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| Author: | Barley, S.R. |
| Title: | The alignment of technology and structure through roles and networks. |
| Journal: | Administrative Science Quarterly
1990 : MAR, VOL. 35:1, p. 61-103 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE SOCIAL STRUCTURE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A role-based approach for formulating and investigating the contention that technologies change organizational and occupational structures by transforming patterns of action and interaction. It is argued that the microsocial dynamics occasioned by new technologies reverberate up levels of analysis in an orderly manner. Specifically, a technology's material attributes have an immediate impact on the nonrelational elements of one or more work roles. These changes, in turn, influence the role's relational elements, which eventually affect the structure of an organization's social networks. Consequently, roles and social networks are held to mediate a technology's structural effects. |
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