An international project funded by the Swedish Funding Council FORTE, the Digitalisation of Management investigates the consequences of digital technology for middle management roles.
Digitalisation, the development and implementation of increasingly smarter, faster and cheaper digitally-based technology, is transforming organisational processes and practices. This technology opens up new possibilities for both co-ordination and control by changing power structures in working life through real-time surveillance.
Together with Märladalen University in Sweden, the Business School is developing comparative knowledge on digitalisation and its consequences for management within Swedish and UK organisations.
Started in January 2017, the research from this six-year program of work is expected to impact public and private organisations undergoing digital transformation. It will also contribute conceptually and methodologically to the development of what has been termed ‘sociomateriality’.
The project encompasses four sub-projects focusing on different aspects of digitalisation:
The sub-projects will draw on case studies from local authorities and businesses in Sweden and the UK. The cases will be studied ethnographically.
The Digitalisation of Management project is part of the Centre for Research into the Organization of Work and Consumption (CROWC).
For more information on the project, please contact Professor Chris Ivory ([email protected])