Shahla Ghobadi

Biography

Shahla Ghobadi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at The University of Manchester. She holds Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales, with a background in IT Management and Industrial Engineering. She was a Visiting Scholar at J.Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University in 2014. Shahla examines how organisations take advantage of knowledge assets to create innovative products and foster social change. She focuses on two research streams: (1) collaboration in software organisations, and (2) collaboration and social activism. The first stream examines how collaborative practices such as agile development, user/developer ecosystems and open innovation form and foster development and organisational capabilities. The second stream explores how social activist organisations leverage new media in creative ways to motivate powerful organisations to collaborate with them and pursue enduring social change. Very recently, she has pursued a third research stream that examines how strategic signalling by professional organisations in academia influences the evolution of academic fields.

Research Interest

Information Systems, Software Organization, Social Activism, Collaboration