Abstract
This paper explores the introduction of Enterprise Social Media into organizational practices. The investigation draws on Foucault’s perspective of dispositif analysis as an approach to analyzing and understanding the influence of technology on organizations. The dispositif analysis is pursued through the illustration of an organization implementing an enterprise social media technology for the practice of knowledge management. In the analysis two dispositifs are considered, a dispositif of hierarchy and a dispositif of network. A discussion is carried on the dispositif analysis as a method including opportunities and limitations. It is argued that allowing for the analysis of historically formed dispositifs can add to our way of understanding the influences of technology on the social order of organizations.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2014 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | The 30th EGOS Colloquium 2014: Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Duration: 3 Jul 2014 → 5 Jul 2014 Conference number: 30 http://www.egosnet.org/home |
Conference
| Conference | The 30th EGOS Colloquium 2014 |
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| Number | 30 |
| Location | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University |
| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Rotterdam |
| Period | 03/07/2014 → 05/07/2014 |
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