ISBN:
9783839461877
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 p.)
Series Statement:
Labor and organization Volume 8
Parallel Title:
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Dissertation note:
Dissertation European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) 2021
DDC:
605
Keywords:
Sociology
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Telekommunikationswirtschaft
;
Fusion
;
Intranet
;
Corporate Identity
;
Mitarbeiter
;
Ambivalenz
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Intranet technologies -- 1.1 Just "a machine for doing business"? -- 1.2 The post‐industrial economy: Cognitive‐cultural capitalism and "immaterial labour" -- 1.3 Research questions and observations -- 1.4 Theories of practice in organisation researchand Science & -- Technology Studies -- 1.5 A practice‐theoretical understanding of mergers and organisational cultures -- 1.6 Empirical Case: The intranet in Telecompany-X -- 1.7 More than a machine for doing business -- 1.8 Chapter outline -- 2 Researching the Intranet in Telecompany-X: Methodological Considerations -- 2.1 Methodological rationale -- 2.2 Entering field sites: Initial interviews -- 2.3 Extending sites, aligning focus: Telecompany-X -- 2.3.1 Gaining access -- 2.3.2 Maintaining access -- 2.3.3 Two groups of employees -- 2.4 Generating field data: Opportunities and limitations -- 2.4.1 Company visits and 'guided tours' through the intranet -- 2.4.2 In there, but outside: Shifting research positions -- 2.5 Analysing field data: Crafting the research narrative -- 2.5.1 Selecting analytical themes from interviews with software developers and others -- 2.5.2 Identifying analytical topics from company visits and 'guided tours' through the intranet -- 2.5.3 Organising analytical themes and topics -- 3 Cultivating differences: Orientation and sensemaking in the post‐merger company -- 3.1 Merger processes in research and literature: Corporate cultures and organisational control -- 3.2 Post‐industrial management practices: Organisational identity work and regulation -- 3.3 Caught in difference: Orientation in the merging company -- 3.4 Making sense of the post‐merger company: The discursive construction of (in-)distinctiveness -- 3.4.1 Upholding difference: "These were totally different worlds clashing".
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