Materiality and Organizing
Social Interaction in a Technological World
Edited by Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, and Jannis Kallinikos
Author Information
Paul M. Leonardi is the Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design at Northwestern University where he teaches courses on the management of innovation and organizational change in the School of Communication, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Kellogg School of Management. His research focuses on how companies can design organizational structures and employ advanced information technologies to more effectively create and share knowledge. He is the author of Car Crashes Without Cars: Lessons about Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design (MIT Press, 2012).
Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of California, Irvine. An anthropologist, she has studied the uses of digital technologies in offices, schools, homes, libraries, hospitals, scientific laboratories, and virtual worlds. Her theoretical orientation is activity theory. She is the author of many scientific articles and books. Her latest books are My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (co-author, Princeton University Press, 2012).
Jannis Kallinikos is Professor and PhD programme Director in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management at the London School of Economics. His research covers a wide range of topics on the interpenetration of technology with the administrative and institutional arrangements of contemporary societies. Recent books include The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2006), and Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice (Palgrave, 2011).
Contributors:
Chad Anderson, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, the University of Nevada, Reno.
Bijan Azad, Associate Professor, the Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut.
Albert Borgmann, Regents Professor of Philosophy, the University of Montana, Missoula.
Jenna Burrell, Assistant Professor, the School of Information, University of California-Berkeley.
François Cooren, Professor, the Department of Communication, the Université de Montréal.
Christiane Demers, Professor, the Department of Management, HEC Montréal.
Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor of Information Science and Cognitive Science, and the Director of Center for Research on Mediated Interaction, the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Gail T. Fairhurst, Professor of Organizational Communication, the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Samer Faraj, the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare, the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.
Philip Faulkner, Fellow and Senior College Teaching Officer in Economics, Clare College, Cambridge, and Fellow, the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Anne-Laure Fayard, Assistant Professor of Management, the Department of Technology Management, the Polytechnic Institute, New York University.
Carole Groleau, Associate Professor, the Department of Communication, Université de Montréal.
Chris Harty, Lecturer in Socio-Technical Systems and Director of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre, the School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, UK.
Romain Huët, Assistant Professor (Maître de conférence), the Department of Communication, the European University of Brittany (Rennes, France).
Jannis Kallinikos, Professor and PhD programme Director in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics.
Paul M. Leonardi, Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design, Northwestern University.
Bonnie Nardi, Professor in the Department of Informatics, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, the University of California, Irvine.
Wanda J. Orlikowski, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies, the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brian T. Pentland, Professor, the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University.
Benoit Raymond, Assistant Professor, the Department of Organizational Information Systems, Université Laval, Canada.
Daniel Robey, Emeritus Professor of Information Systems, Georgia State University.
Jochen Runde, Director of the MBA and Reader in Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Management Studies, Girton College, Cambridge.
Susan V. Scott, Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Harminder Singh, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Jennifer Whyte, Professor in Innovation and Design, the School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading.
Youngjin Yoo, Professor in Management Information Systems and Irwin L. Gross Research Fellow, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University.