Ann Majchrzak

Ann Majchrzak is Professor of Information Systems, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Visiting Professor, Department of Information Systems Management, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. PhD, Social Psychology, UCLA, 1980. Fellow of the Association for Information Systems 2012. My general research interests are in understanding how IS affordances can support worker agility and ingenuity within collaborative settings, with a special interest in how IS can give voice to the disenchanted and disenfranchised. This has led to research on the role of IS in innovative problem-solving in distributed teams; knowledge-sharing and creation in high-risk, volatile, and emergent contexts; enterprise knowledge co-creation among dispersed strangers; online collaborative innovation, and, most recently, innovative collaborative co-creation in open innovation and crowdsourcing. Some of the journals I''ve published in include: MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, CACM, Management Science, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions, JMIS, among others. I have served on three National Academy of Sciences committees. I have received research grants from NSF, SIM-APC, Russell Sage Foundation, CIGREF, among others as well as partnered with numerous companies in joint action research (my preferred mode of research), such as: Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, General Motors, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Northrop, and IBM. I have written several books, including a recent collaboration with M Lynne Markus (Methods for Policy Research, 2nd Ed) in which we are advocating an evidence-based approach to managerial decision making. I have developed software (TOP-Modeler) to support sociotechnical decision making. My service to the professional community includes a 5-year term on the Organization Communication and Information Systems Division executive council of the Academy of Management, as well as Senior Editor for Organization Science for many years, and also now Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly. I have been fortunate to be involved in editing many special issues for journals: the most recent one is for MISQ on "ICT and Societal Challenges".

Education

• Ph.D. Social Psychology. University of California
• M.A. Social Psychology. University of California
• B.A. Psychology, Pitzer College. Claremont, California