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For over 20 years, I have been meandering through various kinds of experiences. In 1988, after attaining a BSc Honors in Human Physiology from the University of Toronto, I endured a short career in cancer research. Then I attained my MBA at Wilfrid Laurier University in 1990 and operated my own small retail business for 8 years. After selling my business, I worked for a software company and taught part-time at the college level. There, I developed a love for teaching and decided to leave industry to pursue my PhD in Management Information Systems from the Ivey School of Business at Western University.
After graduating in 2011, I secured a tenure-track position in the highly innovative Business Technology Management program where I teach MIS and cyberethics. My love for teaching has developed into a keen interest in updating traditional modes of pedagogy to better meet the needs of the current network infused epoch.
In general, I study how technology alters the way we understand ourselves and influences the way we operate in the world. For instance, I have studied human interaction with technological artifacts in various types of networks like organizational routines, healthcare systems, broadband systems and humanitarian aid. To that end, I have published, most notably, in the Journal of Management Studies and International Political Sociology. I am currently involved in an ongoing project that investigates patient experience in the emergency room with special consideration to space and artifacts, and another that examines the use of smartphones for data collection. In addition, I employ interpretive methods to better understand the wider discursive effects of technology. As a fellow of the Tshepo Institute, I study broadband access in the developing context.
- Outstanding Research Paper Award (2012), Association of Leadership Educators for MacLaren P., MacGowan R., Geirhardt K., Diallo L. and A. Saeed, “Business without the Math: Competing Discourses and the Struggle to Develop an Undergraduate Leadership Program.”
- Honorable Mention Award, ASAC for sole authored paper “Trading Discipline for Agility? A Question of Position Not Opposition,” (2005).
- Saeed, Akbar and Oliver Masakure. “The Paradox of Broadband Access in sub-Saharan Africa” in Africa in the Age of Globalization: Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities. (2015)
- Abdelnour, Samer and Akbar Saeed. “Technologizing Humanitarian Space: Darfur Advocacy and the Rape-Stove Panacea.” International Political Sociology. (2014)
- Saeed, Akbar and Peter Tingling. “Extreme Programming beyond Adoption: A Longitudinal Case Study of a Software Start-up.” International Journal of Business and Management Invention. (2013)
- McLaren, Patricia, MacGowan Rosemary, Geirhardt Kris, Diallo Lamine and Akbar Saeed. “Business without the Math: Competing Discourses and the Struggle to Develop an Undergraduate Leadership Program.” Journal of Leadership Education. (2013)
- Bapuji, Hari, Hora, Manpreet and Akbar Saeed.“ Intentions, Intermediaries and Interaction: Examining the Emergence of Routines.” Journal of Management Studies. (2012)
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