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Abstract
Organisational practices preserving conventional social orders and past practices – inertia of the past – are fundamental in trying to understand organisational change when adopting new technologies. Nevertheless, in studies of technological change in organisations, it is more common to treat inertia as the opposite to change, consequently, as the source of resistance to technological advancement. It is therefore less known how inertia enables change, also how both are enacted through social practices as bodily, cognitive, affective, purposeful and communicative engagement. Thus, we take communicative approach and practice theory framework in order to analyse how conventional linguistic means help organisational members to make sense of the technological change at their workplace. We use interviews with workers and managers from two manufacturing firms, in which production processes are continually transformed from manual work to industrial robot-assisted work. Based on preliminary findings, organisation members use conventional discourse for making sense of changed social and communicative practices at work. We suggest conventional linguistic means of human-human interaction that may be used to give sense to organisational change (human-robot interaction), and to retain old rules of practice.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - Oct 2019 |
Event | 35th EGOS Colloquium: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations: Sub-theme 05: [SWG] Organization as Communication: Exploring the Communicative Incarnation of Organization - University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2019 → 6 Jul 2019 |
Conference
Conference | 35th EGOS Colloquium: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Edinburgh |
Period | 4/07/19 → 6/07/19 |
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Director of OAT/CICS.NOVA
António Brandão Moniz (Member), Nuno Boavida (Recipient) & Marta Sofia Guilherme Silva Candeias (Recipient)
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