Professor Youngjin Yoo FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2026
- Sections
- Management and Business Studies
Summary
Youngjin Yoo is Professor of Information Systems and Innovation in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also serves as Academic Director of LSE Lifelong Learning Digital & Innovation. His research examines how digital technologies reshape the way organisations and societies innovate, and how the architecture of computing determines who creates and captures value in the digital economy.
He is known for original theoretical accounts of how digital innovation reshapes value and the firm. His theory of layered modular architecture, introduced in his 2010 paper ‘The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation’, is one of the field’s most-cited works, foundational to digital-platform and generativity research. He has also developed experiential computing, which describes how computing became woven into everyday life, and the digital-first ontology, in which digital representations precede the physical world rather than mirror it.
His current work develops a theory of the generative economy, examining computational value, the runtime binding of technologies, and the emergence of the generative firm in the age of artificial intelligence. He is establishing the Generative Economy Lab at LSE to advance this work.
His more than 170 peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the leading journals of the field, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, and Communications of the ACM. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. He has held endowed chairs at Case Western Reserve University, Temple University, and Warwick Business School, and has served as Senior Editor of Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly.
He has founded and led several centres bridging academia and industry. He advises governments and firms on digital and AI strategy, and co-founded Halo Harbour, a privacy-preserving AI venture. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Maryland.