Paul Leonardi

Paul Leonardi

Breed Junior Chair of Design
E-mail:  Leonardi @ northwestern.edu
Phone:  847.467.1667
Office:  Room 2-158, Frances Searle Building
Website:  www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/

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


Field(s) of Expertise/Research Area(s)

Management of technological and organizational change, global product development, social networks


Courses

342 Organizational Behavior (Winter)

Biography

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.


Research

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.


Honors and Awards

2008

Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, National Communication Association.

William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Academy of Management (Finalist).

Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management.

W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association (Honorable Mention).

Outstanding Published Paper Award, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association.

Best Published Paper Award, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management (Runner-up).

2007

Allen and Johnnie Breed Junior Chair of Design, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University.