Digital Natives and Institutional Pluralism: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce

Vivian Yawen Zhou, Barney Tan, Xiao Xiao, Chunmian Ge

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Abstract

The workforce of the future will be mainly composed of Digital Natives (DNs), but little is presently known about how DN employees should be managed. More specifically, in the existing literature, there is a dearth of knowledge on the tensions that can arise between DNs and traditionalists in multi-generational workforce, as well as a lack of actionable prescriptions for managing them, particularly from an institutional perspective. To address these gaps, we conducted a case study of Airparking, one of the most commercially successful carpark sharing platforms in China. Based on the preliminary data from this ongoing study, we constructed a model that identifies three types of tensions that can arise between DNs and traditionalists in the areas of system development, business trajectory, and work orientation. The corresponding ways of resolving these tensions, based on the mechanism of loose coupling, are also presented and discussed in this paper
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Number of pages9
Place of PublicationAtlanta, GA
PublisherAssociation for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date2018
ISBN (Electronic)9780996683173
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018: Bridging the Internet of People, Data, and Things - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 13 Dec 201816 Dec 2018
Conference number: 39
https://icis2018.aisconferences.org/

Conference

Conference39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018
Number39
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period13/12/201816/12/2018
Internet address
SeriesProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
ISSN0000-0033

Keywords

  • Digital natives
  • Generational tensions
  • Institutional pluralism
  • Institutional logics
  • Loose coupling
  • Future of work
  • Digital workforce
  • Case study

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