Swinburne University: INF80042 Managing Technology Challenges

This annotated bibliography compiles and analyzes ten articles exploring the multifaceted challenges of managing technology within organizations. The selected sources delve into various aspects, including the impact of social media on internal communications, opportunities and challenges for e-leaders in virtual teams, and the management of risks associated with organizational accidents. The bibliography also examines the challenges of managing technological change in the digital age, the strategic imperative of embracing digital technology, and the organizational challenges faced by global firms. Further articles address the business model dilemmas arising from technology shifts, the challenges of managing people and technology in CSR and energy-efficient shipping, and the impact of the digital workforce and workplace of the future. Each annotation provides a concise overview of the article's key findings, methodologies, and implications for technology management practices.

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Huang, J., Baptista, J. and Galliers, R.D., 2013. Reconceptualizing rhetorical practices
in organizations: The impact of social media on internal communications. Information
& Management, 50(2-3), pp.112-124.
The actual findings of the study will be actually revealing that social media will be
both enabling as well as facilitating the specific shaping of all the various rhetorical practices
of the organization. This will be done by adding the multi-vocality, incrementing the richness
and also the reach in the sharing of information and lastly by enabling consumption that will
be simultaneous. The study actually comprises of the conceptualization of all the various
rhetorical practices of the organization as that of the combination of media, message and the
intent which will be strategic. There is also a proper discussion of the particular interplay in
between all the rhetors and of their audiences. This particular study will be involving the
utilization of social media in three different organizations which are multi-national
particularly within the industry of telecommunications.
Lilian, S.C., 2014. Virtual teams: Opportunities and challenges for e-leaders. Procedia-
Social and Behavioral Sciences, 110, pp.1251-1261.
The particular article mostly aims at properly exploring the e-leadership. It has been
said that all the various leaders are hugely facing a number of both opportunities as well as
challenges during the specific strive towards reaching all the objectives within the globalized
world with certain crucial alternations which will be technological. Certain kinds of changes
have been actually leading towards a number of restructurings of the organization and even
implying rethinking of a number of functions of leadership as well as practices. It has been
observed that all the virtual teams are actually both geographically as well as organizationally
dispersed teams that will be functioning over various time zones. Because of such a kind of
dispersion, a physical contact in all the virtual teams is greatly reduced or rather lacking
altogether which will be actually meaning that collaboration is actually properly enabled by a
number of IT solutions like that of the communication based upon computer. Such a kind of
team which will be facilitated electronically is actually known to be implying both challenges
as well as opportunities for the current global e-leaders.

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Reason, J., 2016. Managing the risks of organizational accidents. Routledge.
This particular book is actually able to present a complete set of all the various
principles to specifically further the knowledge of all the various causes of the huge accidents
in a broad variety of several systems of high technology. It is also capable of describing all
the various tools as well as techniques which can be utilized for the management of the risks
of some kinds of organizational accidents that will be going further beyond all those which
will be recently available to all the managers of system as well as the professionals of safety.
The author of the book even argued that the similar general principles as well as techniques
of management are proper for various domains. These will be actually involving all the banks
as well as the companies of insurance like that of all the nuclear power plants, exploration of
oil and the companies of production. The unique combination of all the various principles as
well as practicalities has actually made this particular seminal book very much essential for
all of those whose regular business is to manage as well as regulate all the technologies which
are hazardous.
Sayles, L.R., 2017. Managing large systems: organizations for the future. Routledge.
This paper analyses the challenges faced in managing the technologies in different
organizations. Managing huge systems in organizations examines the challenges related to
organizations. The author thinks description of distinctive management system is included in
managing huge systems that is created by NASA under James Webb’s leadership.
Behavioural relationships between government officials and business, technical managers and
business, engineers and scientists are given special attention. The author thinks managerial
principles with respect to planning, incentive systems and controls is insufficient in large
systems. Organizational clusters are used for managing future projects and in sectors like
ecological improvements, huge medical programs and urban development.
Henfridsson, O., Mathiassen, L. and Svahn, F., 2014. Managing technological change in
the digital age: the role of architectural frames. Journal of Information Technology,
29(1), pp.27-43.
The purpose of this study is to analyse the challenges faced while managing change in
technologies. The researchers have found modularity to be a strong approach in managing
change in technology in innovation of products. For realizing modularity’s scale benefits,
design specifications are solidified by firms before production, therefore allowing limited
opportunities of functionality redesign, making it difficult for taking advantage of high speed
in which development and modification of digital products can be done. For addressing this
problem, design pattern provided by Christopher Alexander is used for introducing an
approach in managing change of technology. As result, products are managed in digital age,
the digital technology’s properties are highlighted which increase the speed of redesigning of
digitized products.

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Fitzgerald, M., Kruschwitz, N., Bonnet, D. and Welch, M., 2014. Embracing digital
technology: A new strategic imperative. MIT sloan management review, 55(2), p.1.
According to the authors, organizations invest routinely in technology and get the
desired results. For better understanding the success or failure of a business with the usage of
digital technology for improving performance of business, MIT Sloan Management Review
and Capgemini Consulting arranged a survey which got responses from more than 1550
managers and executives in vast range of companies. The responses showed managers trust in
the technology’s ability in bringing transformative change in business. However, they felt the
frustration of getting results through new technology. Previous research showed that several
companies find it hard in gaining transformational effects through latest digital technologies.
It is seen that the corporate workers believe strategic imperative is faced by them for adopting
successfully new emerging technologies.
Bartlett, C.A., Doz, Y. and Hedlund, G., 2013. Managing the Global Firm (RLE
International Business). Routledge.
This paper analyses the organizational challenges faced by global firm. With the
network’s establishment all over the world for trading posts, contact can be made with other
cultures. The political economy of the world changed with the international finance and
trade’s changing patterns, with the power and wealth of nations tied to the ability for
establishing and managing trading links within their network. For a certain time,
multinational corporations has been held by conventional wisdom. However, actual evidence
are suggesting a change in it. Indeed, in several multinational organizations, R&D
expenditure’s share and foreign values are increasing rapidly.
Tongur, S. and Engwall, M., 2014. The business model dilemma of technology shifts.
Technovation, 34(9), pp.525-535.
In this paper, the technical shifts for the business model challenges are analysed.
Technical shifts can be lethal for several manufacturing companies. This paper looks into
dynamics for interaction among business models and technology. This paper demonstrates
why it is difficult in mastering technology shifts and suggests that technology shift cannot be
managed by service innovation or technology for creating a working business model,
however a mixture of both. Anchored in automotive industry’s case study, it is revealed how
a probable technology shift forms challenge for business model for firms within the
technology that exists. Furthermore, a business model is applied for illustrating the
descriptive power for analysing the technology shift’s challenges faced by firms.
Kitada, M. and Ölçer, A., 2015. Managing people and technology: The challenges in
CSR and energy efficient shipping. Research in transportation business & management,
17, pp.36-40.
This paper provides the manager’s challenge in industry of shipping for implementing
energy saving steps in operations in ships and how the technology and people are managed
under fulfilment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). An increase in pressure on
shipping industries is a concern for marine environment which includes energy efficiency,
has forced in considering CSR as ethical practices for business. Despite a large scale research
available in improving shipping’s energy efficiency, the implementation has not grown in the
industry. Human element can be imputed with this problem, which is linked with technology

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with design and usage. Hence, examination of human element will help in understanding the
management’s complexity in energy saving in shipping. This paper also analyses CSR’s
limitations in business and the interdisciplinary research’s need among technology and
people for responding to energy saving shipping’s managerial challenges.
Colbert, A., Yee, N. and George, G., 2016. The digital workforce and the workplace of
the future.
The paper discusses about the challenges of digital workforce. The research of
management examines the effects and assumptions of the workforce’s changes. Digital
technology’s initial focus was as platforms. The subsequent issue showed how the individual
behaviours like information overload, creativity are being shaped by mobile and digital
technologies. In this paper, the ways in which the technology prevalence increases the
influence the approach of work. The way of developing digital immigrants and digital natives
is referred as digital workforce which can benefit companies in the process of working and
the increase in usage of technology.

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References
Bartlett, C.A., Doz, Y. and Hedlund, G., 2013. Managing the Global Firm (RLE
International Business). Routledge.
Colbert, A., Yee, N. and George, G., 2016. The digital workforce and the workplace of the
future.
Fitzgerald, M., Kruschwitz, N., Bonnet, D. and Welch, M., 2014. Embracing digital
technology: A new strategic imperative. MIT sloan management review, 55(2), p.1.
Henfridsson, O., Mathiassen, L. and Svahn, F., 2014. Managing technological change in the
digital age: the role of architectural frames. Journal of Information Technology, 29(1), pp.27-
43.
Huang, J., Baptista, J. and Galliers, R.D., 2013. Reconceptualizing rhetorical practices in
organizations: The impact of social media on internal communications. Information &
Management, 50(2-3), pp.112-124.
Kitada, M. and Ölçer, A., 2015. Managing people and technology: The challenges in CSR
and energy efficient shipping. Research in transportation business & management, 17, pp.36-
40.
Lilian, S.C., 2014. Virtual teams: Opportunities and challenges for e-leaders. Procedia-Social
and Behavioral Sciences, 110, pp.1251-1261.
Reason, J., 2016. Managing the risks of organizational accidents. Routledge.
Sayles, L.R., 2017. Managing large systems: organizations for the future. Routledge.
Tongur, S. and Engwall, M., 2014. The business model dilemma of technology shifts.
Technovation, 34(9), pp.525-535.