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CALL FOR PAPERS
25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017)
Track: "Knowledge Management"
http://www.ecis2017.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ECIS2017-T21.pdf

June 5-10, 2017, Guimarães, Portugal (http://www.ecis2017.eu)
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Deadline for paper submissions:  December 03, 2016
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Track Description:
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Many scholars have emphasized the importance of (big) data, information, and knowledge assets for smart decision support, sustainable management, and leadership. Consequently, knowledge management (KM) is essential for organizations’ daily business, directly influencing competitive advantage and business development in a smart world. Eventually, KM per se aims at the sustainable development of knowledge exchange and preservation, from the individual to the team/group to the organizational level and beyond, in a globalized world.

Main goal of this track is to gather current research trends in KM with a focus on smart, sustainable, and inclusive knowledge environments. KM has become an interdisciplinary research field – the traditional gap between researchers from a technology versus a human-oriented angle has been bridged by holistic, interdisciplinary approaches. This is highly necessary due to the context of research: organizations are more and more distributed, the need for sustainable management of knowledge-intensive processes becomes still higher. We currently see strong developments towards research on social and inclusive aspects (like the use of social software for business and private purposes across generations) as well as towards global organizations (like smart KM solutions for offshoring, inter-organizational KM, etc.). The influence of geographical dispersion, communication across time zones, or national/cultural influence factors needs to become a focus issue in research. Particularly, collaboration takes place in different smart social or cultural environments. Due to the usage of collaborative technologies like social software, organizational and national boundaries become more blurred and knowledge can be diffused much easier. Openness and inter-organizational collaboration build the global pathway of rich, contextualized and sustainable knowledge sharing activities among networked persons within and beyond organizational boundaries. Furthermore, in an increasingly globally distributed world, organizations and knowledge workers are required to exploit relationships with others and to gain benefits out of such relationships. Eventually, KM supports dealing with the demographic change by, for example, providing inclusive measures like age-based learning offers for elderly persons.

The KM track aims to promote multi-disciplinary contributions dealing with a managerial, an economic, a methodological, a cultural or a technical perspective. Submissions based on theoretical research, design research, action research, or behavioral research are encouraged. We welcome both full research papers and research in progress papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Capturing and sharing knowledge in social networks and distributed contexts
* Cross-organizational, cross-border and cross-cultural KM
* Sustainability of indigenous knowledge and knowledge societies
* KM and the demographic change
* KM and smart cities
* KM in the cloud
* Support for mature KM solutions: KM governance, KM strategies, KM maturity models, and KM performance
* Social and behavioral issues in KM
* Mobile technologies and social software usage in KM
* KM and learning
* Sustainable KM: securing and protecting knowledge
* KM and risk management

Track Chairs:
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Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin, Germany, mbick<at>escpeurope.eu
Stefan Smolnik, University of Hagen, Germany, Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hagen.de (Primary Contact)

Associate Editors:
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Ulrike Baumöl, University of Hagen, Germany
Tingting Rachel Chung, Chatham University, USA
Katharina Ebner, University of Hagen, Germany
Kelly J. Fadel, Utah State University, USA
Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University, USA
Ranjan B. Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
Tyge-F. Kummer, Griffith University, Australia
Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Kent Marett, Mississippi State University, USA
Malte Martensen, Promerit, Germany
Jan M. Pawlowski, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Henri Pirkkalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Saonee Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Eric Schoop, TU Dresden, Germany
Dick Stenmark, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Stefan Thalmann, University of Innsbruck, Austria