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

: Butt Aurangzeab, Imran Faisal, Kantola Jussi, Helo Petri

: Goonetilleke Ravindra S., Xiong Shuping, Kalkis Henrijs, Roja Zenija, Karwowski Waldemar

: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

: Cham

: 2021

: Lecture notes in networks and systems

: Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, Social & Occupational Ergonomics, and Cross-Cultural Decision Making, July 25-29, 2021, USA

: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

: 273

: 457

: 463

: 978-3-030-80712-2

: 978-3-030-80713-9

: 2367-3370

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_58

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.