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Just 'a machine for doing business'? : sociomaterial configurations of the intranet in a post-merger telecommunications company /

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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schönian, Katja (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2022]
Colección:Arbeit und Organisation ; Bd. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Intranet technologies -- 1.1 Just "a machine for doing business"? -- 1.2 The post-industrial economy: Cognitive-cultural capitalism and "immaterial labour" -- 1.3 Research questions and observations -- 1.4 Theories of practice in organisation researchand Science & Technology Studies -- 1.5 A practice-theoretical understanding of mergers and organisational cultures -- 1.6 Empirical Case: The intranet in Telecompany-X -- 1.7 More than a machine for doing business -- 1.8 Chapter outline 
505 8 |a 2 Researching the Intranet in Telecompany-X: Methodological Considerations -- 2.1 Methodological rationale -- 2.2 Entering field sites: Initial interviews -- 2.3 Extending sites, aligning focus: Telecompany-X -- 2.3.1 Gaining access -- 2.3.2 Maintaining access -- 2.3.3 Two groups of employees -- 2.4 Generating field data: Opportunities and limitations -- 2.4.1 Company visits and 'guided tours' through the intranet -- 2.4.2 In there, but outside: Shifting research positions -- 2.5 Analysing field data: Crafting the research narrative 
505 8 |a 2.5.1 Selecting analytical themes from interviews with software developers and others -- 2.5.2 Identifying analytical topics from company visits and 'guided tours' through the intranet -- 2.5.3 Organising analytical themes and topics -- 3 Cultivating differences: Orientation and sensemaking in the post-merger company -- 3.1 Merger processes in research and literature: Corporate cultures and organisational control -- 3.2 Post-industrial management practices: Organisational identity work and regulation -- 3.3 Caught in difference: Orientation in the merging company 
505 8 |a 3.4 Making sense of the post-merger company: The discursive construction of (in-)distinctiveness -- 3.4.1 Upholding difference: "These were totally different worlds clashing" -- 3.4.2 Overlooking and downplaying difference, nurturing coherence: "That doesn't exist anymore, the division" -- 3.5 Integrating post-merger identity work -- 4 A "medium of Internal Communications" and an "employee-portal": The divided Intranet -- 4.1 The intranet's starting page and newsfeed -- 4.2 Branding the merger: Corporate and internal brand management in Telecompany-X 
505 8 |a 4.3 The intranet as a "medium of Internal Communications" -- 4.3.1 Beyond the intranet: Constructing the "Einfach Macher" -- 4.3.2 The intranet as 'integration' and 'change' agent -- 4.4 A "tool of purpose": The intranet as part of everyday work -- 4.4.1 Un-reading the newsfeed: "You would need time to read through it" -- 4.4.2 Hierarchising content and applications: "This is playing around" -- 4.4.3 Making fun of identification and team building efforts: "But we rarely watch TV, only at home" -- 4.5 A divided intranet that engages the 'many' users 
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