Representations as factor of organizational change

Abstract

Many current reflexions focus on the question of impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on our lives and on organizations.This starting point presents some problems to sociological analysis.We think that it is necessary to take into consideration what one can call the representations, imaginary, utopias or ideologies as well as discourses linked to technological development to understand what technologies will do to us.In this perspective, it is striking that the discourses accompanying the development of ICTdiscourses telling us that we enter in an Information Society or Information Age -carry a vision of the society and individuals that joins the contemporary theories of management which stress the need for more flexibility.Among the possible implications of ICT development in this particular context, we worry about destabilization of individuals in a society where everyone is asked to be the builder of his own life.And if solutions to this problem exist, we think that they have better chance to stem from a political perspective rather than an ethical one.

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