Abstract
This article is focused on Swedish folk high schools and study associations as organisational settings (and not explicitly at teaching efforts and educational activities). It concerns results from a research project about introducing and implementing information and communication technology (ICT) in these value based organisations. Our research has mainly been conducted through interviews with people engaged on different organisational levels. In this article empirical results are analysed in relation to actor-network theory (ANT). Human and non-human actors are linked together in a web of relationships referred to as an actor-network. Interaction among actors, contradictory roles of ICT and relations to essential values in these organisations are discussed.
Highlights
The relationship between information and communication technology, ICT1, and organisation has been paid attention to by researchers during the last decades
What is the role of ICT? What does the interaction between ICT and different employees in these organisations look like? The article concerns results from a research project2 about introducing and implementing ICT in these value based organisations
Some of the roles are contributing to an intense interaction and negotiations with human actors, an alliance
Summary
The relationship between information and communication technology, ICT1, and organisation has been paid attention to by researchers during the last decades. ICT is a crucial, powerful factor as it simultaneously is seen to have a transformative capacity that enables and facilitates restructuring or changing of organisations and their members, in particular related to organisational, economic and social consequences (Bloomfield et al, 1997; Monteiro, 2000) It has become increasingly apparent how new technologies play a key role in organisations (Lanzara & Morner, 2003). There have only been two studies, a survey carried out in 2003, focusing the use of ICT in Swedish popular adult education organisations (Landström, 2004) and a follow-up (Mellberg, 2007). What is the role of ICT? What does the interaction between ICT and different employees in these organisations look like? The article concerns results from a research project about introducing and implementing ICT in these value based organisations
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