Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization CTO

Are you studying HYBRID WORKING? Join Stefanie Reissner, Marko Orel and myself in our subtheme: 30 - Organizing Creatively for Hybrid Working!

The detailed Calls for (Short) Papers will be available here from September 16 2024! AND the deadline for submission of short papers for the 41st EGOS Colloquium 2025 in Athens is January 7, 2025. EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies)

Hybrid working, hailed as the 'future of work', involves entanglements between where, when, what and how people work while boosting new ways of organizing. It has significant creative potential as social actors 'assemble' different aspects of hybrid working and organizing - time, space, artefacts, relationships, boundaries, policies, processes etc. Yet, exactly what hybrid working is and how it might be done in practice is currently subject to debate and experimentation. This subtheme seeks to move towards delineating a field of research on hybrid working and organizing by exploring the phenomenon, looking for fruitful theoretical approaches to its conceptualization as well as the inherent methodological opportunities and challenges. We are therefore aiming to connect organization scholars studying different aspects of hybrid working who are interested in developing a better understanding of this pertinent phenomenon and its developments in theory and practice. Questions that we look forward to discussing during this sub-theme include, but are not limited to, the following:

Phenomenon
What kinds of work can meaningfully be undertaken within hybrid working?
Who or what are the enablers of hybrid working in diverse organizational contexts?
How does the involvement of human and non-human actors in hybrid working affect work and organizing?
What are the limits of hybrid working and organizing?

Theories
What theoretical approaches may fruitfully conceptualize hybrid working, recognizing the when, where, how and what?
How do different theoretical approaches enable scholars to focus on a particular facet of hybrid working (workforce, work, and workplace models) to advance the current understanding of theory and practice?
In what ways can interdisciplinary approaches contribute to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of hybrid working and organizing?
How do theories of digital connectivity and human-computer interaction contribute to better understanding the phenomenon of hybrid working?

Methods
How can hybrid working be meaningfully studied (e.g. using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approaches, comparative case studies, archival data, or combinations thereof)?
How can qualitative and quantitative data be integrated to understand hybrid working practices more comprehensively than a single approach?
What are the methodological opportunities and challenges in studying the long-term effects of hybrid working and organizing on workers, organisations, and communities?

Learn more: EGOS - SUB-THEMES: Call for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies