-394.
• Shipton H, Sillince JAA. Organizational learning and organizational self-efficacy. In: 5th International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network. 2007, Tilburg University.
• Mantere S, Sillince JAA. Strategic intent as a rhetorical tool of coherence. Scandinavian Journal of Management 2007, 23(4), 406-423.
• Golant B, Sillince JAA. The constitution of organizational legitimacy: a narrative perspective. Organization Studies 2007, 28(8), 1149-1168.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F, Harvey C, Howorth C. Biographical identity, social self and the role of authenticity in organizations. In: Kornberger, M., & Gudergan, S, ed. Only Connect: Neat Words, Networks and Identities. Lund and Copenhagen: Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006, pp.48-69.
• Sillince JAA, Harvey C, Harindranath H. Conflicting rhetorical positions on trust and commitment: talk-as-action in IT project failure. In: Hodgson,D; Cicmil,S, ed. Making projects critical. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.294-315.
• Hall M, Clegg S, Sillince JAA. Constructing 'hard' and 'soft' knowledge: implications for the power/knowledge relation. In: Academy of Management annual meeting : Knowledge, Action and the Public Concern. 2006, Atlanta, Georgia: Academy of Management.
• Sillince JAA. Knowledge management. In: Ritzer G, ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology. London: Blackwell, 2006.
• Sillince JAA. Organizational rhetoric. In: Clegg, S. and Bailey, J.R, ed. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. London: Sage, 2008.
• Sillince JAA. Resources and organizational identities: the role of rhetoric in the creation of competitive advantage. Management Communication Quarterly 2006, 20(2), 186-213.
• Sillince JAA. The effect of rhetoric on competitive advantage: knowledge, rhetoric and resource-based theory. In: Clegg S., Hardy C., Lawrence T., Nord W, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2006, pp.800-813.
• Sillince JAA. The rhetoric of strategic commitment. In: 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting : Knowledge, Action and the Public Concern. 2006, Atlanta, Georgia: Academy of Management.
• Shipton H, Sillince JAA. A comparative framework for categorizing organizational learning literature. In: European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Conference. 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Sillince JAA. A contingency theory of rhetorical congruence. Academy of Management Review 2005, 30(3), 608-621.
• Mantere S, Schild H, Sillince JAA. Narrating the future: prospective and novelistic narratives as anchors in organizational identity transformation. In: 21st EGOS Colloquium. 2005, Berlin.
• Hall M, Sillince J. Politics, learning and the garbage can: A structure-agency approach to an extended theory. In: BAM 2005 Said Business School. 2005, Oxford.
• Jarzabkowski P, Sillince JAA. Shifting Commitment To Multiple Strategies: A Process Framework For Pluralistic Contexts. In: 4ème colloque international de lA2ID: Décision: Mesures et évaluations. 2005, Bordeaux.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. Switching strategic perspective: the reframing of accounts of responsibility. In: Strategy Process Track. 2005, Berlin.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. Switching strategic perspective: the reframing of accounts of responsibility. In: EURAM 2005 Conference, Track 15 "The Management of Projects: Reconciling Uncertainty and Responsibility". 2005, Munich, Germany.
• Mueller F, Sillince J, Harvey C, Howorth C. ‘A Rounded Picture is What We Need: Rhetorical Strategies, Arguments, and the Negotiation of Change in a UK Hospital Trust’. Organization Studies 2004, 25(1), 75-93.
• Sillince JAA, Jarzablowski P. From organizational identity to strategic action: a process of rhetoric and rationality. In: 20th EGOS Colloquium. 2004, Ljubjana, Slovenia.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. Multiple identities in a professional organization: the role of authentic and inauthentic rhetoric. In: 20th EGOS Colloquium. 2004, Ljubjana, Slovenia.
• Sillince JAA. Coherence as the regulation of four communicative processes: integration, progression, voice, and contextualization. In: Keiser, A., Muller, A.P, ed. Communication in Organizations: Structures and Processes. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003, pp.103-118.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F, Harvey C, Howorth C. Multiple identities in board members discourse. In: X Apros International Colloquium. 2003, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. Strategy as problematized discourse and relativized commitment. In: 3rd Annual Conference of the European Academy of management: Managing through variety: the European Style?. 2003, Milan, Italy.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. Strategy as problematized discourse and relativized commitment: the case of an e-business transformation project team. In: 19th EGOS Colloquium. 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Harindranath H, Rosenberg D, Sillince JAA, Woitowski GW, Woitowski W, Wrycza S, Zupancic J, ed. New perspectives on information systems development: theory, methods and practice. New York: Springer, 2002.
• Sillince JAA. A model of the strength and appropriateness of argumentation and rhetoric in organizational contexts. Journal of Management Studies 2002, 39(5), 585-618.
• Hirsch L, Saeedi M, Litosseliti L, Cornillon J, Duh C, Sillince JAA. Argumentative learning. In: Hawaii International Conference on Business. 2002, Honolulu.
• Duh C, Hirsh L, Cornillon J, Litosseliti L, Saeedi M, Sillince JAA. Knowledge transformation and interaction in argumentation. In: Writing 02 Conference. 2002, Staffordshire University.
• Mantere A, Hamalainen V, Sillince JAA. Performing organizational identity change through building and releasing tension - exploring the music in organization studies. In: 18th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies. 2002, Barcelona, Spain.
• Harindranath G, Sillince JAA. Risk in partnerships involving information systems development: lessons from a British NHS Hospital Trust. In: Annals of Cases of Information Technology. Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA: Idea Group Publishing, 2002, pp.316-327.
• Sillince JAA, Mueller F. The structuration of discourse: a theoretical synthesis. In: 18th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies. 2002, Barcelona, Spain.
• Saeedi MH, Sillince JAA. A system for simulating human argumentation: Test Results Compared with a Realistic Institutional Setting. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce 2001, 11(4), 269-283.
• Sillince JAA, Rosenberg D. Application of a cognitive model of collaboration to a user interface. In: Qiyang Chen, ed. Human Computer Interaction: Issues and Challenges. USA: IGI Publishing, 2001, pp.134-152.
• Sillince JAA. Coherence in organisational communication: theoretical issues. In: International Symposium on Communication in Organizations. 2001, University of Mannheim.
• Saeedi M, Sillince JAA. Issues of feasibility, coherence and robustness in a premise-to-claim model of argumentation: results from four experiments. European Journal of Operational Research 2001, 133(1), 94-119.
• Sillince JAA. Organisation as a linguistic construct. In: 17th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies The Odyssey of Organizing. 2001, Lyon, France.
• Sillince JAA. The coherence of argumentation within organisations. In: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Conference on Argumentation and its Applications. 2001, University of Windsor, Ontario, USA.
• Sillince JAA. A user designed contextualisation method for an argumentation support tool. In: Marsh J., Gorayska B. and Mey J.L, ed. Humane Interfaces, Volume 13: Questions of methods and practice in cognitive technology. Holland, Amsterdam: Elsevier-North, 2000, pp.339-346.
• Duh CM, Sillince JAA. A web-based computer supported collaborative argumentation system. In: Proceedings of Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Third International Workshop. 2000, Humboldt University, Berlin.
• Wen L, Duh CM, Sillince JAA, Saeedi M. Human-computer interface for collaborative argumentation. In: 2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering. 2000, Taipei, Taiwan: Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.
• Duh CM, Sillince JAA, Saeedi M. Learning apart together in distance education. In: Asia Pacific Conference on Multimedia Technology and Applications, APCMTA2000. 2000, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung,Taiwan.
• Sillince JAA, Saeedi MH. Linguistic coherence in organisational argumentation. In: Proceedings of the Workshop Cooperative models based on argumentation in problem solving. 2000, Nice, France.
• Duh CM, Saeedi M, Sillince JAA. Organizational knowledge transformation by computer-assisted collaborative argumentation systems. In: 4th Human Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop. 2000, University of Sussex, Brighton.
• Sillince JAA. Rhetorical power, accountability and conflict in committees: an argumentation approach. Journal of Management Studies 2000, 37(8), 1101-1124.
• Duh CM, Saeedi M, Sillince JAA, Wen LR. The role of information communication technology in self-managing teams: an organizational learning perspective. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Innovation and Technology, ICMIT 2000. 2000, Singapore. In Press.
• Rosenberg D, Sillince JAA. Verbal and nonverbal communication in computer mediated settings. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Part 1 of the Special Issue on Analysing Educational Dialogue Interaction 2000, 11(1), 299-319.
• Sillince JAA, Saeedi MH. A committee effectiveness evaluation support system. In: Decision Sciences International Conference DSI99. 1999, Athens.
• Sillince JAA, Saeedi MH. A formal model of organisational argumentation: applications of informal logic to a committee meeting. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 1999, 30, 365-409.
• Sillince JAA, Rosenberg D. A model of common ground for browsing, tracking and summarising computer-mediated communication. In: Proceedings of Innovative Intranet Information Systems IIIS-99, Beyond the Desktop Workshop. 1999.
• Sillince JAA, Saeedi MH. An intelligent agent which uses argumentation analysis for searching the Internet. In: International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems, IEMS99. 1999, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
• Rosenberg D, Sillince JAA. Common ground in computer-supported collaborative argumentation. In: Workshop on Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation for Learning Communities, CSCL99 Conference. 1999, Department of Education, Stanford University, California.
• Sillince JAA, Saeedi MH. Computer-mediated communication: problems and potentials of argumentation support systems. Decision Support Systems 1999, 26, 287-306.
• Sillince JAA, Harindranath G. Differing rates of progress in IS development and BPR: a case study. In: Zupancic J., Wojkowski G., Wojkowski W., and Wrycza S, ed. Systems development methods for the next century. New York: Plenum Publishing Corp, 1999.
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• Sillince JAA. Business Expert Systems. Technical Publications, 1996.
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• Sillince JAA. A computational model of argumentation. In: International Conference on Argumentation. 1994, Amsterdam.
• Sillince JAA. A design for information systems which can adapt to changing organisational requirements. Software Maintenance: Research and Practice 1994, 6, 145-160.
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• Sillince JAA, Sykes GMH. Implementation of hybrid MRP/JIT systems. In: Fourth International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, (HAAMHA 94). 1994, Manchester: IOS Press.
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• Sillince JAA, Frost CEB. Management information systems in UK primary health care: the need for a strategy. International Journal of Information Management 1994, 13, 425-437.
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• Sillince JAA. Multi-agent conflict resolution: a computational framework for an intelligent argumentation system. Knowledge-Based Systems 1994, 7(2), 75-90.
• Sillince JAA, Frost CEB. Rapid information system adoption in an organisation with poor strategic management: the case of fund-holding in UK primary care. Information Systems Journal 1994, 4, 45-60.
• Sillince JAA. The intention-inference problem in argumentation understanding. Communication and Cognition 1994, 26(3/4), 321-338.
• Sillince JAA. There is more to emotion than goal attainment. Genetic, Social and General Psychology Monographs 1994, 119(4), 493-513.
• Frost CEB, Sillince JAA. Utilisation of IT by UK General Practitioners. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Strategic Issues in Healthcare Management. 1994, St. Andrews, Scotland.
• Sillince JAA. A management strategy for innovation and organisational design : the case of MRPII/JIT production management systems. Behaviour and Information Technology 1993, 12(3), 216-227.
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• Sillince JAA, Frost CEB. Information systems for evaluating and supporting general practice prescribing. Perspectives in Information Management 1993, 3(2), 119-127.
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• Sillince JAA. Literature searching with unclear objectives: a new approach using argumentation. Online Review 1993, 16(6), 391-410.
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• Sillince JAA. A Theory of Planning. Aldershot: Gower, 1986.
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• Sillince JAA. Housing as social problem versus housing as historical problem: the case of Hungary. Environment and Planning C : Government and Policy 1985, 3, 299-318.
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• Sillince JAA. The evaluation of planning : some political considerations. The Planner 1984, 70(3), 19-22.
• Sillince JAA. Will the British public accept nuclear energy?. International Journal for Energy Research 1984, 6(4), 351-460.
• Sillince JAA. Town planning and local authorities in Spain: some implications for Britain in the 1980s. Planning Outlook 1982, 25(3), 110-116.
• Sillince JAA, Barker J. A tropological theory of institutionalization. Organization Studies 2012, 33(1), 7-38.
• Sillince J, Harindranath G, Harvey C. Getting Acceptance that Radically New Working Practices are Required: Institutionalization of Arguments about Change in a Healthcare Organization. Human Relations 2001, 54(11), 1421-1454.