13 Facts About Wanda Orlikowski

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Wanda J Orlikowski is a 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.

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Wanda Orlikowski's has served as a visiting Centennial Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a visiting professor at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

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Wanda Orlikowski's is currently the Alfred P Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

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Wanda Orlikowski has served as a senior editor for Organization Science, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Information and Organization and Organization Science.

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Wanda Orlikowski's 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.

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Wanda Orlikowski was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management.

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Wanda Orlikowski was named a Fellow of Academy of Management in 2019.

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Wanda Orlikowski's was elected a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.

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Wanda Orlikowski's is best known for her work in studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations by drawing on Giddens' Theory of Structuration.

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Wanda 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.

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Wanda Orlikowski's has written papers on research methodology and her 1991 paper with Jack Baroudi in Information Systems Research is particularly widely cited.

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Wanda Orlikowski argues that emergent structures offer a more generative view of technology use, suggesting that users do not so much appropriate technologies as they enact particular technologies-in-practice with them.

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In more recent work, Wanda Orlikowski argues that our primary ways of dealing with materiality in organizational research are conceptually problematic and proposes an alternative approach that posits materiality as constitutive of everyday life.

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