Oral History Interview with JoAnne Yates

Abstract

The interview provides an overview of Yates’s early life, education, and career. She discusses various people, including Alfred D. Chandler, who had a shaping influence on her career. Much of the interview discusses her career at MIT as a faculty member and administrator, and her research on the historical and contemporary study of organizations, including her collaborations with her husband, the political scientist Craig Murphy, and with the organizational studies scholar Wanda Orlikowski. She discusses the connections of her work to the history of computing and makes various comments about the development of the history of computing field.