Just ›A Machine for Doing Business‹?
Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-merger Telecommunications Company
- 260 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Just ›A Machine for Doing Business‹?
Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-merger Telecommunications Company
About this book
How is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schönian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un)workable technology. The book sheds light on the informal practices and politics surrounding the technology implementation process. 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 work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Intranet technologies
- 2 Researching the Intranet in Telecompany-X: Methodological Considerations
- 3 Cultivating differences: Orientation and sensemaking in the post‐merger company
- 4 A “medium of Internal Communications” and an “employee‐portal”: The divided Intranet
- 5 “This has to be coordinated”: Interacting with one another as part of ‘mundane’ knowledge work
- 6 Searching “our internal Google”: Working around and towards the intranet
- 7 Conclusion: More than a machine for doing business
- Bibliography