Wanda Orlikowski

Wanda Janina Orlikowski is a US-based organizational theorist and information systems researcher, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She received a B.Comm from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1977, an M.Comm there in 1982, and an MPhil and PhD from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1989. Her research examines relations between technology and organizations over time, and she is best known for studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations through Giddens' theory of structuration; her 1992 paper on the duality of technology has been cited over 6200 times. She has written extensively on electronic communication technologies with JoAnne Yates and, with Susan V. Scott, on the sociomaterial practices of social media. She won the 2015 Lasting Impact Award of the ACM CSCW conference for her paper Learning from Notes: Organizational issues in groupware implementation, was named a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2019 and was elected a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.