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Upcoming Presentations
Efficiency vs. Learning: A Tale of Engineering Offshoring from Three Shores
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Presented by Paul Leonardi, McCormick’s IE/MS and School of Communication
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Location and schedule
For many years, service and manufacturing jobs have been offshored to take advantage of labor rates and worker skills in other countries. Professor Leonardi's research examines the problems that arise when engineers attempt to offshore engineering work on physical products to countries with little experience in the relevant product market. The study suggests that organizations can be designed to improve the efficiency of offshoring for a sending firm, but often at the detriment of learning for the receiving firm. This talk discusses different organizational design principles for offshoring engineering work and how these structures can be used to strike a balance between efficiency and learning.
Paul Leonardi
Professor Paul Leonardi's teaching and research focus on issues pertaining to the design and implementation of new technologies, global product development, and the management of engineering work. In each of these areas he explores how information technologies and organizations can be simultaneously designed to enhance one another. His work on these topics cuts across the fields of Organization Studies, Communication Studies, and Technology Studies.
Location and Schedule
| Location: | Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Technological Institute JBC Commons. 4th floor 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, Illinois |
| Schedule: | 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions 8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Presentation 9:00 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. Questions and Answers 9:25 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Closing and Departure |
