-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP for the HICSS-49 minitrack on Knowledge Management Value, Success and Performance Measurements Datum: Fri, 29 May 2015 12:20:35 +0200 Von: Stefan Smolnik fuh@smolnik.net An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

(Apologies 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 http://www.hicss.org/#%21track8/c1pkx) Minitrack: Knowledge Management Value, Success and Performance Measurements (http://www.hicss.org/#!knowledge-management-value/cqic http://www.hicss.org/#%21knowledge-management-value/cqic)

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 Tel: (760) 966-0548 tel:%28760%29%20966-0548 Email: Murphjen<at>aol.com http://aol.com/

Stefan Smolnik University of Hagen Tel: +49 2331 987-2466 tel:%2B49%202331%20987-2466 Email: Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hagen.de

David T. Croasdell University of Nevada, Reno Tel: (775) 784-6902 tel:%28775%29%20784-6902 Email: davec<at>unr.edu http://unr.edu/

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 http://www.hicss.org/#%21call-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 http://www.hicss.org/#%21call-for-papers/c1cd9): * Please follow Author Instructions (http://www.hicss.org/#!author-instructions/c1dsb http://www.hicss.org/#%21author-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 http://www.hicss.org/#%21tracks-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/ https://precisionconference.com/%7Ehicss/). 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 http://www.hicss.org/