The differential impact of ICT on employees: Narratives from a hi-tech organisation

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-132

  Barnes, Sally Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Communication; ICT; Integration of technology; Organisational culture; Social constructivism

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84862841199     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2012.00283.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bijker, W.E. (2010), 'How Is Technology Made? That Is the Question!', Cambridge Journal of Economics 34, 1, 63-76.
2. Clark, J., I. McLoughlin, H. Rose and R. King (1988), The Process of Technological Change: New Technology and Social Choice in the Workplace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
3. Dery, K., R. Hall and N. Wales (2006), 'ERPs as "Technologies in-Practice": Social Construction, Materiality and the Role of Organisational Factors', New Technology, Work and Employment 21, 3, 229-241.
4. Ferraris, M., S. Manca, D. Persico and L. Sarti (2000), 'Managing the Change from Face-to-Face to Distance Training for SMEs', Computers and Education 34, 2, 77-91.
5. Handy, C. (1996), Beyond Certainty: The Changing World of Organisations (Boston: Harvard Business School).
6. Kallinikos, J. (2004), 'Farewell to Constructivism: Technology and Context-Embedded Action', in C. Avgerou, C. Ciborra and F. Land (eds), The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 162-182.
7. Lai, Y. and B. Burchell (2008), 'Distributed Work: Communication in an "Officeless Firm"', New Technology, Work and Employment 23, 1-2, 61-76.
8. Leonardi, P.M. (2007), 'Activating the Informational Capabilities of Information Technology for Organizational Change', Organization Science 18, 5, 813-831.
9. Leonardi, P.M. and S.R. Barley (2010), 'What's under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing', The Academy of Management Annals 4, 1, 1-51.
10. Lupton, D. and G. Noble (1997), 'Just a Machine? Dehumanizing Strategies in Personal Computer Use', Body and Society 3, 2, 83-101.
11. MacKenzie, D. and J. Wajcman (1999), The Social Shaping of Technology, 2nd edn (Milton Keynes: Open University Press).
12. Markus, M.L. and D. Robey (1988), 'Information Technology and Organizational Change: Causal Structure in Theory and Research', Management Science 34, 5, 583-598.
13. McLoughlin, I. and J. Clark (1994), Technological Change at Work (Buckingham: Open University Press).
14. McLoughlin, I. and P.J. Jackson (1999), 'Organisational Learning and the Virtual Organisation', in P. Jackson (ed.), Virtual Working: Social and Organisational Dynamics (London: Routledge), pp. 178-192.
15. Mumford, E. (2000), 'Socio-Technical Design: An Unfulfilled Promise of a Future Opportunity', in R. Baskerville, J. Stage and J. DeGross (eds), Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology (London: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 33-46.
16. Ogbonna, E. and L.C. Harris (2006), 'Organisational Culture in the Age of the Internet: An Exploratory Study', New Technology, Work and Employment 21, 2, 162-175.
17. Orlikowski, W.J. (2000), 'Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations', Organization Science 11, 4, 404-428.
18. Orlikowski, W.J. (2007), 'Sociomaterial Practices: Exploring Technology at Work', Organization Studies 28, 9, 1435-1448.
19. Orlikowski, W.J. and S.V. Scott (2008), 'Chapter 10: Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organisation', The Academy of Management Annals 2, 1, 433-474.
20. Orlikowski, W.J., J. Yates, K. Okmura and M. Fujimoto (1995), 'Shaping Electronic Communication: The Metastructuring of Technology in the Context of Use', Organization Science 6, 4, 423-444.
21. Ritchie, B. and C. Brindley (2005), 'ICT Adoption by SMEs: Implications for Relationships and Management', New Technology, Work and Employment 20, 3, 205-217.
22. Strauss, A. and J. Corbin (1998), Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques, 2nd edn (London: Sage).
23. Symon, G. (2000), 'Information and Communication Technologies and the Network Organization: A Critical Analysis', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 73, 4, 389-414.
24. Wajcman, J. (2006), 'New Connections: Social Studies of Science and Technology and Studies of Work', Work, Employment and Society 20, 4, 773-786.
25. Walther, J.B. (1996), 'Computer-Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal and Hyperpersonal Interaction', Communication Research 23, 1, 3-43.
26. Weick, K.E. (1990), 'Technology as Equivoque: Sensemaking in New Technologies', in P.S. Goodman and L.S. Sproull (eds), Technology and Organizations (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers), pp. 1-44.
27. Zammuto, R.F., T.L. Griffith, M. Majchrzak, D.J. Dougherty and S. Faraj (2007), 'Information Technology and the Changing Fabric of Organization', Organization Science 18, 5, 749-762.