| Wanda J. Orlikowski | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Fields | Information Systems Organization Studies Technological Change |
| Institutions | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Doctoral students | Elizabeth Davidson Natalia Levina Carsten Osterlund Melissa Mazmanian |
| Known for | Structuration Theory Practice Lens Genre Analysis Work and Technology Studies |
| Influences | Anthony Giddens Rob Kling Karl Weick |
| Influenced | Brian Pentland Daniel Robey Ulrike Schultze Paul Leonardi |
Wanda J. Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has served as a visiting Centennial Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently a visiting professor at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. She is a scholar within the Social Study of Information Systems field and her research examines relations between technology and organizations over time, with emphases on organizing structures, cultural norms, communication genres, and work practices.
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. 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 has written on a number of topics within information systems and organization studies but is probably best known for her work in studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations by drawing on Giddens' Theory of Structuration. She 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. Orlikowski 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.