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Call for Papers: Pre ECIS Workshop: New Technologies,
Organizations and Work
https://www.ukais.org/ECIS-2018-Workshop
25 June 2018
at the 26th European Conference on Information Systems / 23-28
June 2018 / Portsmouth, United Kingdom (
http://ecis2018.eu/ )
This workshop is organised in collaboration with the UK Academy of
Information Systems (
https://www.ukais.org)
Important Dates:
- 30 March 2018: Extended abstract due
- 25 April 2018: Notification of acceptance
Workshop chairs:
Crispin Coombs Loughborough University, UK
Guy Fitzgerald Loughborough University, UK
Griffiths Marie University of Salford, UK
Overview of the workshop
Rapid developments in new technologies such as artificial
intelligence, robotics and autonomous systems are having profound
impacts on organisations and workers (Brynjolfsson & McAfee,
2016; Ford, 2015). These impacts may occur at the work-practice,
organizational and supra- organizational levels (Günther, Mehrizi,
Huysman, & Feldberg, 2017) and have contrasting outcomes for
different stakeholders. For example, new technologies have the
potential to augment and enhance worker behaviours and enrich job
roles, but also to facilitate high levels of surveillance and
control, performance monitoring, and the loss of jobs. The
tensions between these possible outcomes have generated
considerable debate in the academic press (Günther et al., 2017).
However, much of the research underpinning these debates is
conceptual in nature. This has led to calls for more empirical
studies on organizations’ actual strategic decisions on the use of
new technologies e.g. on the automation of work (Markus, 2017).
This also presents an opportunity for IS researchers to bring
together literatures from other academic disciplines (Loebbecke
& Picot, 2015; Newell & Marabelli, 2015). Operating at the
intersection of many scholarly disciplines, considering both
social and technical perspectives, Information Systems (IS)
researchers are ideally placed to assemble a cohesive
understanding of this rapidly advancing research challenge.
The workshop invites short papers that consider these new
technologies at the worker, organisation or supra-organisational
levels. Example issues to consider may include (but are not
limited to):
· Are there new methods for forecasting use or organisational
impacts of new technologies?
· Can methods or tools be developed to help with understanding the
potential purposes, markets and regions for new technologies?
· How can research in new technologies addressing grand challenges
(e.g. sustainable food production, water and energy use)?
· Research methods relevant for complex and rapidly changing
technologies
· Robot/human decision-making conflict? Do humans stay in the loop
with AI informed decision making?
· The impacts of new technologies on skills (degradation or
enhancement)
· Trust and ethical issues in new technology decision making e.g.
can we trust robo-decisions for healthcare and financial
decisions?
· Privacy and surveillance: are we still challenging these issues
enough or has apathy replaced empathy?
·
The workshop particularly encourages empirical submissions but
conceptual or viewpoint papers are also welcome. Paper submission
is not required for attendance at the workshop.
Workshop format:
The workshop will take place over technologies, organisations and
work. A combination of short presentations and topic table
discussions will be used to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for scholars to explore
and debate these new and emerging technologies in the context of
organisation and work. The workshop complements several tracks at
ECIS (Big Data Analytics and Digital Transformation; Digital
Transformation; Digital Organisation, Work and Beyond) and aligns
directly with the socio-technical theme.
Important Dates:
- 30 March 2018: Extended abstract due
- 25 April 2018: Notification of acceptance
Additional Details:
- For further details including timetable, template for paper
submissions and programme go to -
https://www.ukais.org/ECIS-2018-Workshop
- At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the
workshop. You can register for the workshop at
http://ecis2018.eu/about-2/registration/
Short papers should be e-mailed to
c.r.coombs@lboro.ac.uk<mailto:c.r.coombs@lboro.ac.uk><mailto:c.r.coombs@lboro.ac.uk>
with the words ‘UKAIS ECIS workshop’ in the title.
Short papers will be available prior to the workshop.
Short paper submission is not required for attendance at the
workshop.
Workshop Programme Committee
· Rachel McLean, Liverpool John Moores University
· David Wainwright, Northumbria University
· Laurence Brooks, DeMontfort University
· Maria Kutar. University of Salford
· Diana Limburg, Oxford Brookes University
· Gelareh Roushan, Bournemouth University
· Oliver Kayas, Manchester Metropolitan University
· Rob Campbell, University of Bolton
· Savvas Papagiannidis, Newcastle University
· Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim
· Patrick Buckley, University of Limerick
· Yu-Chun Pan, University of West London
References
Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2016). The Second Machine Age
- Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant
Technologies. WW Norton & Co.
Ford, M. (2015). Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of
Mass Unemployment. London: Oneworld Publications.
Günther, W. A., Mehrizi, M. H. R., Huysman, M., & Feldberg, F.
(2017). Debating big data: A literature review on realizing value
from big data. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 26,
191–209.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2017.07.003
Loebbecke, C., & Picot, A. (2015). Reflections on societal and
business model transformation arising from digitization and big
data analytics: A research agenda. Journal of Strategic
Information Systems, 24, 149–157.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2015.08.002
Markus, M. L. (2017). Datification, Organizational Strategy, and
IS Research_ What’s the Score? Journal of Strategic Information
Systems, 26, 233–241.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2017.08.003
Newell, S., & Marabelli, M. “datification.” Journal of
Strategic Information Systems, 24, 3–14.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2015.02.001
Best
Crispin
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Reader in Information Systems
Head of Information Management Group
Senior Editor, Information Technology & People
School of Business and Economics
Loughborough University, UK
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