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

数字化给组织带来了适应的压力。新的数字技术带来了更高的透明度、新的合作机会和知识共享，而节奏的变化需要更快的决策。这种采取行动的压力导致了两个重要且相互促进的现象。首先，组织内部流程数字化。在这里，可以假设数字化导致了官僚化。其次，在数字化转型的背景下，越来越多的组织正在引入新的组织结构，称为“敏捷”或“自组织”。这些后官僚模式带来了去官僚化的希望。虽然管理学论述在数字化转型的背景下引入数字技术和后官僚主义组织模式，但迄今为止，关于两者之间联系的社会学研究很少。我们的目的是研究组织和数字化之间相互作用的相互依存动态，以使它们的相互纠缠可见。

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.