Ann Majchrzak


Ann Majchrzak is an American academic. She is a Professor of Digital Innovation in the
Department of Data Sciences and Operations within the USC Marshall School of Business. Majchrzak holds the USC Associates Chair in Business Administration.

Awards

Career and research

Majchrzak has held visiting appointments and/or fellowships at ESADE Business School, University Ramon Llull, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, LUISS Business School, and Simon Fraser University in the areas of Innovation and Organization.
Throughout her career she has served in editorial roles for the field's top journals. As examples, she served as a senior editor for Organization Science from 2004 to 2020 and Management Information Systems Quarterly from 2011 to 2014.
In 2020, she published the book, Unleashing the Crowd: Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Business Solutions and Societal Problems, with co-author, Arvind Malhotra.

Selected publications

  • Majchrzak, A., Rice, R. E., Malhotra, A., King, N., & Ba, S.. Technology adaptation: The case of a computer-supported inter-organizational virtual team. MIS quarterly, 569-600.
  • Majchrzak, A., Faraj, S., Kane, G. C., & Azad, B.. The contradictory influence of social media affordances on online communal knowledge sharing. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19, 38-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12030
  • Majchrzak, A., Cooper, L. P., & Neece, O. E.. Knowledge reuse for innovation. Management science, 50, 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1030.0116