The Telfer School of Management is delighted to present Professor Mayur Joshi with the 2026 Emerging Researcher Award, an honour that recognizes outstanding potential to produce original and impactful research.
Professor Joshi's cutting-edge research sits at the crossroads of information systems, organization theory, and artificial intelligence, where he investigates how digital technologies, including AI, shape and are shaped by the fundamental practices, processes, and strategies of organizing. He is turning questions about the future of work into rigorous, real-world insights!
Professor Joshi joined Telfer as an assistant professor in information systems, having earned his PhD from Ivey Business School at Western University. Before joining Telfer, he taught as a lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the banking industry, where firsthand experience with technology implementation projects sparked his mission to understand how organizations can navigate digital transformation more effectively.
He holds the Father Edgar Thivierge Fellowship in AI and Transformation of Work, Occupations, and Organizations, a recognition of his distinctive focus on how AI is reshaping professional roles and organizational structures. He has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his project titled "Evolving nature of work in the era of artificial intelligence," through which he investigates how AI is affecting practices and relationships across various sectors.
His work has appeared in top-tier outlets including MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His research goes beyond theoretical advances: it surfaces the real organizational challenges that arise when AI meets human expertise, and charts a path toward more thoughtful, evidence-based adoption of these technologies.
A notable example of his public impact is his co-authored piece in MIT Sloan Management Review, examining why so many data science projects fail to deliver on their promise, a question that resonates across industries grappling with AI implementation. He also co-edited the Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making in Organizations, published in 2024, providing a comprehensive framework to help organizations integrate AI into their decision-making processes.
Professor Joshi has received the AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award, he been recognized on MIT Sloan Management Review's Top 10 Articles of the Year list, and he received best associate editor awards at leading conferences including ECIS and AoM. He serves on the editorial boards of the Information Systems Journal and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, contributing to the advancement of the field well beyond his own institution.
His research challenges comfortable assumptions about technology resistance and organizational heritage. His work demonstrates that in many cases, practitioners are very much willing to experiment with emerging digital technologies, yet organizations still fail to do so, and understanding the reasoning behind this gap is central to his research agenda.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to research innovation and his dedication to producing knowledge that matters for Canadian organizations and beyond, Telfer congratulates Professor Joshi on receiving the 2026 Emerging Researcher Award.
