A growing body of literature suggests that communication constitutes organizations, but this argument requires refinement to address its remaining flaws. This essay the tremendous potential using Michel Foucault’s work grasp underlying meaning and respond shortcomings. The proposed Foucauldian-based process model highlights links across main lines thought, applied relationships among technology, discourse, discipline, control, subject, identity in an organization. By reframing concept...

Purpose Recent years have witnessed the birth and rapid development of “coworking” spaces that are likely to affect classic models work organizations. This paper aims identify crucial issues raised by this phenomenon, for both practitioners researchers, in management organization theory. Design/methodology/approach To describe growing current presents an in-depth analysis existing literature identifies social, organizational managerial coworking. Findings A review how research has analyzed...

The new world of work is being characterized by the emergence what are, apparently, increasingly autonomous ways working and living. Mobile work, coworking, flex office, platform-based entrepreneurship, virtual collaborations, Do It Yourself (DIT), remote digital nomads, among other trends, epitomize organizing practice that purportedly align productivity with freedom. But most ethnographical research already reveals many paradoxical experiences associated these practices processes. Indeed,...

Purpose – In reference to increasing consumerization, this article investigates how organizations react employees’ adoption and use of personal devices at work, such as by incorporating innovative, individual, IT-driven changes into their corporate practices. The paper aims discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Four in-depth, longitudinal case studies, conducted between 2006 2010, feature 92 interviews observations ensure triangulation. Findings We identify three types...

Communities and platforms pervade all aspects of the collaborative economy. Yet, they exist in apparent tension. The economy is grounded communities. These are typically characterized by isonomic relations, which singularity members finds its distinctiveness being woven into mutual, collective endeavor. also entails digital organized through largely heteronomic relations employees users configured as isolate, useful, interchangeable, flexible “units.” As such, communities traditionally...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide useful insights on “bring your own device” (BYOD) and IT consumerization, help organizations understand how address their consequences. For young, tech-savvy workers, using devices at work represents a right, rather than privilege, leading them initiate growing, yet under-researched, drive toward consumerization. Some companies already deploy BYOD programs, allowing employees use personal for work-related activities, but other managers remain...

Le concept de panoptique développé par M. Foucault a été largement utilisé dans la recherche en systèmes d’information (SI) et théorie des organisations afin décrire les formes récentes contrôle organisationnel qui se sont développées avec le recours massif aux technologies l’information communication (TIC). Ce cadre s’est longtemps avéré pertinent, mais caractéristiques nouvelles TIC, comme l’ubiquité, nous amènent à repenser dispositifs organisationnels. Cet article mobilise travaux G....

Abstract Research on the dark side of computer‐mediated control has explained consequences when work is tightly coupled with its electronic representation because information systems record automatically. Our study complements prior research by addressing and are loosely coupled, it employees who report their in IT systems. Data from a 15‐month ethnographic appropriation customer relationship management system sales department large organization reveal that versus produce key differences...

Le Cloud Computing est de plus en souvent décrit comme le nouveau paradigme l’informatique moderne. Dans cet article, notre objectif comprendre les mécanismes qui poussent à la décision d’implanter une solution dans organisations. Cette recherche adopte méthodologie qualitative, fondée sur l’analyse d’entretiens ouverts et semi-directifs auprès personnes directement concernées par processus d’envol vers Computing. Différents corps métiers secteurs sont représentés, avec entre autres des...

This study aims to better understand the modern evolution of workplace not only as a place work but also increasingly live. Current research largely excludes instrumental aspects this blurring personal and professional spheres at work, manifested in an intentional dissolution boundaries between non-work activities. To meaning implications these new workplaces, which rely on central tension care control tend reinterpret paternalism organizing principle, develops conceptual framework derived...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics that underlie contradictions and paradoxes in organizational change over time. Little research has explored role continuous cycle organizing, which are simultaneously embedded process outcomes change. An encompassing framework, based on thinking Michel Foucault, more fully captures both paradoxical roots effects Design/methodology/approach in‐depth qualitative case study an IT‐based a company offers clear longitudinal analysis,...

Abstract The well‐known metaphor of ‘panopticon’, derived from Bentham's project and popularized by Foucault, has long informed scholarly conversations in management organization studies (MOS). Herein, we question the power this emblematic metaphor. Through an in‐depth literature review specifying its form , principle goal coupled to investigation original writings, identify two readings panopticon. First, disentangle uses concept MOS highlight a rather uniform negative interpretation...

Bien que les relations entre contrôle et technologies de l’information (TI) aient fait l’objet nombreuses recherches en théorie des organisations management systèmes d’information, passées se focalisent essentiellement sur situations « couplage fort » l’activité sa représentation, offrant une vision réductrice du rôle contrôlé, souvent considéré comme la victime pratiques disciplinaire. Cet article conceptuel propose renouvelée technologique à partir d’une relecture contrôle, information TI....

Cet article analyse les antécédents de la résistance interne et externe au changement nom marque ses conséquences sur le capital marque. Une recherche qualitative menée auprès 10 managers 40 consommateurs, suggère que, tant en qu’en externe, niveau d’implication, bénéfice perçu du leur attachement à substituée peuvent diminuer changement. Divers leviers optimisant gestion sont proposés afin favoriser transfert abandonnée vers nouvelle