I am researcher and academic passionate about digital innovation and its applications in decentralised, distributed, and open settings.
I am associate professor of Information Systems and Strategy at IESEG School of Management and hold research degrees of PhD in Business Administration from ESSEC Business School and Habilitation (HDR) from University of Antilles, France.

My research appeared in leading Information Systems and Management journals, including Organization Science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information and Organization, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Long Range Planning, and Organizational Dynamics.

I also serve as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)I and as a guest Associate Editor for special issues at MIS Quarterly and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). I am also an editorial board member of the Information and Organization.

I am an often session co-organiser, chair, and speaker at major IS and Management conferences. My work received awards and nominations from the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, AISWN College, Academy of Management, International Conference of Information Systems, and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. My dissertation on digital infrastructure co-creation from the bottom-up received ESSEC Business School Best Dissertation Award and was top 3 Dissertation finalists at the Academy of Management 2013 TIM Division.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Golding, Ch., Morton, J., Zorina, A. 2024 “Opening up emotionally: How top managers use peripheral actors' emotional expressions during inclusive strategy formulation”, Long Range Planning, 57 (2024). (Link).
2. Morton, J., Zorina, A., Kudaravalli, S. 2023. "The Strategic Value of IT-Enabled Self-Organised Collectives in Crisis." Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 32(3), 1–13 (Link).
3. Zorina, A., Bélanger, F., Kumar, N., Clegg, S. (2021) "Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: the Veillance of Complex Action Nets" Organization Science, 32 (6), pp. 1391-1596, AIS Women Network College (AISWN) Best Paper Award, 2022 (Link).
4. Zorina, A., Dutton, W.H. (2021) “Theorizing Actor Interactions Shaping Innovation in Digital Infrastructures: The Case of Residential Internet Development in Belarus,” Organization Science, 32(1), 156-180 (Link).
5. Zorina, A., Karanasios, S. (2021) “When IT Evolves Beyond Community Needs: Coevolution of BottomUp IT Innovation and Communties," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 22 : Iss. 4 , Article 2., DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00691, 2021 JAIS 2021 Best Paper Award Nominee (Link).
6. Zorina, A. (2021) “Overcoming Resource Challenges in Peer-Production Communities through Bricolage: The Case of HomeNets,” Information and Organization, 31 (3) (Link).
7. Karanasios S, Zorina A. 2022. "From participation roles to socio-emotional information roles: Insights from the closure of an online community, " Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24689 (Link).
8. Zorina, A. (2016) “From a Competing to a Collaborative Crowd: Tactics for Co-creation with Innovative Bottom-up Communities,” Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 45, issue 2, pp. 80-93 (Link).
9. Zorina, A., Dutton W.H. (2014) "Building Broadband Infrastructure from the Grassroots: the Case of Home LANs in Belarus," Journal of Community Informatics, 10 (2), (Link).

REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Karanasios, S., Zorina, A., Slavova, M. (2023) “How Do Researchers Get Close to the Technology Under Investigation: Insights, Benefits and Challenges” in R. Davison Eds., Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems, Edward Elgar. July 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80220 538 1 Extent: 408 pp 124-147 (Link).
2. Dutton, W.H., Zorina, A. (2021) “The Ecology of Games Reshaping Information Policy: Internet Access in Belarus to Cyber Harms in the United Kingdom”, in A. Duff Eds., Information Policy, Edward Elgar, pp.130-141 (Link).
3. Zorina, A., Avison, D. (2013) “Re-defining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra-organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies,” in F-X. de Vaujany and N. Mitev Eds., Materiality and Space in Organization and Management Studies, Palgrave, pp. 274-302. (The book review by Henn, R. L. (2014), Organization Studies, Vol. 35, no 9, pp. 1393-1396) (Link).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

I am an often attendee of major IS and Management conferences, including Academy of Management, ICIS, HICSS, and EGOS. You can find a list of my conference papers at my academic business school website.

As the majority of academics, I have hobbies and interests that help to maintain work-life balance and fuel creative thinking: travelling, photography, and dancing, to name some of these.