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JoAnne Yates (born 1951) Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has worked at the intersection of organization studies and information technology. She has contributed to a number of fields including organizational theory, rhetoric and writing studies, genre theory, business history, archival studies, history of computing, and standardization.
She has been recognized as a thought leader in business communication. Her work has achieved awards in several fields, including the Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication in Business Communication (three times); Outstanding Researcher in Business Communication, the Association for Business Communication; Waldo Gifford Leland Prize of the Society of American Archivists; the Harold F. Williamson, Sr. Prize for Mid-Career Achievement in Business History; Lifetime Service Award from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management; and numerous best paper awards.
Biography
Yates received her BA from Texas Christian University in 1974, and her M.A. and later her Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of North Carolina.
In the 1980 she started her academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where she founded the Managerial Communication Unit. Since 1999 she has been Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 2007 to 2012 she was Deputy Dean of the Sloan School of Management. She retired in 2020.
Yates' research focuses on the use of communication and information technology in business. Her aim is to understand "how the use of communication and information technology within firms shapes and is shaped over time by its changing organizational, managerial, and technological contexts."
