On the Use of ICT by Enterprises to Activate Industrial Heritage: A Case Study of Taoxichuan in China

Abstract

Despite the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by enterprises engaged in industrial heritage, the academic community lacks sufficient understanding of how ICT enables the sustainable development of industrial heritage. This article fills this gap by analyzing the application of ICT by Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue (the Company) to promote its organizational innovation and achieve the sustainable development of industrial heritage. To start with, the authors conceptualized the two stages, adaptive change, and breakthrough change, of ICT-induced organizational changes in industrial heritage. Secondly, they extended the research of affordance from the technical field to the social theory field and proposed the concept of organizational affordance. Finally, the authors provided suggestions for future research to employ organizational affordance to deepen our understanding of relevant fields.