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Escalating Digitalization of Work Due to COVID-19: A Cross-Context Comparison of Job Impacts and Job Outcomes

Portrait of Visvanath Venkatesh
Prof. V. Venkatesh
From: 2023-03-29 13:00 to 15:00 Föreläsning

Welcome to a a Pufendorf IAS guest researcher lecture with Professor Visvanath Venkatesh, presented by the Pufendorf IAS Theme "Designing Sustainable Digital Work"

 

The rapid transition to remote work, powered by a portfolio of digital technologies, has led to an extensive transformation of a variety of jobs.

In this seminar Prof. Visvanath Venkatesh vill present and discuss an ongoing project of 4+ years on the impacts of such extensive remote work on different jobs and across different countries. The evolution of these impacts on employees serve as the basis for drawing implications for science and practice.

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Viswanath Venkatesh, who completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota, is an Eminent Scholar, Verizon Chair and Director of the Executive PhD program at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. His research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and society by focusing on various aspects of technology implementations in a variety of settings ranging from organizations in the US to organizations in India to consumers in China to rural citizens in India. 

For over a decade, he has have worked with several companies and government agencies in different capacities ranging from a systems engineer to a special consultant to the Vice-President of the United States and conducted scientific studies of real world phenomena. His work has appeared in leading journals in human-computer interaction, information systems, organizational behavior, psychology, marketing, medical informatics, and operations management journals.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists, both in terms of premier journal publications and citation impact (e.g., Clarivate, Thomson Reuters’ highlycited.com, Emerald Citations, SSRN, PloS Biology), with a recent career ranking of 485th (out of ~9 million scientists in all scientific fields) and 1st in information systems. 

Read more about the Theme "Designing Sustainable Digital Work".



Om händelsen
From: 2023-03-29 13:00 to 15:00

Plats
Pufendorf IAS, Main lecture hall

Kontakt
Eva [dot] Persson [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se

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