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born 1956 South Africa

Wanda Janina Orlikowski (born ca. 1956) is a South African-born, US-based organizational theorist and Information Systems researcher, and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

South Africa
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Computer scientists
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Also known as: Wanda J. Orlikowski, Wanda Janina Orlikowski

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Technology is built and used within certain social and historical circumstances and its form and functioning will bear the imprint of those conditions.

Two views on the scope of technology have pervaded (and shaped) studies of technology, reflecting the different claims to generalizability that researchers have intended with their work. The one set of studies has focused on technology as "hardware," that is, the equipment, machines, and instruments that humans use in productive activities, whether industrial or informational devices.

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