The Di­git­al Or­gan­iz­a­tion

Course content

The purpose of this course is to present, discuss, and reflect on the role of technology in organizations, in terms of both organizing work and shaping organizational forms. The course focuses in particular on the consequences of digital technologies for existing organizations and on the possibilities offered by digital technologies for new forms of working and organizing. It takes its departure point in classical and contemporary organization theory, with a special focus on technology in organizations, and investigates how digital technologies have transformed organizational features and organizing processes.
The course follows three main paths: First, it presents the basic features of organization, according to classical and contemporary organization theory; secondly, it takes the students onto a journey of the progressive transformations of organizations and organizing processes by digital technologies; finally, it explores cases of organizations that have been deeply transformed by digital technologies.