Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization

Götz Bachmann; Paula Bialski

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.11

Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization

Götz Bachmann
, Paula Bialski

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Abstract

Technologies of coffee making and drinking at the workplace and in break rooms provide us with field-internal analytical devices for organizational research. Drawing on five ethnographic stories—prohibited coffee cups in an insurance office; coffee machine battles in a TV studio; the simulation of coffee sociality in a software company; turbulences between two work break shifts in a department store; and the exclusive coffee club in a data services company—this chapter argues that analysing organizational life through the lens of coffee provision is not without pitfalls, but can nevertheless give us useful access to an organization’s inner workings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies
Editors	Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, Claus Pias
Number of pages	9
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	12.12.2019
Pages	116-124
ISBN (Print)	9780198809913
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.11
Publication status	Published - 12.12.2019

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Digital media
Media and communication studies

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The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
Beyes, T. (Editor), Holt, R. (Editor) & Pias, C. (Editor), 05.02.2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 538 p.
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Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . ed. / Timon Beyes; Robin Holt; Claus Pias. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 116-124.

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Coffee Machine as a mediating technology of organization

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