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Cultural Preparation for Digital Transformation of Industrial Organizations: A Multi-case Exploration of Socio-technical Systems

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Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics (AHFE 2021)

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Digital technology adoption is not new; however, digital transformation in industrial organization is recognized as a contemporary phenomenon. Extant literature, however, offers limited guidance on how the socio-technical system could culturally evolve during the digital transformation. Our limited research focused on the exploration of cultural preparedness in the traditional large-scale organizations with a global footprint. With a multi-case study research design, we collected data from three industrial organizations, and perform data analysis with a grounded theory approach. Our results are a collected set of values, assumptions, and artifacts pertinent to the cultural preparedness of industrial organizations.

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  1. School of Technology and Innovation, University of Vaasa, Yliopistonranta 10, 65101, Vaasa, Finland

    Aurangzeab Butt, Faisal Imran & Petri Helo

  2. Mechanical Engineering, University of Turku, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Jussi Kantola

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Butt, A., Imran, F., Kantola, J., Helo, P. (2021). Cultural Preparation for Digital Transformation of Industrial Organizations: A Multi-case Exploration of Socio-technical Systems. In: Goonetilleke, R.S., Xiong, S., Kalkis, H., Roja, Z., Karwowski, W., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_58

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