[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 – Mini-track on Collaboration Systems and Virtual Work Groups

[Souren Paul]

CALL FOR PAPERS
AMCIS
2012 
Seattle, Washington 
August 9-12, 2012
Track:
Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business
Intelligence (SIGDSS)
Mini-Track
Title:  Collaboration Systems and Virtual
Work Groups 
DESCRIPTION
With
the globalization of business, virtual work groups have become indispensable
for many business organizations.  Although virtual work groups offer enormous potential to share skills
and knowledge of dispersed individuals, several challenges shape their
performance.  The diversities of the team
members, the complexities of the tasks, the time zone differences, and the
characteristics of the communicating media pose critical challenges to
establish effective collaboration in these groups.  In addition, the socio-emotional factors,
such as cohesion and trust influence the performance of virtual work
groups.  Finally, as collaboration
systems enable the functioning of the virtual work groups, it is important to
understand how the functionalities of these systems affect the performance of
virtual work groups.  Although prior
research in information systems (IS) has addressed some of these issues, a
cohesive body of knowledge on collaborative systems and virtual work groups is
yet to emerge.  This mini-track provides
a platform to achieve this objective.
Possible
topics for the mini-track include, but are not limited to:
·         Collaboration system design issues:architectures,
interaction design, and technical foundations of new collaboration systems
·         Domain specific collaborations:healthcare, emergency
management, insurance, banking, and transportation
·         Collaboration based on emerging technologies,
such as mobile
and ubiquitous computing, virtual worlds
·         Collaborations across boundaries:  Computer supported interactions across
disciplines, distance, time-zone, and cultures
·         Emerging applications of
collaboration systems:collective information seeking, collaborative intelligence
·         Socio-emotional
processes in virtual work groups:relationship building, cohesion, trust
·         Task Processes in
virtual work groups:communication and coordination issues
·         Conflicts and
negotiations in virtual work groups
·         Decision Making in
virtual work groups
·         knowledge management in
virtual work groups
·         Technologies to
facilitate decision making, negotiation, and knowledge management in virtual
work groups
 
IMPORTANT DATES: 
January 3, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
March
1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions
April
6, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April
25, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy
due

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: 
All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be
submitted using the online submission system at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference,
visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/after January 2,
2012.

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS:
Souren Paul 
Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences 
Nova Southeastern University 
3301 College Avenue 
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 
Phone: 954-262-2047 
E-mail: souren_paul at yahoo.com   Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr. 
Department of Management 
College of Business  
Southern Illinois University Carbondale 
Carbondale, IL 62901 
Phone: 618-453-7885 
E-mail:  mykytyn at business.siu.edu    
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