Amber Grace Young

Amber Grace Young

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

About Young

Dr. Amber Grace Young is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems. Her research interests center on the responsible design and use of emerging IT within organizations and society. She has published in top IS journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, Information & Organization, International Journal of Information Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Journal of Responsible Technology, among others.

Amber is a former Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. She has served as Guest Senior Editor for Information Systems Journal and Guest Associate Editor for Journal of the AIS and Information & Organization. She is on the editorial board for Information & Organization. She is a Program Chair for the 2027 European Conference on Information Systems that will be held in Luxembourg and an active contributor to the Association for Information Systems (Distinguished Member, Cum Laude).

Amber is “Sooner born and Sooner bred.” She graduated from McLoud High School and the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics before getting a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Mathematics Education from the University of Oklahoma. She went on to obtain an M.B.A. from Oklahoma Christian University and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Oklahoma. In her free time, Amber enjoys spending time with her husband and three daughters and cheering on OU’s sports teams.

Education

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, University of Oklahoma (2015)
M.B.A., Leadership and Organizational Development, Oklahoma Christian (2011)
B.S.Ed., Secondary Mathematics Education, University of Oklahoma (2009)

Publications

Kudra, A., Rieger, A., Roth, T., Sedlmeir, J., Fridgen, G., & Young, A. (2025). “Digital Identity Wallets: How organizations can implement the EU’s new identity model,” Information Systems Journal.

Patel, J., Giddens, L., Wang, P., Ahuja, S. & Young, A. (2025). “Fostering Responsible Information Systems Research Ecosystems,” Communications of the AIS.

Young, A., Shuva, S., Roth, T., Zhu, Y., & Hevner, A. (2025). “Ethical Design through Grounding and Evaluation: The EDGE Method of Information Systems Design to Achieve Social Impacts,” Journal of Information Technology, 02683962241289598.

Smethurst, R., Young, A., & Wigdor, A. (2024). “Jürgen Habermas revisited via Tim Cook’s Wikipedia biography: A hermeneutic approach to critical Information Systems research,” Journal of Responsible Technology. 20, 100090.

Rieger, A., Roth, T., Sedlmeir, J., Fridgen, G., & Young, A. (2024). “Organizational Identity Management Policies,” Journal of the AIS, 25(3), 522-527.

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De Lurgio, S., Young, A. G., & Steelman, Z. (2023). Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations. AIS Transactions on Replication Research, 9(1), 7.

Lacity, M., Carmel, E., Young, A. G., & Roth, T. (2023). The Quiet Corner of Web3 That Means Business. MIT Sloan Management Review, 64(3).

Davison, R., Dennis, A., Young, A., & Shuva, S. (2022). “Anatomy of a Good Paper: Choosing Research Topics,” Communications of the AIS, 51(1), 543-553.

Young, A., Majchrzak, A., & Kane, G. (2021). “Reflection on Writing a Theory Paper:How to Theorize for the Future,” Journal of the AIS. 22(5), 1212-1223.

Young, A., Majchrzak, A., & Kane, G. (2021). “Organizing Workers and Machine Learning Tools for a Less Oppressive Workplace,” International Journal of Information Management. 59.

Kane, G., Young, A., Majchrzak, A., & Ransbotham, S. (2021). “Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory Assistants,” MIS Quarterly, 45(1) 371-396.

Young, A., Wigdor, A., & Kane, G. (2020). “The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co- creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 37(4), 1047-1072.

Myers, M., Chughtai, H., Tsibolane, P., Young, A., & Davidson, E. (2020). “Studying the Other or Becoming the Other: Engaging with Indigenous Peoples in IS Research," Communications of the AIS, 47(1), pp. 1-14.

Chughtai, H., Myers, M., Young, A., Borsa, T., Cardo, V., Demirkol, S., Morgan, C., Morton, S., Prior, C., Wilkin, J., Young, E., & Ozkula, S. (2020). “Demarginalizing inter-disciplinarity: Interdisciplinary research in marginalization,” Communicationsof the AIS, 46(1), 296-315.

Young, A., Selander, L., & Vaast, E. (2019). “Digital organizing for social impact: Current insights and future research avenues on collective action, social movements, and digital technologies,” Information & Organization, 29(3), 100257.

Ortiz, J., Young, A., Myers, M., Bedeley, A., Carbaugh, D., Chughtai, H., George, J., Gogan, J., Gordon, S., Grimshaw, E., Leidner, D., & Wigdor, A. (2019). “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Use of Digital Technologies by Marginalized Groups,” Communications of the AIS, 45, 20-38.

Young, A. (2018). “Using ICT for Social Good: Cultural Identity Restoration through Emancipatory Pedagogy,” Information Systems Journal, 28(2), 340-358.

Miranda, S., Young, A., & Yetgin, E. (2017). “Is the Digital Media a Panacea for the Ills of Mass Media Concentration?” London School of Economics Business Review.

Miranda, S., Young, A., & Yetgin, E. (2016). "Are Social Media Emancipatory or Hegemonic? Societal Effects of Mass Media Digitization." MIS Quarterly, 40(2),303-329.

Awards and Grants

AIS Distinguished Member, Cum Laude – 2023
AMCIS Top Papers – 2022
Barbara Lofton Summer Research Grant Award – 2022, 2023
- with Beverly Hodges
Best Paper Nominee at HICSS – 2016
Chesapeake STEM Grant – 2011
Faculty Global Research Grant – 2022, 2023
Isenberg Research Excellence Award – 2016
MIS Quarterly Scholarly Development Academy Inaugural Class – 2022
MSP Research Support Grant – 2015, 2016, 2017
Mutual Mellon Mentoring Team Grant Core Member – 2015
ONEOK Partners STEM Grant – 2011
Tyson Center for Faith-Friendly Workplaces Grant – 2025
- with Tamara Roth and Alex Rieger
UMass Flex Grant for Teaching/Faculty Development – 2015, 2016, 2017
University of Oklahoma Alumni Fellowship – 2011
William J. Alley-Rayonier Research Grant – 2013
Worldwide Universities Network Grant – 2018
- with Michael Myers, Hameed Chughtai, Elizabeth Davidson, and Rudolph Bedeley

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