Aljona ZORINA

Aljona ZORINA is an Associate Professor at IÉSEG School of Management in France since 2022. She previously served as Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School (2021–2022) and held a University Academic Fellow position there (2015–2021). Earlier, she was an Assistant Professor at ESCP Europe in Paris (2012–2015). Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems from ESSEC Business School (2012) and an Advanced FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK) awarded in 2021.

Her research focuses on digital innovations and infrastructures, online communities, and crisis management. Key areas include grassroots IT development, socio-emotional dynamics in organizational strategy, and resilience activation mechanisms. She explores how decentralized systems and bricolage practices enable innovation in resource-constrained environments, emphasizing the interplay between technology adoption and societal challenges.

Aljona ZORINA has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the 2023 Caroline Dexter Award Nominee (Academy of Management), the 2022 AIS Women Network College Best Paper Award, and multiple paper/dissertation distinctions from institutions like the International Conference on Information Systems (2017) and the Academy of Management (2013). She also received the TIM Dissertation Award Finalist (2013) and a Best Student Paper Award (2007, Russian Academy of Science).

In her advising and grants narrative, she has no listed students or advisees, though her collaborative work with 12 institutional partners indicates active research networks. Her grants and funding sources are not explicitly detailed, but her research themes suggest involvement in projects related to digital transformation and socio-technical systems.

Her work frequently intersects with labs and interdisciplinary teams focused on sociomaterial approaches to technology, though specific lab affiliations are not mentioned in the text. Research collaborations likely span organizational behavior, strategic information systems, and community informatics domains.