This important new textbook offers a lively and topical discussion of how digital technologies impact various aspects of organizations, such as structure, knowledge, collaboration, communication, identity, legitimacy and power. Taking a critical and nuanced approach, this engaging textbook introduces readers to central themes in organization studies and reflects on how changes brought about by digitalization have important implications for private, public and voluntary organizations, and on practical disciplines such as strategy, management, innovation and entrepreneurship. Contemporary case studies drawn from a wide range of international organizations demonstrate the real-world relationship between digital technologies and organizing.
This is an essential textbook for final year undergraduates, postgraduates and MBA students taking a module in technology and organization. It is also suitable for any student of organizational studies wanting to understand more about the role that the digital plays in contemporary organizing.
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PART 1: DIGITAL ORGANIZING
1. The Digital and the Organizational
2. Technology as a Theme in Organization Studies
3. Perspectives on Technology and Organization
PART 2: REVISITING THEMES IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES
4. Structure and Infrastructure
5. Production and Produsage
6. Collaboration and Co-Creation
7. Knowledge and Datafication
8. Communication and Interactivity
9. Legitimacy and Transparency
10. Power and Empowerment
11. Implications of Digital Organizing.
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This excellent book provides a profound and systematic overview of how work is actually changing with digital technologies ... A must-read for anyone involved in organization studies.
This important new textbook explores the relationship between digitalization and organization. It introduces readers to central themes in organization studies and reflects on how changes brought about by digitalization have important implications for all organizations.
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The first textbook to explore this dynamic and important topic
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781137604910
Publisert
2019-11-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Red Globe Press
Vekt
404 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272