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Overview

Debra Howcroft is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and conducts research predominantly within the social sciences. Their work spans several interconnected fields and topics, with a focus on labor movements and unions, digital economy and work transformation, and employment and welfare studies.

Howcroft's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

The subfields they engage with most frequently are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Administration
  • General Health Professions
  • Marketing
  • Management Information Systems

The primary topics present across Howcroft's research portfolio include:

  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Debra Howcroft has published in multiple venues, including:

  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • New Technology Work and Employment
  • Revista Española de Sociología
  • Accounting Forum
  • International Labour Review

Recent papers authored by Howcroft include:

  • "Automation and the future of work: A social shaping of technology approach," 2022, New Technology Work and Employment
  • "Labour and technology: Reflecting on a century of debate in the International Labour Review," 2021, International Labour Review
  • "Unstable platforms: Uber's business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy," 2024, Accounting Forum

In addition to journal articles, Howcroft has contributed to book publications. One of these is titled Power, politics and influence at work, published by Winchester University Press in 2020.

Frequent collaborators in Howcroft's research include Miguel Martínez Lucio, Tony Dundon, Arjan Keizer, Roger Walden, and Emma Hughes.

Best Publications

  • A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms

    Debra Howcroft;Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn

  • Interpreting Information Systems in Organisations

    Debra Howcroft

  • Towards dissolution of the IS research debate: from polarization to polarity

    Brian Fitzgerald;Debra Howcroft

  • Amazon Mechanical Turk and the commodification of labour

    Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn;Debra Howcroft

  • A decade of neglect: reflecting on gender and IS

    Alison Adam;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

  • ‘All they lack is a chain’: lean and the new performance management in the British civil service

    Bob Carter;Andy Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

  • Re-conceptualising failure: Social shaping meets IS research

    Melanie Wilson;Debra Howcroft

  • Paradoxes of participatory practices: the Janus role of the systems developer

    Debra Howcroft;Melanie Wilson

  • Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution

    Brian Fitzgerald;Debra Howcroft

  • ‘Stressed out of my box’ : employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector

    Bob Carter;Andy Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

  • 'The future's bright, the future's mobile': A study of Apple and Google mobile application developers

    Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn;Debra Howcroft

  • Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection

    Debra Howcroft;Ben Light

  • Handbook of critical information systems research: Theory and application

    Debra Howcroft;Eileen Moore Trauth

  • After the Goldrush:: deconstructing the myths of the dot.com market

    Debra Howcroft

  • What We May Learn From the Social Shaping of Technology Approach

    Debra Howcroft;N Mitev;M. Wilson

  • Critical empirical research in IS: an example of gender and the IT workforce

    Eileen M. Trauth;Debra Howcroft

  • Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC

    Bob Carter;Andrew Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

  • The back office goes global: Exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres

    Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

  • The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research

    Debra Howcroft;Eileen M. Trauth

  • Power, politics and persuasion in IS evaluation: a focus on ‘relevant social groups’

    Melanie Wilson;Debra Howcroft

  • The implications of a critical agenda in gender and IS research

    Debra Howcroft;Eileen M. Trauth

Frequent Co-Authors

Phil Taylor
Phil Taylor University of Strathclyde
Colette Fagan
Colette Fagan University of Manchester

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