Wanda J. Orlikowski is a US-based organizational theorist and Information Systems researcher, and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[citation needed] She has served as a visiting Centennial Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a visiting professor at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

In 2015, she won the Lasting Impact Award from the ACM CSCW conference [4] for her paper Learning from Notes: Organizational issues in groupware implementation.

She is best known for her work in studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations by drawing on Giddens' Theory of Structuration.

In co-authored work, Orlikowski and Susan Scott of the London School of Economics argue for a focus on sociomaterial practices within organizational and information system studies.