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John Loonam

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Dr. John Loonam is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at DCU Business School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies and a Masters of Business Studies from the University of Limerick. He received his PhD in Business Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. He teaches Strategy at Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Executive level. He was the Director of the DCU Executive MBA programme from 2010-2014. Over the past decade he has collaborated with Executive Leaders on strategic projects within multinational, large-scale indigenous, small-to-medium sized enterprises, semi-state, public sector, and not for profit organisations.

His research focuses on Strategy & Digital Business. A sample of recent publications includes; "Global Value Chains & Digital Platforms: Implications for Strategy" (2022), "On Digital Transformation: Implications for Strategic Change" (2021), "Cyber Resiliency for Digital Enterprises: A Strategic Leadership perspective" (2020), "Towards Digital Transformation: Lessons for Traditional Organisations" (2018), "Enterprise Social Systems & Organisational Change" (2016), and "Strategic Leadership for Enterprise Systems-enabled Change" (2014). He is also actively involved in supervising masters and doctoral students (PhDs). He welcomes PhD queries from students interested in the topics of Strategy and Digital Business.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2023	Loonam, John (2023) 'The Grounded Theory Methodology: Over Fifty Years of Inquiry' In: Research Methods in Organizational Change. United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing.
	2021	Loonam, J. (2021) 'Towards Digital Transformation: Implications for Strategic Change' In: Reviving Businesses with New Organizational Change Management Strategies. USA : Geada, N., & Anunciação, P. (Eds.). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7452-2
	2018	Vikas Kumar, John Loonam, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Archana Kumari, and Hieu Van Ngo (2018) 'Achieving Supply Chain Integration through eBusiness enabled Enterprise Systems: The case of the UK Automobile Sector' In: E-Business and Supply Chain Integration: Strategies and Case Studies from Industry. New York, USA : Kogan Page.
	2016	Upadhyay, A., M. Ali, V. Kumar, and J. Loonam (2016) 'Role of Operations Strategy and Big Data: A Study of a Transport Company' In: Supply Chain Management in the Big Data Era. Pennsylvania, USA : IGI Global Publication.
	2011	Loonam, J. and McDonagh, J. (2011) 'A Grounded Theory Study of Enterprise Information Systems Implementation' In: Enterprise Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. Pennsylvania, USA : Information Resource Management Association (eds.), Information Scienc.
	2009	Loonam,John; McDonagh,Joe (2009) 'A Grounded Theory Study of Enterprise Systems Implementation-Lessons Learned from the Irish Health Services' In: Information Systems Research: Public and Private Sector Applications. : Information Science.
	2008	Loonam, John (2008) 'Top Management & Enterprise Systems: The case of PPARS within the Irish Health Services' In: Helfery, M Connolly, R(Eds.). Business Innovation and Information Technology. Dublin : Logos Verlag Berlin.
	2007	Loonam, John, McDonagh, Joe (2007) 'Implementing Enterprise Systems: A review of Critical Success Factors' In: Salazar, A Sawyer, S(Eds.). Handbook of Information Technology in Organisations and Electronic Markets. New Jersey, USA : World Scientific Publishing.
	2004	Loonam, John, McDonagh, Joe (2004) 'Principles, Foundations, and Issues in Enterprise Systems' In: Lau, Linda(Eds.). Managing Business with SAP: Planning, Implementation and Evaluation. New York, USA : Idea Group Publishing.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2023	McTaggart, V., and J. Loonam (2023) ''Exploring Top Management Support for Digital Transformation:A Case Study of a European Financial Services Organization''. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, . [DOI]
	2022	Loonam, J. & O'Regan, N. (2022) 'Global value chains and digital platforms: Implications for strategy'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, (31, 1):161-177.
	2020	Loonam J., Zwiegelaar, J., Kumar, V., Booth C (2020) 'Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective'. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, .
	2018	Loonam, J., V. Kumar, and A. Mitra (2018) 'Revisiting critical success factors for Enterprise Systems implementation: A Literature Review'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, .
	2018	Loonam, J., S. Eaves, V. Kumar, G. Parry (2018) '“Towards Digital Transformation: Lessons learned from Traditional Organisations”'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, .
	2018	Eaves, S., V. Kumar, G. White, J. Loonam (2018) 'Making it Happen: The pivotal role of knowledge sharing for information technology deployment success during joint venture change'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, .
	2017	Scott, B; Loonam, J; Kumar, V (2017) 'Exploring the rise of blockchain technology: Towards distributed collaborative organizations'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, 26 :423-428. [DOI]
	2016	Vikas Kumar, John Loonam, J P Allen, and Steve Sawyer (2016) 'Exploring enterprise social systems & organisational change: Implementation in a digital age'. Journal of Information Technology, . https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2016.1
	2016	Smith, M., and J. Loonam (2016) 'Exploring Strategic Execution: A Case Study on the use of the Balanced Scorecard within an Irish Hospital'. JOURNAL OF STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT, 9 (4).
	2014	Loonam, John, J. McDonagh, V. Kumar, and N. O' Regan (2014) 'Top Managers & Information Systems: Crossing the Rubicon'. STRATEGIC CHANGE, 23, (3-4) p205 - 224 .
	2013	Loonam, John (2013) 'Towards a Grounded Theory Methodology: Reflections for Management Scholars'. Irish Journal Of Management, 33 .
	2010	Brady, M.; Loonam, J. (2010) 'Exploring the use of entityrelationship diagramming as a technique to support grounded theory inquiry'. Qualitative Research In Organizations And Management: An International Journal, 5 . [Link] [DOI]
	2005	Loonam, John, McDonagh, Joe (2005) 'Exploring Top Management Support for the introduction of Enterprise Information Systems'. Irish Journal Of Management, 26 :163-178.

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2018	Kumar, V., Petliusheno, K., Zwiegelaar, J., Loonam, J., , J.Reyes (2018) British Academy of Management *Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in pharmaceutical companies*
	2016	Dieu Linh, N. T., Kumar, V., Ruan, X., Loonam, J. and Gia Thu, H. (2016) British Academy of Management *Barriers to enterprise systems and supply chain integration: The case of Vietnamese textile and apparel enterprises* [DOI]
	2009	Loonam,J (2009) Global Management Conference *Strategic Leadership and Information Systems* Spain,
	2008	Loonam,J (2008) Irish Academy of Management *Top Management & Enterprise Systems: Lessons from the Irish Health Services* Ireland,
	2008	Loonam,J; McDonagh,J (2008) Academy of Management Annual Conference *Top Management & Information Systems: A Grounded Theory Study of the Irish Health Services* USA,
	2008	Loonam,J (2008) International Conference on Business Innovation and Information Technology (Awarded Best Paper), Dublin City Unviersity *Top Management and Enterprise Systems: The case of PPARS within the Irish Health Services* Ireland,
	2004	Loonam, J. & McDonagh, J. (2004) Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference *Exploring Top Management Support for the Introduction of Enterprise Information Systems: A Grounded Theory Approach* Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 02/09/2004- 03/09/2004

Research Interests

Business Strategy

Digital Business & Platform Strategy

Strategy Execution

Strategic Leadership & Transformation

Qualitative Research Methods

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022-2023	Strategic Consultancy Project I	MT5125
2022-2023	Strategic Consultancy Project II	MT5148
2022-2023	Business Strategy	MT301
2022-2023	Strategy, Organization & Innovation II	HR5128B
2022-2023	Strategy, Organization & Innovation I	HR5128A