Professor George Kuk

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Professor George Kuk

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Professor of Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Biography

Trained in Psychology, George specialises in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on leveraging digital technologies to tackle grand challenges. He has led numerous research projects on emerging forms of organizing and organizations enabled by technologies, including open-source software, open data, 3D design and printing, Android platforms, blockchain applications, and recently, digital complementary currencies. George has also contributed to methods development in the textual, temporal, and place-based analytics for capturing the temporality and relationality in creativity and design, digital innovation, and entrepreneurship. His work centres on technology in social practices as forms of knowledge commons and societal transformation that shape our digital futures. 

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Research outputs

  • Journal articles

    Kuk, G., Giamporcaro, S. (2024) 'Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency.' Human Relations, 77(7) pp. 965-1002.

    Kuk, G., Meyer, C., Giamporcaro, S. (2024) 'Complementary currencies and entrepreneurship: Sustaining micro-entrepreneurs in Kenyan informal settlements.' Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 18(1) pp. 21-54.

    Kuk, G., Schaarschmidt, M., Homscheid, D. (2024) 'All of the same breed? A networking perspective of private-collective innovation.' Journal of Business Research, 172

    Giamporcaro, S., Kuk, G. (2024) 'Affordances-in-practice: unravelling blockchain-for-good in sustainable investment.' Information Technology and People,

    Kuk, G. (2023) 'Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation.' International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 29(9-10) pp. 2110-2134.

    Kuk, G. (2023) 'Creative ambivalence: implementing need-solution pairs in household 3D printing.' R and D Management, 53(5) pp. 861-879.

    Kuk, G., Faik, I., Janssen, M. (2023) 'Editorial Technology Assessment for Addressing Grand Societal Challenges.' IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70(3) pp. 1055-1060.

    Janssen, M., Hartog, M., Matheus, R., Yi Ding, A., Kuk, G. (2022) 'Will Algorithms Blind People? The Effect of Explainable AI and Decision-Makers’ Experience on AI-supported Decision-Making in Government.' Social Science Computer Review, 40(2) pp. 478-493.

    Friesike, S., Thiesse, F., Kuk, G. (2021) 'What can the maker movement teach us about the digitization of creativity?.' Communications of the ACM, 64(3) pp. 42-45.

    Moreira, M.F., Kuk, G., Guimaraes, T.D.A., Albuquerque, P.H.M. (2020) 'The genealogy of service innovation: the research field tells its own story.' Service Industries Journal, 40(15-16) pp. 1064-1086.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2016) 'The challenges and limits of big data algorithms in technocratic governance.' Government Information Quarterly, 33(3) pp. 371-377.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2016) 'Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) in research, policy, and practice.' Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 26(1-2) pp. 3-13.

    West, J., Kuk, G. (2016) 'The complementarity of openness: How MakerBot leveraged Thingiverse in 3D printing.' Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 102pp. 169-181.

    Terrell, M., Kuk, G., Chen, S., Shao, J. (2014) 'Why do applications request my contacts data? A large-scale study on openness and control of user contacts permission in android mobile applicaitons marketplace.' Frontiers of Business Research in China, 8(1) pp. 113-135.

    Kuk, G., Janssen, M. (2013) 'Assembling infrastructures and business models for service design and innovation.' Information Systems Journal, 23(5) pp. 445-469.

    Santos, C., Kuk, G., Kon, F., Pearson, J. (2013) 'The attrsssaction of contributors in free and open source software projects.' Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 22(1) pp. 26-45.

    Shao, J., Anand, S., Jackson, M.J., Kuk, G., Morley, J.G., Mitchell, T. (2012) 'Mapping Collaboration in Open Source Geospatial Ecosystem.' Transactions in GIS, 16(4) pp. 581-597.

    Janssen, M., Charalabibis, Y., Kuk, G., Cresswell, T. (2011) 'E-government interoperability, infrastructure and architecture: State-of-the-art and challenges.' Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 6(1)

    Kuk, G., Janssen, M. (2011) 'The business models and information architectures of smart cities.' Journal of Urban Technology, 18(2) pp. 39-52.

    Nov, O., Kuk, G. (2008) 'Open source content contributors' response to free-riding: The effect of personality and context.' Computers in Human Behavior, 24(6) pp. 2848-2861.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G., Wagenaar, R.W. (2008) 'A survey of Web-based business models for e-government in the Netherlands.' Government Information Quarterly, 25(2) pp. 202-220.

    Kuk, G. (2006) 'Strategic interaction and knowledge sharing in the KDE developer mailing list.' Management Science, 52(7) pp. 1031-1042.

    Kuk, G., Fokeer, S., Hung, W.T. (2005) 'Strategic formulation and communication of corporate environmental policy statements: UK firms' perspective.' Journal of Business Ethics, 58(4) pp. 375-385.

    Kuk, G. (2004) 'Effectiveness of vendor-managed inventory in the electronics industry: Determinants and outcomes.' Information and Management, 41(5) pp. 645-654.

    Kuk, G. (2003) 'The digital divide and the quality of electronic service delivery in local government in the United Kingdom.' Government Information Quarterly, 20(4) pp. 353-363.

    Kerr, J.H., Kuk, G. (2001) 'The effects of low and high intensity exercise on emotions, stress and effort.' Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2(3) pp. 173-186.

    Kuk, G. (2000) '"When to speak again": Self-regulation under facilitation.' Group Dynamics, 4(4) pp. 291-306.

    Kuk, G. (2000) '"When to speak again": Self-regulation under facilitation..' Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4(4) pp. 291-306.

    Kuk, G. (1999) 'Social science information gateway for psychology: A utility test of SOSIG.' Social Science Computer Review, 17(4) pp. 451-454.

    Kuk, G., Arnold, M., Ritter, F.E. (1999) 'Effects of light and heavy workload on air traffic tactical operations: A hazard rate model.' Ergonomics, 42(9) pp. 1133-1148.

  • Conference papers

    Lindman, J., Kuk, G. (2015) 'From open access to open data markets: Increasing the subtractability of open data.' 2015-March. pp. 1306-1313.

    Alotaibi, A., Kuk, G. (2013) 'IT-enabled performative spaces in gender segregated work.' 3. pp. 2416-2434.

    Kuk, G., Kirilova, N. (2013) 'Artifactual agency in open design.'

    Alotaibi, A., Kuk, G. (2011) 'Gender-segregated work in saudi arabia: A structurational perspective on technology and cultural change.' 2. pp. 921-931.

    Kuk, G., Davies, T. (2011) 'The roles of agency and artifacts in assembling open data complementarities.' 2. pp. 905-920.

    Kuk, G., Stevens, G. (2010) 'Corporatizing open source software innovation in the plone community.' 4. pp. 2688-2698.

    Kuk, G. (2010) 'Eyeballs, bugs, and releases in open source software.'

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2010) 'Critical success factors for multi-channel service delivery (MCSD).' 3. pp. 2179-2187.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2009) 'Critical success factors for formulating service delivery strategies.' 1.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2007) 'Comparing coordination arrangements enabled by web services and web service orchestration technology.' pp. 1718-1728.

    Masa'deh, R., Kuk, G. (2007) 'A causal model of strategic alignment and firm performance.' pp. 1694-1705.

    Moon, J.Y., Jarvenpaa, S., Kuk, G. (2007) 'Diffusion of open access: Why are some disciplines more successful than others?.'

    Kuk, G. (2006) 'Market valuation of strategic responses to open source news and announcements.'

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G. (2006) 'A complex adaptive system perspective of enterprise architecture in electronic government.' 4.

    Janssen, M., Kuk, G., Wagenaar, R.W. (2005) 'A survey of e-government business models in the Netherlands.' 113. pp. 496-504.

    Kuk, G. (2005) 'E-government IT investment: Insights from a lens model.'