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Fwd: [AISWorld] KM&EL CFP Special Issue on Visualizing User Experience and Stories: From Customer Journeys to Patient Experience Maps
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] KM&EL CFP Special Issue on Visualizing User Experience and Stories: From Customer Journeys to Patient Experience Maps Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 21:01:12 +0800 From: maggie wang <maggiemhwang(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Call for Papers Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL) Journal Metrics (Scopus): 2017 SJR: 0.489 | Ranking: 25/75 e-Learning | 372/1025 Education | 70/184 Management of Technology and Innovation 2017 CiteScore: 0.75 | Ranking: 476/979 Education | 115/169 Management of Technology and Innovation Special Issue on Visualizing User Experience and Stories: From Customer Journeys to Patient Experience Maps Guest Editors Prof. Andre W. Kushniruk Professor and Director, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Email: andrek(a)uvic.ca Prof. Avi Parush Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Email: aparush(a)technion.ac.il This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to the coverage of advances in depicting, documenting, and visualizing user stories and experiences (using tools such as journey mapping and use case design based on user stories) in a variety of domains, ranging from business and education to medicine and healthcare. In recent years, user story mapping and visualizations of user experience have become important tools for understanding complex processes in the real world. These range from graphical methods and approaches for characterizing and charting how customers decide on purchasing and using commercial products, to ways of mapping the experience of patients as they move through the health system in response to their journey through a personal healthcare crisis, for example, from diagnosis of a disease (such as cancer) through to treatment and discharge from a hospital. The approaches allow for in-depth understanding of the decisions, tasks, processes and problems encountered in real-life complex activities as they occur over time. The objectives of mapping out how users of systems or products move through the phases of carrying out tasks are multi-fold. Such analysis can point out areas where problems and bottlenecks are occurring in a process (such as in medical care) that need to be rectified. In addition, such analysis can provide strategic insight into where there are opportunities for improving key processes, for example integrating technology or automation in novel ways, and for envisaging new ways of designing and reengineering technical solutions that solve problems in domains ranging from education to healthcare. The approaches can also be applied to documenting the processes that take place during training and education in order to improve the effectiveness of educational interventions, both face-to-face and online. In this call we invite papers that describe advances and innovations in use of methods emerging from the general area of user journey mapping and applied user stories for improving domains where understanding complex processes from the user perspective is essential. These approaches have the potential to lead to key insights into reengineering those complex processes in ways that are effective, efficient and enjoyable in terms of the users of those services or products. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • User journey mapping • Patient journey mapping • Customer journey mapping • User stories and user story mapping • Visualization of user experience and usability • Application of mapping to educational applications • Graphical approaches to understanding user experience and user interaction • Novel user-centred approaches to gathering user requirements • Scenario-based design approaches (based on user stories) • Graphical approaches to representing processes from the user perspective • Experience maps • Service blueprints • New ways of documenting the user experience • Visualizing user interaction • Graphical approaches to understanding the user experience This issue is designed to elicit both theoretical and applied papers that describe efforts to improve our understanding of the user experience in a variety of domains, including complex areas such as healthcare. We are particularly interested in how these approaches can be used to help in the design and redesign of critical processes. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2020 Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2020 Scheduled publication: December 2020 (Vol. 12. No. 4) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Electronic submission by email to Guest Editor is required (andrek(a)uvic.ca) Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A standard double-blind review process will be used for selecting papers to be published in this special issue. Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL Website (see URLhttp:// www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submissions#onl… ) For more information about the KM&EL, please visit the web site: http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] ECSCW 2020: "Surveillance Capitalism", Online Panel, 16.06., 3.30 - 5pm (Uni Siegen)
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] ECSCW 2020: "Surveillance Capitalism", Online Panel, 16.06., 3.30 - 5pm (Uni Siegen) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:04:54 +0200 From: Volker Wulf <volker.wulf(a)uni-siegen.de> Reply-To: Volker Wulf <volker.wulf(a)uni-siegen.de> To: Liste: Wirtschaftsinformatik <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Dear colleagues, ECSCW 2020 will be held virtually from 13. to 16. June 2020: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/index.php/conference-program/ I would like to invite you to join the Panel on "*Surveillance Capitalism: **Data Driven Business Models, their Societal Impact, and the Role of Academic Communities": * Abstract: A large portion of the software side of the IT infrastructure, including web search, email, and social media, is in many cases provided free to the end users. The business model that enables this involves customized advertising and sometimes behavior manipulation, powered by intensive gathering and cross-correlation of detailed personal information. The companies built on this model have global reach, but are primarily headquartered in the US and China. They provide some great products and services at no upfront cost to the end users. But the model has a dark side as well, with negative impacts for privacy, autonomy, human dignity, and democracy. The purpose of this panel is to provide a forum for CSCW researchers to discuss this business model, and especially how alternatives to it could emerge through a combination of regulation, law, and technological innovation, with a focus on Europe, USA and China. Background information: https://ischool.uni-siegen.de/en/socio-informatics/research-projects/ueberw… Panelists:* * Maximilian Becker. Chair for Data Protection Law and IT-Law at the Institute for Computer Law, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. Lance Bennett. Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor Communication and Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Alan Borning. Professor Emeritus in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle USA. Yuuki Hara. Researcher at Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group, Global Center for Social Innovation, Tokyo, Japan. Jingjing Liu. Socio-Informatics and China Studies, University of Siegen, germany. Daniela Stockmann. Professor of Digital Governance in the Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany. ................................... Opportunities to participate in the online event (via Zoom or Youtube): (1) Register for ECSCW 2020 to enjoy the whole conference via Zoom: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/index.php/pricing/ (2) Follow it online: youtube.ecscw2020.eusset.eu<http://youtube.ecscw2020.eusset.eu> -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfP - EDSIGCON Teaching Cases track - 4-6 November, 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP - EDSIGCON Teaching Cases track - 4-6 November, 2020 Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 07:09:12 -0700 From: Paul Witman <witman(a)ieee.org> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org The objective of the teaching case track of the EDSIGCON 2020 conference is to provide a venue for the presentation and publication of short, high quality teaching cases for use in the classroom. We encourage traditional scenario-based cases that become a starting point for discussions and research. We also encourage submissions for lab exercises, or other technology-based experiences, that become the foundation for further experiments, discussions, and research. Conference will be held virtually, at a very cost-effective cost of $75 for registration. Deadlines for paper submission are June 30 for best paper eligibility, July 30 for priority consideration for journal publication, and August 30 for full conference consideration and proceedings inclusion. Visit http://edsigcon.org/#edsig_cases for details. Paul Witman and Ira Goldstein, Cases co-chairs #research <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=research&highlightedUpdateU…> #teaching <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=teaching&highlightedUpdateU…> #casestudies <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=casestudies&highlightedUpda…> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Fw: Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Positions at City University of Hong Kong
by Gustaf Neumann 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Fw: Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Positions at City University of Hong Kong Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 16:07:47 +0000 From: Prof. FANG Yulin <yulin.fang(a)cityu.edu.hk> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> City University of Hong Kong Vacancy: Tenure-track Position for Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems Position The Department of Information Systems in the College of Business of the City University of Hong Kong invites applications for multiple tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor beginning in January 2021. Candidates must have received a doctorate in Information Systems or a related area at the time of appointment. Candidates must also have a strong commitment to high-quality research and excellent teaching in the Information Systems field. For appointments at the Associate Professor level, a substantial track record of research publications in top-tier journals is essential. For appointments at the Assistant Professor level, a strong indication of the ability to publish in top tier journals is critical. Successful candidates should have the ability to teach IS courses at both graduate (MBA/MSc) and undergraduate (BBA) levels. Candidates with teaching experience in IS planning and strategy, and Fintech-related courses are at a distinct advantage. Experience in academic administrative work is a plus. Successful candidates should demonstrate the capacity to motivate students to appreciate the value of innovative information management on businesses in the Internet era. Department of Information Systems The Department is committed to nurturing smart people for smart business. We offer two undergraduate BBA programs, three Master programs, and one Ph.D. program to students from multiple nations. With about 30 research and teaching staff, the Department is one of the largest IS departments in the world. Our research productivity has been ranked highly, e.g., No. 3 in the UT Dallas List’s top 3 IS journals (2015-2019) and No. 1 in AIS Senior Scholars’ Basket of 8 journals (2016-2019). Application Applicants should submit a cover letter and current curriculum vitae to isrecruit(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:isrecruit@cityu.edu.hk><mailto:isrecruit@cityu.edu.hk<mailto:isrecruit@cityu.edu.hk>>. Review of applications will be on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) June 2020 Issue (35:2) Published
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) June 2020 Issue (35:2) Published Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 00:37:30 +1000 From: Daniel Schlagwein <schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au> Reply-To: Daniel Schlagwein <schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au> To: WI Mailing List <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Dear colleagues, The June 2020 issue of the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) has been published. This is the TOC: pp. 94-122 *Under pressure: Understanding the dynamics of coordination in IT functions under business-as-usual and emergency conditions* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219881461> Julia Kotlarsky, Bart van den Hooff, Leonie Geerts In an era when technologies have become a backbone of most organizations, IT support functions are under immense pressure not only to ensure provision and reliability of IS and technologies but also to resolve IS incidents of different severity when they disrupt organizations’ “business-as-usual.” This article addresses this challenge by investigating how organizational IT functions coordinate their work under different degrees of uncertainty in order to provide reliable IT services. We conceptualize coordination in IT support functions as a process that unfolds over time through interactions between four underlying coordination practices employed to provide reliable IT services: prioritizing tasks, following procedures, using roles and responsibilities, and utilizing networks. Furthermore, we show how these coordination practices change when IT incidents cause a shift from normal (i.e. “business-as-usual”) to emergency conditions. Our empirical research in two IT functions supporting two types of organizations (traditional and fast-response) demonstrate that IT functions in these two types of organizations respond to emergencies differently. Specifically, in emergencies, an IT function supporting a fast-response organization shifts to emergency coordination practices momentarily, as it abandons “normal” coordination practices to rely on an extensive set of formal practices specifically designed for such situations. In contrast, an IT function supporting a traditional organization is unprepared for emergencies—coordinating under emergency conditions involves improvisation, because coordination practices designed to support business-as-usual are not suitable for dealing with emergency situations. pp. 123–142 *Review and critique of the information systems development project failure literature: An argument for exploring information systems development project distress* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219832010> Zeinab Baghizadeh, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Daniel Schlagwein High failure rates of information systems development (ISD) projects continue to trouble organizations and information systems practices. Such a state of affairs has been of great concern for the information systems discipline for decades, motivating information systems researchers to focus on and extensively study ISD project failure. However, the increasing complexity and uncertainty of ISD projects and contemporary system development processes are challenging ISD project failure scholarship. In this article, we ask the questions: What are the contributions and weaknesses of the extant ISD project failure/success literature? What are potential avenues to move the ISD literature forward? To answer these questions, first, we present a literature review that assesses research contributions within the major perspectives on ISD failure (i.e. rationalist, process and narrative). While the extant research within all perspectives make significant contributions to knowledge, we find that researchers remain preoccupied with ‘project failure’ as an end state of an ISD project. They pay little attention to problematic situations arising during ISD projects before they become failed projects. Based on the review and critique of the literature, we then argue that there is a significant benefit in extending research focus from ISD project failure to ‘ISD project distress’, which we define as a harmful project condition involving dynamic and fluid constellation of critical problems that are difficult to identify, understand and resolve. While ISD project distress is an increasingly perilous and consequential phenomenon, little is known about its nature and potential responses. Drawing from the sensemaking literature, we propose a multilevel theoretical framework for understanding the nature and sources of ISD project distress that provides a foundation for exploring early detection and timely response. We demonstrate the theoretical and practical relevance of the concept of ISD project distress and propose a corresponding research agenda. pp. 143–160 *Entrepreneurial actions and the legitimation of free/open source software services* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219886879> Josianne Marsan, Kevin Daniel André Carillo, Bogdan Negoita Free/open source software users were previously responsible for managing the challenges associated with their software themselves. Recently, a new generation of entrepreneurs seized this emerging market opportunity by positioning themselves as service providers for free/open source software users. Conceptualizing such providers as “institutional entrepreneurs,” we find that due to the nature of the free/open source software context, they exhibit a different set of legitimation actions compared with similar efforts in other contexts. Based on our empirical analysis of free/open source software service providers and drawing on prior theory, we identify two entrepreneurial actions aimed at gaining legitimacy specific to the free/open source software context, namely, product-based theorization actions and evangelization actions. We also demonstrate that institutional entrepreneurship is shaped by the nature of free/open source software products and the openness values at the core of the free/open source software movement. Our work hence underscores the importance of the context of institutional entrepreneurship. pp. 161–178* * *A review of methods used on IT maturity models development: A systematic literature review and a critical analysis* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219886874> Rúben Pereira, João Serrano Maturity models can be seen as support tools for an organization. Their importance is increasing in the scientific community and IT (information technology) organizations are starting to implement them. The main objective of maturity models is to evaluate and improve the organization’s practices by creating an improvement roadmap. However, the utilization of the methodologies and methods by this community for the development of this kind of tools is not consensual. Several investigators have created guidelines for the development of maturity models, but the authors are not adopting them; they prefer to adopt their own methodologies. In this research, with the objective of reviewing the methodologies, methods, and guidelines used by the scientific community to develop IT maturity models, a systematic literature review and a critical analysis were made in order to realize a comparison between IT maturity models and non-IT maturity models. In total, 109 articles of maturity models’ development were analyzed. A discussion of the articles’ results was realized. Special Issue Call for Papers: *Regulation in the Age of Digitalization <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JIN/JIT%20CFP%20SI%20Regu…>* (deadline 2020-12-31) Editors: Danny Gozman, Kalle Lyytinen, Tom Butler *Emerging Technologies and IS Sourcing* <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JIT%20CFP%20SI%20Emerging…> (deadline 2021-02-26 / abstract 2020-09-30) Editors: Julia Kotlarsky, Ilan Oshri, Oliver Krancher, Rajiv Sabherwal Subscribe to receive JIT's special issue call for papers and online-first publications alerts: https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert <https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert> JIT homepage (note, we are publishing now with SAGE, not Palgrave/Springer as previously) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin Best wishes, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr Daniel Schlagwein* Associate Professor | The University of Sydney Business School | Business Information Systems <http://sydney.edu.au/business/information_systems> Co-Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Information Technology <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin> *The University of Sydney* Abercrombie Building (H70), Room 4072 | The University of Sydney NSW 2006 | Australia +61286277407 | schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au <mailto:schlagwein@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au/business/schlagwein <https://sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/schlagwein.h…>/ USYD Profile <https://business.sydney.edu.au/staff/schlagwein> | Research: Digital Work <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Digital Nomadism <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Crowdsourcing <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Crowdsourcing-24> | Openness <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP-Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy Minitrack @HICSS 2021 (Due: July 15)
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP-Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy Minitrack @HICSS 2021 (Due: July 15) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:56:22 +0000 From: Nancy Deng <ndeng(a)csudh.edu> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CC: Nancy Deng <ndeng(a)csudh.edu>, Taylor, Joseph D <joseph.taylor(a)csus.edu>, Sara Moussawi <smoussaw(a)andrew.cmu.edu> Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences- HICSS-54 (January 5-8, 2021, Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii) Mini-track: Crowdsourcing and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy Track: Internet and the Digital Economy Extended submission deadline: July 15, 2020 Scope Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services and content by soliciting voluntary contributions in the form of an open call from a large network of individuals rather than from an organization’s employees or suppliers. For organizations, crowdsourcing provides an online marketplace, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, to tap into the labor and intelligence of the crowd. Studies on the technical systems and collective intelligence are informative, but our understanding of the crowdsourcing phenomenon cannot be complete without a comprehensive understanding of the crowd itself, the work made available on the digital platform, and its institutional, regulatory and societal impacts. Thus, this minitrack calls for research on the following three critical aspects of crowdsourcing: Topics Topics on crowdsourcing, crowd workers and digital workforce include, but are not limited to: *Crowd worker participation and motivation *Crowd worker community *Emerging digital professions and professional development *Employment relations in crowdsourcing *Ethical issues in managing the digital workforce *Global workforce in the crowdsourcing *Psychological aspects of digital workplace (e.g., Technostress) *Skill development and career pathways of digital workforce Topics on work design and crowdsourcing work environment include, but are not limited to: *Crowdsourcing for microtasking *Task design for crowd engagement *Crowdsourcing contest design *Institutional practices and policies for crowdsourcing *Management and practice of work in hyper-digital environments *New work routines and future work design *Regulatory challenges of crowdsourcing Topics on gig work and gig workers in the gig economy include but are not limited to: *Gigs and task design *Gig worker motivation *Employment relations in the gig economy *Community effects of a distributed digital workforce *Job and career opportunities in the gig economy *Organizational and regulatory challenges in the gig economy *Psychological well-beings of the gig workers *Work-life balance of the gig workers Fast track journal publication opportunity: Authors of accepted papers will be offered an opportunity to submit their extended versions for consideration for fast-track publication in: -- Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC) Special Issue on Crowdsourcing and Gig Economy Important Dates (Revised) July 15, 2020: Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST) August 23, 2020: Notification to Authors September 4, 2020: Revision due for papers accepted with mandatory changes September 11, 2020: Notification to authors of revised papers September 22, 2020: Final manuscript due for publication January 4, 2021: Publications of full conference proceedings Minitrack Co-Chairs Nancy Deng (Primary Contact) |ndeng(a)csudh.edu Sara Moussawi | smoussaw(a)andrew.cmu.edu Joseph D. Taylor | joseph.taylor(a)csus.edu https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#crowds… Xuefei (Nancy) Deng, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems College of Business Administration & Public Policy California State University Dominguez Hills LinkedIn Profile<http://www.linkedin.com/in/ndeng> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP - Special issue of BISE on Energy Informatics
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - Special issue of BISE on Energy Informatics Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:07:26 -0400 From: Richard Watson <rickwatson(a)mac.com> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Hi The deadline for the Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) special issue on Energy Informatics is fast approaching (July 1st). Please see http://www.bise-journal.com/?p=1816 Thanks Rick Watson University of Georgia _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) June 2020 Issue (35:2) Published
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) June 2020 Issue (35:2) Published Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 00:37:47 +1000 From: Daniel Schlagwein <schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au> To: AIS World Mailing List <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues, The June 2020 issue of the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) has been published. This is the TOC: pp. 94-122 *Under pressure: Understanding the dynamics of coordination in IT functions under business-as-usual and emergency conditions* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219881461> Julia Kotlarsky, Bart van den Hooff, Leonie Geerts In an era when technologies have become a backbone of most organizations, IT support functions are under immense pressure not only to ensure provision and reliability of IS and technologies but also to resolve IS incidents of different severity when they disrupt organizations’ “business-as-usual.” This article addresses this challenge by investigating how organizational IT functions coordinate their work under different degrees of uncertainty in order to provide reliable IT services. We conceptualize coordination in IT support functions as a process that unfolds over time through interactions between four underlying coordination practices employed to provide reliable IT services: prioritizing tasks, following procedures, using roles and responsibilities, and utilizing networks. Furthermore, we show how these coordination practices change when IT incidents cause a shift from normal (i.e. “business-as-usual”) to emergency conditions. Our empirical research in two IT functions supporting two types of organizations (traditional and fast-response) demonstrate that IT functions in these two types of organizations respond to emergencies differently. Specifically, in emergencies, an IT function supporting a fast-response organization shifts to emergency coordination practices momentarily, as it abandons “normal” coordination practices to rely on an extensive set of formal practices specifically designed for such situations. In contrast, an IT function supporting a traditional organization is unprepared for emergencies—coordinating under emergency conditions involves improvisation, because coordination practices designed to support business-as-usual are not suitable for dealing with emergency situations. pp. 123–142 *Review and critique of the information systems development project failure literature: An argument for exploring information systems development project distress* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219832010> Zeinab Baghizadeh, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Daniel Schlagwein High failure rates of information systems development (ISD) projects continue to trouble organizations and information systems practices. Such a state of affairs has been of great concern for the information systems discipline for decades, motivating information systems researchers to focus on and extensively study ISD project failure. However, the increasing complexity and uncertainty of ISD projects and contemporary system development processes are challenging ISD project failure scholarship. In this article, we ask the questions: What are the contributions and weaknesses of the extant ISD project failure/success literature? What are potential avenues to move the ISD literature forward? To answer these questions, first, we present a literature review that assesses research contributions within the major perspectives on ISD failure (i.e. rationalist, process and narrative). While the extant research within all perspectives make significant contributions to knowledge, we find that researchers remain preoccupied with ‘project failure’ as an end state of an ISD project. They pay little attention to problematic situations arising during ISD projects before they become failed projects. Based on the review and critique of the literature, we then argue that there is a significant benefit in extending research focus from ISD project failure to ‘ISD project distress’, which we define as a harmful project condition involving dynamic and fluid constellation of critical problems that are difficult to identify, understand and resolve. While ISD project distress is an increasingly perilous and consequential phenomenon, little is known about its nature and potential responses. Drawing from the sensemaking literature, we propose a multilevel theoretical framework for understanding the nature and sources of ISD project distress that provides a foundation for exploring early detection and timely response. We demonstrate the theoretical and practical relevance of the concept of ISD project distress and propose a corresponding research agenda. pp. 143–160 *Entrepreneurial actions and the legitimation of free/open source software services* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219886879> Josianne Marsan, Kevin Daniel André Carillo, Bogdan Negoita Free/open source software users were previously responsible for managing the challenges associated with their software themselves. Recently, a new generation of entrepreneurs seized this emerging market opportunity by positioning themselves as service providers for free/open source software users. Conceptualizing such providers as “institutional entrepreneurs,” we find that due to the nature of the free/open source software context, they exhibit a different set of legitimation actions compared with similar efforts in other contexts. Based on our empirical analysis of free/open source software service providers and drawing on prior theory, we identify two entrepreneurial actions aimed at gaining legitimacy specific to the free/open source software context, namely, product-based theorization actions and evangelization actions. We also demonstrate that institutional entrepreneurship is shaped by the nature of free/open source software products and the openness values at the core of the free/open source software movement. Our work hence underscores the importance of the context of institutional entrepreneurship. pp. 161–178 *A review of methods used on IT maturity models development: A systematic literature review and a critical analysis* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268396219886874> Rúben Pereira, João Serrano Maturity models can be seen as support tools for an organization. Their importance is increasing in the scientific community and IT (information technology) organizations are starting to implement them. The main objective of maturity models is to evaluate and improve the organization’s practices by creating an improvement roadmap. However, the utilization of the methodologies and methods by this community for the development of this kind of tools is not consensual. Several investigators have created guidelines for the development of maturity models, but the authors are not adopting them; they prefer to adopt their own methodologies. In this research, with the objective of reviewing the methodologies, methods, and guidelines used by the scientific community to develop IT maturity models, a systematic literature review and a critical analysis were made in order to realize a comparison between IT maturity models and non-IT maturity models. In total, 109 articles of maturity models’ development were analyzed. A discussion of the articles’ results was realized. Special Issue Call for Papers: *Regulation in the Age of Digitalization <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JIN/JIT%20CFP%20SI%20Regu…>* (deadline 2020-12-31) Editors: Danny Gozman, Kalle Lyytinen, Tom Butler *Emerging Technologies and IS Sourcing* <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JIT%20CFP%20SI%20Emerging…> (deadline 2021-02-26 / abstract 2020-09-30) Editors: Julia Kotlarsky, Ilan Oshri, Oliver Krancher, Rajiv Sabherwal Subscribe to receive JIT's special issue call for papers and online-first publications alerts: https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert <https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert> JIT homepage (note, we are publishing now with SAGE, not Palgrave/Springer as previously) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin Best wishes, Daniel ------------------------------ *Dr Daniel Schlagwein* Associate Professor | The University of Sydney Business School | Business Information Systems <http://sydney.edu.au/business/information_systems> Co-Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Information Technology <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin> *The University of Sydney* Abercrombie Building (H70), Room 4072 | The University of Sydney NSW 2006 | Australia +61286277407 | schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au | sydney.edu.au/business/schlagwein <https://sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/schlagwein.h…> / USYD Profile <https://business.sydney.edu.au/staff/schlagwein> | Research: Digital Work <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Digital Nomadism <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Crowdsourcing <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Crowdsourcing-24> | Openness <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP: SmartGov2020, December 2-3, Portugal
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: SmartGov2020, December 2-3, Portugal Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 14:07:45 +0100 From: Judy Backhouse <judybackhouse(a)gmail.com> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CC: Judy Backhouse <Backhouse(a)unu.edu> Call for papers SmartGov2020 is the 2nd edition of the conference Smart Governance for Sustainable Smart Cities, organised by UNU-EGOV, the United Nations University Operating Unit on Electronic Governance. It will be held on December 2-3, in Viana Do Castelo, Portugal, with an option for remote participation. Smart government is both a response to and the product of rapid change in the ways that cities and settlements have to be managed. Rapid urbanisation and social change drives local governments to seek out new ways to deliver services and manage cities and drives innovation in processes and policies. At the same time, emerging digital technologies offer new ways for local government to understand and monitor the dynamics of the city, respond to the state of the city, carry out administrative tasks and streamline procedures. The complexity of smart cities and settlements means that roles and responsibilities have to shift to allow a greater range of stakeholders to contribute to the design and delivery of smart services. This means that local government needs to find new ways to interact with business, thought-leaders, suppliers, residents and visitors. Greater transparency and frequent, two-way communication are expected with the co-creation of public services allowing for greater innovation. Advances in data science allow relevant, real-time data to be transformed into useful information to understand urban behaviour and infrastructure needs. This can support evidence-based decision making, automated responses and autonomously managed procedures. Realising this potential, however, raises concerns about privacy and security issues, the resilience of critical information infrastructures, and the unintended consequences as social expectations and behaviours are shaped by algorithms. SmartGov 2020 provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to meet and share ideas, experiences and results related to all aspects and dimensions of smart governance, and the design, implementation and monitoring of smart cities and settlements, including, but not restricted to: • Smart governance foundations, models, frameworks and principles • Smart governance practices, dynamics, challenges and trade-offs • Alignment of city policies with social and environmental sustainability goals • Governance of transformation processes • Measurement and monitoring of smart governance process and outcomes • Smart governance-related case-studies and experience reports • Citizen-centricity and citizen driven solutions for smart cities • Co-production and collaborative forms of service design and delivery • Open governance, participatory decision making and accountability • Social media and urban awareness • Urban innovation, new business models, legal and normative frameworks • Data and evidence-based policymaking. • Urban big data from heterogeneous sources • Impact of emerging technologies (e.g. AI, machine learning, blockchain, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems) • Challenges of privacy and security Submissions are invited for full papers (completed research) and short papers (research in progress or industry cases). Deadline for submissions: 22 June 2020 Further details at: https://smart-governance.org/ Contact: Judy Backhouse: backhouse(a)unu.edu __________________________________________ Judy Backhouse _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] ACM RecSys 2020 4th Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions and COVID Update
by Gustaf Neumann 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] ACM RecSys 2020 4th Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions and COVID Update Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:01:51 +0000 From: flaviovdf(a)dcc.ufmg.br Reply-To: flaviovdf(a)dcc.ufmg.br To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions ** IMPORTANT NOTE ** Due to concerns about COVID-19, RecSys 2020 will cancel its physical component and go fully virtual. To support authors through these stressful times, deadlines are extended. The ACM RecSys 2020 Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. We invite students who feel that they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their work to apply for this unique opportunity, which will allow them to share their work with their peers as well as with senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have made some research progress, but who are not so far along that they can no longer make changes in their research plans. Typically, this means that they have defined their topic and have completed some research, but still have at least a year of research remaining before completing a dissertation (in many universities this corresponds to the dissertation proposal stage). The feedback from attendees in previous years has been very positive and the Doctoral Symposium has been considered very useful in providing research guidance. The symposium has the following objectives: 1. Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions. 2. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution. 3. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. 4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. Student participants will have their extended abstracts published in the conference proceedings. They will also present a poster of their work at the conference. SYMPOSIUM FORMAT AND PARTICIPATION EXPECTATIONS Participants are expected to attend the entire symposium, including the dinner, and are also expected to attend the ACM RecSys 2020 conference. Accepted participants will be considered for travel support for the RecSys 2020 conference directly from the ACM. The format of the symposium will be primarily student presentations supplemented by one or two panel sessions to provide advice and Q&A opportunities with senior researchers in the field. Student presentations will be structured to provide maximum feedback. In particular: * Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, followed by 20-25 minutes for feedback and discussion. * Two of the symposium faculty will be assigned to provide "primary" feedback for each presenter; following this primary feedback there will be a period of open feedback from all participants. * Students will be expected to take notes for another participant so that each of you can focus on interacting during the discussion surrounding your presentation. * During the main conference, students will also present their dissertation work and plans in the form of a poster presentation. Being accepted into the symposium is an honor, and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the research area. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Applications are invited from graduate students pursuing a PhD project who would benefit from detailed workshop discussions of their doctoral research by a panel of established researchers. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. Application. Applications should include the following: 1. An extended abstract (see below). 2. A curriculum vitae. 3. A one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation, including questions regarding your dissertation that you would like to ask your symposium mentors. 4. A brief letter of recommendation from your doctoral advisor, focused on how your participation in the doctoral symposium will benefit your dissertation research. Submit these four items in a single PDF file to PCS by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on June 15th, 2020. There will be no extensions to the submission deadline. Extended Abstract. Your extended abstract will be evaluated with regard to: 1. Originality of the work with respect to current concepts and techniques (provide relevant citations). 2. Importance of the work with respect to fundamental issues in recommender systems (clearly identify the problems you are trying to solve). 3. Rigor and validity of claims, argumentation, methodology, results, and interpretations. 4. Clarity and persuasiveness of expression. Please write your extended abstract to the same quality standards as a regular RecSys submission. Formatting. ACM is changing the archive format of its publications to separate content from presentation in the new Digital Library, enhance accessibility, and improve the flexibility and resiliency of our publications. Following the new ACM publication workflow, all authors should submit manuscripts for review in a single-column format. The maximum length for extended abstracts is 7 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column format. Instructions for Word and LaTeX authors are given below: * Microsoft Word: Write your submission using the Submission Template (Review Submission Format). Follow the embedded instructions to apply the paragraph styles to your various text elements. The text is in single-column format at this stage and no additional formatting is required at this point. * LaTeX: Please use the latest version of the Master Article Template - LaTeX to create your submission. You must use the "manuscript" option with the \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} command to generate the output in a single-column format which is required for review. Please see the LaTeX documentation and ACM's LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions. To ensure 100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX packages. Authors are strongly encouraged to provide "alt text" (alternative text) for floats (images, tables, etc.) in their content so that readers with disabilities can be given descriptive information for these floats that are important to the work. The descriptive text will be displayed in place of a float if the float cannot be loaded. This benefits the author as well as it broadens the reader base for the author's work. Moreover, the alt text provides in-depth float descriptions to search engine crawlers, which helps to properly index these floats. Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport(a)aptaracorp.com for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries. Accepted extended abstracts will be later submitted to ACM's new production platform where authors will be able to review PDF and HTML output formats before publication. Confidentiality. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until two weeks prior to the start of the conference. Submissions should contain no information or materials that are proprietary at publication time. SELECTION CRITERIA To provide maximum feedback to each student, participation in the doctoral symposium is limited. Selection is based on two broad criteria: * Value of the symposium to the student: * The degree to which the applicant is positioned to benefit from participation, including the student’s position in the doctoral process (the greatest benefit is for students with a developed research idea but much of the work yet undone). * The degree to which the student may otherwise lack access to a diverse set of feedback and input on his or her research plans (e.g., availability of local experts and advisors). * Value of the student’s participation to other students. * The quality of the extended abstract (as identified above), both as a model of excellent research and as an indication of the student’s potential in the field. * Diversity of participation, including diversity by institution, country, research topic and approach, and demographics. In general we will limit participation to one or two students per institution, depending on the number of applicants. * Evidence that the student will be an effective and active participant, providing feedback to others and helping to build a research network. APPLICATION CHECKLIST Well in advance of the deadline: 1. Write an extended abstract according to the formatting instructions above. The maximum length for extended abstracts is 7 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column format. Note that the student is the sole author of the abstract. Advisor(s) can be thanked in the acknowledgments. 2. Write a curriculum vitae. 3. Write a one-paragraph statement of expected benefits of participation. 4. Obtain a letter of recommendation from your advisor. By the deadline (June 15th, 2020, 23:59 AoE): 1. Submit items 1-4 above in a single PDF file to PCS. SUPPORT Accepted students will receive free registration to RecSys 2020. Students receiving support will be requested to be part of the student volunteer cohort. IMPORTANT DATES * Doctoral symposium submission deadline: June 15th, 2020 * Doctoral symposium submission notification: July 13th, 2020 * Camera-ready abstract deadline: July 27th, 2020 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS * Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University, USA * Marcelo Manzato, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi

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