[AISWorld] AMCIS Mini-track: Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, and Decision Making in Virtual Work Groups [Track: Virtual Communities and Collaborations]

[Souren Paul]

CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Detroit, Michigan
August 4 - 7, 2011 
Detroit Marriott Hotel
 
DESCRIPTION
With the globalization of business, virtual work groups have become indispensable for many business organizations.  Although the virtual work groups offer enormous potential to share skills and knowledge of dispersed individuals, several challenges shape their performance.  The cultural and functional diversities of the team members, the complexity of the tasks, the time zone differences, and the richness of the communicating media pose critical challenges to establish effective collaboration in these groups.  In addition, the behavioral factors (e.g. motivation and distraction), and the perception of the work environment also shape interaction and outcome of the members of the virtual work groups.  Finally, as collaboration technology enables the functioning of the virtual work groups, it is important to understand how the functionalities of the technology and their effective appropriation shape group performance.  Although prior research in
 information systems (IS) has addressed some of these issues, a cohesive body of knowledge on the effective functioning of virtual work groups is yet to emerge.  This mini-track will provide a platform to achieve this objective.  We strongly encourage authors to submit original contributions where innovative ideas, implementations, and empirical studies are described.  
Possible topics for the mini-track include, but are not limited to:
·         Processes of collaboration in virtual work groups
·         Functionalities of technologies to support collaboration in virtual work groups
·         The effects of cultural, functional, educational specialization, and collaboration technology skill diversities on the performance of virtual work groups
·         Perceived group atmosphere (commitment, respect, and trust) and experienced social processes (communication and cooperation) in virtual work groups
·         Dynamics of conflicts in virtual work groups
·         Technologies and protocols to support conflict resolution in virtual work groups
·         Shared and distributed leadership in virtual work groups
·         Decision making in virtual work groups 
·         Knowledge sharing and knowledge conversion in virtual work groups
·         Shared mental models in virtual work groups 
·         Collective and transactive memories in virtual work groups
 
MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS




Souren Paul, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Business
College of Staten Island
The City University of New York
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314
E-mail: souren_paul at yahoo.com

Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr., PhD
Professor
Department of Management
College of Business 
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
209A Rehn Hall
Carbondale, IL 62901
E-mail: mykytyn at business.siuc.edu
 
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Papers can be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.  
Additional information regarding the submission process will be made available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website: http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/
 
KEY DATES







February 28, 2011 12:00am PST

Submission deadline


April 4, 2011

Authors notified of paper acceptance decision


April 25, 2011

Camera-Ready Papers due


      
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