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Paul Leonardi |
leonardi [at] northwestern [dot] edu t. +1.847.467.1667 f. +1.847.467.1036 2240 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208 |
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biographical information
Paul 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. Dr. 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 Technology Studies and has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals in these fields, such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, MIS Quarterly, and Critical Studies in Media Communication. Trained as an ethnographer, Dr. Leonardi spends time observing people in the course of their normal work. These detailed observations generate insights that help managers to design technologies and organizations that better meet the needs of their workforce. His recent field studies have included: (1) IT technicians adopting knowledge management tools; (2) the development, implementation, and use of computer simulation technologies for crashworthiness analysis; and (3) new technological and organizational innovations for offshoring automotive engineering work. |
recent news
My article on information technology and organizational change (which appeared last year in Organization Science) was just voted as the best published paper of 2007 by the CIT division of the American Sociological Association I'll be accepting the Geardine DeSanctis award for the best dissertation of 2007 at the OCIS business meeting at this year's Academy of Management Conference in Anaheim CA. Check out the "papers" link to view two papers that will be appearing in journals in the next few months: - A paper on simulation technology's role in offshore sourcing is forthcoming in MIS Quarterly - A paper on challenges to building theory about technology and organizational change is forthcoming in Information and Organization last updated May 2008 |