![](https://neoma-bs.com/sites/default/files/uploaded_images/profs-neoma_0.png)# ZORINA Aljona { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "ZORINA\u0020Aljona", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/node/36229.md" } ] } - [Home](https://neoma-bs.com/) - ZORINA Aljona ![](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploaded_images/photos_academ/123871-zorina-aljona.jpg?itok=cU7qYFta)ZORINA Aljona Full Professor - About - Academic publications [Information Systems, Supply Chain & Decision Making](https://neoma-bs.com/departements/information-systems-supply-chain-decision-making) HDR (Authorization to supervise research) Aljona Zorina is a Full Professor of Information Systems and Digital Innovation. She studies digital innovation and its impacts in distributed and open settings, with prominent topics in her studies being decentralized collectives, sustainability, and surveillance. Her research appeared in leading Management and Information Systems journals, including Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information and Organization, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Long Range Planning, and Organizational Dynamics among others. Aljona is an editorial board member of the Information and Organization and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) and guest Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly and JAIS. Her work received awards and nominations from the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, AISWN College, Academy of Management, International Conference of Information Systems, and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Her dissertation on digital infrastructure cocreation from the bottom-up received ESSEC Business School Best Dissertation Award and was top 3 Dissertation finalists at the AOM 2013 TIM division. ### Areas of research - Decentralized digital innovation - Decentralized intelligence - Digital visibility - Online communities ## Recent academic contributions ZORINA, A., A. AALTONEN, "Let’s Go, Pikachu: Gaming and Its Consequences in the Ecosystems of Opaque and Apparent Algorithms" in *58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)*, 2025 KARANASIOS, S., P. SENYO, A. ZORINA, J. EFFAH, "Digital Bricolage and Its Limits: How Microenterprises Undertake Digitalization in Resource-Constrained Environments", *Information Systems Research*, August 2025 DOI : [ 10.1287/isre.2023.0193 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2023.0193) ZORINA, A., R. GREGORY, O. HENFRIDSSON, J. PEREIRA, "Beyond Algorithmic Control: Self Coordination in Collectives Based on Decentralized Protocol" in *Academy of Management Proceedings*, no. 1, 2024, New-York ## Publications KARANASIOS, S., P. SENYO, A. ZORINA, J. EFFAH, "Digital Bricolage and Its Limits: How Microenterprises Undertake Digitalization in Resource-Constrained Environments", *Information Systems Research*, August 2025 DOI : [ 10.1287/isre.2023.0193 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1287/isre.2023.0193) GOLDING, C., J. MORTON, A. ZORINA, "Opening up emotionally: How top managers use peripheral actors' emotional expressions during inclusive strategy formulation", *Long Range Planning*, December 2024, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 102482 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102482 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102482) MORTON, J., A. ZORINA, S. KUDARAVALLI, "The strategic value of IT-enabled self-organised collectives during crises", *The Journal of Strategic Information Systems*, September 2023, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 101792 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.jsis.2023.101792 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2023.101792) KARANASIOS, S., A. ZORINA, "From participation roles to socio‐emotional information roles: Insights from the closure of an online community", *Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)*, January 2023, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 33-49 DOI : [ 10.1002/asi.24689 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24689) ZORINA, A., F. BÉLANGER, N. KUMAR, S. CLEGG, "Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of Information Technology Monitoring as Complex Action Nets", *Organization Science*, November 2021, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1571-1596 DOI : [ 10.1287/orsc.2021.1435 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1435) ZORINA, A., W. H. DUTTON, "Theorizing Actor Interactions Shaping Innovation in Digital Infrastructures: The Case of Residential Internet Development in Belarus", *Organization Science*, January 2021, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 156-180 DOI : [ 10.1287/orsc.2020.1389 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1389) ZORINA, A., S. KARANASIOS, "When IT Evolves Beyond Community Needs: Coevolution of Bottom-Up IT Innovation and Communities", *Journal of the Association for Information Systems*, September 2021, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1146-1175 DOI : [ 10.17705/1jais.00691 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00691) ZORINA, A., "Overcoming resource challenges in peer-production communities through bricolage: The case of HomeNets", *Information and Organization*, September 2021, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 100365 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100365 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100365) ZORINA, A., "From a competing to a collaborative crowd", *Organizational Dynamics*, April 2016, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 80-93 DOI : [ 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2016.02.002 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2016.02.002) ## Chapters KARANASIOS, S., A. ZORINA, M. SLAVOVA, "Getting close to technology in practice" in *Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems*., Edward Elgar Ed., R. Davison Eds, pp. 124-147, 2023 DUTTON, W. H., A. ZORINA, "The Ecology of Games Reshaping Information Policy: Internet Access in Belarus to Cyber Harms in the United Kingdom" in *Information Policy*., Edward Elgar Ed., A. Duff Eds, pp. 130-141, 2021 ZORINA, A., D. AVISON, "Re-defining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra- organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies" in *Materiality and Space in Organization and Management Studies*., De Vaujany F-X., Mitev N. Eds, Editions Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 274-302, 2013 ## Conferences ZORINA, A., A. AALTONEN, "Let’s Go, Pikachu: Gaming and Its Consequences in the Ecosystems of Opaque and Apparent Algorithms" in *58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)*, 2025 ZORINA, A., R. GREGORY, O. HENFRIDSSON, J. PEREIRA, "Beyond Algorithmic Control: Self Coordination in Collectives Based on Decentralized Protocol" in *Academy of Management Proceedings*, no. 1, 2024, New-York ZORINA, A., S. KARANASIOS, J. MALAURENT, "“Social media empowerment of marginalized groups in crisis: the case of evolving risk conditions" in *EGOS*, 2023 KARANASIOS, S., A. ZORINA, P. K. SENYO, J. EFFAH, "Digital Transformation of Micro- Enterprises in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Digital Bricolage Perspective" in *83rd Academy of Management Meeting (AOM)*, 2023 PEREIRA, J., A. ZORINA, "The conflict must go on! Coordination mechanisms for conflict resolution in open-governance online communities" in *DRUID23*, 2023 GOLDING, C., J. MORTON, A. ZORINA, "How Stakeholders’ Emotions Can Shape Open Strategy Formulation" in *Academy of Management Proceedings*, 2023 KARANASIOS, S., P. K. SENYO, J. EFFAH, A. ZORINA, "Digital Bricolage: Creating a Digital Transformation from Nothing" in *International Conference on Information Systems*, 2022 ZORINA, A., J. MORTON, S. KUDARAVALLI, B. SIMEONOVA, "Digital swarms: how decentralized actors organize collaborative knowledge creation to address social crisis" in *EGOS*, 2022 MORTON, J., A. ZORINA, C. GOLDING, "Kindred spirits or poles apart? Polyphony and the emotional reactions of a professional community in inclusive digital strategizing" in *EGOS*, 2022 ZORINA, A., S. KARANASIOS, J. MALAURENT, "“Retired IT-connected: How Older Persons Adopt and Use Technology for Crisis Solving" in *International Conference on Information Systems*, 2021 ZORINA, A., J. PEREIRA, "Coordinating openness to diversity and contesting contributions in online communities" in *79th Academy of Management Meeting (AOM)*, 2019 ZORINA, A., "Co-creating Something from Nothing: How Innovation Communities Generate Resources with Bricolage" in *11th International Symposium on Process Studies*, 2019 ALDHAFIRI, Y., A. ZORINA, J. MORTON, "Organizational Temporalities and Radical Digital Transformation a Comparative Study of Open Government in Saudi Arabia’s IT-based Economy" in *27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)*, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden ZORINA, A., J. PEREIRA, "How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap? Coordinating openness to diversity and contesting contributions in online communities" in *35th EGOS*, 2019, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ZORINA, A., W. H. DUTTON, "The Ecology of Games Perspective on Community-Incumbent- Disruptor Innovation" in *Academy of Management Proceedings*, 2018 ALDHAFIRI, Y., A. ZORINA, T. PITSIS, "Changing With and Around Time Organizational Becoming Inspired by the Imposed Digitization Program Vision 2030 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" in *10th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies*, 2018 ZORINA, A., S. KARANASIOS, "The Emergence of Digital Infrastructures from the Bottom-up: A Communities as Systems Perspective" in *International Conference on Information Systems*, 2017 ZORINA, A., "Bricolage in Addressing Community Change and Becoming" in *TIM-MOC Conference*, 2017, Zurich, Switzerland ZORINA, A., W. H. DUTTON, T. PITSIS, M. MOUNT, "Innovating in Multiple Worlds: Understanding Synergetic Disruptive Innovation in the Context of Multiple Actors and Rationalities" in *Proceedings of the 9th International Process Symposium (PROS)*, 2017, Kos, Greece ZORINA, A., S. KARANASIOUS, "Emergence, Development and Transformative Processes of Bottom-up User Technology Innovations" in *Proceedings of the 9th International Process Symposium (PROS)*, 2017, Kos, Greece ZORINA, A., S. BUREAU, "Too much Freedom! How to enact IT and Non-IT Artefacts in Entrepreneurial Contexts?" in *10th Organization Studies Summer Workshop on “Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship*, 2015, Chania, Greece ZORINA, A., S. BUREAU, "Creative Destruction as Sociomaterial Becomings: Insights from the Entrepreneurial Processes" in *Proceedings of the 4th Organizations, Artifacts, and Practices Workshop*, 2014, Rome, Italy ZORINA, A., W. H. DUTTON, "Ecology of Translation Games: a New Perspective on the Evolution of Large Technical Systems" in *EGOS PDW*, 2014, Rotterdam, Netherlands ZORINA, A., W. H. DUTTON, "Ecology of Games and Translation Processes in Internet and Computer Networks" in *46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)*, 2013 ZORINA, A., "Co-evolution of technological artefacts and new organizational forms across time and space: combining historical and co-evolutionary perspectives" in *3rd Organizations, Artefacts, Practices Workshop*, 2013, London, United Kingdom ZORINA, A., D. AVISON, "How Sociomateriality and Institutions Entangle: A Case Study of End- User Communities and Internet Infrastructure Development" in *Proceedings of the 2nd Organizations, Artifacts, and Practices Workshop*, 2012, Paris, France ZORINA, A., D. AVISON, "When Environment Matters: Inter-Organizational Effects on Sociomaterial Imbrications and Change" in *32nd International Conference on Information Systems*, 2011 ZORINA, A., D. AVISON, "New ICT-Enabled Transformative Organizations," in *European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2011)*, 2011, Helsinki, Finland