Technology, Work, and Family: Digital Cultural Capital and Boundary Management

In this essay, we develop a framework for understanding the evolving relationships between technology, work, and family. We focus primarily on the temporal, spatial, and relational boundaries between work and family and the ways in which technology is changing boundary management practices. We suggest that the ubiquity and power of communications technologies require active technology management and, specifically, the development of a form of cultural capital that we call digital cultural capital. We are concerned that the technological changes currently underway may deepen and reinforce social and economic inequalities in new and unanticipated ways. We endeavor to synthesize and connect the disparate bodies of research on these nascent issues and lay out an agenda for future lines of inquiry.

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Strategic technology management practices in select auto component joint ventures in India: a case study using SAP-LAP methodology

International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics ◽

10.1504/ijeme.2011.041994 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (2/3) ◽

pp. 153 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tapan Sahoo ◽

Devinder Kumar Banwet ◽

K. Momaya

Keyword(s):

Technology Management ◽

Joint Ventures ◽

Management Practices ◽

Auto Component

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Family-Friendly Policy and Work-Family Conflict Mitigation: The Role of Work-Family Boundary Negotiation

Jurnal Intelek ◽

10.24191/ji.v16i1.360 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 17-26

Author(s):

Hooi-Ching Khor ◽

Azura Abdullah Effendi

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Family Conflict ◽

Management Practices ◽

Work And Family ◽

Work Family Conflict ◽

Human Resource Policy ◽

Family Friendly ◽

Negotiation Style ◽

Work Family ◽

Conflict Mitigation

Family-friendly policy is impossible to fit all working individuals. The circumstance has been revealed in work-family literature which relationship between the policy use and the work-family conflict mitigation has been found inconsistent. Little focus is given in the past studies to ensure the human resource policy is truly useful in meeting individuals’ needs. Work, family or both work and family life could be important to individuals. The distinctive life centrality requires individuals to negotiate with the significant others who have influence on their work and family life arrangements to access and use the preferred and needed family-friendly policy. Boundary management practices seem to be useful for working individuals to reduce work-family conflict. This conceptual paper aims to propose work-family boundary negotiation to buffer the relationship of family-friendly policy use and work-family conflict. Boundary theory is the underlying theory embedded to explain the phenomena. Boundary negotiation style that could be employed for accessing the policy and managing work-family boundary effectively is identified. Future directions and implications for research on negotiation in dealing with work-family issue are discussed.

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Practice-driven journalism research: Impulses for a dynamic understanding of journalism in the context of its reorganization

Studies in Communication Sciences ◽

10.24434/j.scoms.2020.02.006 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Christopher Buschow

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Approach ◽

Management Practices ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Research Approach ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Media Management ◽

Explicit Consideration ◽

Journalism Research

This paper proposes a practice-theoretical journalism research approach for an alternate and innovative perspective of digital journalism’s current empirical challenges. The practice-theoretical approach is introduced by demonstrating its explanatory power in relation to demarcation problems, technological changes, economic challenges and challenges to journalism’s legitimacy. Its respective advantages in dealing with these problems are explained and then compared to established journalism theories. The particular relevance of the theoretical perspective is due to (1) its central decision to observe journalistic practices, (2) the transgression of conventional journalistic boundaries, (3) the denaturalization of journalistic norms and laws, (4) the explicit consideration of a material, socio-technical dimension of journalism, (5) a focus on the conflicting relationship between journalistic practices and media management practices, and (6) prioritizing order generation over stability.

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Indirect capabilities and complex performance

International Journal of Operations & Production Management ◽

10.1108/ijopm-01-2011-0034 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 150-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Martin Spring ◽

Luis Araujo

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Management Practices ◽

Firm Strategy ◽

Organizational Networks ◽

Boundary Management ◽

It Infrastructure ◽

Content Type ◽

Endogenous Innovation ◽

Theoretical Paper ◽

Extended Discussion

Purpose – The paper argues that indirect capabilities – the ability to access other organizations' capabilities – are an important and neglected part of firm strategy in procuring complex performance (PCP) settings, and that this is especially so if these settings are treated as genuinely complex, rather than merely complicated. Elements of indirect capabilities are identified. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This is a theoretical paper, drawing on complexity notions and Penrose's analysis of endogenous innovation to drive a disequilibrium-oriented discussion of the capabilities required by firms in a PCP setting. Findings – Six inter-related elements of indirect capabilities are proposed and discussed: IT infrastructure, boundary management practices, contracting, interface artefacts, valuing others' capabilities and relating direct to indirect capabilities. These are important in PCP settings and in other operations and supply settings characterised by complexity. Originality/value – This paper reconsiders the way complexity has been treated in the PCP literature and develops an extended discussion of the notion of indirect capabilities. It potentially provides the basis for an operations and supply strategy more attuned to the demands of shifting inter-organizational networks.

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Soft Systems Methodology in Technology Management Practices

Applications of Soft Systems Methodology for Organizational Change - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4504-1.ch006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 129-149

Keyword(s):

Technology Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

New Technologies ◽

Technological Development ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Soft Systems Methodology ◽

Scenario Planning ◽

Complex Situation ◽

Systems Methodology ◽

Soft Systems

Technology management (TM) is a series of management disciplines designed to manage the technological fundamentals of the organizations for creation of competitive benefits. A successful technological development and commercialization can be rarely accomplished through diffused and undirected efforts. In such a complex situation, modeling can play a decisive role in the analysis of complexities and management of the dynamics of technology-based companies. In this context, the chapter describes five processes of TM, namely identification, selection, acquisition, protection, and exploitation. Soft systems methodology (SSM) is one of the soft operations research (OR) tools and techniques that can be implemented in TM phases as a hard OR. Furthermore, two case studies that addressed the use of SSM in policymaking to commercialize the new technologies and technology scenario planning in a research and development (R&D) organization will be also reviewed.

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Introduction to Medical Technology Management Practices

Clinical Engineering Handbook ◽

10.1016/b978-012226570-9/50034-x ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 101-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yadin David ◽

Thomas M. Judd ◽

Raymond P. Zambuto

Keyword(s):

Technology Management ◽

Medical Technology ◽

Management Practices

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THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN LOCAL FIRMS IN FOREIGN PARTNERSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF A LESS DEVELOPED ECONOMY

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s0219877012500393 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 09 (05) ◽

pp. 1250039

Author(s):

DILUPA NAKANDALA ◽

TIM TURPIN ◽

TERRENCE SLOAN

Keyword(s):

Technology Management ◽

Multinational Corporations ◽

Management Practices ◽

Joint Venture ◽

Developing Economies ◽

Technological Development ◽

Local Partner ◽

Foreign Partner ◽

Partner Firm ◽

Local Firms

This paper investigates the technology management practices and the learning processes for the technological development of local firms in foreign partnerships. It initially notes that the existing literature is focused on the technological benefits to local firms in developing economies from multinational corporations rather than explaining the dynamics of the technology management practices used by local firms who engage in foreign partnerships. This paper also notes a gap in the current literature regarding the technology learning process during partnerships from the perspective of the local partner firms in developing economies. The structural analysis of the data from six case studies of joint venture partner firms in Sri Lanka shows that the technology management practices of local firms need to evolve strategically, based on the partnership characteristics, throughout the life of that partnership. It identifies that the level of skills and capabilities within the local firm, the organizational dominance of the foreign partner firm, clarity of roles in the partnership, and the potential technological contribution from the foreign partner firm are all significant determining factors affecting the choice of dynamic technology management practices by local partner firms.

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Managing work-life boundaries with mobile technologies

Information Technology and People ◽

10.1108/itp-08-2013-0155 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 34-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Karlene Cousins ◽

Daniel Robey

Keyword(s):

Mobile Devices ◽

Mobile Technology ◽

Material Properties ◽

Management Practices ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Work Life ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Core Material ◽

Boundary Management ◽

Content Type

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role that mobile technologies play in mobile workers’ efforts to manage the boundaries between work and non-work domains. Previous theories of work-life boundary management frame boundary management strategies as a range between the segmentation and integration of work-life domains, but fail to provide a satisfactory account of technology’s role. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply the concept of affordances, defined as the relationship between users’ abilities and features of mobile technology, in two field studies of a total of 25 mobile workers who used a variety of mobile devices and services. Findings – The results demonstrate that the material features of mobile technologies offer five specific affordances that mobile workers use in managing work-life boundaries: mobility, connectedness, interoperability, identifiability and personalization. These affordances persist in their influence across time, despite their connection to different technology features. Originality/value – The author found that mobile workers’ boundary management strategies do not fit comfortably along a linear segmentation-integration continuum. Rather, mobile workers establish a variety of personalized boundary management practices to match their particular situations. The authors speculate that mobile technology has core material properties that endure over time. The authors surmise that these material properties provide opportunities for users to interact with them in a manner to make the five affordances possible. Therefore, in the future, actors interacting with mobile devices to manage their work-life boundaries may experience affordances similar to those the authors observed because of the presence of the core material properties.

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