JoAnne Yates

About

JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita, and Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies and Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She developed MIT Sloan's Managerial Communication curriculum starting in 1980 and served as Deputy Dean for programs from 2007 to 2012. Her research is both historical and contemporary, focusing on the evolution of management practices, communication, and information technologies. Her notable historical works include 'Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management' and 'Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880,' which explore the development of communication systems and global standardization. She has also studied the use of communication and information technologies in organizations, collaborating with colleagues and students on research involving electronic mail, instant messaging, and corporate blogging. Yates holds a BA from Texas Christian University and an MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina.

Research topics

• Business
• Marketing
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Radiology
• Economy
• Geology
• Economics
• Medical physics

Selected publications

• Engineering Rules

  Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2019-06-27 · 86 citations

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• Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880

  2019-06-11 · 57 citations

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• Understanding Historical Methods in Organization Studies

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2013-12-12 · 51 citations

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  This chapter introduces business historical methods to organizational scholars by comparing them to qualitative methods in organization studies. After describing the split between qualitative and quantitative methods in organizational and historical studies, the chapter discusses similarities and differences in data sampling and access, explicitness of methods, temporality, varieties of and preferences for data types, and genres of publication. It ends with recommendations for how historical sch…

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• Introduction: Standards and the Global Economy

  The Business History Review · 2022 · 10 citations

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• Sloan 2001: A Virtual Odyssey

  DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2015-09-06 · 6 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Wanda J. Orlikowski

  46 shared

• Peter Alexander

  University of Edinburgh

  36 shared

• Smith Paul

  University Hospitals of Cleveland

  36 shared

• Ken Lipartito

  Hagley Museum and Library

  36 shared

• Robert E. Weems

  Calvert Marine Museum

  36 shared

• Roland Marchand

  36 shared

• Naomi R. Lamoreaux

  36 shared

• Naomi Lamoureaux

  Hagley Museum and Library

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Labs

• MIT Center for Collective IntelligencePI

Awards & honors

• Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management

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