Dr Susan Scott

Susan Scott is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on digital innovation and the organizational challenges that emerge from the management of change. Biography Dr Susan Scott is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the Information Systems and Innovation Faculty at LSE which forms part of the Department of Management. She has published widely on the (re-)organization of work and technology. Many of these publications examine the role of information systems in the transformation of work practices within the financial services sector. Among the topics that she has focused on are social media and digital platforms; business analysis information systems and risk management; the rise of electronic trading; strategies for organizing post-trade information systems; and the institutionalization of core international payment systems. In these studies she explores the dynamic relationships connecting strategy, organizational structure, and operations (particularly information infrastructures). Corollary to this is an enduring interest in the complexities of managing change (see her publications on organisational reputation risk, software implementation and best practice). She has also published a body of theoretical work examining sociomateriality which explores the materiality of digital innovation with field studies in the travel sector and book publishing. She has developed these research interests into core themes that feed into her MSc teaching on global business management and BSc teaching on business transformation and project management. Her background includes a BA in History and Politics (SOAS), MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems (LSE), and a PhD in Management Studies (University of Cambridge). Research Interests - Digital Innovation - Work practices and the structuring of organizations - Organizational technologies - Connecting strategy, organizational structures, and information infrastructures - Managing change - Materiality and practice research

Address: Information Systems and Innovation Group Department of Management London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE Telephone: 0207 955 6185 Fax: 0207 966 7385   s.v.scott@lse.ac.uk Google Citation Index click here ResearchGate listing click here LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/susan-scott/4/ab6/210/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/ScottSV Susan V. Scott and Markos Zachariadis (2014) The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community. London: Routledge (Global Institutions Series).  ISBN-10: 0415631645 | ISBN-13: 978-0415631648 Reviews "The technological infrastructure of global finance is of enormous importance. Scott and Zachariadis provide an extremely valuable history of a crucial part of that infrastructure." Donald MacKenzie, Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK. "This book examines the development and functioning of a little known but crucially important global organization. SWIFT, a cooperative or mutual organization organized by competing financial firms, is not just "the world’s most trusted third party secure network," but is also a standards organization and the center of a community of practice manifested in the annual Sibos conference. It is a fascinating example of the complex hybrid organizations that glue together our global economy." JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management MIT Sloan School of Management, USA. A detailed and lively study of a unique and highly successful case of worldwide cooperation between financial institutions, not driven by regulation. Alec Nacamuli, Former EVP and founding staff member of SWIFT.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Management Studies
University of Cambridge, The Judge Institute of Management Studies, 1993-1998.

M.Sc. Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems 
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Information Systems Department, 1991-1992.

B.A. History and Politics
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987-1990.

WORK EXPERIENCE  

2013-to date
Associate Professor (Reader), Information Systems and Innovation Faculty Group, Department of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science 

2006-2013
Senior Lecturer, Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science 

1996- 2006 
Lecturer, Information Systems Department, The London School of Economics and Political Science 

1994-1996
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

1993-1995
Assistant Librarian, Queens’ College, Silver Street, Cambridge 

1990-1992
Examiners Assistant, London Examinations, Russell Square, London 

1990-1991
English Teacher, EF International Language, Paradise Street, Cambridge  

COURSES TAUGHT AT LSE

Business Transformation and Project Management
Global Business Management
Innovation Organization Information Technology
Information Technology and Society
Information Systems PhD Seminar Series and Workshops
Qualitative Research Methods in Information Systems and Organization Studies
Innovation and Technology Management
Information Systems in Business
Advanced Information Technology for Social Scientists
Inter-organizational Information Systems 
Interpretations of Information
Intelligent Systems
Applied Data Management

BOOKS

Introna, L., Kavanagh, D., Kelly, S., Orlikowski, W., & Scott, S. (Eds.). (2016). 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 (Vol. 489). Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-49732-7

Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M. (2014) The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): Cooperative Governance for Network Innovation, Standards, and Community. London: Routledge.
ISBN-10: 0415631645 | ISBN-13: 978-0415631648
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Scott, S.V., Van Reenen, J. and M. Zachariadis., 2017. The Long-term Effect of Digital Innovation on Bank Performance: An Empirical Study of SWIFT Adoption in Financial Services. Forthcoming in Research Policy.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2015. Exploring Material-Discursive Practices: Comments on Hardy and Thomas’ Discourse in a Material World. Journal of Management Studies. Vol.52(5), pp.697-705.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2015. The Algorithm and the Crowd: Considering the Materiality of Service Innovation. MIS Quarterly, 39(1), 201-216.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2014. What Happens When Evaluation Goes Online? Exploring Apparatuses of Valuation in the Travel Sector. Organization Science, May/June, 25 (3), 868-891.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2014. Entanglements in Practice: Performing Anonymity through Social Media. MIS Quarterly, 38(3), 873-893.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2013. Sociomateriality — taking the wrong turning? A response to Mutch. Information and Organization, 23 (2), 77–80.

Zachariadis, M., Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2013. Methodological Implications of Critical Realism for mixed-methods information systems research. MIS Quarterly, Special Issue on Critical Realism in IS Research, 37 (3) 855-879.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2012. Reconfiguring relations of accountability: Materialization of social media in the travel sector. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 37 (1), 26-40.

Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M., 2012., Origins and development of SWIFT, 1973–2009. Business History, 52 (3) 462-483.

Scott, S.V. and Perry, N., 2012. The enactment of risk categories: Organizing and re-organizing risk management practices in the energy industry. Information Systems Frontiers, Special Issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance, 14 (2) 125-141.

Muniesa, F., Chabert, D., Ducrocq-Grondin, M. and Scott, S.V., 2011. Back-office intricacy: the description of financial objects in an investment bank. Industrial and Corporate Change, 20 (4), 1189-1213.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2008. Sociomateriality: Challenging the separation of technology, work and organization. Academy of Management Annals, 2 (1), 433-474.

Gillard, H., Mitev, N.N. and Scott, S.V., 2007. ICT inclusion and gender: Tensions between narratives of network engineer training. The Information Society, 23 (1), 19-38.

Wagner E.L., Scott, S.V. and Galliers, R.B., 2006. The creation of ‘best practice’ software: Myth, reality, and ethics. Information and Organization, 16(3), 251-275 (ICIS best paper in field award 2007).

Scott, S.V. and Walsham, G., 2005. Re-conceptualizing and managing reputation risk in the knowledge economy: Toward reputable action. Organization Science, 16(3), 308-322.

Millo, Y., Muniesa, F., Panourgias, N. and Scott, S.V., 2005. Organized detachment: Clearinghouse mechanisms in the financial markets. Information and Organization, 15(3), 229-246.

Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2005. Strategic risk positioning as sensemaking in crisis: The adoption of electronic trading at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 14(1), 45-68.

Barrett, M.I. and Scott, S.V., 2004. Electronic trading and the process of globalization in traditional futures exchanges: A temporal perspective. European Journal of Information Systems, 13(1), 65-79.

Scott, S.V. and Wagner, E.L., 2003. Networks, negotiations, and new times: The implementation of enterprise resource planning into an academic administration. Information and Organization, 13(4) 285-313.

Scott, S.V., 2000. IT-Enabled credit risk modernisation: A revolution under the cloak of normality. Accounting, Management and Information Technology, 10(3), 221-255 (continued as Information and Organization). 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2016. Digital Work: A Research Agenda. In B. Czamiawska, ed. A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN:9781784717018. DOI:10.4337/9781784717025

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2013. Knowledge Eclipse: Producing sociomaterial reconfigurations in the hospitality sector. In H. Tsoukas, D. Nicolini and P. Carlisle, eds. Matter and Materiality in Organizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.119-141. ISBN -10: 0199671532

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2012. Great Expectations: The Materiality of Commensurability in Social Media. In: P. Leonardi, B. Nardi and J. Kallinikos, eds. Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World. Oxford: Blackwell, p. 113-133. ISBN: 978-0-19-966406-1

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2011. Imagining technology in organizational knowledge: Entities, webs and mangles. In: C. McLean, F-R. Puyou, P.Quattrone and N. Thrift, eds. Imagining organizations: Performative imagery in business and beyond. New York: Routledge, p. 83-98. ISBN -10: 0415880645

Scott, S.V., 2010. Understanding the characteristics of techno-innovation in an era of self-regulated financial services. In A-A. Kyrtsis, ed. Financial markets and organizational technologies: Systems architectures, practices and risks in the era of deregulation. London: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, pp.166-188. ISBN -10: 0230234054

Wagner, E.L. Scott, S.V., and Galliers, R.D., 2009. The creation of ‘best practice’ software: myth, reality and ethics. In R.D. Galliers and D.E. Leidner, eds. Strategic information management challenges and strategies in managing information systems. 4th Ed. London: Routledge, pp.467-493. ISBN 10: 0415996473

Scott, S. V. and Venters, W., 2007. Virtuality and Virtualization the Practice of E-Science and E-Social Science: Method, Theory, and Matter. In K. Crowston, S. Sieber, E. Wynn, eds. Virtuality and Virtualization, Proceedings of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2 on information systems and organization. New York: Springer, pp.167-280.
ISBN: 13 - 9780387730240.

Wagner, E.L., Galliers, R.D., and Scott, S.V., 2004. Exposing ‘best practices’ through narrative: The ERP example’. In B. Kaplan, D.P. Truex, D. Wastell, A.T. Wood-Harper, J.I. DeGross, eds. Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research, proceedings of the International Federation of Information Processing working group 8.2 on information systems and organization. Norwell, MA, USA: Kluwer, pp.433-452. ISBN -10: 1402080948

Hanseth, O., Scott, S.V., Silva, L. and Whitley, E.A., 1999. Re-evaluating power in information rich organizations: New theories and approaches. In O. Ngwenyama, L. Introna, M.D. Myers and J.I. DeGross eds. New information technologies in organizational processes: field studies and theoretical reflections on the future of work. Kluwer Academic Publishing, Boston, pp. 297-298. ISBN 0792385780

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2017. A Genealogical Account of Metadata-in-practice: Magic Numbers and Misfires in Book Publishing. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Altanta, GA, August 4-8.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2015. The Materialization of Metadata: Performing Digital Discoverability in Book Publishing. EGOS, Athens, Greece, July 2–4.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V. 2012 Performing Knowledge: The Constitutive Role of Materiality in Rating and Ranking Practices. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, 6th August.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J. 2011. Performing Online Anonymity: The Role of Materiality in Knowledge Practices. EGOS, Gothenburg, Sweden 7^th-9^th July.

Baka, V. and Scott, S.V. 2011. The circle of (il)legitimacy and a revised agenda for reputation management in the era of social media. EGOS, Gothenburg, Sweden 7^th-9^th July.

Baka, V. and Scott, S.V. 2011. Algorithmic (re-)configurations: Exploring the ‘becoming’ of social media in the travel sector. Third International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Corfu, 16th-18th June.

Zachariadis, M., Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2010. Designing mixed-method research inspired by a critical realism philosophy: A tale from the field of IS innovation’. International Conference on Information Systems, St Louis, USA, 12th-15th Dec.

Scott S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2010. Reconfiguring relations of accountability: The consequences of social media for the travel sector. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal 6th-10th Aug. Nominated for best paper award. Appears in AoM Best Paper Proceedings.

Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M., 2010. Origins and development of SWIFT, 1973–2009. Assocation of Business Historians conference, University of York, 16th-17th July.

Paris, C. E. and Scott S.V., 2009. The place of contract in organizational awareness: Deconstructing process, market and connectedness. Workshop on organization, design and engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 11th-12th Dec.

Scott S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2009. ‘Getting the truth’: Exploring the material grounds of institutional dynamics in social media’. EGOS, Barcelona, 2nd-4th July.

Scott, S.V., Van Reenen, J. and Zachariadis, M., 2008. The impact on bank performance of the diffusion of a financial innovation: An analysis of SWIFT adoption. WISE Conference, Paris, 14th Dec.

Baka, V. and Scott, S.V., 2008. From studying communities to focusing on temporary collectives: Research-in-progress on Web 2.0 in the travel sector. OASIS, IFIP 8.2 workshop, Paris, 13th Dec.

Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2008. Imagining technology in organizational knowledge: Entities, webs, and mangles. 1st workshop on imagining business, Reflecting on the visual power of management, organizing and governing practices. Said Business School, Oxford, 26th-27^th June.

Zachariadis, M. and Scott, S.V., 2007. Diversity in IS research: Developing a mixed methodology approach to understanding the business value of payment system innovation in financial services. International Conference on Information Systems. Montreal, Canada, 11th-13th December.

Mondale, J., Scott, S.V. and Venters, W., 2006. Knowledge management as an image of the organization: Industry standards and processes of knowing in credit risk management. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12th-14th June.

Madan, R., Sorensen, C. and Scott, S.V., 2003. ‘Strategy died for us around April last year’: CIO perceptions of strategy formation process in financial services. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy, 18th-21st June.

Barrett, M.I. and Scott, S.V., 2000. The emergence of electronic trading in global financial markets: Envisioning the role of futures exchanges in the next millennium. Proceedings of the European Conference in Information Systems, Vienna, 3rd-5th July.

Scott, S.V., Orlikowski, W.J., Clark, P., Ciborra, C. and Barrett, M.I., 2000. Temporality in organizations. Conference Panel, Academy of Management, Toronto Canada, 4th-9th August. 

Scott, S.V. and Walsham, G., 1998. Shifting boundaries and new technologies: A case study in the UK banking sector. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Finland, December 13th-16^th, pp.177-187.

Whitley, E.A. and Darking, S.V. (now Scott), 1993. Opening the black box of computing technology: Assumptions and implications. Proceedings of the European Conference of Information Systems, Nijenrode, Netherlands, May 30-31^st.  

 

PUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS

Paris, C. E. and Scott S.V., 2011. Packaged Software as Apparatus and Regions of Contracting: The Case of Contract Management Software. Under review for Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series.

Zachariadis, M., Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2010. Exploring critical realism as the theoretical foundation of mixed-method research: Evidence from the economics of IS innovations. Judge Business School Working Paper Series, No. 03, University of Cambridge.

Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M., 2010. A historical analysis of core financial services infrastructure: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 182. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. 2010. Understanding the characteristics of techno-innovation in an era of self-regulated financial services. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 180. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Paris, C.E., 2010. The place of contract in organizational awareness: Deconstructing process, market and connectedness. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 179. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., 2009. Exploring the material grounds of institutional dynamics in social media. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 177. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Paris, C.E., 2009. Transactionalizing technologies versus performing contracts: From ERP to credit default swaps at AIG. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Early Stage Working Paper Series, ISSN 2040-2678.

Baka, V. and Scott, S.V., 2008. From studying communities to focusing on temporary collectives: Research-in-progress on Web 2.0 in the travel sector. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 171. ISSN 1472-9601.

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott, S.V., 2008. The entanglement of technology and work in organizations. Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE. Working Paper Series, No. 168. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Perry, N., 2006. The enactment of risk categories: Organizing and re-organizing risk management practices in the energy industry. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 148. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Walsham, G., 2004. The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: Banking on risk and trust relationships. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 130. ISSN 1472-9601.

Madan, R., Sorensen, C. and Scott, S.V., 2003. Strategy sort of died around April last year for a lot of us: CIO perceptions on ICT value and strategy in the UK financial sector. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 123. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Walsham, G., 2002. Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial services organizations. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 117. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2002. The development of electronic trading in the futures industry: Strategic risk positioning in a globalising age. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 113. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Wagner, E.L., 2002. ERP ‘trials of strength’: Achieving a local university system from the ‘global’ solution. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 106. ISSN 1472-9601.

Wagner, E.L. and Scott, S.V., 2001. Unfolding new times: The implementation of enterprise resource planning into an academic administration. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 98. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V., 2000. Lived methodology: A situated discussion of ‘Truth and Method’ in interpretive information systems research. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 91. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V. and Walsham, G., 1999. Shifting boundaries and new technologies: A case study in the UK banking sector. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 75. ISSN 1472-9601.

Scott, S.V., 1999. IT-enabled credit risk modernisation: A revolution under the cloak of normality. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 74. ISSN 1472-9601.

Barrett, M.I. and Scott, S.V., 1999. The emergence of electronic trading in global financial markets: Envisioning the role of futures exchanges in the next millennium. Information Systems Department, LSE, Working Paper Series, No. 73. ISSN 1472-9601.

 

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS

Muniesa, F., D. Chabert, M. Ducrocq-Grondin, and Scott, S.V. (2004) "Post-trade logistics in financial markets: Qualitative findings." The Moving Markets Research Project, Information Systems Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Scott, S.V. (2003) "Moving Markets: Report on IT-enabled strategic developments in clearing and settlement". The Moving Markets Research Project, Information Systems Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Panourgias, N. and S.V. Scott (2002) "JIWAY: A case study of IT-enabled straight-through-processing innovation in the financial markets". The Moving Markets Research Project, Information Systems Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.

BRIEFINGS AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott, S.V., (2011) "How Social Media Can Disrupt Your Industry: A Case Study in the Travel Sector". Research Briefing, MIT Sloan Management, Centre for Information Systems Research (CISR), Vol XI, No. XII, Dec.

Scott, S.V. and Introna, L., (1998) "Take a Risk!", in The LSE Magazine, Winter, pp: 21-23.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND JOURNAL EDITING

Editorial Board Membership:
Information and Organization – Associate Editor
Organization Science – Member of Editorial Review Board

Reviewer for the following scholarly journals:
Accounting, Organizations, and Society
Business History
Environment and Planning A
European Journal of Information Systems
Human Relations
Information and Organisation
Information Technology & People
Information Systems Research
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Journal of the Association of Information Systems
Journal of Information Technology
Journal of Institutional Economics
Journal of Strategic Information Systems
MIS Quarterly
Organization Studies
Organization Science
 

Member of Editorial Committee and/or reviewer for the following conferences:

International Conference on Information Systems
IFIP 8.2 Conference - International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2: Information Systems and Organizations
IFIP 9.4 Conference - International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries


GRANTS AWARDED BY

• SWIFT, Independent Research Grant (Open Access), 2016-2017.
• British Academy, Small Grants Scheme, seed funding for research on digital publishing, 2013-2014.
• SWIFT, Independent Research Grant (Business History), 2011-2012.
• HEFCE, Higher Education Innovation Fund 1 (HEIF 1), for Proximity: The Co-Evolution of Commerce and Community, 2004.
• Shell, Moving Markets research programme, continuation funding, 2004.
• Founder of the Corporate Academic Funding Consortium for the LSE Moving Markets research programme, 2001-2003. Funding from Cap Gemini, Euroclear, and London Clearing House.
• Nordic Exchange Scholarship, 2000-2001.
• Centre for Economic Performance, Leverhulme Fund, LSE, 2000.
• Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 1999.
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Ph.D. Scholarship, 1993-1996.
• Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), M.Sc. Scholarship, 1991-1992.

INVITED SEMINARS

• Invited Speaker, 'Metadata, Standards, and Publishing: Lessons from the Financial Sector', EDItEUR’s 38th International Supply Chain Seminar, pre-Frankfurt Book Fair event, 18th October, 2016.
  Focusing on standards for content, metadata and identification, and the message flows that lubricate the physical and digital supply chains.
• Invited speaker, Performing Research, Researching Performativity, University of Lancaster Business School, 15th Sept, 2015.
• Methodological Implications of Sociomateriality for Management and Information Systems Scholars at the University of Lancaster Business School in 3rd-4th July, 2014.
• Invited speaker, The Future of Practice Research, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School in 24th-25th June, 2014.
• Invited speaker, TiP Workshop, IT University of Copenhagen, 27th Sept, 2013.
• Invited speaker, Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop Materiality and Space in Management and Organization Studies. Université Paris-Dauphine 10-11 May, 2012.
• Invited speaker, Professional Women's Group, University of Cambridge 28th June 2011.
• Workshop presentation on 'The material grounds of commensurability', Northwestern University, USA, 22th-23th April, 2011.
• Research seminar, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2010.
• Research Seminar on 'Social Media through the lens of Agential Realism', Warwick Business School, 26th June, 2009.
• Research Seminar, 'From ERP to Credit Default Swaps at AIG', Edinburgh University, 24th April, 2009.
• Workshop presentation on the Financial Crisis, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, March, 2009.
• Invited Speaker, Global Change and Information Technology for Financial Institutions: The turn of the seventies, Historical Archive, National Bank of Greece, Athens, 29th Nov, 2008.
• Invited speaker 'Imagining Business: Reflecting on the visual power of management, organising and governing practices', Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, 26-27 June 2008.
• Invited speaker, The Biography and Evolution of Standard Software Packages, University of Edinburgh, UK, 19-20 March 2008.
• Working group presentation, IFIP 8.2, Virtuality and Virtualization, Portland OR, 28th-31st July 2007
• Workshop presentation, ESRC research event on Payment Systems, Cass Business School, 28th September,2006.
• Invited speaker, International Payments 2005, London, 25th-28th April.
• Invited speaker, Social Studies of Information Systems Open Research Forum, LSE, 2005
• Research seminar, IS Forum, University of Cambridge, 2004.
• Presentation, Social Studies of Finance Conference, University of Konstanz, Germany, Department of Sociology, May 16th-17th, 2003. 
• Research seminar, University of Konstanz, Germany, Department of Sociology, July, 2002. 
• Invited speaker, 2002, LSE Alumni Society, New York, 7th May, USA.
• Research seminar, hosted by Computer Security Research Centre, LSE, 2002.
• Presentation, Social Studies of Finance Conference, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), University of Columbia, USA, May, 2002.
• Presentation, 'The Strategy World Congress', Siad School of Management, Oxford University, 18-19 March 2002.
• Workshop presentation 'Spacing and Timing: Rethinking Globalization & Standardization', Palermo, 1-3 November 2001.
• Research seminar, Informatics Department, University of Oslo, 2000
• Research seminar, University of Salford, Institute of Information Systems, May 2001.
• Research seminar, University of Cardiff, Social Science Institute, Feb 2001.
• Invited speaker, Internet Economy Conference, The London School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance, November 2000. 
• Research seminar, University of Cambridge, Judge Institute, May 2000. 

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION

• Co-Chair, Junior Faculty Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems, 11th December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• Co-Chair, IFIP 8.2: "Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organisation". International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2: Information Systems and Organizations, 9th-10th December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• Selected to be included in the election of the European Research Paper of the Year 2015 in the CIONet Best European Research Paper of the Year 2015 for Scott, S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J., (2014). Entanglements in Practice: Performing Anonymity through Social Media. MIS Quarterly, 38(3), 873-893.
• Nominated for the Susan Strange Book Prize for Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M. (2014) The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community. London: Routledge. ISBN-10: 0415631645 | ISBN-13: 978-0415631648. http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=95
• Selected to be included in the election of the European Research Paper of the Year 2014 in the CIONet Best European Research Paper of the Year 2014 for for Zachariadis, M., Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M.I., 2013. Methodological Implications of Critical Realism for mixed-methods information systems research. MIS Quarterly, Special Issue on Critical Realism in IS Research, 37 (3) 855-879.
• Most downloaded paper in Academy of Management Annals in 2012 and 2013. Orlikowski, W.J. and Scott S.V., 2008. Sociomateriality: Challenging the separation of technology, work and organization. Academy of Management Annals, 2 (1), 433-474.
• Keynote speaker, Mini-Conference on Knowledge and Learning: Charting New Waters and Building New Bridges, Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh, 30-31 March 2012.
• Best paper award at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, for: Scott S.V. and Orlikowski, W.J. (2010) 'Reconfiguring relations of accountability: The consequences of social media for the travel sector'. AoM Montreal 6th-10th August.
• Keynote speaker, On Sociality, Materiality and Sociomateriality of Information Systems and Organizations, University of New South Wales Working Conference, Sydney, Australia, 12th-13th March 2010.
• ICIS Award, Best Paper in the IS Field (2006) for: Wagner E.L., Scott, S.V. and R.B. Galliers (2006) 'The Creation of 'Best Practice' Software: Myth, Reality, and Ethics'. Information and Organization. Vol. 16, No.3. pp.251-275.
• Programme Committee, e-social science conference, Manchester, ESRC National Research Centre for e-social science, 28th-30th June, 2006.
• Nordic Exchange Scholar University of Oslo, Institute of Informatics, 2000-2001.
• Nominated for best theme paper at the European Conference on Information Systems, Vienna, Austria, 2000.
• Nominated for best theme paper at the International Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Finland, 1998.
• Selected to represent the UK at the International Conference on Information Systems PhD Consortium, 1996.
• Selected to represent the University of Cambridge at the UK PhD Consortium, 1996.

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

• IFIP 8.2: "Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organisation". International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2: Information Systems and Organizations, 9th-10th December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• International Conference on Information Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 14-16 Dec, 2015.
• Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 7-12 Aug, 2015, Vancouver, Canada.
• European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Athens, Greece, July 2–4, 2015.
• Interdisciplinary workshop on Accountability, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, May 2-3, 2013.
• The Co-Production of Knowledge: Social Media, STS and ... University of York, July 18-20, 2012.
• Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop Materiality and Space in Management and Organization Studies. Université Paris-Dauphine 10-11 May, 2012
• European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 7-9 July, 2011.
• Third International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Corfu, 16-19 June, 2011.
• Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, 6-10 Aug, 2010, Montreal, Canada
• Workshop on Organization, Design and Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-12 Dec 2009.
• European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Passion for creativity and innovation: Energizing the study of organizations and organizing 2–4 July, 2009, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
• Global Change and Information Technology for Financial Institutions: The turn of the seventies, Historical Archive, National Bank of Greece, Athens, 29 Nov, 2008.
• ECIS Doctoral Consortium Faculty Member (2008), Galway, Ireland.
• Imagining Business: Reflecting on the visual power of management, organising and governing practices', Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, 26-27 June 2008.
• IFIP 8.2 Working Group, The Virtual and Virtualization, Portland OR, 28-31July 2007
• ESRC workshop on Payment Systems, Cass Business School, 28 September,2006.
• Financial Innovation Seminar, Centre for Risk and Regulation, LSE, 16-17 June, 2005.
• Workshop on Institutional Theory and Organizational Change, University of Cambridge, 28-29 April 2005.
• European Conference of Information Systems, 1993, 2000, 2003, 2006.
• Futures Industry Association Conference 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.
• International Conference on Information Systems, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2015.
• IFIP WG 8.2, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004.
• Social Studies of Finance Conference, University of Konstanz, Germany,16-17 May, 2003.
• Social Studies of Finance Conference, Columbia University, New York, 3-4 May 2002.
• Spacing and Timing: Rethinking Globalization & Standardization, Palermo, 1-3 November 2001.
• Strategy World Congress, Siad School of Management, Oxford University, 18-19 March 2002.
• Globalization and Information Systems, Workshop, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1997.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

• Co-Chair, Junior Faculty Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems, 12th December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• Co-Chair, IFIP 8.2: "Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organisation". International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2: Information Systems and Organizations, 9 - 10 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
• Faculty Mentor, Junior Faculty Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 14-16 Dec, 2015.
• Strategy and Resource Committee, Department of Management, LSE, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2015-2016.
• Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Rapporteur, 2013.
• MSc Course Tutor, Information Systems and Organizations (Research), Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE (acting Sept 2008-2009).
• PhD Programme Director (acting 2007-2008), Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, LSE.
• External Examiner (Ph.D.) University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, UK.
• External Examiner (Ph.D.) University of Oslo, Norway.
• External Examiner (Ph.D.) NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
• Internal Examiner (Ph.D.), LSE and Royal Holloway, (University of London).
• External Examiner (MPhil), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
• Deputy Chief Examiner, IS Dept, External Programme (Undergraduate and Diploma), University of London.
• Examiner, External Programme (Undergraduate and Diploma), University of London.
• Chair of the MIS User Group, LSE.
• Co-Chair of the Web User Group, LSE.
• External Relations Committee, LSE.
• IS Department Careers Contact.
• Course Tutor, Information Systems Development Masters Programme, IS Department LSE. 
• General Course Tutor, IS Department, LSE.
• Undergraduate Course Tutor, IS Department, LSE.
• Academic Studies Committee, LSE.
• Undergraduate Sub-Committee, LSE.
• Deputy Admissions Tutor, Ph.D. Programme, IS Department, LSE. 
• Ph.D. Supervisor, LSE.
• M.Sc. Dissertation Supervisor.

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

• Visiting Academic, MIT, Boston, USA, 2015.
• Visiting Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2011.
• Research Associate, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (LSE).
• Associate, Centre for Economic Performance (LSE).
• Nordic Exchange Scholar, University of Oslo, Norway, 2000-2001
• Visiting Academic Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Qualitative Research Institute, 1999-2000.

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY NETWORK BUILDING

Advisory Board for PayTech 2016: Technologies of Exchange in a Digital Economy at The Shard, 4-5 Feb, 2016. Organized by Dr Markos Zachariadis and Dr Nathaniel Tkcaz, sponsored by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MasterCard, and Capco.

Following an extensive research project at LSE and the launch of a co-authored book on SWIFT, I collaborated with The SWIFT Institute on a conference about the Future of Financial Standards in London on Tuesday 25th March 2014. http://www.swiftinstitute.org/event/standardisation-in-the-financial-industry/ Non-state actors such as The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) are playing an increasingly important role as de facto regulatory entities and at this event we explored the role that standards setting can play in this regard. The conference combined academic presentations with discussions involving bankers, regulators and standardisers with the aim of sharing updates, exchanging views, debating options, and discussing insights with the audience. The venue, Level39, is part of London’s FinTech initiative. It is Europe’s largest business accelerator space for finance, retail, and future cities technologies companies. http://level39.co/level39/introduction/

 I organized a Round Table discussion with JoAnne Yates (MIT) and an interdisciplinary group of Business Historians, Management Studies, and Information Systems scholars at the Department of Management, LSE in June 2013.

Daniel Beunza, Wanda Orlikowski and I convened a workshop on Algorithms at the Department of Management, LSE in March 2013.

I co-organized a workshop on Sociomateriality at Lancaster University (with Lucas Introna, Lucy Suchman, and Wanda Orlikowski) in June, 2012.

As part of an on-going research project into "sociomateriality",  I helped organize a workshop in June (2011) at The Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) with Michael Barrett and Wanda Orlikowski. Invited speakers included Lucas Introna, Matthew Jones and Jochan Runde.

In 2010, I was one of the team (with Samer Faraj, Anne-Laure Fayard, Wanda Orlikowski, and John Weeks) involved in a Symposium at The Academy of Management in Montreal, Canada in August. Samer hosted us in a lively and inspiring space at the McGill Graduate Club. Anne-Laure Fayard designed a series of innovative workshop activities to stimulate discussion and share ideas. The Symposium was attended by 65 scholars from around the world and the keynote was by Prof Trevor Pinch (Cornell). Here is a photo journal of the day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/materiality/sets/72157624761239754/

In 2009, I co-chaired a conference on Theoretical Innovation in Information Systems Research with Prof Wanda Orlikowski (MIT/LSE Centennial Professor) http://is2.lse.ac.uk/sociomateriality/default.htm.The conference was designed to both complement the SSIT 2009 theme of innovation and draw together an event to reflect the current debate around theoretical ideas in IS research. A series of LSE workshops were held in the run up to the public conference presenting an opportunity to read and discuss relevant theoretical and empirical work.

I am part of an inter-disciplinary group of researchers at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE) undertaking a programme of research on Productivity and Innovation. The programme investigates the reasons for wide variations in firm productivity even within narrowly defined sectors and why productivity growth in the US has been so much more impressive over recent years than in the UK and European economies. The program looks at the role of information and communication technologies, new organizational practices, skills, the structure of labour and product markets in shaping innovation and productivity. There is a strong focus on linking empirical findings to practical policy and economic theory.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Prince2 Foundation, 2013.
Prince2 Practitioner, 2013.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 1990.
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CONSULTANCIES

• Invited Participant, SIBOS, Standards Forum, Dubai, 16th-20th Sept, 2013
• Presentation to SWIFT National Users Chairpersons Meeting, Dubai, 15th Sept, 2013.
• Presentation to executives from SWIFT, London, November 2009.
• Invited Speaker, ESRC workshop on Payment Systems, Cass Business School, 28th September,2006.
• Invited Speaker, International Payments 2005, London, 25th-28th April.
• Independent Academic Advisor, TWIST open standards working group, 2002-2004.
• Academic Director, Corporate Academic Funding Consortium, Moving Markets research project, LSE, Information Systems Dept 2001-2003.
• Keynote speaker at University of London Springboard Professional Development Event, March 2001 and 2002.
• Invited speaker at the GL industry 'teach-in' on electronic trading, London, 2000.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: French basic, Spanish basic

 

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