Associate Professor
Glen Murphy
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Office of the PVC, Entrepreneurship
Biography
Glen is an Associate Professor embedded within QUT Entrepreneurship, an entity established to lead and support entrepreneurial endeavours throughout QUT.He was formally the Director of the School’s MBA program from 2015 - 2021. During his tenure as MBA Director for the first time in the program’s history QUT became the highest ranked MBA program in Queensland in 2019. In 2017 the QUT Executive MBA was recognised as the Number One ranked program in Australia (AFR BOSS Rankings). Glen was also responsible for leading the design, development and delivery of QUT’S innovative “Digital” on-line MBA launched in 2019.
Building on his early experiences in retail management Glen has a strong a track record in building and delivering innovative, valuable and applied tertiary education courses. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) / Pearson Management Educator of the Year Award.
Glen has held management roles in the retail industry both in Australia and the United Kingdom and has previously established and run a boutique on-line business, before selling his share in 2009. He was also awarded a QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award in 2010 for innovative teaching and assessment. Previous roles include a post-doctoral research fellowship with the CRC Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM) (2006-2009). Prior to this, he was employed within a teaching capacity for the Faculty of Business at QUT Carseldine as the First Year Experience (FYE) Co-ordinator. In addition to his academic experience, Glen has several years experience in the retail industry in line and middle management roles.
Research interests
Glen's research interests are currently concentrated around the following areas:
- Improving data quality and data management within organisations
- Strategic decsion making for engineering asset management
- Managing sub-cultures within engineering asset intensive firms
- Role of networks in organisational behaviour & change
Previous research partners have included TAFE QLD, the Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC), the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO), the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and the QLD Dept. of Communities.
Awards
- 2019 QUT Business School Recognition Award (Leadership & Curriculum Development)
- 2014 Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management / Pearson Management Educator of the Year
- 2010 QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Award for Excellence – Innovative teaching and Assessment
- Best paper (Research Methods Stream) ANZAM Conference 2011 - Perceptions of data quality dimensions and data roles (w/ Sonia Salomone & Paul Hyland).
- Best paper ICOMS Asset Management Conference 2009 - Building bridges and solving Rubiks cubes: tribalism in engineering and technical environments.
- Best paper ICOMS Asset Management Conference 2008 - Safety, reliability or performance? High performing engineering asset cultures (w/ Joanna Hill).
Personal details
Positions
- Director
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Office of the PVC, Entrepreneurship - Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Keywords
Data Quality, Infrastructure management, Social network analysis, Social network disruption, Technology enhanced learning
Research field
Business and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- PhD (Management) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Business (Research) (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
- Wiewiora, A., Murphy, G., Trigunarsyah, B. & Brown, K. (2014). Interactions between organizational culture, trustworthiness, and mechanisms for inter-project knowledge sharing. Project Management Journal, 45(2), 48–65. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69959
- Subasinghage, M., Sedera, D., Srivastava, S. & Murphy, G. (2014). Intra-organizational information asymmetry in offshore ISD outsourcing. VINE: the journal of information and knowledge management systems, 44(1), 94–120. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65363
- Wiewiora, A., Trigunarsyah, B., Murphy, G. & Coffey, V. (2013). Organizational culture and willingness to share knowledge: A competing values perspective in Australian context. International Journal of Project Management, 31(8), 1163–1174. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57104
- Murphy, G. & Salomone, S. (2013). Using social media to facilitate knowledge transfer in complex engineering environments: a primer for educators. European Journal of Engineering Education, 38(1), 70–84. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/55481
- Murphy, G., Chang, A. & Unsworth, K. (2012). Differential effects of ERP systems on user outcomes - a longitudinal investigation. New Technology, Work and Employment, 27(2), 147–162. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/51524
- Subasinghage, M., Sedera, D. & Murphy, G. (2012). Multi-level knowledge transfer in software development outsourcing projects: The agency theory view. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on Information Systems, 1–11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/58673
- Murphy, G., Hyland, P. & Kivits, R. (2012). Stakeholders' perceptions of data utility in the context of ERP outcomes. Presented at: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (72nd), 1. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52872
- Murphy, G., (2010). Testing a tri-partite contingent model of engineering cultures: A pilot study. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 95(10), 1040–1049. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/33185
- Murphy, G., (2009). Improving the quality of manually acquired data: applying the theory of planned behaviour to data quality. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94(12), 1881–1886. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/21140
- Murphy, G. & Southey, G. (2003). High Performance Work Practices: Perceived Determinants of Adoption and the Role of the HR Practitioner. Personnel Review, 32(1), 73–92. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/22580
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Glen, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Adoption of Social Media for Professional Knowledge Sharing by Construction Professionals in Australia (2019)
- The Conceptualization and Investigation of User Capital and Its Impact on Effective Use and Information Systems Success (2017)
- The Impact of Modularisation on Information System Development Outsourcing Project Control (2016)
- The Role of Organisational Culture, Trust and Mechanisms in Inter-Project Knowledge Sharing (2012)
- Who are we now? Exploring the construction and reconstruction of social identity (2011)