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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136504903321

Autore

Belliger Andréa <p>Andréa Belliger, Institut für Kommunikation & Führung, Schweiz </p>

Titolo

Organizing Networks : An Actor-Network Theory of Organizations / Andréa Belliger, David J. Krieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016

ISBN

9783839436165

3839436168

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Sozialtheorie

Classificazione

AP 13550

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Organization Theory

Actor-Network Theory

Digital Transformation

Network Society

Networked Organization

Networked Management

Social Theory

Economy

Social Relations

Society

Sociology of Organizations

Sociological Theory

Media Theory

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Content    5 Preface    7 Introduction    9 1. Things Have Gotten Out of Hand - On Technical Mediation    29 2. The Communicative Constitution of Organizations CCO    53 3. Staging and Narrative - Localizing and Globalizing    79 4. The New Media Revolution and the Network Society    147 5. Organizing Networks in the Digital Age    173 6. Conclusion    243 Literature    251

Sommario/riassunto

What are organizations? Where do they come from? How are they



transformed and adapted to new situations? In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.