[AISWorld] CfP 2nd Int. Workshop on Organizational Design and Engineering (in conj. with ECIS 2011)
Robert Winter
robert.winter at unisg.ch
Thu Oct 28 13:08:47 EDT 2010
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2nd International Workshop on Organizational Design and Engineering (IWODE
2011)
in conjunction with the 19th European Conference on Information Systems
(ECIS 2011)
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=== CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================
--- Date and Venue
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* 8 June 2011
* Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
--- Important dates
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* Paper Submission: 1 February 2011
* Final Paper Submission: 1 May 2011
* Authors Notification: 1 April 2011
* Early registration: 15 May 2011
--- http://iwode11.iwi.unisg.ch
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--- Topics of interest
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We welcome both theoretical and practical papers related to aspects such as
(but not limited to):
* Real-time organization – the impact of real-time information on
organizational design
* New organizational design principles and rules – the co-evolution of
design-by-
decision and emergent design
* Social networking – networking applications as catalysts of emergent
design
* Visual management – the power of computer-based artefacts for making
emergent
designs visible
* Knowledge management – the role of systems supporting emergent
knowledge
processes
* The limits of organizational modelling – integrating design-by-decision
with
emergent design modelling
* Ethical issues – the limits of organizational self-awareness arising
from the new
modelling and technological capabilities
* Dynamic enterprise architectures – adaptation of business architectural
models
in line with emergent designs
* Organizational change – learning and change through the misalignment of
planned
and emergent design
* The impact of organizational qualities on the design of computer-based
artefacts
* Development process of organizational computer-based artefacts – the
continuous
development cycle driven by emergent designs
* The organizational impact of organizational computer-based artefacts –
from
planned to emerging impacts
* Organizational strategy - computer-based artefacts as drivers of
strategy instead
of merely supporters of strategy
* Changes in organizational designs related to changes in IT-enabled
business
models
--- Co-Chairs
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* Robert Winter, University of St Gallen
* Rodrigo Magalhães, Kuwait-Maastricht Business School and
Technical University of Lisbon
--- Organising Committee
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* Antonia Albani, University of St Gallen
* Eugenia Cacciatori, Bocconi University
* Anne Cleven, University of St Gallen
* Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology
* Marielba Zacarias, University of Algarve
--- Keynote Speakers
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* Jannis Kallinikos, London School of Economics
* Roel Wieringa, University of Twente
--- Program Committee
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Ademar Aguiar (Portugal), Steve Alter (USA), Kent Beck (USA),
John Brocklesby (New Zealand), Andrea Carugati (Denmark),
João Alvaro Carvalho (Portugal), Zhang Cheng (China)
Martin Cloutier (Canada), Joao Vieira da Cunha (Portugal)
Sergio De Cesare (UK), Haluk Demirkan (USA), Jan Dietz (Netherlands)
Omar El Sawy (USA), Amany Elbanna (UK), Yulin Fang (Hong Kong)
Raghu Garud (USA), Paolo Giorgini (Italy), Anna Grandori (Italy)
Cecilia Haskins (Norway), Jan Hoogervorst (Netherlands)
Wei-His (Frank) Hung (Taiwan), Claudia Loebbecke (Germany)
Nelson King (Lebanon), Ann Majchrzak (USA), Piero Migliarese (Italy)
Brian Pentland (USA), Jan Pries-Heje (Denmark)
Isabelle Reymen (Netherlands), Dirk Riehle (USA), Linda Rising (USA)
António Rito Silva, (Portugal), Peter Rittgen (Belgium), Matti Rossi
(Finland)
Susan Scott (UK), Miguel-Angel Sicilia (Spain), Antonio Lucas Soares
(Portugal)
Stefan Strohmeier (Germany), Jose Tribolet (Portugal), Philip Turtscher
(Austria)
Matteo Vignoli (Italy), Roland Yeo (Kuwait), Youngjin Yoo (USA)
--- Publication Opportunities
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Workshop proceedings will be made available to participants only so that
extended/
revised papers are available for later journal submission. Publication
opportunities
exist not only in form of the ODE minitrack at HICSS (http://
http://www.hicss.org),
the Enterprise Engineering track at ACM SAC (
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac)
or other conferences in the field of ODE.
Selected papers will also be suggested for submission with priority in peer
reviewing
at the International Journal of Organization Design and Engineering
(http://www.inderscience.com/ijode)
--- Background
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Increasingly, engineering forces emerging from the information revolution
are
shaping the flow of work in organizations. For example, it is safe to say
that the very
large majority of large and many medium-size organizations around the world
have
adopted ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. ERP packages make a lot
of sense in managerial terms since they relieve managers of the vague and
unreliable nature of small-scale, in-house software development.
Behind each ERP there is a great deal of organizational design (or
engineering?)
in the form of a model of the enterprise’s workflows. Often, such a model
is
developed within an engineering and mechanistic worldview, without a
sufficient
consideration about we know of informal interactions within organizations.
Much
research has shown that this approach is doomed to failure, with
significant costs
for the organizations involved and especially so in the increasingly common
large
scale, interconnected, rigid systems such as ERPs. Yet, we seem to have
still great
difficulties in bringing together the engineering, optimizing approach that
is essential
to the design of effective organizations with a deep understanding of the
emergent
nature of social processes.
The impact of IT on economies in general and on organizations in particular
has
been the locus of attention – for more than 20 years – of researchers from
world
renowned institutions such the MIT or the LSE. Much of the existing
research has
been carried out under the social science-oriented discipline of
information
systems in a fairly apparent split from the world of engineering and
hard-nosed
technology. However, these intellectual paradigms are coming ever closer
together
through the forces at play on the ground. The ERP-dominated bureaucracy,
the new
business models entirely dependent on information technology, mobile
communications, social software or near-real-time organizations are all
part of the
new organizational landscape where design and engineering are ever more
difficult to disentangle.
The First Workshop on Organizational Design and Engineering (IWODE09) which
took place in Lisbon, Portugal attracted researchers from nine countries
and different
academic backgrounds (see http://iwode09.ist.utl.pt/doku.php). The motto of
the
workshop was that the "either-or" mindset has been a major obstacle to the
development of organizational thinking in the 21st century and that this
artificial divide
must be abolished. Hence, the emphasis was not on organization theory,
computer
science or information systems, but on a push towards an innovative mix of
the three
disciplines.
While both social scientists and computer engineers agree that intangible
issue
exist which play a huge role in the way that organizations are designed or
engineered,
little is known about how we should we deal with such intangibles. They are
to be
found in all strategic and operational aspects of the planning, design,
implementation
and use of IS in organizations. So, the motto for the Second Workshop is
how do IS
design methodologies deal with the intangible parts of work systems and how
best
to integrate the soft and the hard in Organizational Design and
Engineering?
--- Goals
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The Workshop is aimed at advancing research and practice in ODE by bringing
together individuals or groups working on the same or related areas and
finding
out how the various perspectives might be made to converge in terms of
research
objectives, methodologies and results. An important aim is also to promote
collaborative research, including not only academics but also
practitioners.
Workshop format
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The format of the workshop is aimed at maximizing interdisciplinary
exchange of
ideas and experiences through the use of a small number of presentations
followed
by small round-table discussions. In some of the sessions, invited chairs
or keynote
speakers will launch thematic discussions.
--- Venue
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The workshop will take place in Helsinki, Finland at the Aalto University
School
of Economics (http://www.hse.fi/EN/frontpage)
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