Constructing continuity across the organisational culture boundary in a highly virtual work environment

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorAsatiani, Aleksandreen_US
dc.contributor.authorHämäläinen, Juliaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPenttinen, Eskoen_US
dc.contributor.authorRossi, Mattien_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Information and Service Managementen
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Gothenburgen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-25T08:38:13Z
dc.date.available2020-06-25T08:38:13Z
dc.date.issued2021-01en_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract While remote work allows organisations to offer their employees flexibility and harness global talent and markets for business growth, inability to rely on physical interactions between employees imposes challenges specific to operations in highly virtual work environments. Among these characteristic issues are challenges associated with organisational socialisation and organisational culture. Accordingly, an action design research project was carried out for building a socialisation substitute (an information artefact in the form of a digital organisational culture handbook) to support synthesis of symbolic and pragmatic components of organisational culture at case company Smartly.io, a highly virtual organisation experiencing rapid growth. The paper contributes to the literature on socialisation and organisational culture by demonstrating one approach to designing a surrogate for socialisation that acts as a conduit between the symbolic aspects of organisational culture (such as values) and the pragmatic ones (such as toolkits). The work contributes to organisational discontinuity theory also, via theory-generating descriptive analysis of the process of building continuity across the organisational culture boundary through creation of an information artefact. The resulting artefact was found to deliver practical utility to the case company and encapsulate generalisable design principles for this building process.en
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dc.identifier.citationAsatiani, A, Hämäläinen, J, Penttinen, E & Rossi, M 2021, ' Constructing continuity across the organisational culture boundary in a highly virtual work environment ', Information Systems Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 62-93 . https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12293en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/isj.12293en_US
dc.identifier.issn1350-1917
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/45129
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202006254086
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInformation Systems Journalen
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.subject.keywordaction design researchen_US
dc.subject.keywordboundariesen_US
dc.subject.keywordorganisational cultureen_US
dc.subject.keywordorganisational discontinuity theory (ODT)en_US
dc.subject.keywordsocialisationen_US
dc.subject.keywordvirtual work environment (VWE)en_US
dc.titleConstructing continuity across the organisational culture boundary in a highly virtual work environmenten
dc.typeA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi
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