Jon Heales

Dr Jon HEALES

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Positions Held

Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems

Academic Qualifications

Memberships

• Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA), Member of the society.
• Australian Computer Society, MACS PCP - Australian Computer Society (Practicing Computer Professional).
• Association of Information Systems (AIS), Member of the society. The society caters primarily for academics, and is the premier society for IS academics
• QICA - Qualification in Computer Auditing, admitted at Practitioner level, by the Institute of Internal Auditors - UK.
• Past Member of Institute of Internal Auditors - USA and UK.; Computer Society of South Africa; Institute of Accounting Technicians South Africa.

Major Research Grants

Field of Current Research

Publications

Refereed

• Heales, J. 2005, 'Undergraduate performance in accounting and business-based information technology', Accounting and Finance, 45(3), pp. 395-413.
• Heales, J., Cockcroft, S.K.S. & Raduescu, C. O. 2004, 'The influence of national culture on the level and outcome of IS development decisions', The Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 7(4), pp. 3-28.
• Bowen, P.L., Heales, J., and Vongphakdi, M.T. (2002). "Reliability Factors in Business Software: Volatility, Requirements, and End-Users." Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Blackwell Science, Vol. 12 (3) (in press).
• Heales, J. (2000). "Factors Affecting Information System Volatility," 21st. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 10-13 December, Brisbane, Australia.
• Speed, A., Bowen, P., and Heales, J. (2000). "An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Criticality, Complexity, and Organisational Influence on Software Reliability," Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), Vol. 8(1)
• Heales, J. (2000). Factors Influencing Performance In An Undergraduate Business-Based Information Technology Subject," AAANZ 2000 Conference, 2-4 July, 2000, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia.
• Bowen, P. L., Heales, J., and Vongphakdi, M. T. (1997) "A Case Study of the Reliability of Information Systems," in Third Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Gable, G. G., and Weber, R. A. G. (Eds), ISMRC, Brisbane, 3-5 April.
• Heales, J., (1995) "An Empirical Analysis of Information Systems Change," 16th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), DeGross J. I., Ariav, G., Beath, C., Hoyer, R., and Kemerer, C. (eds), Pittsburgh, PA, December 10-13, pp. 352-353.
• Heales, J., and Ledington P. W. J. (1993) "Organisational culture: It's role as the environment of information systems development," in Ethical Management of Science as a System, Ed. Packham R., ISSS, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
• Ashkanasy, N.M. & Heales, J. (1993). "The behaviour description approach to personnel selection." Training and Development in Queensland, December, 3-4.
• Ledington P.W.J. and Heales J. (1992) "The Social Context of Information Systems Development: An Appreciative Field Perspective," in Human, Organisational, and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development, Eds. Avison D., Kendall, J. E., and DeGoss, J. I., Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North-Holland), 1993 IFIP.

Non-refereed

• Heales, J, (1998) "Flexibility the Key to Developing IT Leaders," Information Age, IDG Communications, March, 1998.
• Heales, J. (1995) "Measuring the Organisational Cultural Influence on ISD," Conference on Organisations and Society in Information Systems, IFIP 8.2, Vancouver, Canada.
• Heales J. (1985) "Practical Applications of Controls on Remote Processing - Mining Sector," Control and Audit of Modern Information Systems, Ed. J C Ford, Juta and Co. Ltd., Johannesburg
• Heales, J. (1985) "Time and attendance control. The problems and the plan." Audit Update, Vol. 2, No.4, September 1985, pp. 14-16, The S.A. Institute of Internal Auditors.
• Publications Under Review
• Heales, J. and Cockcroft, S. (2002). "The Influence of National Culture on the Level and Outcome of IS Decision Making in the IS Maintenance/Redevelopment Decision," 23rd. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 16-19 December, Barcelona, Spain.

Conferences

• Heales, J. (2000). "Factors Affecting Information System Volatility," 21st. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 10-13 December, Brisbane, Australia.
• Heales, J. (2000). Factors Influencing Performance In An Undergraduate Business-Based Information Technology Subject," AAANZ 2000 Conference, 2-4 July, 2000, Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia.
• Bowen, P. L., Heales, J., and Vongphakdi, M. T. (1997) "A Case Study of the Reliability of Information Systems," in Third Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Gable, G. G., and Weber, R. A. G. (Eds), ISMRC, Brisbane, 3-5 April.
• Heales, J. (1995) "Measuring the Organisational Cultural Influence on ISD," Organisations and Society in Information Systems, IFIP 8.2, Vancouver, Canada, December.
• Heales, J. (1995) "An Empirical Analysis of Information Systems Change," 16th International Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Brisbane.
• Heales, J. and Ledington, P. W. J. (1993) "Organisational culture: Its role as the environment of information systems development," 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences, Sydney, July.

Papers Under Revision

• Heales, J. "Undergraduate Performance in Accounting and Business-Based Information Technology." Under revision to Journal of Accounting and Finance
• Heales, J. "Information Systems Volatility and Life-Span," Under revision to Information Systems Research (ISR).

Working Papers

• Heales, J "Maintaining Information Systems in the New Millennium," From my PhD thesis - the development of the bathtub IS maintenance model." Paper to be submitted to MISQ

Research In Progress

• Chan, J., Heales, J., and O'Keefe, T. "The effect of Incentives on Project Success"

Research Interests

• Knowledge In Organisations
• Management Information Systems

Academic Cluster

Business Information Systems