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for cross-postings of this announcement.)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Forty-Ninth Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49)
January 5-8, 2016
(Tuesday-Friday)
The Grand Hyatt Kauai
Resort & Spa (http://kauai.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html)
Track: Knowledge
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems (http://www.hicss.org/#!track8/c1pkx)
Research into
knowledge management (KM), organizational memories, and
organizational learning has been affected by investigations
such as implementation aspects, system developments, or
knowledge flows during a number of years. Therefore, a high
maturity level of KM research has been achieved. However,
organizational KM initiatives are more and more faced with
budget cuts and justification demands due to intense
competition in today’s business environments. The influences
of the rapid pace of globalization and of the ongoing
liberalization of national and international markets lead to
the emergence of increased pressure on existing companies.
Project managers of KM initiatives like Chief Knowledge
Officers need to justify their budgets and, thus, are in need
of qualitative and quantitative evidence of the initiatives'
success. In addition, ROI calculations and traditional
accounting approaches do not tell an adequate story when
proposing knowledge-based initiatives. This minitrack explores
research into strategies, methodologies, and stories that
relate to measure this success. In addition, this minitrack
will be used to explore the bodies of performance measurements
that define the current state of research in measuring KM,
organizational memory, and organizational learning success.
Eventually, another purpose of this minitrack is to present
research on how to value knowledge-based initiatives.
Topics and research
areas include, but are not limited to:
* Frameworks and
models for assessing knowledge management and/or
organizational memory systems
* Methodologies and
processes for measuring knowledge management and/or
organizational memory success and performance
* Impact of knowledge
management strategy, organization, systems, culture, and other
issues on knowledge management/organizational memory success
* Organizational
effectiveness/efficiency due to knowledge
management/organizational memory/organizational learning,
knowledge and organizational memory use
* Knowledge
management, organizational memory, and organizational learning
metrics
* Knowledge
management, organizational memory, and organizational learning
success factors and key performance indicators
* Benchmarking of
knowledge management/organizational memory initiatives
* Case studies of
knowledge management and organizational memory success and
performance measurements
* Measuring knowledge
management and/or organizational memory performance in global
organizations and globally dispersed communities
* Effectiveness and/or
efficiency of knowledge management/organizational memory
systems
* Modeling and
measuring the impact of social software on knowledge
management performance
* Defining knowledge
management and organizational memory success
* Rigorous anecdotes
and user stories and their theoretical basis to facilitate the
value of knowledge-based initiatives
* Developing grounded
theory approaches to valuing knowledge-based initiatives
* Understanding
knowledge-based initiatives’ activities and output as service
offerings and exploring their productivity
* Usage, adoption and
success of knowledge management methods
For additional
information or to submit abstracts, please contact the
minitrack co-chairs:
Murray E. Jennex
(Primary Contact)
San Diego State
University
Stefan Smolnik
University of Hagen
Email:
Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hagen.de
David T. Croasdell
University of Nevada,
Reno
HICSS conferences are
devoted to the most relevant advances in the information,
computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in
both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be
theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Those selected for presentation will be included in the
Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer
Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library.
2015 Dates For
Submission to HICSS-49 (http://www.hicss.org/#!call-for-papers/c1cd9):
June 15: Deadline
to submit full manuscripts for review. Review is
double-blind; therefore this submission must be without
author names.
August 16:
Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to authors.
All travel guarantees – including visa or fiscal/ funding
procedures – should begin immediately after you receive the
notification of acceptance. Make sure your server accepts
the address from our review system.
August 19: Contact
your Minitrack Chair if you have not received
acceptance/rejection notification
August 16 -
September 4: If your paper is accepted with mandatory
changes (AM), you must make specified changes, and resubmit
your paper to the Paper Submission and Review System for
reconsideration, still without author names.
September 4:
Submission deadline for AM papers
September 11:
Contact your Minitrack Chair if you have not received a
revised decision
September 15:
Deadline for submitting final manuscript for publication to
the Publication System (not the previous Paper Submission
and Review System). Add author names, affiliation, and email
address to your papers. At least one author of each paper
should register by September 15 in order secure publication
in the Conference Proceedings.
October 1: Early
Registration fee ($675) deadline. (Fees will increase to
$750 on October 2 and $850 on December 2.)
October 15: Papers
without at least one registered author will be removed from
the Proceedings. Authors will be so notified.
How and When to
Submit a Paper (http://www.hicss.org/#!call-for-papers/c1cd9):
* Please follow
Author Instructions (http://www.hicss.org/#!author-instructions/c1dsb) for all details on
submitting a paper to an upcoming HICSS Conference.
* All papers must
be submitted to a minitrack (http://www.hicss.org/#!tracks-and-minitracks/c12zq). Minitracks are part
of our 10 larger tracks. Make sure you understand the focus
of a minitrack before submitting your paper to ensure you
are submitting to the best possible fit for your research.
* HICSS papers must
contain original material. They may not be previously
published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.
* Abstracts are
optional. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) or Track
Chair for guidance or verification of content. If you are
not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit a preliminary
abstract to the Minitrack Chair(s) or Track Chair via email
for determination.
* Submit a paper to
only one Minitrack (https://precisionconference.com/~hicss/). Submissions to more
than one minitrack may result in rejection by either
minitrack without consultation with author.
* Do not author or
co-author more than 5 papers. Track Chairs must approve any
names added after submission.
Additional details
may be found on HICSS primary website: http://www.hicss.org