Monograph "ICT and work: towards new organisational systems, new salary and employment structures, and new mechanisms for intermediation"
Networked organisation of work: an empirical approach for Catalan businesses
Pilar Ficapal-Cusí (pficapal@uoc.edu)
Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Businesses Studies of the UOC
Researcher at the IN3
abstract
The sources of business efficiency are undergoing profound changes as part of the process to build the knowledge society and economy. As can be seen in the international empirical evidence, in order to explain the potential for long-term growth in business activity (productivity of work), there is also the need to look at a whole series of non-tangible factors, such as technological, organisational and human capital, as well as their complementary relationships, which are increasingly important. Based on the work on intra-organisational networks, this article analyses the organisational systems for work in Catalan businesses during the financial year 2003. We shall see the following: a) that networked organisational practices are still rare in Catalan's private production sector and b) that these new work organisation practices are linked to companies' improved competitive positioning, more intensive use of ICT, better skilled human resources and better business results.
keywords
information and communication technology (ICT), intra-organisational network, networked organisation, organisational change, practices for networked organisation of work
Submission date:
January 2008
Accepted in:
February 2008
Published in:
April 2008
editorial
Towards a global, knowledge-based economy: the effects of ICT on employment
in-depth
Open research – the ORS way, by Miltiadis Lytras and Miguel-Ángel Sicilia. Presentation by Julià Minguillón
dossier
ICT and work: towards new organisational systems, new salary and employment structures, and new mechanisms for intermediation, coordinated by Joan Torrent
Electronic skill-biased technological change (e-SBTC), employment and salaries: the state of the question, by Joan Torrent
Networked organisation of work: an empirical approach for Catalan businesses, by Pilar Ficapal-Cusí
Salary gaps in the knowledge economy: an empirical analysis for Spain, by Ángel Díaz-Chao
Who looks for work on the internet?, by Elena González-Rodrigo and Jorge Sainz-Gonzalez
miscellany
How do people work in a multilingual virtual classroom? A multilingual learning environment using Moodle and Apertium, by Antoni Oliver and Cristina Borrell
Digital literacy as a factor for social inclusion: a critical perspective, by José Luis Travieso and Jordi Planella
reviews
Feminismo y Conocimiento. De la experiencia de las mujeres al cíborg, by Carme Adán. by M. Antònia Huertas
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