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SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS

My current research interests include knowledge management and innovation.  I am particularly interested in investigating creativity processes and exploring organizational initiatives that can be designed to facilitate such knowledge creation processes.  I am also involved in research examining the impact of computer-mediated communication on the decision making in groups and on social network relationships.  Additionally, I am very interested in the ways in which information technology may improve the quality and efficiency of health care and plan to pursue this research interest in the future.

 

DISSERTATION

Topic: Can Technology Help Individuals be More Creative? Enabling Individual Knowledge Creation through Technology

 

Dissertation Chair: Robert W. Zmud

rzmud@ou.edu           

 

Abstract:

Prior research has emphasized organizations’ need to create and manage knowledge to compete in today’s dynamic business environments.  In order to create this knowledge, firms must encourage and harness the individual creativity abilities of their employees. This research draws from previous studies of creativity, technology's support of creativity and knowledge management to propose that a technology supported development environment may be an enabler of the creative processes required for knowledge creation.  By focusing on individual creativity and the role of technology and organizational processes in supporting such creativity, this research extends the literature on knowledge management.  The methodology for this study includes both a lab experiment and a separate qualitative study, which is briefly described herein.

 

PUBLICATIONS

1. Shaft, T. M., Albert, L. J., & Jasperson, J. “Managing Change in an Information Systems Development Organization: Understanding Developer Transitions from a Structured to an Object-Oriented Development Environment,” Information Systems Journal, Forthcoming.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS  

6.  Albert, L.J. & Zmud, R.W. “Can Technology Help Individual Be More Creative?: Enabling Individual Knowledge Creation through Technology, OCIS Doctoral Consortium, Atlanta, GA, August 11-12, 2006.

 

5. Albert, L.J. & Zmud, R.W. “Can Technology Help Employees Be More Creative?” 3^rd Annual Big XII MIS Research Symposium, Norman, OK, April 2-3, 2005.

 

4. Albert, L. J. & Chidambaram, L. “Exploring the Impact of CMC Technology on Strong and Weak Ties,” 2004 Academy of Management Conference (OCIS track), New Orleans, Louisiana.  Abstract

 

3. Albert, L. J. & Chidambaram, L. “Exploring the Impact of CMC Technology on Strong and Weak Ties,” 2004 AOM Cognition in the Ruff Pre-conference workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

2. Shaft, T. W., Albert, L. J., & Jasperson, J. “A Longitudinal Study of Information Systems Developers Understanding of Software Development Concepts During a Transition from Structured to Object-Oriented Development,” 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in New York City, NY. Abstract

 

1. Miranda, S., Bostrom, R. P., & Albert, L. J. “Communication Media and Intersubjectivity in Small Groups,” 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in New York City, NY. Abstract

  

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

3. Albert, L. J. & Chidambaram, L. “Exploring the Impact of CMC Technology on Strong and Weak Ties," Working Paper (intended target journal: Academy of Management Review). 

 

2. Albert, L. J., Miranda, S., & Bostrom, R. P., “Attaining Collective Mind: Cognitive versus Emotional Contagion in Computer-Mediated Communication (intended target journal: Academy of Management Journal. 

 

1. Albert, L. J., Miranda, S. M., & Zmud, R. W. “Outsourcing for Creativity,” Working Paper (intended target journal: California Management Review).

 

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