Paul Leonardi

Who is Paul Leonardi?

Paul M. Leonardi is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and Management and Organizations at Northwestern University where he holds the Breed Junior Chair in Design.

Leonardi's teaching and research focus on issues pertaining to the design and implementation of new technologies, global product development, and the management of engineering work. In each of these areas he explores how information technologies and organizations can be simultaneously designed to enhance one another. His work on these topics cuts across the fields of Organization Studies, Communication Studies, and Science and Technology Studies and has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals in these fields, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Communication Theory, Human Communication Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Science, Technology & Human Values.

He has won awards for his research from the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, and Association for Information Systems