[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Social Media Track at ACIS 2011

[Alexander Richter]

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Call for Papers: 
Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Social Media Track at 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2011) 
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Paper submission deadline: 18th July 2011, Website: http://www.acis2011.org

Spurred by their success in the public space, social media platforms, such as wikis, social networking services or micro-blogging are making fast inroads to the corporate space. Many businesses are experimenting with these new technologies for facilitating communication, teamwork, and knowledge exchange. However, the open nature of these platforms, their flexibility, ready availability on the Internet and the often bottom up nature of systems adoption raise an abundance of novel research management questions. Yet little is known about organisational impact, managerial challenges of corporate social media, let alone effective management practices for guiding social media adoption and use.

The term Enterprise 2.0 has been coined to denote a shift many proponents see in the organisation of inter-personal exchanges and information management, which take place inside corporations, mirroring the changes towards Web 2.0 in the public space. We invite contributions, which investigate all issues related to Enterprise 2.0 and the application of social media in the corporate space. Since the application of corporate social media is a cross-functional topic, that cuts across and impacts upon a range of significant business management areas, we encourage holistic, innovative research approaches, that will help to understand both unique opportunities arising from social media, as well as limitations and unexpected impacts. In particular, we are interested in papers, that take a critical perspective on oftentimes uncritical propositions of technology-induced change voiced by many promoters of social media in popular media and academia alike. We especially encourage studies, that provide a rich, socio-material understanding of social media in organisations (e.g. organisational anthropology or ethnographic studies).

We invite rigorous and relevant studies employing a wide variety of methods. Behavioural (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will all be considered.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
Implementation, use and impact of various social media such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogs, social networking services, social tagging;
Emerging communication practices in social media platforms;
Leadership and team management in corporate social media spaces;
Implications of social media for information (resource) management and knowledge management practice;
Implications of social media for human resource management practice;
Implications of social media as (semi-)public, enterprise-wide spaces;
Implications for policy-making and IT governance;
Measurement of social media benefits (e.g. engagement, productivity, ROI);
Matters of information protection and assurance;
Critical investigation of the emergence of novel forms of management in the wake of social media practices;
Organisational learning in and through social media;
Shaping of organisational identity and the relationship between people and institutions;
Social media as organisational narrative: Retelling the personal stories that make a company more than a corporation;
Social media application in complex, ambiguous scenarios, e.g. disaster management and;
Social media and micro-blogging in the Enterprise;

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 18th July 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: 19th September 2011
ACIS Conference: 30th November-2nd December 2011

Submission Details: http://www.acis2011.org/conference/submission_details

Track Chairs
Alex Richter, International chair, Bundeswehr University Munich
Kai Riemer, Local track chair, University of Sydney
Simon Townsend, Industry chair, Deloitte

Editorial Board

Gabriela Avram (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Andrea Back (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Martin Böhringer (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
Steffen Budweg (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Angelika Bullinger (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Lois Burgess (University of Wollongong)
Kristine Dery (The University of Sydney)
Matthias Klier (Uni Innsbruck, Austria)
Michael Koch (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
Hanna Krasnova (Humbold University Berlin, Germany)
Stephan G. Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Bettina Maisch (Stanford University, USA)
Claudia Müller-Birn (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Craig Parker (Deakin University)
Petra Schubert (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Paul Scifleet (The University of Sydney)
Mohini Singh (RMIT Melbourne)
Suku Sinnappan (Swinburne University of Technology)
Stefan Smolnik (European Business School, Germany)
Stefan Stieglitz (University of Muenster, Germany)
Alexander Stocker (Joanneum Research Graz, Austria)
Matthias Trier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Sue Williams (University of Koblenz)