Associate Professor Saeed Akhlaghpour
Associate Professor
School of Business
Associate Professor of Information Systems of Queensland Digital Health Centre
Queensland Digital Health Centre
Affiliate of Centre for Enterprise AI
Centre for Enterprise AI
+61 7 334 68064
Room 511, Joyce Ackroyd Building (37), St. Lucia Campus
Researcher biography
Dr Saeed Akhlaghpour is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at UQ Business School. Prior to joining the University of Queensland in 2015, he held academic positions at Middlesex University London (UK), and McGill University (Canada) - where he also obtained his PhD in Management.
Saeed is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He teaches Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital strategy and governance in the Master of Business Analytics, Master of Commerce, MBA, and Executive Education programs. Previously, he has taught courses to MBA and undergraduate business students in Brisbane, London, Montreal, and Tehran.
Saeed's research has been published in top-tier academic outlets, including the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Information and Organization, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, International Journal of Medical Informatics, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Business Research, and the Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management. His articles are cited in the EU policy documents and have received research and impact awards from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and the Australasian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
His research interests include:
- Data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity (particularly, organisational response to data breaches, and managing personal health information (PHI))
- Digital health and transformation of healthcare services
- Diffusion, adoption, and governance of digital innovations (particularly, Enterprise Generative AI)
Saeed has been a Chief Investigator in an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Linkage Project studying Digital Hospital implementation in Queensland hospitals and health services. He received the UQ Business School Cross Cross-Disciplinary Research Award in 2021. He is a founding member of the Future of Health and Trust, Ethics, and Governance Alliance research hubs.
He is a Guest Editor of Information and Organization, Section Editor of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS), and Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He chairs the annual DIGIT Workshop of the Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIG ADIT) and co-chairs the Digital Health Care track at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). He has co-chaired tracks at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS).
Publications
Book Chapter
Wang, Gongtai, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2023). Balancing the momentum of datafication with qualitative researchers as design thinkers. Cambridge handbook of qualitative digital research. (pp. 268-281) edited by Boyka Simeonova and Robert D. Galliers. New York, NY United States: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Moulaei, Khadijeh, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Fatehi, Farhad (2025). Patient consent for the secondary use of health data in artificial intelligence (AI) models: a scoping review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 198 105872, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.105872
Saha, Sajeeb, Pappu, Ravi, Ranjan, Rakesh Kumar and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2025). Donation type effects in corporate giving: a moderated serial mediation model. Journal of Business Research, 189 115195, 115195. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115195
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2024). Unpacking the complexities of health record misuse: insights from Australian health services. Information Technology & People, 1-31. doi: 10.1108/itp-12-2022-0931
Li, Jingqi Celeste, Namvar, Morteza, Im, Ghiyoung P. and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2024). Machine Learning Based Decision-Making: A Sensemaking Perspective. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 28 4781, 1-22. doi: 10.3127/ajis.v28.4781
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Fatehi, Farhad and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2024). A systematic analysis of failures in protecting personal health data: a scoping review. International Journal of Information Management, 74 102719, 1-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102719
Saha, Sajeeb, Ranjan, Rakesh Kumar , Pappu, Ravi and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2023). Corporate-giving and its impact on consumer evaluations: a meta-analysis. Journal of Business Research, 158 113656, 113656. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113656
Pool, Javad, Namvar, Morteza, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Fatehi, Farhad (2022). Exploring public opinion about telehealth during COVID-19 by social media analytics. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 28 (10), 718-725. doi: 10.1177/1357633x221122112
Namvar, Morteza, Intezari, Ali, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Brienza, Justin P. (2022). Beyond effective use: integrating wise reasoning in machine learning development. International Journal of Information Management, 69 102566, 102566. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102566
Gholizadeh, Mehran, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Namvar, Morteza and Teixeira Isaias, Pedro (2022). Emergent affordances and potential challenges of mobile learning apps: Insights from online reviews. Information Technology & People, 35 (7), 2500-2517. doi: 10.1108/itp-05-2021-0412
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Fatehi, Farhad and Gray, Leonard C. (2022). Data privacy concerns and use of telehealth in the aged care context: an integrative review and research agenda. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 160 104707, 104707. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104707
Lockey, Steven, Edwards, Martin R., Hornsey, Matthew J., Gillespie, Nicole, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Colville, Shannon (2021). Profiling Adopters (and Non-adopters) of a Contact Tracing Mobile Application: Insights from Australia. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 149 104414, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104414
Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Hassandoust, Farkhondeh, Fatehi, Farhad, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Hynd, Andrew (2021). Learning from enforcement cases to manage GDPR risks. MIS Quarterly Executive, 20 (3) 4, 199-218. doi: 10.17705/2msqe.00049
Hassandoust, Farkhondeh, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Johnston, Allen C (2020). Individuals' privacy concerns and adoption of contact tracing mobile applications in a pandemic: a situational privacy calculus perspective. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 28 (3), 463-471. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa240
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Fatehi, Farhad (2020). Towards a contextual theory of Mobile Health Data Protection (MHDP): a realist perspective. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 141 104229, 104229. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104229
Burton-Jones, Andrew, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Ayre, Stephen, Barde, Payal, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). Changing the conversation on evaluating digital transformation in healthcare: insights from an institutional analysis. Information and Organization, 30 (1) 100255, 100255. doi: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2019.100255
Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Lapointe, Liette (2018). From placebo to panacea: studying the diffusion of IT management techniques with ambiguous efficiencies – the case of Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 19 (6), 441-502. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00498
Strang, David, David, Robert J. and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2014). Coevolution in management fashion: an agent-based model of consultant-driven innovation. American Journal of Sociology, 120 (1), 226-264. doi: 10.1086/677206
Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Wu, Jing, Lapointe, Liette and Pinsonneault, Alain (2013). The ongoing quest for the IT artifact: looking back, moving forward. Journal of Information Technology, 28 (2), 150-166. doi: 10.1057/jit.2013.10
Vedel, Isabelle, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Vaghefi, Isaac, Bergman, Howard and Lapointe, Liette (2013). Health information technologies in geriatrics and gerontology: a mixed systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20 (6), 1109-1119. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001705
Conference Papers
Sharifi, Salma, Namvar, Morteza, Intezari, Ali and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2024). Healthcare LLMs go to market: a realist review of product launch news. 34th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2024, Athens, Greece, 25-29 August 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/shti240513
Xie, Hetiao (Slim), Namvar, Morteza, Risius, Marten and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2024). Navigating Implicit Hate Speech - A Scoping Review. European Conference on Information Systems, Paphos, Cyprus, 13-19 June 2024. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Li, Jingqi (Celeste), Namvar, Morteza, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Indulsk, Marta (2024). Constructing patient representation through semi-supervised topic modeling. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1-5 July 2024. Atlanta, GA USA: Association for Information Systems.
Pool, Javad, Fatehi, Farhad, Sharifi, Salma, Namvar, Morteza and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2024). Unpacking sociotechnical discourses on telehealth use and data protection: a path towards digital health value creation. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240013
Upreti, Raj Upreti, Wang, Ping, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Karanasios, Stan and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2023). Trending topics and stale subjects: detecting fashion in information systems research. Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Wellington, New Zealand, 5-8 December 2023. Dunedin, New Zealand: Association for Information Systems.
Namvar, Morteza, Li, Jingqi and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2023). Understanding Bitcoin fluctuations via Tweet and user characteristics. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Nanchang, China, 8-12 July 2023. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Kim, Tae Gyun and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2023). Putting the software developer front and center: how is privacy by design implemented in practice?. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management , Boston, MA, United States, 4 - 8 August 2023.
Ngwenyama, Ojelanki, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Riemer, Kai, Rowe, Frantz and Hedström, Karin (2023). Social values dilemmas of the ‘digital first’ paradigm of societal digitalization. International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2023: Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies, Hyderabad, India, 10 - 13 December 2023. Atlanta, GA, United States: Association for Information Systems.
Dorwat, Shardul, Namvar, Morteza and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2023). Revisiting Review Depth in Search for Helpful Online Reviews. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, HI United States, 3-6 January 2023. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society.
Namvar, Morteza, Li, Jingqi, Boyce, James, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Indulska, Marta (2022). Exploring the relationship between influencers’ sentiment and cryptocurrency fluctuation through microblogs. ACIS 2022 - Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4-7 December 2022. Atlanta, GA, United States: Association for Information Systems.
Namvar, Morteza, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Boyce, James and Sharifi, Salma (2022). Iterative seed word generation for interactive topic modelling: a mixed text processing and qualitative content analysis approach. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-14 December 2022. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Namvar, Morteza, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Pool, Javad and Priscilia, Anisa (2022). Towards explaining user satisfaction with contact tracing mobile applications in a time of pandemic: a text analytics approach. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, United States, 3-7 January 2022. Roskilde, Denmark: Roskilde University. doi: 10.24251/HICSS.2022.293
Hassandoust, Farkhondeh, Johnston, Allen C., Ologeanu-Taddei, Roxana and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2022). From liking to not liking: a proposed experiment design to explore consumer perceptions of health wearable notifications. ACIS 2022 - Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4-7 December 2022. Atlanta, GA, United States: Association for Information Systems.
Sharifi Khajedehi, Salma, Namvar, Morteza, Pool, Javad and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2022). On Justification: Legislating a Digital First Artifact. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) , Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-14 December 2022. Atlanta, GA United States: AIS eLibrary.
Saha, Sajeeb, Pappu, Ravi, Ranjan, Kumar Rakesh and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2022). Examining temporal distance effects of corporate giving: the role of donation type. The Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC), Perth, WA, Australia, 5 - 7 December 2022.
Gholizadeh, Mehran, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Teixeira Isaias, Pedro and Namvar, Morteza (2021). Utilitarian, hedonic and monetary motivations of using mobile learning apps: Opinion mining using big data text analytics. Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2021, Sydney, NSW Australia, 6-10 December 2021. Association for Information Systems.
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2021). Socio-technical Challenges to the Effective Use of Health Information Systems (IS) and Data Protection: A Contextual Theorization of the Dark Side of IS Use. Australasian Conference on Information Systems , Sydney, NSW Australia, 6-10 December 2021. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Pool, Javad, Fatehi, Farhad and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2021). Misinformation and disinformation in pandemics: scientific landscape and the road ahead for public health informatics research. 15th Annual Conference on Health Informatics meets Digital Health, Vienna, Austria (Virtual Conference), 11-12 May 2021.
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Fatehi, Farhad (2021). Health data privacy in the COVID-19 pandemic context: Discourses on HIPAA. dHealth 2021: 15th annual conference on Health Informatics Meets Digital Health, Online, 11 - 12 May 2021. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/shti210091
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2020). On the complexity of health data protection-in-practice: insights from a longitudinal qualitative study. Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Wellington, New Zealand, 1-4 December 2020. Association for Information Systems.
Pool, Javad, Fatehi, Farhad, Hassandoust, Farkhondeh and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2020). Health data privacy: research fronts, hot topics and future directions. 2020 Special Topic Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI STC 2020), Online, 26 - 27 November 2020. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/shti200716
Fatehi, Farhad, Hassandoust, Farkhondeh, Ko, Ryan K. L. and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2020). General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Healthcare: Hot Topics and Research Fronts. 30th Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference, Geneva Switzerland, Apr, 2020. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200336
Pool, Javad, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Fatehi, Farhad and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2019). Causes and impacts of Personal Health Information (PHI) breaches: a scoping review and thematic analysis. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Xi'an, China, 8-12 July 2019. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Pool, Javad K., Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Fatehi, Farhad (2019). Successes and failures in mobile health data protection and their impacts: a realist review. 19th Successes and Failures in Telehealth Conference (SFT-19) and the 10th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 21-23 October 2019.
Eden, Rebekah, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Spee, Paul, Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2018). Unpacking the Complexity of Consistency: Insights from a Grounded Theory Study of the Effective Use of Electronic Medical Records. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, United States, 3-6 January 2018. Hawaii, United States: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2018.381
Abedin, Ehsan, Jafarzadeh, Hamed and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2018). Opinion Mining on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of the Iran Deal. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Yokohama, Japan, 26-30 June 2018. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Vaast, Emmanuelle (2017). Digital activism for social causes: understanding clicktivism and substantive actions. SIGOPEN 2017 Developmental Workshop for Research on Open Phenomena, Seoul, Korea, 9 December 2017.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed , Lapointe, Liette and Vaast, Emmanuelle (2013). Entrepreneurship of an IT Fashion – The Case of Enterprise 2.0. Academy of Management Proceedings, Orlando, FL, United States, 9-13 August 2013. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management . doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.12014abstract
Strang, David , David, Robert and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2012). Co-evolution in management fashion: Computational models of consultant-driven innovation. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2012, Boston MA, United States, 3-7 August 2012. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.297
Vedel, Isabelle, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Vaghefi, Isaac and Lapointe, Liette (2011). Les technologies de l’information en gériatrie et gérontologie : une revue systématique mixte de la littérature. 31èmes Journées Annuelles de la Société Française de Gériatrie et Gérontologie, Paris, France, 4-6 October 2011.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Lapointe, Liette (2010). Towards a Process Theory of IT Fashion Entrepreneurship. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Regina, SK, Canada, 22-25 May 2010.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed , Wu, Jing , Lapointe, Liette and Pinsonneault, Alain (2009). Re-examining the Status of IT in IT Research an Update on Orlikowski and Iacono (2001). Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, CA, United States, 3-7 August 2009. Atlanta, GA, United States: Association for Information Systems.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Lapointe, Liette (2008). A Quadruple Take on the Diffusion of IT Management Techniques - The Case of CMM. 13th congrès de l’Association Information et Management (AIM), Paris, France, 13 December 2008. France: Association Information et Management.
Akhlaghpour, Saeed and Lapointe, Liette (2008). Impacts of social embeddedness on IOS planning effectiveness: A multilevel perspective. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Halifax, NS, Canada, May 2008. Canada: Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).
Working Paper
Abeysooriya, Sasenka, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Dowsett, Dallas, Grotowski, Joseph, Holm, Mike, Kim, Dan, Ko, Ryan, Phillips, Andelka M., Slapnicar, Sergeja, Stockdale, David, Swinson, John, Thonon, Geoffroy, Utting, Mark, Walker-Munro, Brendan and Willoughby, Shannon (2023). Discussion Paper: 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. UQ CYBER and AUSCERT.
Thesis
Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2014). Towards a Process Theory of IT Fashion Entrepreneurship. PhD Thesis, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.