Faculty
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.
Orlikowski investigates technologies in the workplace, with particular emphasis on structures, cultures, work practices, and organizational change. She has examined the use of groupware technologies in distributed collaboration, as well as the social and technological aspects of working virtually. Orlikowski led a multiyear National Science Foundation project on the social and economic implications of using Internet technologies within firms. She is currently examining the conditions and consequences of digital work.
Orlikowski holds a BComm and an MComm in business information systems from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an MPhil and a PhD in information systems from New York University.
Scott, Susan V. and Wanda J. Orlikowski. Organization Science Vol. 25, No. 3 (2014): 868-891.
Oborn, Eivor, Michael Barrett, Wanda Orlikowski, and Anna Kim. Organization Science Vol. 30, No. 5 (2019): 1097-1123.
Orlikowski, Wanda and Susan V. Scott. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Vol. 62, (2019): 169-179.
Susan V. Scott, and Wanda Orlikowski. In Proceedings of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, edited by John Humphreys, Atlanta, GA: August 2017.
Barrett, Michael, Eivor Oborn, and Wanda Orlikowski. Information Systems Research Vol. 27, No. 4 (2016): 704-723.
Orlikowski, Wanda, and Susan V. Scott. In A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies, edited by Barbara Czarniawska, 88-95. London, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2016.
In "Leadership in Practice: Making and Learning," MIT Sloan students integrate the MIT Leadership Capabilities model with arts processes and experiential sessions.