Digital Organizing: Revisiting Themes in Organization Studies

Description

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.

Ursula Plesner is an associate professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Most of her work examines the relationship between digital technologies and organization in different sectors and industries. She uses her research-based insights in executive teaching focusing primarily on how to organize and manage work around digital technologies. Her work has appeared in journals such as Organization and Strategic Organization. Her work on journalism and digitization has been published in Journalism and in Journal of Organizational Change Management. Emil Husted is an assistant professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He is the author of articles and book chapters on the organization of political parties and social movements. His work has appeared in journals such as Organization, Culture and Organization, The Information Society, and ephemera. Emil teaches on the intersection of politics, organization, and digital technology, and he frequently appears in public debates as an expert on the internal dynamics of political parties.

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. * Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics, UK * This book sees the digital revolution not only in its discontinuities with past practices but also its continuities ... An invaluable resource. * Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney Business School, Australia * A refreshing perspective on digital phenomena and their impact on today's organizations and ways of working ... Timely and useful. * Anne-Laure Fayard, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA *