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Overview

Steve Sawyer is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Marketing, Strategy and Management, and Demography.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
  • Personal Information Management and User Behavior

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steve Sawyer include:

  • Michael Dunn
  • Isabel Muñoz
  • Pyeonghwa Kim
  • Clea O'Neil
  • Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi

Steve Sawyer has published regularly in various academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID-19" (2020), published in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • "The effectiveness of trauma-informed wilderness therapy with adolescents: A pilot study." (2020), published in Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • "Gender Differences and Lost Flexibility in Online Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021), published in Frontiers in Sociology
  • "Flexible work and personal digital infrastructures" (2021), published in Communications of the ACM
  • "Platform-mediated Markets, Online Freelance Workers and Deconstructed Identities" (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Best Publications

  • Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies

    Steve Sawyer;Howard Rosenbaum;Rob Kling

  • Software development: processes and performance

    S. Sawyer;P. J. Guinan

  • Social Technologies, Informal Knowledge Practices, and the Enterprise

    Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi;Steve Sawyer

  • Packaged software: implications of the differences from custom approaches to software development

    S. Sawyer

  • A market-based perspective on information systems development

    Steve Sawyer

  • Platformic Management, Boundary Resources for Gig Work, and Worker Autonomy

    Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi;Will Sutherland;Sarah Beth Nelson;Steve Sawyer

  • Broadband and mobile opportunities: A socio-technical perspective

    Steve Sawyer;Jonathan P. Allen;Heejin Lee

  • Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions

    Steve Sawyer;Howard Rosenbaum

  • Social informatics: Perspectives, examples, and trends

    Steve Sawyer;Kristin R. Eschenfelder

  • Packaged software development teams: What makes them different?

    Erran Carmel;Steven B Sawyer

  • Surfing the Next Wave: Design and Implementation Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing

    Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo;Upkar Varshney;Mark S. Ackerman

  • Effects of intra‐group conflict on packaged software development team performance

    Steve Sawyer

  • Sociotechnical Approaches to the Study of Information Systems

    Steve Sawyer;Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi

  • Investigating the interplay between structure and information and communications technology in the real estate industry

    Kevin G Crowston;Steven B Sawyer;Rolf Wigand

  • Social interactions of information systems development teams: a performance perspective

    Steve Sawyer;Patricia J. Guinan;Jay G. Cooprider

  • Software development teams

    Steve Sawyer

  • Social informatics: Overview, principles and opportunities

    Steve Sawyer

  • Temporal Issues in Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Organizational Change: Evidence From an Enterprise Systems Implementation

    Steve Sawyer;Richard Southwick

  • The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work: Evidence from a Study of Policing in the United State

    Steve Sawyer;Andrea H. Tapia

  • The effective use of automated application development tools

    P. J. Guinan;J. G. Cooprider;S. Sawyer

  • Mobility and the first responder

    Steve Sawyer;Andrea Tapia;Leonard Pesheck;John Davenport

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston Syracuse University
Rolf T. Wigand
Rolf T. Wigand Arizona State University
Charles R. McClure
Charles R. McClure Florida State University
Rob Kling
Rob Kling Indiana University
Kalle Lyytinen
Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Cornell University
Brian S. Butler
Brian S. Butler University of Maryland, College Park
Erran Carmel
Erran Carmel American University
Upkar Varshney
Upkar Varshney Georgia State University
Charles Steinfield
Charles Steinfield Michigan State University

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