TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schönian,Katja
TI  - Just ›A Machine for Doing Business‹?: Sociomaterial Configurations of the Intranet in a Post-merger Telecommunications Company 
T2  - Arbeit und Organisation
SN  - 9783839461877
AV  - HD30.385 .S36 2022
U1  - 658/.054682 23/eng/20221021
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Consolidation and merger of corporations
KW  - Information storage and retrieval systems
KW  - Intranets (Computer networks)
KW  - Branding
KW  - Culture
KW  - Digital Media
KW  - Digitalization
KW  - Ethnographic Methodologies
KW  - Information Technology
KW  - Internet
KW  - Organisational Identity
KW  - Practice
KW  - Social Relations
KW  - Sociology of Media
KW  - Sociology of Organizations
KW  - Sociology of Work and Industry
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Work
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Figures and Tables --; 1 Introduction: Intranet technologies --; 2 Researching the Intranet in Telecompany-X: Methodological Considerations --; 3 Cultivating differences: Orientation and sensemaking in the post-merger company --; 4 A “medium of Internal Communications” and an “employee-portal”: The divided Intranet --; 5 “This has to be coordinated”: Interacting with one another as part of ‘mundane’ knowledge work --; 6 Searching “our internal Google”: Working around and towards the intranet --; 7 Conclusion: More than a machine for doing business --; Bibliography; restricted access
N2  - How does a new intranet shape an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schönian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un-)workable technology. This book provides readers with new insights into the dynamics of a merger integration process and the increasing digitalization of contemporary knowledge work
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839461877?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839461877
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839461877/original
ER  -