Abstract
Applying a sociomaterial view to the material and human agency in doing work, this study explores the interdependent role of material arrangements and people doing knowledge-work. Using a Nordic university organization as an example, the study specifically highlights how material-physical environment and its affordances, including spaces of work as well as “high technology” such as electronics and “low technology” such as furniture – gain agency and become significant in terms of work-related identity. We introduce three modes of work: cognitive-, embodied-, and emotional work, which describe cognitive, bodily, and emotional actions that are entangled in the expressions of knowledge workers’ work-related identities. Focusing on identity as an achievement in agentive “intra-action” between the human and the material, the article contributes to the research on the effects of material arrangements and technology in the activities that knowledge-work in a digitalized workplace in particular consists of. Keywords: work-related identity, sociomateriality, material agency"
| Original language | English |
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| Proceeding | Academy of Management Proceedings |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 16940 |
| ISSN | 0065-0668 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29.07.2020 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Keywords
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