Professor Lucas Introna
Distinguished Professor of Organisation, Technology, and EthicsResearch Overview
My research focus is the phenomenon of technology broadly defined and information technology more narrowly defined. Within the area of technology studies I have three enduring concerns (a) theorising the relationship 'between' the social and the technical, (b) technology and its relationship with processes of organising (such as virtual organisations, collaborative working, etc) and (b) the ethical and moral implications of technology for society (such as privacy, surveillance, etc). Within these areas my research approach has always been qualitative and mostly informed by phenomenology and process philosophy. Specifically my focal concern is the way in which information technology transforms social spaces and practices (both individual and collective spaces and practices).
Current Research
Sociomateriality and performativity; Ethical implications of information technology (privacy and surveillance in particular); Political studies of technology / values in the design of IT artifacts; Plagiarism, Computers and Cultural Values
Research Interests
Research Areas: Information and power; Situated organizational cognition and embodiment; Virtuality (virtual communities, mediation, identity, etc); Ethical implications of information technology (privacy and surveillance in particular); Political studies of technology / values in the design of IT artifacts; Philosophy of technology
Research approaches / theoretical interests: Phenomenology (work of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); Phenomenological approaches to technology ( work of Ihde, Dreyfus and Borgmann); Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (ethics and justice); Foucault (his work on power and the aesthetics of existence); Social construction of technology (work of Latour, Callon and Akrich)
Web Links
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas_Introna/?ev=hdr_xprf
The IMPM programme
Qualifications
BCom, BA (Hons), MBA, PhD
External Roles
Visiting Profressor, University of Amsterdam
Professional Role
- REF2021 - Panel member of Sub-panel 17: Business and Management
- Associate Dean for Research (2010-2016)
- Head of Department: Organisation, Work and Technology (2007-2010)
- Chairman of the Faculty Constitution Re-drafting committee (2007)
- Member of the Faculty Committee that prepared the RAE 2008 submission (2007)
- Member of the University Committee for Research Ethics (2005 – present)
- Member of Faculty Research Committee (2004-2007)
- Member of the University Working Group on Plagiarism (2002/2003)
- Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation
- Lead member of the working group that redesigned the M.Sc in Information Management
My Role
- Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics (Sept 2004 – Present)
Current Teaching
Postgraduate: ITO1: Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations; ITO5: Social Aspects of the Digital Age
Undergraduate: OWT 100/101: Management and Organisations
Career Details
Lecturer in Information Systems (Sept 1995-Aug 2000) London School of Economics and Political Science; Professor of Information Systems (May 1995 – Aug 95) University of Pretoria; Associate Professor of Information Systems (1993- April 1995) University of Pretoria; Senior Lecturer in Information Systems (1991- March 1993) University of Pretoria
PhD Supervision Interests
Sociomateriality, Social study of algorithms, Ethics of technologies, De-centred sense-making, reflective practice, and any intersection of these.
Selected Publications
Precarity, hospitality and the becoming of a subject that matters: A study of Syrian refugees in Lebanese tented settlements
Hultin, L., Introna, L., Göransson, M.B., Mähring, M. 1/05/2022 In: Organization Studies. 43, 5, p. 669-697. 29 p.
Journal article
The decentered translation of management ideas: Attending to the conditioning flow of everyday work practices
Hultin, L., Introna, L., Mähring, M. 1/04/2021 In: Human Relations. 74, 4, p. 587-620. 34 p.
Journal article
Everything flows: studying continuous socio-technological transformation in a fluid and dynamic digital world
Mousavi, R., Introna, L., Hultin, L. 31/03/2021 In: MIS Quarterly. 45, 1, p. 423-452. 30 p.
Journal article
Touching Tactfully: The impossible community
Introna, L. 22/12/2020 In: After discourse. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge p. 207-218. 12 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
On Receiving Asylum Seekers: Identity working as a process of material-discursive interpellation
Hultin, L., Introna, L. 1/09/2019 In: Organization Studies. 40, 9, p. 1361-1386. 26 p.
Journal article
On the Making of Sense in Sensemaking: Decentred Sensemaking in the Meshwork of Life
Introna, L.D. 1/05/2019 In: Organization Studies. 40, 5, p. 745-764. 20 p.
Journal article
Institutionalizing inequality: calculative practices and regimes of inequality in international development
Hayes, N., Introna, L.D., Kelly, P. 1/09/2018 In: Organization Studies. 39, 9, p. 1203-1226. 24 p.
Journal article
Beyond interpretivism? : new encounters with technology and organization: IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, Dublin, Ireland, December 9-10, 2016, Proceedings
Introna, L.D., Kavanagh, D., Kelly, S., Orlikowski, W., Scott, S. 2016 New York : Springer. 247 p. ISBN: 9783319497327. Electronic ISBN: 9783319497334.
Book
The algorithmic choreography of the impressionable subject
Introna, L.D. 4/10/2016 In: Algorithmic Cultures: essays on meaning, performance and new technologies. Oxford : Routledge p. 26-51. 26 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Algorithms, governance, and governmentality: on governing academic writing
Introna, L. 1/01/2016 In: Science, Technology, and Human Values. 41, 1, p. 17-49. 32 p.
Journal article
Ethics and flesh: being touched by the otherness of things
Introna, L. 2014 In: Ruin memories. Oxford : Routledge p. 41-61. 21 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Epilogue: Performativity and the becoming of sociomaterial assemblages
Introna, L. 2013 In: Materiality and Space. Palgrave Macmillan p. 330-342. 13 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The Ends of Information Systems Research: A Pragmatic Framework
Constantinides, P., Chiasson, M., Introna, L. 2012 In: MIS Quarterly. 36, 1, p. 1-10. 10 p.
Journal article
The Enframing of Code: Agency, originality and the plagiarist
Introna, L. 2011 In: Theory, Culture and Society. 28, 6, p. 113-141. 28 p.
Journal article
On sociomaterial imbrications: what plagiarism detection systems reveal and why it matters
Introna, L., Hayes, N. 2011 In: Information and Organization. 21, 2, p. 57-122. 66 p.
Journal article
Living with numbers: accounting for subjectivity in/with management accounting systems
Fay, E., Introna, L., Puyou, F. 2010 In: Information and Organization. 20, 1, p. 21-43. 23 p.
Journal article
Ethics and the speaking of things
Introna, L. 2009 In: Theory, Culture and Society. 26, 4, p. 398-419. 22 p.
Journal article
Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible
Introna, L. 2007 In: Ethics and Information Technology. 9, 1, p. 11-25. 15 p.
Journal article
Singular justice and software piracy
Introna, L. 2007 In: Business Ethics: A European Review. 16, 3, p. 264-277. 14 p.
Journal article
On the Meaning of Screens: Towards a Phenomenological Account of Screenness.
Introna, L., Ilharco, F. 01/2006 In: Human Studies. 29, 1, p. 57-76. 20 p.
Journal article
Disclosive ethics and information technology: disclosing facial recognition systems
Introna, L. 2005 In: Ethics and Information Technology. 7, 2, p. 75-86. 12 p.
Journal article
The ontological screening of contemporary life: a phenomenological analysis of screens
Introna, L., Ilharco, F.M. 09/2004 In: European Journal of Information Systems. 13, 3, p. 221-234. 14 p.
Journal article
Picturing algorithmic surveillance: the politics of facial recognition systems
Introna, L., Wood, D. 2004 In: Surveillance and Society. 2, 2/3, p. 177-198. 22 p.
Journal article
On the (im)possibility of ethics in a mediated world
Introna, L. 2002 In: Information and Organization. 12, 2, p. 71-84. 14 p.
Journal article
Virtuality and morality: on (not) being disturbed by the other
Introna, L. 2001 In: Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 8, 1, p. 31-39. 9 p.
Journal article
Workplace surveillance, privacy, and distributive justice
Introna, L. 2000 In: Computers and Society. 33, 4, p. 30-39. 10 p.
Journal article
All Publications
25 Years of the International Masters Program for Managers (IMPM) 1996-2021
01/10/2018 → 01/10/2022
Other
Mobile Age
01/02/2016 → 31/01/2019
Research
FP7: Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management
01/04/2011 → 30/06/2015
Research
The Future of Work - A CHRO Forum for the Twenty-First Century
Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
MIS Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity
Organization Science (Journal)
Editorial activity
IFIP Work Group 8.2 Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Touching touchingly: Encountering the other (as other) – (workshop: Being with Bert: Celebrating the legacy of Hubert Dreyfus)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Organizations, Artefacts and Practices Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2017)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Touching tactfully: Exposure as the ethos of the community of those that have nothing in common – Workshop on the Ethics of Things,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
IFIP Work Group 8.2 Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4S/EASST CONFERENCE BARCELONA
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Organizations, Artefacts and Practices (OAP) workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Question Concerning Technology: From Heidegger to Labour, and back again
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Organisation (Journal)
Editorial activity
Body and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
European Review (Journal)
Editorial activity
Business Ethics Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity
Society and Business Review (Journal)
Editorial activity
Information Systems Research (Journal)
Editorial activity
European Journal of Information Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity
Information Technology and People (Journal)
Editorial activity
The Information Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Information and Organisation (Journal)
Editorial activity
Theory, Culture and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal for Cultural Research (Journal)
Editorial activity
Media, War and Conflict (Journal)
Editorial activity
Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Journal)
Editorial activity
European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS 2015)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Human Relations (Journal)
Editorial activity
MIS Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Business Ethics (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Information Technology (Journal)
Editorial activity
Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Traversing the theoretical landscape, a journey to materiality
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
London School of Economics
Visiting an external academic institution
Association of Business Schools (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Information Ethics: Future of Humanities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Workshop on Phenomenology, Organisation and Technology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The 16th biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Killeen Chair of Theology and Philosophy
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Information Systems Research (Journal)
Editorial activity
University of Oxford (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Lancaster University (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Theory, Culture and Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review
University Of Cambridge
Visiting an external academic institution
London School of Economics
Visiting an external academic institution
MIS Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity
International Review of Information Ethics (Journal)
Editorial activity
University College Dublin
Visiting an external academic institution
Organization (Journal)
Publication peer-review
European Journal of Information Systems (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Ethics and Information Technology (Journal)
Editorial activity
International Journal of Moral Philosophy and Information Technologies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Journal)
Editorial activity
Information Technology and People (Journal)
Editorial activity
Information and Organization (Journal)
Publication peer-review
The Information Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Visiting Professor
Appointment
Extraordinary Professor of Information Systems
Appointment
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Centre for Technological Futures
- DSI - Society
- Management and Society
- Technology, Systems and Organisation