Dominant Technology and Organization: Impact of Digital Technology on Skills

This chapter describes a new approach to investigate, unravel, and explain the implications of digital technologies for skills. To do so, the chapter develops an approach to assess technology in companies in a more precise way, building on three main arguments. Firstly, current approaches to the subject treat all (new and emerging) technologies...

Dominant technology and organization: Impacts of digital technology on skills

This paper describes a new approach to investigating, unraveling and explaining the implications of digital technologies for skills. To do so, the paper develops an approach to assess technology in companies in a more precise way, building on three main arguments. Firstly, current approaches to the subject treat all (new and emerging)...

Sociotechnical perspectives on digitalisation and Industry 4.0

The sociotechnical systems approach and theory (STS) helps to deal with todays rapid digital transformations in designing best suitable labour, organisations and jobs. Not surprisingly, related approaches based on STS assumptions, such as Modern Sociotechnical Thinking (MST) and Workplace Innovation (WPI) theory, are rapidly developing in Europe...