Steve B. Sawyer

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Steve Sawyer is a founding member and Associate Professor in the at Pennsylvania State University. He holds affiliate faculty appointments in Management and Organization department of the Smeal College of Business, the Labor Studies and Industrial Relations Department in the College of the Liberal Arts and the Science Technology and Society program in the College of Engineering.

Contribution
Steve sawyer is one of the figures in the area of . Along with scholars like late Prof. Rob Kling, he has played a role in promoting the principles of Social Informatics in the United States. In numerous studies conducted to date, he has tried to focus on the ways in which people interact with each other and utilize information and communication technology. Going beyond the conceptualization of technology as a sole driver of organizational change, he, among other scholars in the field, have directed attentions to wider social and institutional aspect which factor into the process of ICT-enabled organizational change. His research focus on issues with the uneven take up, use and value derived from computerization efforts. The stream his of empirical work and theorizing draws on studies of software developers, enterprise systems implementers, and knowledge-intensive professional work such as real estate agents, police officers and intelligence analysts. His research has been supported by Coring, IBM, Sonoco, IBM, Xerox, the Lattanze Foundation, Lockheed Martin, and the National Science Foundation.

Background
Sawyer has earned his Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from Boston University in 1995. He also holds a master’s degree in both Engineering and Information Systems. Prior to joining Penn State, Steve had served on the faculty of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. At Syracuse, he was named Professor of the Year in 1997, and also had served as the director of the PhD program.

Since 1995, he has published numerous works, including papers in a range of journals such as communication of the ACM, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology & People, The IBM Systems Journal, the Information Society, and The Information Systems Journal. He has been also associate editor of many information systems journals.

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