Industrial Economics and Management
Digitalised Management (DigMa)
Research on digitalization of management is conducted in several research projects at Mälardalen University. The work is performed by researchers based at the Department for organisation and management-studies at MDU in collaboration with colleagues across the university and beyond.
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DigMa is a research group which contributes to the development of knowledge about digitalisation and its organisational effects. Here both managers and employees in the private or public sectors can find information and read about insights on how digital technology affects organisations and the future of work and management.
External project members
- Gisela Bäcklander, The Swedish Defence UniversityExternal link. External link.
- Christoph Haug, Gothenburg University
- Irina Popova, University of BrightonExternal link. External link.
- Viviane Sergi, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) External link.
Read more
Read more about DigMa on Digitalised Management External link.
Publications
- Andersson, C. (2023) Digital automation of administrative work: How automating reconfigures administrative work. PhD-thesis, MDU External link.
- Andersson, C., Hallin, A., Ivory, C. (2022) Unpacking the digitalisation of public services: Configuring work during automation in local government, GIQ 39:1 External link.
- Andersson, C., Crevani, L., Hallin, A., Ingvarsson, C., Ivory, C., Lammi, I., Lindell, E., Popova, I., Uhlin, A. (2021) “Hyper-Taylorism and third-order technologies: making sense of the transformation of work and management in a post-digital era” in Ekman, P., Dahlin, P., Keller, C.,. Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation. Routledge: London & NY, ch9 External link.
- Bruzzone, S., Crevani, L. (2022) Supporting and Studying Organizational Change for Introducing Welfare Technologies as a Sociomaterial Process. Frontiers in psychology, 13 External link.
- Cozza, M., Bruzzone, S., Crevani, L. (2021). Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus. Health Sociology Review, 30(3), 308-322 External link.
- Cozza, M, Crevani, L., Hallin, A., Schaeffer, J. (2019) Future ageing: welfare technology practices for our future older selves. Futures. The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 109, 117-129 External link.
- Hallin, A., Lindell, E., Jonsson, B., Uhlin, A. (2022). Digital transformation and power relations. Interpretative repertoires of digitalization in the Swedish steel industry. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 38:1 External link.
- Ćwikła, M., Lindell, E. (2023). Images of the “future of work”. A discourse analysis of visual data on the internet. Futures, 153 External link.
- Hallin, A. Ivory, C. (2023) Social issues or the social as an issue – re-thinking sociality in a post-digital era, in Social Issues in Corporate and Business Communication (Soziale Themen in der Wirtschasskommunikation), eds. Banholzer, V; Heinemann, S.; Nielsen, M.; Siems, F., Schmidt, C.; Springer, p111-123 External link.
- Hallin, A., Lindell, E., Jonsson, B., & Uhlin, A. (2022). Digital transformation and power relations. Interpretative repertoires of digitalization in the Swedish steel industry. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 38: External link.
- Ingvarsson, C., Hallin, A., Kier, C., (2023) “Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?” International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 16:8, 152-181 External link.
- Johansson, J., Asztalos Morell, I., Lindell, E. (2020) Gendering the digitalized metal industry. Gender, Work & Organization, 27(6), 1321-1345 External link.
- Lammi, I. J. (2021) Automating to control: The unexpected consequences of modern automated work delivery in practice. Organization, 28(1), 115–131 External link.
- Lammi, I. J., Hallin, A (2023) Information literacy as collective process: The case of limited availability of information in organizations. In G. Widén & J. Teixeira (Eds.), Information literacy and the digitalization of the workplace External link.
- Lindell, E., Crevani, L. (2022). Employers’ Relational Work on Social Media. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 12(3), 63-82 External link.
- Lindell, E., Popova, I, Uhlin, A. (2022) Digitalization of office work. An ideological dilemma of structure and flexibility. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 35(8), 103-114 External link.
- Lindell, E., Hallin, A., Jonsson, Bosse., (2024) “Exclusion and inclusion through a discourse of equality : positioning the blue-collar worker in Industry 4.0” European Journal of Workplace Innovation,
- Mård, M., Hallin, A. (2023) “Digital literacy in a post-digital era – rethinking ‘literacy’ as sociomaterial practice”, in Information literacy and the digitalization of the workplace, eds G. Widén & J. Teixeira, Faucet, ch 6 External link.
- Popova, I., Ivory, C., Uhlin, A. (2018). Organisational approach to government digital transformation. Comparing the UK and Sweden. In Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government (pp. 177-187). ECEG, Ac conf Ltd External link.
- Sherratt, F., Ivory, C., Sherratt, S., Crawley, S. (2022) Organising construction work: a digital and cooperative way forwards for micro-projects, Building Research and Information, 50:5, 559-573 External link.
- Uhlin, A. (2022)“You are on mute…”: Enabling coming together in digitally mediated meetings. PhD-thesis, MDU External link.
In Review
- Andersson, C. & Crevani, L. (in review) Our new digital co-workers: How introducing an RPA changes the relational fabric of work. External link.
- Manca, C., Crevani, L. & Sergi, V. (to be submitted to Management Learning in April 2024). “That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place.
- Lindell, E., Hallin, A. & Jonsson, B. (in review) Exclusion and inclusion through a discourse of equality: positioning the steel-industry worker in Industry 4.0
Ongoing research projects
The projects within the cluster analyze how new digital technologies affect working life, focusing on risks and opportunities. The aim is to develop evidence-based policy recommendations that promote a fair, inclusive, and resilient labor market.
Project manager at MDU: Anna Launberg
Main financing: WASP-HS Wallenberg AI Autonomous systems and Software Programes - Humanitiy and Society