TY - JOUR

T1 - Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization

T2 - Toward a critical agenda

AU - Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah

AU - Scherer, Andreas Georg

AU - Munro, Iain

AU - Whelan, Glen

PY - 2021/1

Y1 - 2021/1

N2 - Digitalization has far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society. While extant management and organization studies mainly focus on the positive aspects of this development, the dark and potentially unexpected sides of digitalization for organizations and organizing have received less scholarly attention. This special issue extends this emerging debate. Drawing on empirical material of platform corporations, social movements, and traditional corporations, eight articles illuminate the various negative implications of the digitalization of work and organization processes, particularly for workers, employees, and activists. In this introduction, we contextualize these valuable contributions that underline the dangers of the ubiquity and simultaneity of digitalization and begin to sketch out potential avenues toward a comprehensive critical agenda of digitalization in organization studies.

AB - Digitalization has far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society. While extant management and organization studies mainly focus on the positive aspects of this development, the dark and potentially unexpected sides of digitalization for organizations and organizing have received less scholarly attention. This special issue extends this emerging debate. Drawing on empirical material of platform corporations, social movements, and traditional corporations, eight articles illuminate the various negative implications of the digitalization of work and organization processes, particularly for workers, employees, and activists. In this introduction, we contextualize these valuable contributions that underline the dangers of the ubiquity and simultaneity of digitalization and begin to sketch out potential avenues toward a comprehensive critical agenda of digitalization in organization studies.

KW - dark side

KW - digital technologies

KW - digital transformation

KW - Digitalization

KW - organizations

KW - platforms

KW - technology

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096220829&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1350508420968184

DO - 10.1177/1350508420968184

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85096220829

VL - 28

SP - 8

EP - 25

JO - Organization

JF - Organization

SN - 1350-5084

IS - 1

ER -