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WAVING HELLO OR WAVING GOODBYE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION AGE

WAVING HELLO OR WAVING GOODBYE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION AGE Organizational change in an evolving technological age is reconsidered here. Extant organization theory focuses largely on technologicallyinduced transformation. This paper argues that this focus is inappropriate. With the proliferation of information technology in the workplace, change literature propounds a particular view of the organization a lean, flat and networked organization. Reevaluating future change and future shock literature prediction, we establish a more realistic account of technology and the organization and question the accuracy of the altered organization expectation. In developing a conceptualization of a limited reality of change, we imply that predicted changes are not as clear cut as certain proponents would have us believe. Though there is a willingness throughout technology change literature to slip into the language of organizational transformation, this paper indicates that the reality of change is far more restrictive than has largely been previously acknowledged We conclude by proposing the coexistent organization as an alternativearguing that hierarchical organizational forms can coexist with a networked organizationand discuss implications for organization change theory. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Emerald Publishing

WAVING HELLO OR WAVING GOODBYE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION AGE

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Emerald Publishing
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1055-3185
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10.1108/eb028879
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Organizational change in an evolving technological age is reconsidered here. Extant organization theory focuses largely on technologicallyinduced transformation. This paper argues that this focus is inappropriate. With the proliferation of information technology in the workplace, change literature propounds a particular view of the organization a lean, flat and networked organization. Reevaluating future change and future shock literature prediction, we establish a more realistic account of technology and the organization and question the accuracy of the altered organization expectation. In developing a conceptualization of a limited reality of change, we imply that predicted changes are not as clear cut as certain proponents would have us believe. Though there is a willingness throughout technology change literature to slip into the language of organizational transformation, this paper indicates that the reality of change is far more restrictive than has largely been previously acknowledged We conclude by proposing the coexistent organization as an alternativearguing that hierarchical organizational forms can coexist with a networked organizationand discuss implications for organization change theory.

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The International Journal of Organizational Analysis – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jan 1, 1998

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