Introduction: Do Machines Dream of Electric Workers? New Frontiers in the Debate on Technology, Structure, and Strategy

For a long time, the variable of technology has been a relevant dimension on the debate around organisations and organising. Technologies are the many resource organisations used for generating value, and since the Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution, technologies increased their importance for organising. The debate on the implications of technology use in organisations has strong roots in the organisation studies literature. Diffusion and adoption of digital technologies pose new opportunities and challenges to organisations and present new avenues for research to organisation scholars. The 2020 edition of the annual workshop of organisation studies scholars invited researchers to reflect on the relationship between technologies and to organise from a new and critical perspective. This book is a collection of the best-extended works presented at the conference discussing several aspects of impact, innovation, change, challenges, and performance of digital technologies and organisations. This introduction chapter draws a common framework presenting the different contributions and introducing how they investigate relevant phenomena and raise implications for managers and future research.