-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [AISWorld] HICSS-55 Call for papers - Distributed Collaboration and Telework in Organizations and Networks minitrack Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:17:18 +0000 From: Alberto Espinosa alberto@american.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Distributed Collaboration and Telework in Organizations and Networks

While geographically distributed collaboration has been the subject of academic research for decades, the entire world coping with the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in this critically important area of research and practice. Most organizations, networks and teams have experienced a substantial increase in the amount of telework and technology-mediated collaboration these days. The pandemic has accelerated the organizational practices of employees and members working together across multiple spatial and temporal boundaries in complex configurations comprised of multi-team arrangements, complex dependency relationships, and multiple organizational boundaries. Sometimes referred to as telework or technology-mediated collaboration, coordinating task work and teamwork over a web of communication and information sharing networks continues to serve as an important locus for research opportunities. In addition, the pandemic has accelerated practices of remo te education, online shopping, virtual conferences, distributed social events, and many other unique adaptations to this historic period. Research on distributed collaboration and telework in organizations and networks is necessarily multi-disciplinary. The implications are profound from every perspective - social, political, economic, technological, and environmental. For HICSS-55, we have forged a fast track publication opportunity with Data & Policy published by Cambridge University Press. Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to data science and governance.

Topics for papers submitted to this minitrack include, but are not limited to:

* Spatial and temporal separation and its effects on collaboration * Coordination and collaboration across multiple boundaries * Team knowledge networks * Impacts and consequences of telework on organizational and network outcomes * Cross-cultural impact on collaboration (e.g., language, perceptions of time, power distance, conflict) * Project management styles and differences across cultures * eLeadership * Personality and its role in virtual teams * Virtual and hybrid team collaboration and innovation * Emotion in virtual teams * Relationship building in virtual teams * Information sharing in virtual teams * Collaboration and communication processes and tools * Differences between academic and non-academic virtual teams * Social Network Analysis, and methodological advances in network science and graph analytics * Identifying multi-level influences on virtual teams, organizations, and networks * The science of team science (distributed collaboration in scientific teams)

We encourage research submissions that inform policy and practice in distributed collaboration and telework through a variety of academic lenses. This mini-track invites papers that offer direct and indirect insights into the successful operation of virtual teams, distributed collaboration, organizations and networks, including research in computer supported collaborative work (CSCW), computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL), telework, and social and organizational networks.

Key Deadlines: June 15 - Papers due August 17 - Notifications to authors September 22 - Final manuscripts due

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Derrick L. Cogburn American University dcogburn@american.edumailto:dcogburn@american.edu

J. Alberto Espinosa American University alberto@american.edu

Mark Clark American University maclark@american.edu

Emma Nordback Hanken School of Economics emma.nordback@hanken.fi

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