Just >A Machine for Doing Business: Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-Merger Telecommunications Company Schonian Katja
Just >A Machine for Doing Business: Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-Merger Telecommunications Company Schonian Katja How is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger…
Specifikacia Just >A Machine for Doing Business: Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-Merger Telecommunications Company Schonian Katja
Just >A Machine for Doing Business: Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-Merger Telecommunications Company Schonian Katja
How is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Katja Schnian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet.
The book sheds light on the informal practices and politics surrounding the technology implementation process. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schnian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un)workable technology. It provides readers with new insights into the dynamics of a merger integration process, the production of worker subjectivity, and the increasing involvement of technologies in contemporary knowledge