-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: ISR Special Issue on "Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work" Datum: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:14:09 -0500 Von: Ritu Agarwal ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a special issue of ISR on *"Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work."* Guest editors for the special issue are Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology, John King, University of Michigan, and Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University.
Please visit http://www.informs.org/Pubs/ISR/Calls-for-Papers for more details on submission deadlines, editorial board, and special issue review process.
*Special Issue Focus*
There is widespread belief and growing evidence that the nature of work is changing as a result of the application of information technology (IT) and, more broadly, the use of information and technology in human enterprise. The focus of this special issue is on work, including its content, coordination, organization, and sustainment over time in what has been historically called â??livelihoodâ?? or â??career.â?? Work, which for a long time has been derivative of organizational decisions and actions, might be changing in ways that influence decisions and actions of organizations rather than the other way around. In particular, new patterns of digitally mediated collaboration may engender changes in the geographic distribution of work, while new forms of digitally mediated contracting make short hold-time collaborations a viable alternative to earlier models of long-term employment.
Information and technology have influenced the nature of work in traditional organizations, but another important development has been the rise of â??openâ?? behavior: open models of production (e.g., open source software), open sourcing of ideas (e.g., crowdsourcing and collective intelligence), and open access to information resources (e.g., open educational resources). This includes work among distributed individuals and organizations using technology-enabled platforms that facilitate â??openâ?? behavior.
This special issue of /ISR/ is designed to stimulate new thinking and innovative research on the relationship among information, technology, and the changing nature of work. We invite papers that use a variety of investigative approaches, including strategic, organizational, behavioral, economic, and technical perspectives. The scope of the special issue is limited only by the relationship among information, technology, and work. Submissions should contribute significantly to understanding and planning for next steps in research. Ideally, papers published in this special issue will help guide research in this area for the coming years while simultaneously being relevant for policy makers.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* â??Openâ?? strategies for organizing and sourcing of work, sourcing of ideas, and/or access to work resources * Intertwining of virtual and physical elements of work * Reorganization and redistribution of work with new digital technologies * The future of professions, organizational tasks, and functions * Changes in the organization of highly data- or knowledge-intensive work mediated by extensive digital capabilities (science, engineering, scholarship, data mining, etc.) * New work regimes, pace, and temporal structuring of work * New, technology-enabled models of matching talent and work and new methods of credentialing and assessing talent * Rules, incentives, and participation in digitally mediated work * Effects of design rules for games and competitions on the outcomes of work * Organization of teams in new and emerging work regimes * The use of social media in crowdsourcing and organizational collaboration * Effects of job-hopping and short workerâ??firm collaborations on career patterns and firm boundaries and structuring * New qualification norms and institutional forms of controlling work force * â??Big dataâ?? and data-driven enterprise as a means to learning and change work flow patterns * New forms of individual and team-level work control * Intellectual property in open environments and new work regimes
Cordially, Ritu Agarwal EIC, ISR
*Ritu Agarwal* *Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems* *Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems* *Robert H. Smith School of Business* *4327 Van Munching Hall* *University of Maryland* *College Park, MD 20742-1815* *301.405.3121 TEL* *301.405.8655 FAX* http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal