She joined IESE in 2000. Previously, she was associate professor at University Pompeu Fabra. From 2001 to 2004, she was appointed as the Academic Director of the PwC-IESE ebCenter. In 2003, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
Dr. Sieber has worked extensively on the impact of Information and Communication technologies on organizational and individual work practices, being especially interested in the most recent developments on the impact of social media on organizations. She has recently finalized a global study on the impact of web 2.0 on inter- and intraorganizational collaboration. Currently, she is also involved in a research project on the impact of web 2.0 on the development of new (crowd) sourcing models.
A second area of interest of Dr. Sieber pivots around the interplay of strategic management and information technology, as well as on the role of new information and communication technologies for organizational learning, knowledge management and innovation. She has studied problems of technology adoption and IS implementation in great depth.
From an industry perspective, Dr. Sieber is especially interested in those industries that are being transformed by recent technological advances, such as telecommunication, banking, media and entertainment.
Dr. Sieber has published scholarly and general articles in national and international journals, magazines and newspapers, and contributed to several books. She usually presents her work in the leading conferences of the field, such as ICIS and ECIS. She has served on the organizing committees of a number of conferences. To mention a few, she was the Local Organizing Chair for the ICIS 2002 Doctoral Consortium. That year, she also was the Organizing Chair for the IFIP 8.2 Corking Conference, and of the WISE workshop. In 2007, Sandra Sieber was the Academic co-chair of the IFIP 8.2 Working Conference in Portland, OR, and served as a track chair at ICIS 2010. In 2012, she will be the co-chair of ECIS in Barcelona and the co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium of ICIS in Orlando, Florida.