Totem Technology: information technologies creating business identity for industry researchers

La technologie-totem: les technologies de l’information créatrices d’identité métier chez les chercheurs en entreprise

Aurélie Dudézert (), Véronique Bossard-Préchoux () and Amaury Grimand ()
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Aurélie Dudézert: CEREGE [Poitiers, La Rochelle] - Centre de recherche en gestion [EA 1722] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - ULR - La Rochelle Université
Véronique Bossard-Préchoux: CEREGE [Poitiers, La Rochelle] - Centre de recherche en gestion [EA 1722] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - ULR - La Rochelle Université
Amaury Grimand: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes

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Abstract: Some communities of workers are faced with such changes in work practices that actors are questioned regarding their identity at work: this is the case for the profession of Industry Researcher, which has evolved considerably over the past years. As a unifying element of collective action, identity at work is nevertheless a means of organizing work in the workplace. In this context of professional change, this article investigates the role of Information Technologies (IT) in making researchers assert their identity at work. Through a case study carried out within a research center of a French telecommunications company, the article shows that the actors can mobilize the symbolic dimensions of IT to make them devices of identity affirmation. We explore the totem-object metaphor in order to better understand the social dynamics surrounding the appropriation of IT.

Keywords: Identity at work; R&D; IT enactment; Symbolic; Identité métier; Appropriation des TI; Symbolique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2017, 43 (267), pp.45-63. ⟨10.3166/rfg.2017.00155⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2017.00155

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