stream 2: Informatized work: Towards a new division of labor?
Widely accepted as key factors of globalization, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) generate among other things a virtual information space which connects project teams as well as organizations, and as such foster the production, handling and management of digitized data all around the world. Changes in the nature of work are inevitable once a new global division of labor develops: new organizational settings such as global networks effectively (re-)distribute work, production and knowledge between different companies or locations; processes of outsourcing, as well as near- and offshoring can be observed. Collaborative and cooperative work like global engineering faces new options of connecting dispersed project teams, yet it is also confronted with new challenges evoked by the complexity and competitiveness of organizational networks.
This session focuses on these changes on ICT use, work and organization.
Topics
Key questions include, and possible subjects for submissions are:
- How does the re-distribution of work influence the emergence of new organizational settings, and vice versa?
- Do the trajectories of (re-)distribution differ between the various kinds of work or between industrial sectors?
- Do further impacts on (re-)distribution processes exist? Which consequences have these activities for the employees at the different locations where work is executed?
- What does outsourcing and offshoring mean for inter- and intraorganizational collaboration?
- What challenges have to be managed by dispersed working teams?
Download: cfp stream2 (PDF)
Contact: stream2@tog08.org
