Barren landscape, reduced people: Digital non-place in a public bureaucratic organization
Published online on April 20, 2026
Abstract
Management Learning, Ahead of Print.
Digital administrative systems are ubiquitous in modern bureaucracies, part of the ‘everyday’ that often goes unnoticed and creates the digital undertow. Based on an ethnographic study of a social services office in Sweden, we show how these digital ...
Digital administrative systems are ubiquitous in modern bureaucracies, part of the ‘everyday’ that often goes unnoticed and creates the digital undertow. Based on an ethnographic study of a social services office in Sweden, we show how these digital ...