Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization
Journal
Critical Keywords for the Digital Humanities Open Access
ISBN
9780198809913
Type
book section
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Abstract
echnologies of coffee making and drinking at the workplace and in break rooms provide us with field-internal analytical devices for organizational research. Drawing on five ethnographic stories—prohibited coffee cups in an insurance office; coffee machine battles in a TV studio; the simulation of coffee sociality in a software company; turbulences between two work break shifts in a department store; and the exclusive coffee club in a data services company—this chapter argues that analysing organizational life through the lens of coffee provision is not without pitfalls, but can nevertheless give us useful access to an organization’s inner workings.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
None
Refereed
Yes
Book title
The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publisher place
Oxford
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
260693