Sirkka Jarvenpaa

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Sri Kudaravalli

HEC Paris
France

Jae Yun Moon

Korea University
Korea

Description

This track addresses social media and digital collaboration, particularly when they intersect. Social media applications and platforms have become pervasive in many phenomena of interest to the information systems community such as social commerce, virtual teams, social networking, knowledge management, online communities, open source, open data and digital activism. This track invites research that provides fresh theoretical perspectives and novel empirical insights on ways of organizing and collaborating enabled by social media. We also invite studies that focus on the historical, cultural, political and economic contexts of social media use and digital collaboration, examining both positive and negative consequences.

We welcome research from any philosophical and theoretical standpoint.  We welcome research that uses a wide variety of methods, including qualitative methods, large-scale data analysis, surveys, digital field experiments, simulations and multi-methods. We are also open to the study of social media in a variety of contexts – the work organization, civic society, humanitarian efforts, and disaster responses, to name but a few. A diversity of disciplinary backgrounds is also encouraged, in recognition of the contributions cultural, media and communication studies, and sociology, have made to social media research. We explicitly encourage submissions to this track that situate digital collaboration and social media, and the modes by which we can study these phenomena, historically, theoretically or empirically. We are particularly interested in papers that develop new theories of digital collaboration or challenge current conceptualizations of the new social media enabled contexts.

The track does not cover topics related to the use of social media in the context of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing or the sharing economy. Authors of such papers should submit their work to the Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding and Sharing Economy Track.

Topics of Interests

• Social media and theories about digital collaboration
• Virtual teams and collaboration technologies
• Enterprise knowledge sharing and collaborative work
• Personal knowledge management and social media
• Social media-enabled business models
• Organizational networking with social media
• Use of social media for citizen and political participation
• Mobilization of temporary organizations using social media
• Policy challenges
• Effects of algorithmic culture and mediators upon collaborative practice
• Geo-spatial aspects of social media collaborations
• The development and use of social media analytics
• Digital methods for understanding social media collaboration (e.g. design science approaches, the computational turn; big data methods)
• Critical perspectives on social media (e.g. how social is social media, what are negative side effects of social media use?).

Associate Editors

• Katherine Chudoba, Utah State U., USA
• Hope Koch, Baylor U., USA
• Marco Marabelli, Bentley U., USA
• Jean-Gregoire Bernard, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand
• Tat Koon Koh, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Hui Kai Long, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Steven Johnson, U. of Virginia, USA
• Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Kai Fischbach, Universität Bamberg, Germany
• Salvatore Parise, Babson College, USA
• Joao Baptista, Warwick Business School, UK
• Leiser Silva, U. of Houston, USA
• Netta Iivari, U. of Oulu, Finland
• Nishtha Langer, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Priscilla Cristina Cabral Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Stefan Smolnik, U. of Hagen, Germany
• Boreum Choi, UNIST Graduate School of Technology Management, Korea
• Lynn Wu, U. of Pennsylvania Wharton, USA
• Jung Lee, KIMEP U., Kazakhstan
• Xitong Li, HEC Paris, France
• Maria Alexandra Cunha, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paul, Brazil
• Wenjing Duan, George Washington U., USA
• Maha Shaikh, Warwick Business School, UK
• Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State U., USA
• James Howison, U. of Texas, USA
• Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Esther Gonzalez, California State University, USA
• Raquel Benbunan-Fich, City University of New York, USA

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Blaize Reich

Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

Chris Sauer

Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
UK

Walter Fernandez

University of New South Wales
Australia

Description

Enabled by IS development (ISD), information systems projects and programs (ISP) are fuelling the transformation of organisations. From small-business initiatives to corporate, from the way governments deliver services to the way entire industries operate, ISP and ISD are critical to the continuous process of social and technical transformation. As the pace of change accelerates, and organisations are forced to move from being process-based to embrace projectization, we are witnessing the emergence of new processes, practices, and methods that promise improvements of effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of ISD and ISP with consequential organizational and societal benefits. However, these promises are not always fulfilled and new approaches often present new challenges hence the need for new research.

Therefore, this track is concerned with a broad spectrum of methods and practices that have emerged to assist individuals, teams, and organizations to understand these challenges and to improve performance. These include, but are not limited to, agile and lean approaches, the role of IS projects and programs in the transformation of organisations and the evolution of industries and countries.

Topics of Interests

We welcome papers in the Managing IS Projects and IS Development track that improve our understanding of the diverse and complex nature of IS projects and programs, particularly with respect to IS development. Submissions could include, but are not limited to the following topics:

• Managing issues in IS projects including estimation, risk, quality assurance, governance, and knowledge.
• IS project management capabilities, competence and maturity.
• Managing IS-enabled programs of organizational transformation, governance, coordination, politics, and complexities.
• People-related issues in IS projects, including diversity, leadership and power
• Managing distributed and virtual IS projects.
• Sourcing of IS projects, including offshoring, outsourcing, nearshoring, crowdsourcing, inner sourcing or multi-sourcing.
• Value enhancement of IS project management and benefit realization in IS programs and projects.
• IS design and development in practice, including methods and tools such as agile and lean development, component-based processes, service-orientation, and open source.
• Managing IS development and systems integration.
• Managing large scale IS projects such as the deployment and implementation of enterprise systems and other packaged software applications, in a wide range of settings.
• Issues in managing mobile apps development.
• Socio-technical issues, including managing and developing in the cloud, complexity as a risk (positive and negative), impact of size, dealing with failure, effective governance, and ambidexterity, to name a few.

Associate Editors

• David Arnott, Monash U.
• Dirk Basten, U. in Cologne
• Lan Cao, Old Dominion U.
• Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson U.
• Sharon Coyle, U. of Sydney
• Michael Cuellar, Georgia Southern U.
• Antonio Diaz Andrade, Auckland U. of Technology
• Owen Eriksson, Uppsala U.
• Andrew Gemino, Simon Fraser U.
• Robert Gregory, IESE Business School, U. of Navarra
• Riitta Hekkala, Aalto U.
• Rashina Hoda, The U. of Auckland
• Helena Holmström Olsson, Malmö U.
• Lesley Land, U. of New South Wales
• Lorraine Lee, U. of North Carolina at Wilmington
• Alanah Mitchell, Drake U.
• Maria Paasivaara, Aalto U.
• Samuli Pekkola, Tampere U. of Technology
• Sumantra Sarkar, Binghamton U.
• John Trip, Baylor U.
• John Tripp, Baylor U.
• Richard Vidgen, U. of Hull
• Radu Vlas, U. of Houston–Clear Lake
• Xiaofeng Wang, Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano
• Barbara Weber, U. of Innsbruck
• Manuel Wiesche, Technische Universität München
• Xiao Xiao, Copenhagen Business School

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