Digital transformation and power relations. Interpretative repertoires of digitalization in the Swedish steel industry

IF 2 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
Anette Hallin , Eva Lindell , Bosse Jonsson , Anna Uhlin
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Abstract

This study focuses on how ideas of ‘digitalization’ are discursively constructed in the Swedish steel industry. Using a discursive psychology approach, we identify seven interpretative repertoires in the discursive practicing of digitalization: everyone-else, speed, competition, job loss, control, safety, and equality. Examining their functions and effects, we show that not only is digital transformation constructed as more productive, efficient, competitive, technologically advanced, safe, and equal, it also involves a shift towards the blue-collar worker being more vulnerable; a construction where she is able-minded but lonely, physically fragile, obtuse and unreliable, and a victim of a development beyond her control, forcing of her to acquire new competence. We conclude that this reproduces asymmetrical power relations between workers and companies, pushing the challenges of digital transformation to the workers. At the same time, we also see how these local discourses hold a possibility of tempering this asymmetry through the construct of togetherness of different contexts, bodies, and hierarchal levels, thus connecting steel industry workers of the future through the use of digital technology.

数字化转型与权力关系。瑞典钢铁工业数字化的解释性曲目
本研究的重点是“数字化”的概念是如何在瑞典钢铁行业话语建构的。使用话语心理学方法,我们确定了数字化话语实践中的七种解释曲目:其他人,速度,竞争,失业,控制,安全和平等。通过研究它们的功能和影响,我们发现,数字化转型不仅具有更高的生产力、效率、竞争力、技术先进、安全和平等,而且还涉及到蓝领工人更脆弱的转变;在这个建筑里,她头脑健全但孤独,身体脆弱,迟钝而不可靠,是她无法控制的发展的受害者,迫使她获得新的能力。我们的结论是,这再现了工人和公司之间不对称的权力关系,将数字化转型的挑战推给了工人。与此同时,我们也看到了这些地方话语如何通过构建不同背景、身体和等级的团结来缓和这种不对称,从而通过使用数字技术将未来的钢铁工业工人联系起来。
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CiteScore
4.00
自引率
10.00%
发文量
36
审稿时长
71 days
期刊介绍: The Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) provides an international forum for innovative and carefully crafted research on different aspects of management. We promote dialogue and new thinking around theory and practice, based on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. We have a passion for empirical inquiry. We promote constructive dialogue among researchers as well as between researchers and practitioners. We encourage new approaches to the study of management and we aim to foster new thinking around management theory and practice. We publish original empirical and theoretical material, which contributes to understanding management in private and public organizations. Full-length articles and book reviews form the core of the journal, but focused discussion-type texts (around 3.000-5.000 words), empirically or theoretically oriented, can also be considered for publication. The Scandinavian Journal of Management is open to different research approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. We are open to different fields of management application, but narrow technical discussions relevant only to specific sub-fields will not be given priority.
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