Authors
P Saskia Bayerl, Gabriele Jacobs, Sebastian Denef, Roelof J van den Berg, Nico Kaptein, Kamal Birdi, Fabio Bisogni, Damien Cassan, Pietro Costanzo, Mila Gascó, Kate Horton, Theo Jochoms, Stojanka Mirceva, Katerina Krstevska, Ad van den Oord, Catalina Otoiu, Rade Rajkovchevski, Zdenko Reguli, Sofie Rogiest, Trpe Stojanovski, Michal Vit, Gabriel Vonas
Publication date
2013/8/23
Journal
Journal of organizational change management
Volume
26
Issue
5
Pages
793-810
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Description
Purpose
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Technology is an important driver of organizational change and often strategically used to facilitate adaptations in organizational processes and cultures. While the link between technological and organizational change is widely recognized, the role of macro‐context for this link remains undervalued. Based on data from technology implementations in European police forces the paper aims to illustrate the importance of integrating analyses of the macro‐context to understand the complexity of technology driven organizational change.
Design/methodology/approach
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The authors conducted 56 interviews and five focus groups with police officers from 13 countries on two of the major technology trends in European police forces: automatic number plate recognition systems (ANPR) systems and social media. They further conducted site visits to police forces in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to …
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