[AISWorld] 2nd CFP: MCIS 2012 Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and Creativity

[Paul Di Gangi]

7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) 2012
Adopting Emergent Knowledge & Technologies to Develop Innovative
Information Systems (CloudWisdom)

Guimarães, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012
Track Title: Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and Creativity

Track Chairs:
Isabel Ramos, University of Minho
Lee Erickson, The Pennsylvania State University
Paul M. Di Gangi, Loyola University Maryland
Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth

In today’s fast-paced globally competitive marketplace, organizations are
looking for new ways to reduce costs, increase productivity, and bring
innovative products to market. To accomplish such tasks, organizations are
beginning to leverage the “crowd” both internally and externally as a
source  of knowledge, creativity, and expertise. Whether ggregating the
collective “wisdom of the crowd” or looking for individual input for
problem solving or ideation, many organizations are experimenting with the
crowd to complement or even  replace existing innovation resources and
processes.  “Crowdsourcing” is the act of leveraging a large group of
people to perform tasks commonly performed by designated employees or
agents. Information Systems (IS) and Web technologies are key to
organizations’ ability to reach out to, interact with, and manage the input
of the crowd. Today for-profit corporations, non-profit organizations, and
governmental agencies are leveraging IS to connect with the crowd for a
variety of different purposes. Additionally, completely new business models
are emerging that rely on sustained engagement from a vast, unknown
user population. Similar to other open innovation models, “crowdsourcing”
presents
several challenges that organizations must overcome in order to achieve
success (e..g, absorptive capacity issues, legal implications, knowledge
spillover, competitor access, etc.).

The objective of the “Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and
Creativity” track is to promote the exchange of knowledge on the roles of
IS and technology to facilitate organizational crowdsourcing initiatives.
Papers examining the role of IS platforms, social media tools, and IT
infrastructures that enable crowdsourcing, organizational uses of the crowd
(non-profits, for-profits, associations, governmental, etc.), economic
benefits, policy issues, theoretical frameworks and taxonomies are welcome.
Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from a variety of
perspectives are encouraged.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Platforms, tools, and technologies
- Design of analytical tools for managing crowd-based initiatives
- Organizing taxonomies, frameworks, and classifications
- IS and business strategy alignment
- Theoretical exploration of the role of collective intelligence,
distributed knowledge, and diversity in crowdsourcing - Crowdsourcing for
innovation, problem solving, productivity, and creativity
- Practical approaches to fostering creativity at individual, group
and organizational levels
- Social, managerial, and legal implications of crowdsourcing
- Marketing and brand awareness
- Characteristics and motivations of the crowd
- Collecting, filtering, and evaluating of crowd input for knowledge
and business intelligence purposes
- The use of incentives and rewards to motivate participation
- Integration into and impact on institutionalized processes
- Information quality frameworks
- Value creation
- New forms of organizing
- Building crowd-based or crowd-supported organizations
- Organizational learning and the use of social media for
crowdsourcing initiatives
- Knowledge management systems for managing crowdsourcing
- Crowdsourcing, collaboration, problem solving with social media
- Governance and policy issues
- Application and extension of IS theory
- Organizational and cultural influences (e.g., leadership,
organizational culture, technology infrastructure, regulation, and
economics)
- Comparisons to open innovation, open source software, and outsourcing
- Emergence of new business models
- Methodological techniques for understanding network structures
of crowdsourcing initiatives

Conference Submissions
The conference invites papers and poster submissions on a broad range of IS
themes relevant to crowdsourcing.

Types of contributions, in English, via the EasyChair Submission System (
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2012):
- Full research papers (7–12 pages)
- Extended abstracts and short research-in-progress papers (3–7 pages)
- Panel proposals (2–3 pages)
- Posters (A2)

Important Due Dates
- Deadline for submissions: *March 25, 2012*
- Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012
- Camera-ready versions: June 1st, 2012
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