Web management changes all management
Processes of organizational transformation in local governments following the use of digital social media
Abstract
This article adopts an organizational focus in order to analyze how local public administrations in Latin America are changing due to social media use. We based our findings on the evidence
collected by a Gobernautas study (Gobernautas y ciudadanos: los gobernantes latinoamericanos y la gestión de redes sociales, 2016) that looked at districts in the region with more than a million citizens. Our analysis has four organizational components: strategic articulation, organizational design, management of human talent (team and leadership construction), and processes of regulation, evaluation, and control. Results demonstrate a strong —and increasingly visible— rise in the institutionalization of communication management in local governments, reflected in the formal existence of communication teams in all cities; in the coordination between the areas of general and digital communications; and in collaborative communication management with a predominance of internal human resources. There are specific job positions and profiles for digital communications, but still little institutionalization.
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