How Advances in Digital Technologies Reconfigure Organizational Coordination Processes

Today’s digital technologies have unique material, cultural, and economic characteristics that make them fundamentally different from technologies of decades past. While the increasingly important role of digital technologies in today’s organizations is hard to deny, scholars have much to learn, empirically and theoretically, about how digital technologies affect organizational processes. This symposium will focus on how advances in digital technologies are prompting changes in how work is coordinated inside organizations. It brings together a diverse set of papers representing different theoretical orientations, levels of analysis, and empirical settings–each with the question of how coordination processes change in the migration of phenomenon from “offline” to “online.” The goal of the symposium is to integrate these approaches to make progress on a multi-level understanding of how digital technologies impact work, and what coordination requires in the digital age. Social Tools and Leaky Knowledge: A So...