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Paul Leonardi

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#512

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#138

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#155

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#45

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#171

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#183

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#63

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PhD Management Stanford University
Masters Sociology Stanford University
Bachelors Sociology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul M. Leonardi was the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program. Leonardi moved to UCSB to found the Technology Management Program and start its Master of Technology Management and Ph.D. programs. Before joining UCSB, Leonardi was a faculty member in the School of Communication, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Paul Leonardi's Published Works

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Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013) (1395)
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011) (1368)
Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations (2013) (887)
Materiality and Change: Challenges to Building Better Theory about Technology and Organizing (2008) (748)
What’s Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing (2010) (590)
Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation: Toward a Theory of Communication Visibility (2014) (534)
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality (2013) (487)
Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How are They Related? Do We Need Them? (2012) (460)
Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World (2013) (450)
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013) (309)
Digital materiality? How artifacts without matter, matter (2010) (286)
Transformational Technologies and the Creation of New Work Practices: Making Implicit Knowledge Explicit in Task-based Offshoring (2008) (285)
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017) (283)
Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015) (263)
The Lure of the Virtual (2012) (215)
Activating the Informational Capabilities of Information Technology for Organizational Change (2007) (208)
Innovation Blindness: Culture, Frames and Cross-Boundary Problem Construction in the Development of New Technology Concepts (2011) (184)
The Connectivity Paradox: Using Technology to Both Decrease and Increase Perceptions of Distance in Distributed Work Arrangements (2010) (143)
The Social Media Revolution: Sharing and Learning in the Age of Leaky Knowledge (2017) (141)
Knowledge Management Technology as a Stage for Strategic Self-Presentation: Implications for Knowledge Sharing in Organizations (2012) (138)
Network Theory | Multidimensional Networks and the Dynamics of Sociomateriality: Bringing Technology Inside the Network (2011) (128)
Crossing the Implementation Line: The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Organizing Across Development and Use Activities (2009) (127)
Managing Opacity: Information Visibility and the Paradox of Transparency in the Digital Age (2016) (124)
Minding the Gaps: Understanding Technology Interdependence and Coordination in Knowledge Work (2010) (124)
Why Do People Reject New Technologies and Stymie Organizational Changes of which They Are in Favor? Exploring Misalignments between Social Interactions and Materiality (2009) (123)
Student culture vs group work in computer science (2004) (115)
Social Media as Social Lubricant (2015) (113)
Bringing Technological Frames to Work: How Previous Experience with Social Media Shapes the Technology's Meaning in an Organization (2015) (92)
COVID‐19 and the New Technologies of Organizing: Digital Exhaust, Digital Footprints, and Artificial Intelligence in the Wake of Remote Work (2020) (91)
Engineering Objects for Collaboration: Strategies of Ambiguity and Clarity at Knowledge Boundaries. (2012) (81)
Indeterminacy and the Discourse of Inevitability in International Technology Management (2008) (79)
Enacting knowledge strategy through social media: Passable trust and the paradox of nonwork interactions (2018) (78)
Technological Determinism and Discursive Closure in Organizational Mergers (2004) (78)
Behavioral Visibility: A new paradigm for organization studies in the age of digitization, digitalization, and datafication (2020) (70)
Computer-Mediated Communication in the Age of Communication Visibility (2020) (64)
Problematizing "New Media": Culturally Based Perceptions of Cell Phones, Computers, and the Internet among United States Latinos (2003) (63)
How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication (2010) (62)
Car Crashes without Cars: Lessons about Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design (2012) (62)
Materializing Strategy: The Blurry Line between Strategy Formulation and Strategy Implementation (2015) (55)
Better people analytics (2018) (54)
Which pathway to good ideas? An attention‐based view of innovation in social networks (2018) (49)
Multiplex Appropriation in Complex Systems Implementation: The Case of Brazil's Correspondent Banking System (2016) (47)
The challenge of materiality: Origins, scope, and prospects (2012) (46)
Digital Age| The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age — Introduction (2016) (46)
The Enactment-Externalization Dialectic: Rationalization and the Persistence of Counter-Productive Technology Design Practices in Student Engineering (2009) (46)
Sociomateriality as a Lens for Design: Imbrication and the constitution of technology and organization (2012) (37)
Social Media and the Development of Shared Cognition: The Roles of Network Expansion, Content Integration, and Triggered Recalling (2018) (33)
Special Issue of Organization Science: Emerging Technologies and Organizing (2019) (31)
The Emergence of Materiality within Formal Organizations (2013) (29)
THE MYTHOS OF ENGINEERING CULTURE: A STUDY OF COMMUNICATIVE PERFORMANCES AND INTERACTION (2003) (27)
Occupational Stereotypes, Perceived Status Differences, and Intercultural Communication in Global Organizations (2013) (26)
Get Noticed and Die Trying: Signals, Sacrifice, and the Production of Face Time in Distributed Work (2019) (26)
Methodological Guidelines for the Study of Materiality and Affordances (2017) (25)
Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology (2015) (23)
From Road to Lab to Math (2009) (22)
Social Issue Emergence on the Web: A Dual Structurational Model (2012) (22)
What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools (2017) (20)
Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from the CM Café (2011) (19)
The Coevolution of Objects and Boundaries over Time: Materiality, Affordances, and Boundary Salience (2019) (19)
Recognizing and Selling Good Ideas: Network Articulation and the Making of an Offshore Innovation Hub (2017) (19)
The Strategic Use of "Distance" Among Virtual Team Members: A Multidimensional Communication Model (2004) (18)
Social networks and academic performance in physics: Undergraduate cooperation enhances ill-structured problem elaboration and inhibits well-structured problem solving (2020) (17)
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing (2022) (17)
Information and Communication Technology Use in Organizations (2012) (16)
ORGANIZING TECHNOLOGY: TOWARD A THEORY OF SOCIOMATERIAL IMBRICATION. (2008) (16)
Recognizing Expertise (2017) (14)
Assessing Organizational Information Visibility: Development and Validation of the Information Visibility Scale (2019) (14)
Studying Work Practices in Organizations: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Guidelines (2015) (13)
Experts at Coordination: Examining the Performance, Production, and Value of Process Expertise (2020) (13)
Effective managers say the same thing twice (or more). (2011) (12)
ENGINEERING OBJECTS FOR COLLABORATION: STRATEGIES OF AMBIGUITY AND CLARITY AT KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARIES (2011) (11)
How to Build High Impact Theories of Organizational Communication (2017) (11)
Materiality as organizational communication: Technology, intent, and delegation in the production of meaning (2011) (11)
Expertise, Communication, and Organizing (2016) (10)
Competing institutional logics in ICT4D education projects: A South American study (2016) (9)
What is Expertise? Who is an Expert? Some Definitive Answers (2016) (8)
Enacting Knowledge Strategy Through Social Media (2016) (8)
Breaking into Collaboration: Communicative Strategies for Gaining Entry When You Are Not Invited (2018) (8)
Offshoring Digital Work, but Not Physical Output: Differential Access to Task Objects and Coordination in Globally Distributed Automotive Engineering and Graphic Design Work (2015) (8)
Which Pathway to Good Ideas? An Attention-Based View of Innovation in Social Networks (2018) (7)
WHEN DOES TECHNOLOGY ENABLE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE? CONVERGENT FEATURE USE AND COLLECTIVE AFFORDANCES (2011) (7)
On the making of crystal balls: Five lessons about simulation modeling and the organization of work (2021) (6)
Enrolling Technology as a Discursive Resource to Justify Cultural Change in Organizations (2010) (5)
Car Crashes without Cars (2012) (4)
Teaming at the Limit: Enhancing Team Effectiveness with Enterprise Social Media Affordances (2017) (4)
Social Media in Open Strategy: A Five-Flows Model of Strategy Making and Enactment (2019) (4)
Materiality as an Organizing Process: Toward a Process Metaphysics for Material Artifacts (2016) (3)
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion (2022) (3)
Technological Grounding (2009) (3)
Recognizing and Selling Good Ideas: How Brokers Mediate Knowledge Transfer (2013) (3)
Translating national discourse into teaching and learning outcomes: Portability and connectivity in developing countries’ ICT in education (ICT4E) initiatives (2020) (3)
A critical approach to human helping in information systems: Heteromation in the Brazilian correspondent banking system (2018) (3)
"Networks, Attention, and Good Ideas: Taking Advantage of Social Structure" (2014) (2)
Undergrad classroom cooperation and academic performance: Beneficial for real-world-like problems but detrimental for algebra-based problems (2019) (2)
Knowledge Transfer Social Media as Social Lubricant : How Ambient Awareness Eases (2014) (2)
Strengthening Ties on Social Networking Sites: The Effects of Social Learning and Commitment Building (2017) (2)
Contextual Trustworthiness of Organizational Partners: Evidence from Nine School Networks (2020) (2)
Technology and Work in the Virtual Organization (2005) (2)
Explaining idea sharing mechanisms: Linking diversity and network factors to explore creative teams (2013) (2)
Resourcing expertise: How existing schemas and communication processes shape the meaning of expert work in a global organization (2020) (2)
Interaction, Transparency, and Practice: Communicative and Material Factors Contributing to Convergence in Technology Use (2012) (1)
Out of the Poole and into the Ocean: Understanding Processes of Organizational Change Through the Work of Marshall Scott Poole (2017) (1)
Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Knowledge Production, Organizations, and Teams (2019) (1)
How Virtuality Impacts the Way Teams Work: The Digital Organization (2013) (1)
Strategic organization in the digital age: Rethinking the concept of technology (2022) (1)
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing (2022) (1)
Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Transfer: Using Social Media to Improve Meta-Knowledge (2013) (1)
Social Media and Teamwork (2019) (1)
The Matter with Gender: The Dynamic Intersect of Gender and Social Media Affordances (2018) (1)
Cooperation is not enough: The role of instructional strategies in cooperative learning in higher education (2019) (1)
Why should i trust your model? How to successfully enroll digital models for innovation (2021) (1)
Identity-Based Motivations for Providing the Unpaid Labor That Makes AI Technologies Work (2021) (0)
Substance and Externalities of Network Broker Behavior (2020) (0)
Interpreting Relationships between the Social and the Material (2012) (0)
The Process of Theorizing in Organizational Communication: On the Importance of Owning Phenomena (2018) (0)
American Behavioral Scientist Special Issue Title: Social Media, Collaboration, and Organizations (2015) (0)
Socializing Remote Workers: Identification and Role Innovation at a Distance (2015) (0)
CORRESPONDENT BANKING SYSTEM (2016) (0)
Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Studies of Work (2021) (0)
Emerging Technologies-in-Practice: A Communication Framework of Convergence of Technologies-in-Use (2011) (0)
Being Creative Within (or Outside) the Box: Bridging Occupational Identity Gaps (2023) (0)
Solution or Opportunity? A Comparative Study of Resourcing in Schools (2021) (0)
Theorizing the role of technologies in the COVID-19 pandemic times (2021) (0)
[Depression and gender differences: interventions with women]. (1996) (0)
Organizational Learning and Search Track: Technology Across Organizational Boundaries (2022) (0)
How Advances in Digital Technologies Reconfigure Organizational Coordination Processes (2018) (0)
Producing Technological Futures: Reflecting on Workplace Automation, Inequality, and Ethics (2019) (0)
Developing Problems and Solving Technologies (2012) (0)
Is the Future of Work Already Here? The Changing Nature of Professionals' Work and Professionalism (2019) (0)
The Future of Work is Here: Algorithmic Automation, Augmentation and the Way AI is Changing Work (2022) (0)
Articulating Visions of Technology and Organization (2012) (0)
Redundant Communication: Redundancy as a Strategic Practice in Project Management Work (2007) (0)
Templates as Vehicles for Learning in Multinational Firms (2012) (0)
Emerging Technologies, Work Relationships, and the New Role of Middle Managers (2020) (0)
Keep Them Apart or Join Them Together? How Identification Processes Shape Orientations to Network Brokerage (2020) (0)
Using Agent-based Modeling to Test Conflicting Effects on Technology Adoption Within Organizations (2012) (0)
Teams, time, decisions, and change: articles in honor of (and by) David R. Seibold (2017) (0)
Poole, Marshall Scott: Understanding Processes of Organizational Change Through His Work (2020) (0)
Crashworthiness Analysis at Autoworks (2012) (0)
Perceptions of Inevitability (2012) (0)
New Frontiers in Behavioral Strategy (2020) (0)
Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A) (2019) (0)
Organizing as a Process of Sociomaterial Imbrication (2012) (0)
Knowledge at the Interface: The Cutting Edge (2017) (0)
Appropriating Material Features to Change Work (2012) (0)
Between Technological and Organizational Change (2012) (0)
Distilling Complexity : Atmospheric Indeterminacy and the Culture of Disciplined Improvisation (2016) (0)
Knowing Who Knows What: Information Technology, Knowledge Visibility, and Organizational Change (2009) (0)
Knowledge Management Technology, Information Visibility, and the Social Construction of Expertise (2009) (0)
Attention Biases in Social Networks: Behavioral Implications for Brokerage and Performance (2018) (0)
Problematizing 'New Media': Culturally Based Perceptions of Cell Phones, Computers, and the Internet among U.S. Latinos (2003) (0)
"Administrative, Cognitive, and Social Work in the Brazilian Correspondent Banking System" (2015) (0)

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