Research Director (Organisational Theory & Information Systems)
BComm, MComm (University of the Witwatersrand), MPhil, PhD (New York University)
Research interests
Technologies in the workplace, with particular emphasis on structures, cultures, work practices, and organisational change; the conditions and consequences of digital work.
Subject group: Organisational Theory & Information Systems
Professional experience
Wanda Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management and a Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Professor Orlikowski has examined the use of groupware technologies in distributed collaboration, as well as the social and technological aspects of working virtually, and led a multi-year National Science Foundation project on the social and economic implications of using Internet technologies within firms.