Enterprise Social Media Influence on Organizational Practice: A Dispositif Analysis Perspective

Signe  Dyrby

Enterprise Social Media Influence on Organizational Practice: A Dispositif Analysis Perspective

Signe Dyrby

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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
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

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Conference	The 30th EGOS Colloquium 2014
Number	30
Location	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Country	Netherlands
City	Rotterdam
Period	03/07/2014 → 05/07/2014
Internet address	http://www.egosnet.org/home

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