[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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