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Distributed Collaboration and Telework in Organizations and
Networks
While geographically distributed collaboration has been the
subject of academic research for decades, the entire world coping
with the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic has reignited
interest in this critically important area of research and
practice. Most organizations, networks and teams have experienced
a substantial increase in the amount of telework and
technology-mediated collaboration these days. The pandemic has
accelerated the organizational practices of employees and members
working together across multiple spatial and temporal boundaries
in complex configurations comprised of multi-team arrangements,
complex dependency relationships, and multiple organizational
boundaries. Sometimes referred to as telework or
technology-mediated collaboration, coordinating task work and
teamwork over a web of communication and information sharing
networks continues to serve as an important locus for research
opportunities. In addition, the pandemic has accelerated practices
of remo
te education, online shopping, virtual conferences, distributed
social events, and many other unique adaptations to this historic
period. Research on distributed collaboration and telework in
organizations and networks is necessarily multi-disciplinary. The
implications are profound from every perspective - social,
political, economic, technological, and environmental. For
HICSS-55, we have forged a fast track publication opportunity with
Data & Policy published by Cambridge University Press. Data
& Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to
data science and governance.
Topics for papers submitted to this minitrack include, but are not
limited to:
* Spatial and temporal separation and its effects on collaboration
* Coordination and collaboration across multiple boundaries
* Team knowledge networks
* Impacts and consequences of telework on organizational and
network outcomes
* Cross-cultural impact on collaboration (e.g., language,
perceptions of time, power distance, conflict)
* Project management styles and differences across cultures
* eLeadership
* Personality and its role in virtual teams
* Virtual and hybrid team collaboration and innovation
* Emotion in virtual teams
* Relationship building in virtual teams
* Information sharing in virtual teams
* Collaboration and communication processes and tools
* Differences between academic and non-academic virtual teams
* Social Network Analysis, and methodological advances in network
science and graph analytics
* Identifying multi-level influences on virtual teams,
organizations, and networks
* The science of team science (distributed collaboration in
scientific teams)
We encourage research submissions that inform policy and practice
in distributed collaboration and telework through a variety of
academic lenses. This mini-track invites papers that offer direct
and indirect insights into the successful operation of virtual
teams, distributed collaboration, organizations and networks,
including research in computer supported collaborative work
(CSCW), computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL),
telework, and social and organizational networks.
Key Deadlines:
June 15 - Papers due
August 17 - Notifications to authors
September 22 - Final manuscripts due
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Derrick L. Cogburn
American University
dcogburn@american.edu<mailto:dcogburn@american.edu>
J. Alberto Espinosa
American University
alberto@american.edu
Mark Clark
American University
maclark@american.edu
Emma Nordback
Hanken School of Economics
emma.nordback@hanken.fi
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