Technological Grounding

Enrolling Technology as a Discursive Resource to Justify Cultural Change in Organizations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5337576
AutoresPaul M Leonardi (0000-0003-0929-8731, Northwestern University, Leonardi@ northwestern.edu), Michele H Jackson (0000-0002-6306-7814, University of Colorado)
Año2009
Volumen34
Número3
Páginas393-418
Fecha de publicación2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243908328771
OpenAlexW3125040347
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas48

In technologically grounded organizations, culture is bound tightly to the material characteristics of the technology that the organization manufactures, distributes, or services. Technological grounding helps explain why high-technology organizations often experience cultural integration problems following a merger. Examining the recent merger of US West and Qwest, this article analyzes how powerful actors strategically used the process of technological grounding to enroll a core technology to situate postmerger integration in technological terms, creating a discourse of inevitability that then justified publicly Qwest's cultural domination of US West

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