Name: Dr Rebecca Purcell
Position: Head of Business Department
Tel: 0504-21201
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Fax: 0504-23735

Qualifications:
PhD in Knowledge Strategy (2008) University of Limerick [Title: ‘Multi-Level External Knowledge Search Activity in Organisations, at Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, University of Limerick]
Bachelor of Business Hons. (2003) University of Limerick


Awards and Scholarships:
Postgraduate Scholarship: Allied Irish Bank (AIB) Professorship
Postgraduate Award: Frederick A Krehbiel II ‘Innovation in Global Business & Technology Research Medal’, University of Limerick, 2009 (see http://www.krehbiel-medal.ul.ie/past.php)
Undergraduate Award: Hewlett- Packard award for ‘International and E-Marketing’, University of Limerick, 2003


Research Interests:
My principal research interests lie in determining the strategic importance of external knowledge to organisations and investigating the ways in which multiple levels of the firm search for knowledge held by external units, as well as:
- Organisational Collaboration
- Knowledge Strategy
- Strategy as Practice
- Knowledge Management
- Qualitative Research Techniques in Business


Select Publications:
- Purcell, R and McGrath, F (2007), External Knowledge Search Strategy as an Essential Element of a Knowledge Management Strategy in Knowledge Management and Business Strategies: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Research, El-Sayed Abou-Zeid (Editor), Idea Group, PA. USA.
- Purcell, R and McGrath, F (2006), External Knowledge Management Putting the search into re ’search’: Evidence from the Irish high technology sector, Advanced International Summer School on Innovation in the Extended Enterprise (AISS). 5-8 July, Ostuni, Italy. Winner of the best paper award and young scholar award, 2006.
- Purcell, R and McGrath, F (2005), An Integrated ‘unitas’ Approach to Knowledge Management Strategy, Proceedings 6th European Conference on Knowledge Management, University of Limerick, Limerick, 8th – 9th September 2005.

- Parkes, C., Purcell, R., McGrath, F and McCarthy, J (2005), Knowledge Based Systems – A tool for knowledge management? Proceedings 6th European Conference on Knowledge Management, University of Limerick, Limerick, 8th – 9th September 2005.
- Purcell, R and McGrath, F (2004), Activating external communities of knowledge in support of knowledge organisations, Proceedings 5th European Conference on Knowledge Management, CNAM, Paris, 30th September – 1st October 2004.
- Purcell, R and McGrath, F (2006), Unitas – Introducing a unified approach to knowledge management strategy, Proceedings Irish Academy of Management Conference, University College Cork, Cork, 8th – 9th September 2006.

Other Interests: I have a keen interest in running and cycling, as well as National Hunt horse racing.