Rodney J. ClarkeRodney J. Clarke is an Associate Professor and Foundation Head of Discipline (Operations) at the School of Management, Operations and Marketing (SMOM), in the Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong, Australia. Rodney also has an Honorary Assocate Professorship in Information Systems at Karlstad University, Sweden. Rodney holds PhDs in Information Systems (UOW, 2000), and was awarded a higher-doctorate Docent i Informatik (Karlstad, Sweden 2007) consisting of another two and a half PhDs in Semiotics and Work Practices, Multimedia Interfaces and Applications and Decision-Making Processes. Rodney is an elected Fellow of the British Computing Society (2013), a foundation member on the Advisory Board of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatic IS Research (SIGPrag), and a member of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS). Rodney is the Director of the Collaboration Laboratory (Co-Lab) that enables commerce-based reference disciplines to be applied to a range of infrastructure problems. He is also the developer and manager of the Business Research Laboratory (BRL), a flexible observational laboratory. He is a co-director of the Centre for Responsible Organizations and Practices (CROP). His current research interests include semiotics and functional communication in business systems, emergency communication, and crowdsourced innovation. Read More Read Less