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Call for Papers
Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics
Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik (EMoWI’19)
Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik 2019
Siegen, 24. Feb. – 27. Feb. 2019
https://www.wi-inf.uni-due.de/EMoWI19/
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Submissions until: *30. Nov. 2018*
Notifications of acceptance: 15. Dec. 2018
Workshop: 24. Feb. 2019
Submissions:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi19
Background
According to Immanuel Kant, ethics is concerned with the question,
„What ought I to do?,“ as opposed to the other three basic
questions “What can I know?,” “What can I hope?,” and “What is
human?”. “What ought I to do as a Business Informatics
researcher?” is therefore the central question of the theme
“Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics”. As this question is
fundamentally philosophical in nature, it does not only concern
judgments about proper conduct in specific situations. Instead,
the questions invites reflections at a higher level of
abstraction, enabling a critical reflection about methodological
principles of our discipline from a distinctively philosophical
outlook. For example, it is possible to examine how basic
principles and concepts of Business Informatics are related to
more encompassing concepts of human life in general. In this vein,
concepts like process, architecture, decision model, algorithm,
and organizational rule can be studied against the backdrop of
concepts like Weltanschauung, human rights, and values. The
workshop “Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics” is meant to
address questions of this kind.
Topics
Submissions to the workshop are invited to discuss ethical and
moral questions arising in the whole spectrum of topics of
Business Informatics. The following suggestions provide an
impression of the intended orientation of the workshop, but you
are cordially invited to propose additional topics.
- Are the subjects of Business Informatics associated with
specific ethical questions? If so, what is the content and nature
of these questions?
- The subjects in Business Informatics typically are intangible.
Does this raise a need for specific procedures to justify proper
conduct of Business Informatics research?
- Do (research) methods in Business Informatics involve specific
value statements or Weltanschauungen? Is it possible to assume the
possibility of value-free statements in Business Informatics?
- Are certain species of moral philosophies (e. g., deontologist
or consequentialist moral theories) especially relevant for
Business Informatics? Do typical decision models in Business
Informatics implicate the basic principles of specific moral
theories (e. g., consequentialism)?
- What is he role of models in Business Informatics? Can models be
considered ethically neutral, or do they necessarily entail
specific moral presuppositions?
- What kind of statements could a „Code of Ethics“ for Business
Informatics professionals include (as opposed to the “Code of
Ethics” of ACM)?
- Is it possible to formulate accessible „Dos” and “Don’ts” as
guidelines for Business Informatics professionals?
- What experiences in relation to ethical questions were made in
previous Business Informatics research projects?
- What initiatives concerning ethical values in Business
Informatics do already exist in academia and industry? What are
the results of these initiatives?
- Are ethical topics considered in Business Informatics
curriculums at different universities globally?
- ...and many more.
Submission
The workshop invites submissions that discuss actions or
principles of actions as manifested in methodological assumptions
and commitments in Business Informatics from an ethical point of
view. This also includes experience reports about concrete
projects in academia and industry where questions about right and
wrong conduct played a significant role. Submissions are both
invited to raise questions and to report about situations where
questions have already been answered in specific ways.
Philosophical methods of inquiry are welcome, but not required.
The workshop’s primary language is German, but submissions in
English are invited as well. Each submission will be reviewed by 3
members of the program committee. Accepted submissions must be
presented by at least one author at the workshop. The results of
the workshop will be presented at the conference dinner and they
will be published as part of the conference proceedings.
The maximum page number of submissions is 10 pages (including
title, abstract, bibliography, appendixes, author names and
affiliations and acknowledgements). Short papers with a size up to
4 pages are also welcome. The abstract should not exceed 150
words. Keywords are optional. Additional information on submission
requirements and the conference MS Word paper template are
available at:
http://wi2019.de/call-for-papers/, under „Format“.
Please upload your submission at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi19.
Program Committee
Başak Aydemir Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Oliver Bendel School of Business FH NW, Switzerland
Dominik Bork University of Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Frank University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Sedef Akinli Kocak University of Toronto, Canada
Dirk v.d. Linden University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Assaf Marron Weizmann Institue of Science, Israel
Björn Niehaves University of Siegen, Germany
Birgit Penzenstadler California State University, USA
Stefan Strecker Fernuniversität in Hagen, Gemany
(to be extended)
Organizers
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Information Systems and
Enterprise Modeling, Universitätsstr. 9, 45141 Essen, Germany,
Tel: +49 201 18-32719,
jens.gulden@uni-due.de
Alexander Bock, University of Duisburg-Essen, Information Systems
and Enterprise Modeling, Universitätsstr. 9, 45141 Essen,
Germany, Tel: +49 201 18-34563,
alexander.bock@uni-due.de
Sergio España Cubillo, Utrecht University, Department of
Information and Computing Sciences, Buys Ballot Laboratory office
577, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The
Netherlands, Tel: +31 30 2537088,
s.espana@uu.nl
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Dr. Jens Gulden
Information Systems and Enterprise Modeling - Prof. Frank
Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Department of Economic Science
University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
room R09 R04 H35
tel [+49|0] 201/183-2719
fax [+49|0] 201/183-4011
www http://www.wi-inf.uni-duisburg-essen.de/FGFrank/
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