Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda
指出管理研究多关注数字化积极面,而忽视其对组织、工人和活动家的负面影响。通过平台公司、社会运动等案例,揭示数字化普遍性和同步性的危险,并勾勒出组织研究中数字化批判议程的初步方向。
Digitalization has far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society. While extant management and organization studies mainly focus on the positive aspects of this development, the dark and potentially unexpected sides of digitalization for organizations and organizing have received less scholarly attention. This special issue extends this emerging debate. Drawing on empirical material of platform corporations, social movements, and traditional corporations, eight articles illuminate the various negative implications of the digitalization of work and organization processes, particularly for workers, employees, and activists. In this introduction, we contextualize these valuable contributions that underline the dangers of the ubiquity and simultaneity of digitalization and begin to sketch out potential avenues toward a comprehensive critical agenda of digitalization in organization studies.