Digital communication in and beyond organizations: Essays on unintended consequences

Dissertation o. Habilitation

Digital communication refers to human-to-human, human-to-machine or machine-to-machine communication. This dissertation focuses on human-to-human communication in professional relationships based on hardware innovations like tablets, smartphones, or wearables as well as internet-based services like email, instant messaging or social media. Intended consequences of using social communication technologies are often increased freedom of action or faster communication. However, digital communication does also lead to unintended consequences like new social controls, less freedom of action or a lack of time. The aim of the dissertation is to explore explanation attempts why these consequences occur as well as to elucidate how organizations could deal with it. The key message of the dissertation is that using digital communication technologies requires well-trained moral discernment to better understand unintended consequences as well as to better cope with them.:1. Introduction 2. Digital communication: a new challenge for moral discernment 3. Digital communication in and beyond organizations: unintended consequences of new freedom 4. Digital communication in organizations: acceleration and lack of time 5. Further articles in the field of digital communication and acceleration

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Entschew, Elisa Maria
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Suchanek, Andreas ; Kirchgeorg, Manfred ; HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-353772
• Last update: 20.10.2023, 9:50 AM CEST