Paul Leonardi

Paul Leonardi

Paul Leonardi


Master of Engineering Management

Course: IEMS 490 - Mangement of Technology

E-mail: leonardi@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Paul 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.

In 2007, Paul Leonardi was granted the Allen and Johnnie Breed Junior Chair of Design, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University.  In 2008, he received the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, National Communication Association, the William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management (Finalist), the Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management,the W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association (Honorable Mention),the Outstanding Published Paper Award, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association,the Best Published Paper Award, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management (Runner-up).

Education:
PhD, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
MA, Organizational Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
BA, Communication and Spanish, Saint Mary’s College of California

Publications:

Leonard, P. M. (2008). Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Inevitability in International Technology Management. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 975-984.

Leonardi, P. M., & Barley, S. R. (2008). Materiality and Change: Challenges to Building Better Theory About Technology and Organizing. Information and Organization, 18(3), 159-176.

Leonardi, P. M., & Bailey, D. E. (2008). Transformational Technologies and the Creation of New Work Practices: Making Implicit Knowledge Explicit in Task-based Offshoring. MIS Quarterly, 32(2), 411-436.

Leonardi, P. M. (2007). Activating the Informational Capabilities of Information Technology for Organizational Change. Organization Science, 18(5), 813-831.