Paul Leonardi
| Paul M. Leonardi | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Santa Barbara, California |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields |
Management Organizational Studies Communication Information Systems |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Alma mater |
Saint Mary's College of California, B.A. University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A. Stanford University, Ph.D. |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen R. Barley |
| Known for | Studies of technology and materiality Information and network change Discursive uses of technology |
| Influences |
Wanda Orlikowski Marshall Scott Poole Trevor Pinch Janet Fulk Daniel Robey Amy Edmondson |
Paul M. Leonardi (Ph.D. Stanford University) is the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program. Leonardi moved to UCSB to found the Technology Management Program and start its Master of Technology Management and Ph.D. programs. Before joining UCSB, Leonardi was a faculty member in the School of Communication, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Leonardi’s research focuses on how companies can design their organizational networks and implement new technologies to more effectively create and share knowledge. He is particularly interested in how data intensive technologies, such as simulation and social media tools, enable new ways to access, store, and share information; how the new sources of information these technologies provide can change work routines and communication partners; and how shifts in employees’ work and communication alter the nature of an organization's expertise. His work on these topics cuts across the fields of Organization Studies, Communication Studies, and Information Systems and has been published in leading journals in these fields, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is also the author of three books Car Crashes Without Cars: Lessons About Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design (2012, MIT Press), Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World(2012, Oxford University Press), and Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technologies (2015, MIT Press).
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