Jonathan P. Allen

• Ph.D., Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1995
• M.S., Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1991
• B.S., Computer Engineering, and B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989

• MBA683: Internet Business Applications
• BA308: Systems in Organizations
• BA498: Systems in Organizations (Honors Cohort)

• Assistant Professor, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University (1999-2003)
• Visiting Professor, German International Graduate School of Management and Administration (GISMA), Hannover, Germany (2001 and 2002)
• Assistant Lecturer, Department of Engineering, and Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge (1995-1999)
• Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1997)

My research examines the organizational and social influences on new Information Technology (IT) development, adoption, use, and outcomes, including:

• The value conflicts and social choices embedded in particular ITs
• New theories and tools for understanding socio-technical systems and their effects
• Helping managers make better choices about new combinations of business processes, IT, people, and performance measurement
• Technologies: new internet business applications (open source and SaaS), video game industry, handhelds/PDAs, mobile applications, enterprise systems.
• Theoretical approaches: social construction/social shaping of technology, actor-network theory, IT innovation.

• "Alternate Reality Gaming" (with Jeffrey Kim).  Forthcoming in Communications of the ACM .
• "Visions of the Next Big Thing:  Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for New Technologies." Forthcoming in K. Kraemer and M. Elliott (eds.), Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion:  From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing.  Information Today.
• ?IT and the Video Game Industry: Tensions and Mutual Shaping? (with Jeffrey Kim). Journal of Information Technology, vol. 20, no. 4 (2005).
• ?Value Conflicts in Enterprise Systems.? Information Technology & People, vol. 18, no. 1 (2005).
• "Redefining the Network: Enrollment Strategies in the PDA Industry."  Information Technology & People  (special issue on Actor Network Theory and Information Systems), vol. 17, no. 2 (2004).
• "The Evolution of New Mobile Applications:  A Sociotechnical Perspective."  International Journal of Electronic Commerce, vol. 8, no. 1 (Fall, 2003).
• "Broadband and Mobile Opportunities:  A Socio-Technical Perspective" (with S. Sawyer and H. Lee).  Journal of Information Technology, vol. 18 (June, 2003).

• Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), co-chair of "Social Theory in IS Research" mini-track, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
• Editorial board member, The Information Society , 1995-97.

• Outstanding Student Support & Advocacy Award, School of Business and Management, 2005/06.
• Faculty Research Award (for Assistant/Associate Professors), School of Business and Management, 2004/05.
• Krannert Distinguished Teacher's Award, 2000, 2001, 2002.
• M.A. (Cantab) degree awarded for service to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1998.
• British Council, Faculty Exchange Award, 1997.

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