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Call for Papers: Track “ Virtualization of work and business”
15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2020),
March 9th-11th, 2020 in Potsdam, Germany
www.wi2020.de<
http://www.wi2020.de<http://www.wi2020.de%3chttp:/www.wi2020.de>>
Track Chairs
Christian Maier, University of Bamberg
Sven Laumer, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Andreas Eckhardt, German Graduate School
Description
The technological development is rapidly reshaping when, where,
and how people do their jobs. The accelerated digitalization of
information is pushing many organizations away from the
established archetype of 9-5 office work towards more seasonable
approaches to work. What often began as outsourcing of
administrative work or an individual concession for employees to
perform individual tasks from home (e.g. home office, telework)
has increasingly changed into a movement in which organizations
partially or even completely virtualize themselves and physical
office locations cease to exist. This leads to contemporary
approaches to work, including virtual or remote work, offshoring,
outsourcing, globally distributed project work, as well as
freelancing on demand, brokered through dedicated platforms (e.g.
Mechanical Turk, Uber, and TaskRabbit). In addition, the content
of work is increasingly changing, as automation and augmentation
of work perform operational-administrative and repetitive tasks,
allowing employees in organizations to concentrate more on
creative and strategic tasks. However, the development also comes
along with changes in employment relationships. Jobs are
increasingly being carried out in flexible, uncertain and socially
insecure work settings. While, organizations will increasingly
turn into a shared services provider taking care of project and
task allocation in these settings, issues such as individual
training and development will be part of the employee’s
responsibility. Furthermore, employees are confronted with
blurring boundaries between work and private life and constant
connectivity, increasing IT-induced demands (e.g., technostress)
and may lead to social isolation.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of work-related topics, we
explicitly welcome all approaches that take a broad and inclusive
perspective addressing virtual work and the virtualization of
organizations. We seek submissions on a variety of theoretical and
methodological approaches that examine the phenomenon across
different levels of analysis.
Covered areas include, but are not limited to:
· Automation and augmentation of work
· Challenges and benefits of virtual work and virtual
organizations
· Digital leadership in remote work settings
· Digitalization and job mobility
· Digitalization and the future of occupations
· Meaning of work in digital workplaces
· New forms of technology-enabled work arrangements
· New practices and forms of leadership in digital workplaces
· New practices and forms of human resources management in digital
workplaces
· New practices and forms of knowledge management
· Sharing economy and peer to peer work arrangements
· Structural mechanisms, policy, and regulation to legitimize
virtual work
· Technostress and its consequences on employee performance
· The great variety of Bring-your-own approaches (e.g., BYOD,
BYOC, BYOS)
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 16th, 2019
Submission deadline for revised papers: November 11th, 2019
For further information please visit
www.wi2020.de/<http://www.wi2020.de/>
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Christian Maier
University of Bamberg, Germany
Christian.maier@uni-bamberg.de<mailto:Christian.maier@uni-bamberg.de>
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