Yvette Blount

Yvette Blount is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquarie University. Dr Blount teaches information systems in business for both postgraduate and undergraduate students. Prior to joining Macquarie University in 2005, Dr Blount worked in the banking and IT industries. Dr Blount’s research program utilises multidisciplinary approaches to investigate how information systems are utilised by organisations to achieve their business objectives and achieve competitive advantage. Dr Blount’s areas of expertise include how anywhere working provides organisations with sustainable competitive advantage by enhancing service quality and the implications for employee management when implementing new technologies. Other research areas include employee management, information systems theory and technologies in learning and teaching. This combination of research and industry experience provides a strong basis for teaching the real world contexts of information systems. Dr Blount is a member of The Centre for Workforce Futures research centre and the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub.

Publications

Anywhere Working and the New Era of Telecommuting
Anywhere Working and the New Era of Telecommuting
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2017. 295 pages.
Working in non-conventional settings is on the rise in today’s business world. It is important to understand every angle of such employment in order to choose the arrangement...
Telework: Not Business as Usual
Telework: Not Business as Usual
Yvette Blount. © 2015. 20 pages.
This chapter examines the technology, human resource management, and service quality issues that inhibit and/or support managers and employees in adopting sustainable telework...