Abstract

PEREIRA, Sandra. Power networks: strategic analysis of an organization with intranet. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2004, n.45, pp.99-115. ISSN 0873-6529.

This paper work resumes a case study made upon a multinational corporation operating in the industrial chemical field. With this investigation we wanted to identify performing principles that would later help us to understand the social phenomenon of power relationships between different actors playing in the same game. These social actors where facing a new technological scenario with the introduction of a corporate intranet. Our research explores a current investigation filed trying to make clear which social actors have more benefits / losses with the development of new information and communication technologies; what personal strategies are involved in the adaptation processes to the new reality; and what are the most commune constraints we can find. And the results of this research will reveal that the middle hierarchies are those who support mostly the development of new technological tools like the intranet, regardless what is most said by social theory over these matters.

Keywords : Organizational power; information society; intranet.

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