Organizational Implications of Digitalization: the Development of (Post-)Bureaucratic Organisational Structures in the Context of Digital Transformation

数字化的组织影响：数字化转型背景下（后）官僚组织结构的发展

• 批准号: 442109748
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Maja Apelt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Organisations- und Verwaltungssoziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/442109748?language=en
• 关键词: Organizational; Implications; Digitalization; Development; Post

Digitalization places organizations under pressure to adapt. New digital technologies bring increased transparency, new opportunities for collaboration, and shared knowledge – as well as changes in pace necessitate faster decision-making. This pressure to act results in two important and mutually enforcing phenomena. Firstly, internal processes within organizations are digitalized. Here, it can be assumed that digitalization leads to bureaucratization. Secondly, in the context of digital transformation, more and more organizations are introducing new organizational structures labeled as ‘agile’ or ‘self-organised’. These post-bureaucratic models bring the promise of de-bureaucratization. While the management discourse addresses the introduction of both digital technologies and post-bureaucratic organizational models in the context of digital transformation, to date there has been very little sociological research on the link between them. Our aim is to examine the interdependent dynamics of the interplay between organizations and digitalization to make their mutual entanglement visible.

数字化使组织面临适应的压力。新的数字技术带来了更高的透明度、新的协作机会和共享知识，而速度的变化也需要更快的决策。这种采取行动的压力导致了两个重要的、相互加强的现象。首先，组织内部流程数字化。在这里，可以假设数字化导致官僚化。其次，在数字化转型的背景下，越来越多的组织正在引入被称为“敏捷”或“自组织”的新组织结构。这些后官僚模式带来了去官僚化的希望。虽然管理话语在数字化转型的背景下解决了数字技术和后官僚组织模式的引入，但迄今为止，很少有关于它们之间联系的社会学研究。我们的目标是研究组织和数字化之间相互作用的相互依赖的动态，以使它们之间的相互纠缠可见。