Luke Houghton

Luke Houghton is an Associate Professor in Management and Information Systems in the Griffith Business School in Griffith University. Luke is actively engaged in research in management problem solving with over 80 publications in this field. His research follows three key streams. The first stream looks at how framing and sensemaking influence problem-solving in messy management environments. The second stream is the feral information systems project which looks at the social, technical, and organisation impacts of workarounds. The third stream involves a study of communities of practice and technology use as well as the practices of blended learning in higher education contexts. His main passion is thinking about how cognitive models (thinking patterns) affect the way we solve problems and make decisions. Luke has completed more than 20 research higher degrees with the great majority (16) of those being PhD candidates. He has also been published in top journals such as: Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, The Journal of the Operations Research Society as well as a host of other Q1 Scimago ranked publications.

Publications

Correlating Resonance: Configurational Analysis, Neutrosophy, and Wickedness
Correlating Resonance: Configurational Analysis, Neutrosophy, and Wickedness
Geoff Brian Ebbs, Louis Sanzogni, Luke Houghton. © 2025. 28 pages.
The complex problems facing the world today resist solutions. The reasons are the complex, multidisciplinary, interdependent variables, and the non-optimal behaviour of...
Evaluation of Theories and Information System Adoption Drivers in Government Organizations: Using a Systematic Literature Review Process
Evaluation of Theories and Information System Adoption Drivers in Government Organizations: Using a Systematic Literature Review Process
Nayeth Idalid Solorzano Alcivar, Louis Sanzogni, Luke Houghton. © 2018. 32 pages.
The suitability of current Information System (IS) adoption models is anachronistic when uniformly applied across regions in developing economies, including Latin American (LAT)...
Evaluation of Theories and Information System Adoption Drivers in Government Organizations: Using a Systematic Literature Review Process
Evaluation of Theories and Information System Adoption Drivers in Government Organizations: Using a Systematic Literature Review Process
Nayeth Idalid Solorzano Alcivar, Louis Sanzogni, Luke Houghton. © 2017. 33 pages.
The suitability of current Information System (IS) adoption models is anachronistic when uniformly applied across regions in developing economies, including Latin American (LAT)...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies by University Students: Evidence from Australia
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies by University Students: Evidence from Australia
Yasser D. Al-Otaibi, Luke Houghton. © 2016. 24 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is: (1) to examine Australian university students' awareness of the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, and (2) to investigate the factors that...
Feral Information Systems Development: Managerial Implications
Feral Information Systems Development: Managerial Implications
Donald Vance Kerr, Kevin Burgess, Luke Houghton. © 2014. 303 pages.
Management invests in large information systems in order to improve the effectiveness of their organization. However, when these systems fail to meet the needs of organizational...
Sensemaking as Feral Information Systems: Conceptual and Framework Development
Sensemaking as Feral Information Systems: Conceptual and Framework Development
Luke Houghton, Dale Mackrell. © 2014. 19 pages.
In this chapter, the authors outline how feral information systems are part of a sensemaking process for employees. The core argument lies in the notion of sensemaking as a...
Diffusion of Innovation Theory and the Problem of Context for Inter-Organizational Information Systems: The Example of Feral Information Systems
Diffusion of Innovation Theory and the Problem of Context for Inter-Organizational Information Systems: The Example of Feral Information Systems
Luke Houghton, Don Kerr. © 2012. 13 pages.
This chapter argues that diffusion theory models like the technology acceptance model (TAM) need to be rethought of in light of contextual factors that are becoming increasingly...
Mobile Commerce Adoption in Organizations: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions
Mobile Commerce Adoption in Organizations: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions
Husam Alfahl, Louis Sanzogni, Luke Houghton. © 2012. 18 pages.
The paper comprehensively reviews research conducted on mobile commerce adoption in organizations. From the literature, factors adopted form a number of adoption theories such as...
International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD)
International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD)
Ali Hussein Saleh Zolait. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD) is an international journal publishing original scientific and quality research articles on management information...