About
Antonio Cordella is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is responsible for the post-graduate courses on e-government and e-businesses
Dr Cordella is also a visiting professor at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, UNMERIT, The Netherland. He has published widely in information systems, e-government and public sector associated reforms. An Italian national, he holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from University of Bologna, Italy, and a PhD in Information Systems from Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Dr Cordella is a member of the Information Systems and Innovation Faculty Research Group.
Expertise
IS infrastructures, e-government, IT and organisations, e-commerce, actor network theory
Research
Dr Cordella's primary research domain is e-government. His research focus is on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on public sector organisations and the service they deliver.
Within such a broad field, his research questions the impact of ICTs on the coordination and control mechanisms and the execution of organisational tasks of public sector organisations and on the values they deliver. More precisely, it addresses questions related to: (i) the proper frameworks to study the impact of ICTs on the creation of “public value”; (ii) the ICTs impacts on governments’ service delivery; and (iii) the effect of ICTs on public sector’s ability to innovate and adapt to changes in the environment within which it operates.
The e-government literature has largely discussed the impacts of ICTs on efficiency and productivity gains of public sector organisations. Less attention has been paid to the impacts of ICTs on different dimensions of public value -organisational, institutional and economic, managerial as well as political, social, and institutional- generated by the adoption of ICTs in the public sector. Dr Cordella's research aims at filling this gap by questioning how ICTs change the processes, practices, and the nature of public services, and hence the public value they generate. The study of these impacts, which is the outcome of several pieces of work (EJEG, 2007; JIT, 2007, GIQ, 2010; JSIS, 2012), provides a fertile ground for further investigation both at the empirical and at the theoretical level.
Teaching
Courses
- Management and Economics of E-business: MG485
- Information Systems for the Public Sector: MG479
- E-business: MG209
- Management and Economics of Digital innovation: MG250 - Summer School