dr. Maura Soekijad

Maura Soekijad is an associate professor at the KIN Research Group (KIN Center for Digital Innovation), School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on knowledge sharing professionals in co-opetitive multiparty networks and finalized a collaborative study on the use of mobile devices by health professionals (technology in practice). She is currently involved in NWO-funded research on digital collaborative innovation and collaborates on research about identity and power among health professionals. Her publications on the above and on online communities as part of ICT for development, and managing networks of practice have appeared in Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal and World Development. Maura is coordinator of the MSc programme Digital Business & Innovation.

Maura Soekijad is trained as ethnographer and her research is often based on qualitative studies. Her research interests include the future of work, online communities, identity. She supervises PhD candidate Melissa Sexton (on robotics in the wild), and supervised PhD candidates Natalja Laurey (on collaboration for digital innovation), Julie Ferguson (on KM for Development) and Montserrat Prats Lopez (on crowdsourcing in humanities).

Maura Soekijad teaches (or has been in the past) courses on working and organizing in a digital age, knowledge management, knowledge & innovation networks, knowledge & organizations, qualitative research methods, grant proposal writing. She also supervises BSc, MSc, research MSc, and PhD students for their theses. And she is (and has been) responsible for running a number of educational programmes (including ABRI graduate school).

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