-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] cfp:Mini-Track ---Distributed Group Decision-Making Datum: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 19:50:34 +0000 Von: Anil Aggarwal aaggarwal@ubalt.edu An: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org

Dear Colleagues:

After successful sessions last year, we are continuing our mini track on Distributed Group Decision-Making (part of Virtual Communities and Collaboration track). We invite you to submit your paper to this minitrack . A call for papers is attached.

Regards,

Anil Aggarwal Doug Vogel Yuko SJ Murayama

2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Boston, MA, August 10-12, 2017, http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/

MiniTrack : Distributed Group Decision-Making Part of: Virtual Communities and Collaboration track

Important dates:

- January 09, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin

- March 01, 2017 1pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions

- April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers

- April 25, 2017: Deadline for camera-ready revisions

- April 28, 2017: Notification of decision on revised camera-ready papers

Mini-track Description: Emerging issues like big data, data analytics, visual analytics, data mining, e-government and e-health are giving new meaning to distributed decision making. In addition, recent outbreak of Ebola epidemic, missing Malaysian flight 17, are only some of the examples of swift virtual teams requiring collaboration. Coordination among individuals with varying skills is becoming common. Teams must quickly adapt to the changing environment be it face-to-face, mobile or in the cloud. Agile teams adapt and deliver quickly and provide maximum customer satisfaction. Can distributed teams be agile and adaptable? This mini-track examines the emerging issues related to team configuration and performance in distributed environment. Research related to emerging issues like diversity, cohesiveness, agility and adaptability related to group collaboration across semi or unstructured tasks is still emerging. The mini track will address these issues as well as the underlying theories of group dynamics, coordination and communications in distributed environments.

Call for Papers: The mini track will address emerging issues such as diversity, culture, adaptability and agility related to teams in distributed group decision making, as well as the underlying theories of group dynamics, coordination, communications and decision-making in distributed environments, in creation of competitive advantage.

Examples of topics in the discussion of globally distributed decision making mini-track will include the following (but are not limited to):

* Virtual collaboration in e-Health teams

* Models of globally distributed agile/adaptable teams

* Knowledge creation, transfer and integration across globally distributed teams

* Leadership/cohesiveness issues in globally distributed teams

* E-government(s)inter- , intra-collaboration

* Collaboration through crowdsourcing

* Swift team collaboration

* Public-private collaboration

* Delivering health services through collaboration

* Economics of distributed decision making in the clouds

* Trust and distrust as motivator in distributed decision making

* Can agile teams be globally distributed?

* Agile/Adaptable team configuration in globally distributed teams

* The "e (internet)" to "m (mobile)" transformation of globally distributed teams

* Communication and coordination in globally distributed teams

* Diversity issues in globally distributed teams

* Customer satisfaction, performance and "trust" building in globally distributed teams

* Synchronous and asynchronous decision making in globally distributed teams

* Comparison of issues across internal, inter-, intra and offshore distributed teams

* Turbulent economy and its impact on outsourcing

* Issues related to functional and dysfunctional globally distributed teams

* Security, privacy and risk associated with globally distributed teams

* Case Studies (success/failures) related to decision making by globally distributed teams

Types of Submissions:

* COMPLETED RESEARCH PAPERS

* EMERGENT RESEARCH FORUM (ERF) PAPERS

Please see - http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/ for more information.

Chair(s): Dr. A. K. Aggarwal** University of Baltimore, USA 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD21202, USA 410 837-5275 aaggarwal@ubalt.edumailto:aaggarwal@ubalt.edu

Dr. Doug Vogel Harbin Institute of Technology, PRC vogel.doug@gmail.commailto:vogel.doug@gmail.com

Dr. Yuko Murayama Tsuda University, Japan murayama@tsuda.ac.jpmailto:murayama@tsuda.ac.jp

**contact person

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