Professor Lucas Introna

Distinguished Professor of Organisation, Technology, and Ethics

Research 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).

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

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

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

Organisation (Journal)
Editorial activity

Theory, Culture and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity

Journal for Cultural Research (Journal)
Editorial activity

Body and Society (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

MIS Quarterly (Journal)
Editorial activity

Journal of Business Ethics (Journal)
Editorial activity

Journal of Information Technology (Journal)
Editorial activity

Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

Human Relations (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

European Journal of Information Systems (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Organization (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