Paul Leonardi

Paul M. Leonardi (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and (by courtesy) Management and Organizations at Northwestern University where he holds the Breed Junior Chair in Design.^[1]

Leonardi's teaching and research focus on issues pertaining to the design and implementation of new technologies, global product development, and the management of engineering work. In each of these areas he explores how information technologies and organizations can be simultaneously designed to enhance one another. His work on these topics cuts across the fields of Organization Studies, Communication Studies, and Science and Technology Studies and has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals in these fields, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Communication Theory, Human Communication Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Science, Technology & Human Values.

He has won awards for his research from the Academy of Management,^[2][3] American Sociological Association,^[4] International Communication Association, National Communication Association,^[5] and Association for Information Systems

Published works

• Young, L. E., & Leonardi, P. M. (2012). Social Issue Emergence on the Web: A Dual Structurational Model. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 231-246.

• Contractor, N. S., Monge, P. R., & Leonardi, P. M. (2011). Multidimensional Networks and the Dynamics of Sociomateriality: Bringing Technology Inside the Network. International Journal of Communication, 5, 682-720.

• Leonardi, P. M. (2011). When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies. MIS Quarterly, 35(1), 147-167.

• Leonardi, P. M. (2011). Innovation Blindness: Culture, Frames, and Cross-Boundary Problem Construction in The Development of New Technology Concepts. Organization Science, 22(2), 347-369.

• Leonardi, P. M.; Barley, S. R. (2010). "What's Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing". Academy of Management Annals 4: 1–51. doi:10.1080/19416521003654160. 

• Bailey, D. E.; Leonardi, P. M.; Chong, J. (2010). "Minding the Gaps: Technology Interdependence and Coordination in Knowledge Work". Organization Science 21 (3): 713–730. doi:10.1287/orsc.1090.0473. 

• Leonardi, P. M. (2010). Digital Materiality? How Artifacts Without Matter, Matter. First Monday, 15(6), Available from: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3036/2567

• Leonardi, P. M. (2010). "From Road to Lab to Math: The Co-Evolution of Technological, Regulatory, and Organizational Innovations in Automotive Crash Testing". Social Studies of Science 40 (2): 243–274. doi:10.1177/0306312709346079. PMID 20527322. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Treem, J. W.; Jackson, M. H. (2010). "The Connectivity Paradox: Using Technology to Both Increase and Decrease Perceptions of Distance in Distributed Work Arrangements". Journal of Applied Communication Research 37 (4): 85–105. 

• Leonardi, P. M. (2009). "Crossing the Implementation Line: The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Organizing Across Development and Use Activities". Communication Theory 19 (3): 277–310. 

• Leonardi, P. M. (2009). "Why Do People Reject New Technologies and Stymie Organizational Changes of which They Are in Favor? Exploring Misalignments Between Social Interactions and Materiality". Human Communication Research 35 (3): 407–441. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01357.x. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Jackson, M. H.; Diwan, A. (2009). "The Enactment-Externalization Dialectic: Rationalization and the Persistence of Counterproductive Technology Design Practices in Student Engineering". Academy of Management Journal 52 (2): 400–420. doi:10.5465/AMJ.2009.37315471. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Jackson, M. H. (2009). "Technological Grounding: Enrolling Technology as a Discursive Resource to Justify Cultural Change in Organizations". Science, Technology & Human Values 34 (3): 393–418. doi:10.1177/0162243908328771. 

• Leonard, P. M. (2008). "Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Inevitability in International Technology Management". Academy of Management Review 33 (4): 975–984. doi:10.5465/AMR.2008.34422017. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Barley, S. R. (2008). "Materiality and Change: Challenges to Building Better Theory About Technology and Organizing". Information and Organization 18 (3): 159–176. doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2008.03.001. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Bailey, D. E. (2008). "Transformational Technologies and the Creation of New Work Practices: Making Implicit Knowledge Explicit in Task-based Offshoring". MIS Quarterly 32 (2): 411–436. 

• Leonardi, P. M. (2007). "Activating the Informational Capabilities of Information Technology for Organizational Change". Organization Science 18 (5): 813–831. doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0284. 

• Leonardi, P. M.; Jackson, M. H. (2004). "Technological Determinism and Discursive Closure in Organizational Mergers". Journal of Organizational Change Management 17 (6): 615–631. doi:10.1108/09534810410564587. 

• Leonardi, P. M. (2003). "Problematizing "New Media": Culturally Based Perceptions of Cell Phones, Computers, and the Internet among United States Latinos". Critical Studies in Media Communication 20 (2): 160–179. doi:10.1080/07393180302778. 

All papers are available from the Leonardi's website for academic use only at

External links

• http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/
• http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/?PID=PaulLeonardi
• http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/leonardi.html

References