Digitization, Trust and SMEs

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2024
• Series: Routledge Open Business and Economics
• Subjects: Digitalization; Efficiency; Human Capital Management; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Culture; SME Sector; Technology; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques::KJMB Management: leadership and motivation; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas::KJMV6 Research and development management; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJS Sales and marketing; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJU Organizational theory and behaviour; Trust; Trust Management
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• ISBN: 9781032698182; 9781032710846; 9781040036006; 9781040036112
• Access: Open Access

This book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots are instruments with an increasingly significant impact on the shape of the management process of modern organizations, including the way people are managed. Trust is a subtle concept, with a very different interpretation, influencing the behaviour of employees in a multifaceted way. A superficial look at the combination of both categories seems to see them as irrational. Upon closer examination, however, it exposes many interesting fields of scientific exploration. Trust, as a research category, has been included in three significant dimensions: in relation to co-workers, superiors and information technology, dominated by digitization. Each draws attention to different problems of priority importance for the organization. Asserting the idea that trust in the conditions of digitization becomes a category of timeless importance in the interdisciplinary dimension, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and advanced students in the fields of management of technology and innovation, organizational studies and leadership.