Making sense of new technology during organisational change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11489643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noelia‐Sarah Reynolds (0000-0002-1525-7496, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-157 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Technology Work and Employment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1072 • E-ISSN: 1468-005X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ntwe.12045 |
| OpenAlex | W1591000229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 71 |
This article examines how employees interpret the use of various social media and web 2.0 technologies by managers of an organisation during a merger process. The article explores the way in which managers use technology to give sense to the merger process, the corresponding sensemaking of employees and also how employees make sense of the use of technology itself. The findings show that new media enables the sharing of emotional sense about organisational processes between managers and employees and places employees with different levels of involvement with the process and at different points in the organisational hierarchy on equal footing. In spite of this, employees view the use of technology negatively and feel mastered by the technology itself. In discussing these unintended consequences of the use of this technology, the article further discusses the paradoxes that emerge from using new technology to give sense during organisational change
Business · Hierarchy · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Sensemaking · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Corporate Identity and Reputation · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |