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Sub-theme 27:

Spatial Mobility and Mobile Technology at Work: Examining the Dark Side

 

Convenors:

Donald Hislop
Loughborough University (UK)
d.hislop@lboro.ac.uk

Carsten Sørensen
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
c.sorensen@lse.ac.uk

Keith Townsend
Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
k.townsend@qut.edu.au


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30

Chair: Donald Hislop

Emmanuelle Léon
Remote managemen: The doom of managerial relationships?

Laurent Taskin
Despatialisation: Towards the re-organisation of control: The case of telework in a biopharmaceutical company

Jan Kietzmann
The dark side of mobile RFID and the disappearing computer
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Donald Hislop

Christian Koch
Innovative penetration of guilds? Mobile technology, mobility and "ín-between" facing the barriers of construction

Silvia Elaluf Calderwood
Contextual and situated mobile work. A delicate balance on the choice of work: the case of the London black cab driver

Heloísa Mônaco dos Santos
Researches on mobile technologies in Brazil: how to advance?
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30

Daniele Pica
The fallacy of efficiency by ubiquity: The case of the police

Martin Brigham and Lucas Introna
Mobile technology, work and power: A decade of infrastructural mobility in the provision of UK Fire Services

Sarah Otner
The shoemaker's children: Consultants and the extent in the knowledge economy of their expertise
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Daniel Pica

James Wickham and Alessandra Vecchi
Getting on the plane and falling out of society: Business air travel and the end of work/life balance?

Vincent Mangematin, Nicolas Battard and Meyer Haggège
Idiosyncratic distances: Individual mobile technology practices

Petra M. Bosch-Sijtsema, Virpi Ruohomäki and Matti Vartiainen
Knowledge worker mobility: The effect on productivity in the workspace


– no Sessions V, VI and VII –


Remarks

Presentation format

There is 30 minutes allocated to each paper. This time will be divided as follows:

10 minutes: author presentation
  5 minutes: discussant comments
15 minutes: group discussion

 

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