Elayne Coakes, PH.D.

Elayne Coakes is Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management at the Westminster Business School, University of Westminster (UK), teaching Strategies for Information Management and Knowledge Management as well as e-Business Strategies. Her research interests relate to the sociotechnical aspects of information systems especially knowledge management systems and at Westminster she is the co-ordinator of a research cluster, looking at Information and Knowledge Management. She is a member of...See more

Elayne Coakes is Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management at the Westminster Business School, University of Westminster (UK), teaching Strategies for Information Management and Knowledge Management as well as e-Business Strategies. Her research interests relate to the sociotechnical aspects of information systems especially knowledge management systems and at Westminster she is the co-ordinator of a research cluster, looking at Information and Knowledge Management. She is a member of the British Computer Society's Sociotechnical Specialist Group and active in promoting this view of information systems strategy and development. She has co-edited a number of books in this, and in the knowledge management field, as well as writing conference papers, articles in journals and several chapters in books. Elayne is also an Associate Editor of OR Insight with special responsibility for knowledge management and recently edited a special edition of the journal JORS on knowledge management and intellectual capital. Professor Coakes is the co-editor of two books "Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems," 2003 published by Idea Group Publishing, and "Beyond Knowledge Management," 2004 published by Idea Group Publishing. See less