Wanda Orlikowski
| Wanda J. Orlikowski | |
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Orlikowski in 2008
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| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Fields |
Information systems Organization Studies |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Doctoral students | Elizabeth Davidson Natalia Levina Carsten Osterlund Melissa Mazmanian |
| Known for |
Practice lens Critical genre analysis |
| Influences |
Anthony Giddens Karl Weick Lucy Suchman Karen Barad |
| Influenced | Brian Pentland Daniel Robey Ulrike Schultze Paul Leonardi |
Wanda Janina Orlikowski is a South African-born, US-based organizational theorist and Information Systems researcher, and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Orlikowski received her B.Comm from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1977, an M. Comm from the same university in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1989.
She has served as a visiting Centennial Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a visiting professor at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. She is currently the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Orlikowski has served as a senior editor for Organization Science, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Information and Organization and Organization Science.
She is a member of the Academy of Management, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Institute of Management Science, the Society of Information Management, and the Society for Organizational Learning.
Orlikowski's research examines relations between technology and organizations over time, with emphases on organizing structures, cultural norms, communication genres, and work practices. She is best known for her work in studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations by drawing on Giddens' Theory of Structuration.
Orlikowski has written extensively on the use of electronic communication technologies, most notably collaborating with JoAnne Yates, a professor of communications at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also written papers on research methodology and her 1991 paper with Jack Baroudi in Information Systems Research is particularly widely cited. Her most recent work examines the sociomaterial practices entailed in social media.
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