Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou FBA

Summary

Chrisanthi Avgerou is a Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

She holds a PhD from LSE and an honorary doctorate from the Athens University of Economics and Business. Her research focuses on the socio-technical process of information technology (IT) innovation and its socio-economic impacts across diverse contexts. She has studied the use of IT and concomitant organizational change in various countries and developed a contextual perspective that emphasizes the role of national institutions, rationalities, and ideologies in shaping IT innovation and its outcomes.

Chrisanthi has played a prominent role in the technical activities of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), where she chaired both the Working Group on IT in Developing Countries and the Technical Committee on IT and Society. She also served on the Council of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) as the representative for the Europe, Middle East, and North Africa region. In recognition of her contributions to the Information Systems field, she was named an AIS Fellow in 1999 and received the AIS Leo Award for Exceptional Lifetime Achievement in Information Systems in 2023.

Selected publications:

Information Systems and Global Diversity (2002) Oxford, Oxford University Press.

‘Power, rationality, and the art of living through socio-technical change’ (2007) MIS Quarterly, 31(2) pp 295-315 (with K. McGrath).

‘Discourses on ICT and Development’ (2010) Information Technologies and International Development, 6(3) pp 1-18.

‘Explaining trust in IT-mediated elections: a case study of e-voting in Brazil’ (2013) Journal of the Association for Information systems, 14(8) pp 420-451.

‘Contextual explanation: alternative approaches and persistent challenges’ (2019) MIS Quarterly, 43(3), pp 977-A18.

‘Ideologies implicated in IT innovation in government: a critical discourse analysis of Mexico’s international trade administration’ (2020) Information Systems Journal, 30(1) pp 70-95 (with Carla Bonina).

‘Information technology and government corruption in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana customs’ MIS Quarterly, (2021), 45(4) pp 1833-1862 (with Atta Addo).