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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - AIS LEO Award, Association for Information Systems
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

Dorothy Leidner is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences, focusing on areas such as sociology and political science, strategy and management, information systems, safety research, and management information systems.

Their work covers a variety of topics including open source software innovations, knowledge management and sharing, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, information and cyber security, big data and business intelligence, innovation and knowledge management, and information systems theories and implementation.

Leidner's recent publications include:

  • Knowledge Management Perspective of Generative Artificial Intelligence, 2024, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • The Care Theory of Dignity Amid Personal Data Digitalization, 2021, MIS Quarterly
  • "Editorial Reflections: Lockdowns, Slow Downs, and Some Introductions", 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • Multifarious Roles and Conflicts on an Interorganizational Green Is, 2022, MIS Quarterly
  • What's in a Contribution?, 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Frequent co-authors associated with Leidner include Jie Yan, Olgerta Tona, Puzant Balozian, Hugh J. Watson, and Juliana Sutanto.

Publications by Leidner often appear in the following venues:

  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • MIS Quarterly
  • Information Systems Journal
  • International Journal of Information Management

Throughout their career, Leidner has been recognized within their field by receiving the AIS LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems in 2021 and being named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Review: Knowledge management and knowledge management systems: conceptual foundations and research issues

    Maryam Alavi;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams

    Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams

    Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Is anybody out there?: antecedents of trust in global virtual teams

    Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa;Kathleen Knoll;Kathleen Knoll;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Knowledge management systems: issues, challenges, and benefits

    Maryam Alavi;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Review: a review of culture in information systems research: toward a theory of information technology culture conflict

    Dorothy E. Leidner;Timothy Kayworth

  • The use of information technology to enhance management school education: a theoretical view

    Dorothy E. Leidner;Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa

  • An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Practices

    Maryam Alavi;Timothy R. Kayworth;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Leadership Effectiveness in Global Virtual Teams

    Timothy R. Kayworth;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Studying knowledge management in information systems research: discourses and theoretical assumptions

    Ulrike Schultze;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Research Commentary: Technology-Mediated Learning--A Call for Greater Depth and Breadth of Research

    Maryam Alavi;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Information Technology for Management : Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy

    Efraim Turban;Dorothy Leidner;Ephraim McLean;James Wetherbe

  • The global virtual manager: a prescription for success

    Timothy Kayworth;Dorothy Leidner

  • Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems

    Robert D. Galliers;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Bridging communities of practice with information technology in pursuit of global knowledge sharing

    Shan L. Pan;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • Knowledge management systems: emerging views and practices from the field

    M. Alavi;D. Leider

  • An Information Company in Mexico: Extending the Resource-Based View of the Firm to a Developing Country Context

    Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa;Dorothy E. Leidner

  • The Information Age Confronts Education: Case Studies on Electronic Classrooms

    Dorothy E. Leidner;Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa

  • Research Note A Model of Conflict, Leadership, and Performance in Virtual Teams

    Robin L. Wakefield;Dorothy E. Leidner;Gary Garrison

  • Executive information systems: their impact on executive decision making

    D.E. Leidner;J.J. Elam

  • Affordances, experimentation and actualization of FinTech: A blockchain implementation study

    Wenyu Derek Du;Shan L. Pan;Dorothy E. Leidner;Dorothy E. Leidner;Wenchi Ying

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Galliers
Robert D. Galliers Bentley University
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa The University of Texas at Austin
Shan Ling Pan
Shan Ling Pan University of New South Wales
Maryam Alavi
Maryam Alavi Georgia Institute of Technology
Armin Heinzl
Armin Heinzl University of Mannheim
James C. Wetherbe
James C. Wetherbe Texas Tech University
Wynne W. Chin
Wynne W. Chin University of Houston
Michael D. Myers
Michael D. Myers University of Auckland
Ephraim R. McLean
Ephraim R. McLean Georgia State University
Merrill Warkentin
Merrill Warkentin Mississippi State University

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