Jonathan Liebenau, PhD
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Reader in Technology Management Department of Management |
Visiting Prof. of Management and of Electrical Engineering; and IEOR |
Citizen of the |
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Columbia University Graduate School of Business & School of Eng. and Applied Science |
Born November 1954 liebenau@lse.ac.uk |
Employment
London School of
Economics, Department of Management (Central Team, but formerly within the Information
Systems & Innovation Group) [1988-present]
Columbia
University, Visiting Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business and Adjunct
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
School of Engineering and Applied Science; Associate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information [2001-present]
Boston University,
Director of British Programs [1987-1988]
Technical Change Centre, Head of the Industry
and Economy Section [1986-1987]
London School of Economics, Dept of Economic
History, Business History Unit [1980-1986]
Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., Dept. of Science and Technology [1979-1980]
University of
Pennsylvania, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science [1979]
Education
PhD
History and Sociology of Science,
BA
Science Policy, University of Rochester
[1976]
Professional Activities
Head, Technology
Innovation Group, ELSE; Director, Idea&Idea;
Consultant, deFontenay, Savin
& Kiss
Amsphere Software Dispute Practice, Expert; Advisory
Board Member, Graduate Management Admissions Council [GMAC], Europe
Chairman, Academic Board, Istanbul School of International Studies (later Istanbul Bilgi
University), 1994-1996 Member of International
Advisors Committee (to date)
Chairman, Information Society Observatory of the European Institute (LSE),
1996-1998
Program Chairman, IFIP 8.4 Annual Conference,
1997
Editor, European Journal of
Information Systems [sponsored by the Operational Research Society and
Macmillan's Press], 1990-1999
Course Leader, Management Development Program,
Cabinet Office IDSC, Cairo
Director, Annual Conference on Information
Technology for Developing Countries [sponsored by the British Council]
Senior Consultant, British Know How Fund for
Czechoslovakia (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)Information Technology Section
Course Leader, Information and Organizations,
MBA Programme, Catholic University of Portugal
Course Leader, International Programme
for Trainers of Information Analysts [Sponsored by the Commonwealth
Secretariat, held at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad]
Major Publications
"A
new view of scale and scope in the telecommunications industry: implications
for competition and innovation" Communications & Strategies 58,
2005 [with A. Bourdeau de Fontenay and B. Savin]
"Modeling scale and scope in the
telecommunications industry: problems in the analysis of competition and
innovation" Communications & Strategies 58, 2005 [with A.
Bourdeau de Fontenay]
"Organizational reconciliation: implications for organizational decision
support systems" Decision Support Systems 2002, 33(4) 389-398 [with
G. Harindranath]
National Information Infrastructure Policies
in International Perspective Vienna:
UNIDO, 1998 [with G. Harindranth]
"The European Union Telecommunications
Market: Regulation, Competition and Change" London: London School of
Economics and British Telecommunications plc, 1998 [with Mark Thatcher]
(ed.,) Information Systems and Qualitative
Research (Chapman & Hall, 1997) [with Allen S. Lee and Janice DeGross]
(ed.) Information Technology Policies and
Applications in the Commonwealth Developing Countries London: Commonwealth
Secretariat, 1993 [with G. Harindranath]
Understanding Information London: Macmillan, 1990 [with James Backhouse]
(ed.) Pill Peddlers, essays on the
international pharmaceutical industry Madison, Wisc.:
American Institute for the History of Pharmacy,1990
The Financial Environment of the
Electronics Industry in Germany, Japan, the United States and Britain London: Technical Change Centre, 1988
(ed.) The Challenge of New Technology:
Innovation in British Business since 1850 Aldershot:
Gower, 1988
Medical Science and Medical Industry, the
formation of the American pharmaceutical industry London: Macmillan and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1987
(ed.) Business in the Age of Reason
London: Cass, 1987 [with Richard Davenport-Hines]
Over 70 other scholarly articles and essays,
plus numerous reviews and editorials
JONATHAN LIEBENAU, PhD
Jonathan Liebenau teaches at the London School
of Economics in the Department of Management. He specializes in two areas:
fundamental concepts of information, and the problems and prospects of
information and communication technology in economic development. He has
previously worked in academic administration, technology policy, and the
economic history of science-based industry, all positions in which he has emphasised the use of information in organizations. He is
the author or editor of several books and over 70 other major publications and
has provided consultancy services to leading companies and strategic government
agencies, including Dell, BT, IBM, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services,
Nortel, EDS, Lloyd Thompson, and in the UK Government, the Office of Science
and Innovation, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Home Office. He
also has worked with the Royal Society for the Arts and DigitalEurope,m
and is on the advisory boards of Istanbul Bilgi
University and American University in Cairo, School of Business.
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