Call for Papers

Track “Future of Work”

32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) – People First: Constructing Digital Futures Together, June 13th to 19th, 2024, Paphos, Cyprus, https://ecis2024.eu/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: November 17, 2023

Notification to authors: February 28, 2024

Submission of revised papers: March 31, 2024

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TRACK DESCRIPTION

Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way we organize and perform work. Algorithms are increasingly augmenting or automating all types of work; not only can they act as supervisors or co-workers to their human counterparts (Tarafdar et al. 2023), but they also regularly coordinate and control how work is done (Möhlmann et al. 2021; Kellogg et al. 2020). Algorithmic decision-making and management can offer substantial benefits for organizations, as it allows to scale business models by coordinating huge numbers of employees and automating managerial decision-making (Benlian et al. 2022). Yet, algorithmic work has serious dark sides wherein workers can suffer from low well-being as a consequence of lack of autonomy (Wiener, Cram and Benlian, 2021) and technostress (Cram et al. 2022). In response, employees have started to engage in what has been referred to as algoactivism; that is, individual and collective tactics to influence, game, or ‘fight back’ against algorithms (Kellogg et al. 2020; Jiang et al. 2021). More generally, this calls us to question the way that current work systems are designed and how we can make them fairer (Gal et al. 2020; Spiekermann et al. 2022).

Novel technologies, such as blockchain, virtual reality and AI, are also fundamentally transforming how organizations allocate and coordinate work. This has led to new forms of organizing (Puranam et al. 2014) and has influenced individual work practices considerably. Freelancing and crowd work allow workers to perform tasks more flexibly, leading to globally distributed teams and entirely new work arrangements, such as digital nomadism (Wang et al. 2022). To remain employable, let alone thrive and prosper, workers will need to adapt their skill sets and careers to leverage the capabilities of these new technologies. As the new generation of digital natives reimagines the future of work, definitions of work and employment are changing at the same time.

For this track, we encourage submissions that address the various facets of the future of work, such as algorithmic management and new forms of organizing, and how they play out on individual, organizational, and societal levels. Submissions are encouraged from all theoretical and methodological perspectives drawing from IS, management, and related disciplines.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics relevant to the track include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithmic management and control
• Algoactivism
• Automation and augmentation of work
• HR/People analytics
• Digitally-enabled new forms of organizing
• Self-organization in decentralized autonomous organizations
• Virtual, mobile and nomadic work across boundaries
• Collaboration with bots and algorithms
• Meaning of work in digital workplaces
• Accountability and fairness of algorithmic work
• Crowd work arrangements and practices
• Digital competencies

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Ekaterina Jussupow, University of Mannheim, Germany

Lior Zalmanson, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Lisa Marie Giermindl, Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, Switzerland

Mareike Möhlmann, Bentley University, USA

Mari-Klara Stein, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Martin Adam, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Martin Wiener, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Ulrich Remus, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Alec Cram, University of Waterloo, Canada

Xavier Parent-Rocheleau, HEC Montreal, Canada

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TRACK CHAIRS

Bastian Wurm, LMU Munich School of Management

Alexander Benlian, Technical University of Darmstadt

Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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For further information please visit https://ecis2024.eu/track-descriptions/

Best regards,

Bastian, Alexander, and Monideepa