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51
Citations
20092
World Ranking
906
National Ranking
392

Overview

Paul M. Leonardi is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on topics within Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, and Psychology, with significant work specifically in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Technostress in Professional Settings
  • Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

Paul M. Leonardi has authored several recent papers, among which are:

  • COVID-19 and the New Technologies of Organizing: Digital Exhaust, Digital Footprints, and Artificial Intelligence in the Wake of Remote Work (2020), published in Journal of Management Studies
  • How Remote Work Changes the World of Work (2023), published in Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (5 publications)
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • Strategic Organization
  • Journal of Communication

Paul M. Leonardi frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Camille G. Endacott
  • William C. Barley
  • Sienna Helena S. Parker
  • Roni Shen
  • Jeffrey W. Treem

This profile provides an overview of Paul M. Leonardi's interdisciplinary approach, connecting technology, organizational behavior, and psychology through their diverse publication record and collaboration network.

Best Publications

  • When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association

    Jeffrey W. Treem;Paul M. Leonardi

  • Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations

    Paul M. Leonardi;Marleen Huysman;Charles Steinfield

  • Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing

    Paul M. Leonardi;Stephen R. Barley

  • What’s Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing

    Paul M. Leonardi;Stephen R. Barley

  • Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation: Toward a Theory of Communication Visibility

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research

    Paul M. Leonardi;Emmanuelle Vaast

  • Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

    Paul M. Leonardi;Bonnie A. Nardi;Jannis Kallinikos

  • When does technology use enable network change in organizations? a comparative study of feature use and shared affordances

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Ambient awareness and knowledge acquisition: using social media to learn Who knows what and Who knows whom

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Digital materiality? How artifacts without matter, matter

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Transformational technologies and the creation of new work practices: making implicit knowledge explicit in task-based offshoring

    Paul M. Leonardi;Diane E. Bailey

  • The Lure of the Virtual

    Diane E. Bailey;Paul M. Leonardi;Stephen R. Barley

  • Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems: What Do These Terms Mean? How are They Related? Do We Need Them?

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Activating the Informational Capabilities of Information Technology for Organizational Change

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Innovation Blindness: Culture, Frames, and Cross-Boundary Problem Construction in the Development of New Technology Concepts

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Social Media as Social Lubricant: How Ambient Awareness Eases Knowledge Transfer

    Paul M. Leonardi;Samantha R. Meyer

  • The Connectivity Paradox: Using Technology to Both Decrease and Increase Perceptions of Distance in Distributed Work Arrangements

    Paul M. Leonardi;Jeffrey W. Treem;Michele H. Jackson

  • The social media revolution

    Paul M. Leonardi

  • Behavioral Visibility: A new paradigm for organization studies in the age of digitization, digitalization, and datafication:

    Paul M. Leonardi;Jeffrey W. Treem

Frequent Co-Authors

Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi University of California, Irvine
Stephen R. Barley
Stephen R. Barley Stanford University
Michael Stohl
Michael Stohl University of California, Santa Barbara
Cynthia Stohl
Cynthia Stohl University of California, Santa Barbara
Amer Diwan
Amer Diwan Google (United States)
Elizabeth M. Gerber
Elizabeth M. Gerber Northwestern University
Charles Steinfield
Charles Steinfield Michigan State University
Peter R. Monge
Peter R. Monge University of Southern California
Samer Faraj
Samer Faraj McGill University

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