-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] HICSS-52 Call for papers for the minitrack on: "CREATIVITY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE MINITRACK" Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 07:04:51 +0000 From: Isabella SEEBER Isabella.Seeber@uibk.ac.at Reply-To: Isabella SEEBER Isabella.Seeber@uibk.ac.at To: wi@lists.kit.edu wi@lists.kit.edu

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HICSS-52 Call for papers for the minitrack on: "CREATIVITY: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE MINITRACK" Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui - January 8-11, 2019

Innovation is a critical force in organizational performance and survival. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased competition have all created an environment in which creativity and innovation are needed in order to cope with situational and economic pressures and frequent changes. Designers and Developers of organizational systems must therefore innovate almost continuously to keep the organization aligned with such changes. Creativity is a critical pre-condition for innovation. Generating novel and creative ideas are the key to innovation and growth in every organization today. Providing employees, customers and partners with tools to think creatively has been proven to increase innovation in organizations. Research shows that organizations which have established skill-bases and tools for creativity outperform the competition in terms of revenue, rolling out new products, innovation and growth. Though organizations deploy groups for most creative processes, there has been little research in the area of group creativity. Most creative research is focused on individual factors affecting creativity. Many challenges that arise from pursuing creativity in teams remain unexplored.

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the following topics can be discussed (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

* Methods & techniques to improve creativity in teams and crowds * Open Innovation, idea competitions, co-creation, and creativity through social media * Design and evaluation of platforms, systems, and technologies for enhancing creativity * Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams, crowds, and organizations * Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group, crowd, and organizational levels * Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group, crowd, and organizational levels * The creation and implementation of innovations in teams, crowds, and organizations * Factors affecting creativity in individuals, teams, crowds, and organizations * Multi-level issues of creativity in teams, crowds, and organizations * Multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches to creativity * Creative collaboration between business partners and customers (e.g. open innovation and co-creation of products and services) * Managing creative projects

We welcome papers that contain original ideas on how to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving, i.e., understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review. We seek papers that suggest methodical, technical, theoretical, or practical improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

This minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or developmental in nature.

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Triparna de Vreede (Primary Contact) University of South Florida tdevreede@usf.edu mailto:tdevreede@usf.edu

Gert-Jan de Vreede University of South Florida gdevreede@usf.edu mailto:gdevreede@usf.edu

Isabella Seeber University of Innsbruck, Austria isabella.seeber@uibk.ac.at mailto:isabella.seeber@uibk.ac.at

Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site (http://hicss.hawaii.edu/), make sure that the authors? names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.

TIMELINE: June 15: Full papers uploaded to the minitrack through the submission system at http://hicss.hawaii.edu. August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded; author(s) must register by this time. ---------------------------------------------------------- *Isabella SEEBER *Assistant Professor University of Innsbruck |Department of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management Universitätsstrasse 15 | 6020 Innsbruck |Austria | Tel.: +43 512-507-73210 isabella.seeber@uibk.ac.at https://c437-ex.uibk.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?C=RLLIwpahQUK7AL8ZyvfpLwoWT4RXstAI4KEbxZ9a9cqCHX3q5PoOjmlu3BftEeetNEon1U-zYiA.&URL=mailto%3aisabella.seeber%40uibk.ac.at | http://www.uibk.ac.at/iwi https://c437-ex.uibk.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?C=RLLIwpahQUK7AL8ZyvfpLwoWT4RXstAI4KEbxZ9a9cqCHX3q5PoOjmlu3BftEeetNEon1U-zYiA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.uibk.ac.at%2fiwi

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