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Dr Richard Fulford

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5256
Email: r.fulford@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.449  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9774-736X

Dr Richard Fulford is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law. Richard is a member of the Centre for Innovative Practice.

Key Research Areas

  • Project costing in construction and IT industries
  • Educating with information systems
  • Strategic management of enterprise resource planning applications
  • Productivity in the resource sector
  • Member of the centre of innovative practice sub-groups: Individual innovation, innovative research processes

Biography

Richard Fulford has a commendable commercial background spanning 25 years that includes business management and business consultation. His knowledge has been gained through multi-national business and IT management, with roles as Managing Director of an IBM business partner providing ERP software and systems and Managing Director of a subsidiary of a 1300 employee public company.

Richard has completed two research dissertations concerning strategic business management and the relationship between IT planning and strategic management. He has also completed his PhD studies concerning the ongoing benefits and cost management of large scale information systems.

ECU Research Themes

Theme Two: Society and Culture; Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation

Theme Three: Natural and Built Environments; environmental management, governance and policy

Theme Four: Securing Digital Futures; Digital citizenship and human behaviour

Professional associations
  • The Australian Computer Society
  • The Australian Institute of Management

Qualifications

  • Towards a Theory of Management and Evaluation of, Edith Cowan University, 2009.
  • Master of Business Administration, England, 1994.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Kiani Mavi, N., Brown, K., Fulford, R., Goh, M. (2024). Critical success criteria for construction projects: a systematic literature evaluation. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2024(Article in press), 47 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-11-2023-1156.
  • Kiani Mavi, N., Brown, K., Fulford, R., Goh, M. (2024). An MCDM analysis of critical success criteria for medium and large construction projects in Australia and New Zealand. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2024(Article in press), 34 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-08-2023-0838.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Kiani Mavi, N., Brown, K., Fulford, R., Goh, M. (2023). Forecasting project success in the construction industry using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system. The International Journal of Construction Management, 2023(2023), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2023.2266676.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Jarmooka, Q., Fulford, R., Morris, R., Barratt-Pugh, L. (2021). The mapping of information and communication technologies, and knowledge management processes, with company innovation. Journal of Knowledge Management, 25(2), 313-335. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-01-2020-0061.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Kanagarajoo, M., Fulford, R., Standing, C. (2020). The Contribution of Social Media to Project Management. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 69(4), 834-872. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-09-2018-0316.

2019

Journal Articles

2018

Journal Articles

  • Fulford, R. (2018). The Project Management Process in the Australian Construction Industry. International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science, 4(3), 122-130. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/3252.
  • Standing, C., Standing, S., Gururajan, R., Fulford, R., Gengatharen, D. (2018). Coming to Terms with Knowledge Management in Telehealth. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 35(1), 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2443.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Standing, C., Jackson, D., Larsen, A., Suseno, Y., Fulford, R., Gengatharen, D. (2016). Enhancing individual innovation in organisations: a review of the literature. International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 19(1), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIL.2016.073288.

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2016). The Essence Of Construction Industry Project Management And Why It Needs To Change. Promac 2016 (151-156). The Society of Project Management.

2014

Journal Articles

2013

Journal Articles

  • Fulford, R. (2013). A case study of strategic enterprise resource planning management in a global corporation: standardisation is the basis of competitive advantage. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 15(1), 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/13287261311322611.
  • Fulford, R. (2013). The sales process of information systems: implications for project execution and business benefits. Project Management Journal, 44(5), 89-99. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmj.21368.

2012

Conference Publications

  • Dobson, P., Gengatharen, D., Fulford, R., Barratt-Pugh, L., Bahn, S., Larsen, A. (2012). Eureka moments in research: Exploring abductive processes using four case examples. ACIS 2012 : Location, location, location : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2012 (11p.). Deakin University.

2011

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2011). Effective Education Using Information Systems as Cognitive Tools. The Proceedings of Microsoft Dynamics Academic Preconference (8-14). Microsoft.

2009

Books

  • Fulford, R. (2009). Managing Operational Enterprise Resource Planning Applications. An Investigation into the effective management and evaluation of operational enterprise resource planning applications. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2009). Educating with an information system - the good, the bad and the ugly. ED-MEDIA 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (359-365). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

2008

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2008). Educating Using an Information System as a Cognitive Tool. Proceedings of EDU-COM 2008 International Conference (170-176). Edith Cowan University.
  • Fulford, R. (2008). A Case Study of Online Situated Learning - Educating Using an Enterprise Resource Planning Application. ED-MEDIA 2008: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (5218-5222). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

2007

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2007). An Explorative Study of the Ongoing Management of Operational Enterprise Resource Planning Applications. Proceedings of Conference on Information Management and Internet Research 2007 (10p). Edith Cowan University.

2006

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2006). Propogation of an initial model for evaluating operational enterprise systems. Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2006 (1). Australasian Association for Information Systems.
  • Huang, Y., Lin, C., Fulford, R. (2006). Evaluating and realising the B2BEC benefits. Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (10p). ACIS.

2005

Conference Publications

  • Fulford, R. (2005). Propagation of a framework relating IT evaluation methods to an organisation's strategic context. Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (11p). Australasian Chapter of the Association of Information Systems.

2004

Journal Articles

  • Fulford, R., Love, P. (2004). Propagation of an alternative enterprise service application adoption model. Industrial management and data systems, 104(6), 450-456.

2003

Conference Publications

  • Love, P., Irani, Z., Fulford, R. (2003). Understanding IT Costs: An exploratory Study using the Structured Case Method. Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (652-668). PACIS.
  • Love, P., Irani, Z., Themistocleous, M., Fulford, R. (2003). The challenge of delivering business value in a project environment: An examination of information technology evaluation practices in construction. Delivery IT and e-Business value in networked environments (). We-Bcentre.
  • Love, P., Irani, Z., Themistocleous, M., Fulford, R. (2003). The Challenge of Delivering Business Value in a Project Environment: An Examination of Information Technology Evaluation Practices in Construction. Proceedings 14th Australasian Conference of Information Systems - Delivering IT and ebusiness value in networked environments (11p). We-B Centre School of Management Information Systems, ECU.
  • Fulford, R. (2003). An investigation into the value proposition of application hosting. We-B 2003 - the 4th International We-B Conference (8 pages). We-B Centre School of Management Information Systems, ECU.
  • Fulford, R. (2003). A conceptual Model for ASP Adoption. Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (1285-1296). PACIS.

Research Projects

  • Peak Performance? Project Management and the Australian Economy, Australian Institute of Project Management, Grant, 2018 ‑ 2020, $20,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Business by Research, Considering Complexity in Leadership Decision Making

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Management Information Systems by Research, An exploratory study of the benefits and inhibitors of digital libraries in iraq
  • Doctor of Philosophy, An examination of the nexus between innovation, knowledge management and information communication technology
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A framework for social media use in project management

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Forecasting Project Success in Construction Industry Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making tools and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Management by Research, The impact of participative communication on organisational cultural change: Two local government cases of change
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Constructing corporate capability in changing contexts: The innovative journey of strategic management development at bankwest.
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