Digital Workplace Transformation: The Importance of Deinstitutionalising the Taken for Granted
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28th European Conference on Information Systems - ECIS 2020: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in a Digitizing World . ed. / Frantz Rowe; Redouane El Amrani. AIS eLibrary, 2020. 112 (ECIS Proceedings; Vol. 2020).
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T1 - Digital Workplace Transformation:
T2 - 28th European Conference on Information Systems - 2020
AU - Zimmer, Markus Philipp
AU - Baiyere, Abayomi
AU - Salmela, Hannu
N1 - Conference code: 28
PY - 2020/6/15
Y1 - 2020/6/15
N2 - Studies on digital workplace transformation (DWT) have shown that new technologies and practices supporting employee connectedness and responsive leadership form the digital workplace. Yet, for new workplace practices to emerge, some of the existing practices need to disappear. Investigating a car manufacturer's (Auto) DWT, we conduct an ethnographic narrative analysis on documents that Auto composed and distributed to communicate its rationale for its DWT as well as its intentions and implemented changes to its employees. We identify actors and how their actions connect them to Au-to's DWT. Drawing on institutional theory and the concept of deinstitutionalisation, we identify institutional pressures that Auto constructs as rationale for its DWT. These institutional pressures extend the imperative for DWT beyond the technology imperative taken in extant studies on DWT. Further, the documents tell stories of DWT occasionally meaning abandoning established practices rather than adding more of the new (digital technology enabled practices).
AB - Studies on digital workplace transformation (DWT) have shown that new technologies and practices supporting employee connectedness and responsive leadership form the digital workplace. Yet, for new workplace practices to emerge, some of the existing practices need to disappear. Investigating a car manufacturer's (Auto) DWT, we conduct an ethnographic narrative analysis on documents that Auto composed and distributed to communicate its rationale for its DWT as well as its intentions and implemented changes to its employees. We identify actors and how their actions connect them to Au-to's DWT. Drawing on institutional theory and the concept of deinstitutionalisation, we identify institutional pressures that Auto constructs as rationale for its DWT. These institutional pressures extend the imperative for DWT beyond the technology imperative taken in extant studies on DWT. Further, the documents tell stories of DWT occasionally meaning abandoning established practices rather than adding more of the new (digital technology enabled practices).
KW - Business informatics
KW - Digital Transformation
KW - Digital Workplace
KW - Deinstitutionalisation
KW - institutional theory
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - ECIS Proceedings
BT - 28th European Conference on Information Systems - ECIS 2020
A2 - Rowe, Frantz
A2 - El Amrani, Redouane
PB - AIS eLibrary
Y2 - 15 June 2020 through 17 June 2020
ER -