Title
The role of a digital engineering platform in appropriating the creation of new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse in a large multi-national company
Abstract
•An innovative in-house organisation-wide digital engineering platform was developed and used in simplifying the operational complexity in a multinational engineering company.•Help to regulate and control the running of engineering projects and to create a new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse. It helped the organisation to achieve compliance with major health and safety regulation and to deliver projects more efficiently.•Research data were collected using a longitudinal case study approach that spanned over six months.•The digital engineering platform has had real influence on working processes and employees at all levels while encouraging transparency, responsiveness, agility and accountability.•The digital engineering platform continues to help the organisation to govern, manage and maintain good standard service but many barriers still remain. The digital engineering platform did manage to simplify the workings of different employees and change the work-related mind-set and organisational discourse, by: standardising the stages in involved in running a project; serving as a single platform for undertaking engineering projects; facilitating project-related communication between project workers; introducing a new shared and company-wide discourse; suitable conformity to health and safety standards (ISO9001:2000); and defining the sourcing of materials used in installations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.09.014
International Journal of Information Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
Work-related,Mind-set,Organisational discourse,Complex engineering projects,Extended structuration theory,Digital engineering platform,Problem solving,Case study
Transparency (graphic),Multinational corporation,Knowledge management,Accountability,Engineering,Structuration theory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
48
0268-4012
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zahid I. Hussain119218.44
Uthayasankar Sivarajah26711.43
Naveed Hussain310.37