Rate My Professor Christina Kum

Christina Kum, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Management and Organisations discipline within the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. Her academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Australia awarded on 10 March 2010, with a dissertation titled "Supporting Informal Knowledge Communities: A Connectors-based Knowledge Integration Infrastructure." She previously obtained a Master of Information Management from the same institution on 30 November 1998, focusing on "A Model for Adoption of Agent Technology," and a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences on 30 November 1995. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked as a Business/IT analyst in the Prime Minister's Office of Singapore. At UWA Business School, she teaches Business Information Systems at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, coordinating units such as BUSN5506 Business Research Project, EBUS5504 Electronic Business, INMT5501 Enterprise Information Systems, INMT5504 Business Process Management, INMT5507 Information Management and Logistics Capstone Projects, and INMT5620 Management of Information Systems for Digital Transformation.

Dr. Kum's research interests are at the intersection of knowledge management, organisational changes, and emerging digital technologies, encompassing organisational learning, corporate information infrastructure, digital transformation, artificial intelligence applications in business, information management, information systems, business process management, and socio-technical systems. Her key publications include "Beyond constraints: How Family-based Characteristics Extend the AI Adoption capabilities in an SME" (2025 conference abstract, co-authored with E. Leung, H. Nguyen, and R. Upase); "An analysis of technical and commercialization paths for an innovation trajectory" (2017, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, with S. Purchase and D. Olaru); "Paths, events and resource use: New developments in understanding innovation processes" (2016, Industrial Marketing Management, with S. Purchase and D. Olaru); "Ambidextrous Innovation Use within University Spin-off Organisations" (2014, ANZMAC conference, with S. Purchase and D. Olaru); and "Resource mobilisation along technical and innovation trajectories" (2014, IMP Group in Asia, with S. Purchase and D. Olaru).