1. The Social Fabric Framework
- Author
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Signe Dyrby, Michel Avital, and Tina Blegind Jensen
- Subjects
02 engineering and technology ,Library and Information Sciences ,Digital media ,020204 information systems ,0502 economics and business ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Social media ,Sociology ,Research method ,Organisational work ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Public relations ,Enterprise social media ,Making-of ,Entreprise social media ,Social fabric ,Trace data ,Social making ,Controversy analysis ,business ,050203 business & management ,Information Systems - Abstract
The proliferation of enterprise social media generates an ever-growing record of digital traces that provides ample opportunities to study the social making of organisations. Subsequently, we present the social fabric framework, which comprises a structured five-step approach for eliciting, interpreting, and representing the situated social idiosyncrasies and underlying patterns of the social making of organisations. The paper focuses on the application of the social fabric framework as a research method. However, the framework also lends itself to practice as a diagnostic tool that can detect emergent changes in the social fabric of an organisation as well as support organisational development and change. Moreover, by providing a vocabulary for articulating the social making of organisations, the framework can help organisation members reify their dispositions, make sense of the social dynamics, and enable a constructive discussion at the grassroots level about any controversy or aspiration.
- Published
- 2023