Selected Awards
- Lifetime Service Award, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August, 2014.
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, September 2012-May, 2013.
- Best Published Paper Award, the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management (for Kate Kellogg, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and JoAnne Yates, “Life in the Trading Zone: Structuring Coordination Across Boundaries in Post-Bureaucratic Organizations,” 2007.
- Harold F. Williamson, Sr., Medal in Business History (biennial award for contributions to the field of business history by someone in midcareer), 1998.
- Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication in Business Communication (for Wanda J. Orlikowski and JoAnne Yates, “Genre Repertoire: Examining the Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations”), 1995.
- Best Paper Award, the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management, 1995 Academy of Management Annual Meeting (for JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Kazuo Okamura, “Constituting Genre Repertoires: Deliberate and Emergent Patterns of Electronic Media Use”), 1995.
- Newcomen Prize for the best article published in vol. 67 (1993) of the Business History Review (for “Co-evolution of Information Processing Technology and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries”), 1994.
- Best publication in organizational communication for 1992 in an Academy of Management publication, from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management (for JoAnne Yates and Wanda Orlikowski, “Genres of Organizational Communication”), 1993.
- Outstanding Researcher Award, the Association for Business Communication (for cumulative record), 1990.
- Waldo Gifford Leland Prize of the Society of American Archivists for a book making an outstanding contribution to archival literature (for Control through Communication), 1990.
- Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication in Business Communication (for Control through Communication), 1990.
- Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication in Business Communication (for “Graphs as a Managerial Tool”), 1986.