Carol Ou
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Department: Management
Expertise: The Transformative Power of Technology
Academic Portrait
"A good researcher will never stop re-search-ing problems and solutions. Along the way, the diversity of people, ideas and objects can keep inspiration running. The main goal of my research is to understand how technology has transformed individuals, teams, organizations, business, and society. “Theory without practice is sterile. Practice without theory is blind. There is nothing so practical as a good theory": the immortal words of Kurt Lewin.
As a professor of Digital Transformation & Information Management, I hope my research can contribute to the understanding of problems, regardless of whether the problems exist at the individual or societal level, in a structural way. There is nothing better than building a theory based on data, because a theory is a structural way of understanding a phenomenon."
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