Practices and Purposes of Digital Organizing

Abstract

Digital technologies such as platforms and artificial intelligence as well as social phenomena they enable, such as online communities, are (re-)shaping the fabrics of organizations and organizing. In recent years, scholars from various camps made great progress in explaining how and why. Information systems scholars showed how digital technologies shape organizational practices and how those technologies take different forms and create new affordances as they are embedded in organizations. Organizational scholars detailed how digital forms of organizing are driven by actors with different purposes. However, insights from these fields of inquiry have seldom found common forums. Our symposium provides an interdisciplinary space to discuss plural perspectives on digital organizing and reflect on ways to move forward. Together, we will shed new light on how the affordances of digital organizing shape and are shaped by organizational practices and purposes.