NetWORKing: Connecting Workers In and Between Organizations
Published on 21. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-444-81720-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a multi-disciplinary examination of many of the implications of computer based networks for organizations and for the people who work in and manage them. It addresses the technical challenges involved - and the new approaches and concepts needed to tackle them - as well as the consequences for work, organization and social practices. Several features distinguish it from other publications in the area - namely, an emphasis on the implications for workers, rather than management; critical rather than celebratory studies; and a reflection of a broad range of disciplines.In addition to providing a theoretical overview of the field, the publication specifically explores the themes of: participation and power; reading over distances; privacy versus transparency; information policy and the changes that networking can bring to organizations and how to manage them. It also aims to shed new light on fundamental questions about how we understand our social/technical worlds in this time of great flux, threat and promise.Academic and industrial researchers concerned with the workplace implications of computer networking will find the book of particular importance. However, it will also provide stimulating reading for a variety of social scientists, especially sociologists and political scientists.
This book offers a multi-disciplinary examination of many of the implications of computer based networks for organizations and for the people who work in and manage them. It addresses the technical challenges involved - and the new approaches and concepts needed to tackle them - as well as the consequences for work, organization and social practices. Several features distinguish it from other publications in the area - namely, an emphasis on the implications for workers, rather than management; critical rather than celebratory studies; and a reflection of a broad range of disciplines.In addition to providing a theoretical overview of the field, the publication specifically explores the themes of: participation and power; reading over distances; privacy versus transparency; information policy and the changes that networking can bring to organizations and how to manage them. It also aims to shed new light on fundamental questions about how we understand our social/technical worlds in this time of great flux, threat and promise.Academic and industrial researchers concerned with the workplace implications of computer networking will find the book of particular importance. However, it will also provide stimulating reading for a variety of social scientists, especially sociologists and political scientists.
This book offers a multi-disciplinary examination of many of the implications of computer based networks for organizations and for the people who work in and manage them. It addresses the technical challenges involved - and the new approaches and concepts needed to tackle them - as well as the consequences for work, organization and social practices. Several features distinguish it from other publications in the area - namely, an emphasis on the implications for workers, rather than management; critical rather than celebratory studies; and a reflection of a broad range of disciplines.In addition to providing a theoretical overview of the field, the publication specifically explores the themes of: participation and power; reading over distances; privacy versus transparency; information policy and the changes that networking can bring to organizations and how to manage them. It also aims to shed new light on fundamental questions about how we understand our social/technical worlds in this time of great flux, threat and promise.Academic and industrial researchers concerned with the workplace implications of computer networking will find the book of particular importance. However, it will also provide stimulating reading for a variety of social scientists, especially sociologists and political scientists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-444-81720-4 (9780444817204)
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Preface. Acknowledgements. Previous IFIP WG9.1 (Computer and Work) Conferences. Networking Perspectives: Invited Presentations. Introductory remarks on speed and development (P. Blau). Reconstructing understandings of organisation (M. Robinson). Tele-racism: the role of IT in making fascist images socially acceptable (G. Steinhardt). Participation and Power. Networking: participation and power (T. Bratteteig). Engaged effort and local area networks (L. Bishop). Social control and social contract in networking: total quality management and the control of knowledge work (H.K. Klein, P. Kraft). Network technology and organizational control: a case study of decision making and industrial relations in a privatized public enterprise (T.M. Bos, E.P.A. de Ru, C. Slips). Computer-mediated communication as employee voice: the profit sharing plan (L. Bishop, D. Levine). Reaching Over Distances. From electronic networks to mediated collaborative research: the optimism and obstacles (D. Sanderson). Loss of situative context and its relevance for computer mediated communication and cooperation (T. Herrmann). Telecommunication and strategic networks in rural areas (A. Jansen). Trouble at the boundaries: changes in everyday life through computer networks (H. Schelhowe). Privacy Versus Transparency. Networking: transparency versus privacy (J. Flecker). Working in (and on) the electronic Fischbowl? Privacy aspects of multi-media communications (A. Clement). Considering privacy-aspects in designing CSCW-applications (E. Egger). The ambivalence of network visibility in an organizational context (V. Wulf, A. Hartmann). Risks of networking as risks of discourses (H.-J. Weissbach). Information Policy. Distributing resources through network utilisation (R. Keil-Slawik). The politics of networking in health care (O. Hanseth, K. Thoresen, L. Winner). Torn between values and interests: standardization in a European context (T.M. Egyedi). Interorganizational networking and the institutional gap (K. Monse, K. Reimers). Networking Changes Organizations and Their Management. When negotiation and interpretation processes limit computer-based networks (W. Beuschel). Networking in services: organisational and professional changes (P. Vendramin, G. Valenduc). Integrated gender perspectives on human-centred approaches to developing computerised office systems (E. Green, D. Pain). Empowering team work with coordination technologies: an organizational learning perspective (T. Kaekoelae). Cognitive couplers: towards a new generation of organizational support systems (D. Nicolini, L. Gugliotti).