[AISWorld] CFP: ISR Special Issue on "Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work"

[Ritu Agarwal]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a special issue of ISR on
"Information, Technology, and the Changing Nature of Work."  Guest editors
for the special issue are Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology,
John King, University of Michigan, and Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve
University.

Please visit http://www.informs.org/Pubs/ISR/Calls-for-Papers for more
details on submission deadlines, editorial board, and special issue review
process.

Special Issue Focus

There is widespread belief and growing evidence that the nature of work is
changing as a result of the application of information technology (IT) and,
more broadly, the use of information and technology in human enterprise.
The focus of this special issue is on work, including its content,
coordination, organization, and sustainment over time in what has been
historically called “livelihood” or “career.” Work, which for a long time
has been derivative of organizational decisions and actions, might be
changing in ways that influence decisions and actions of organizations
rather than the other way around. In particular, new patterns of digitally
mediated collaboration may engender changes in the geographic distribution
of work, while new forms of digitally mediated contracting make short
hold-time collaborations a viable alternative to earlier models of
long-term employment.


Information and technology have influenced the nature of work in
traditional organizations, but another important development has been the
rise of “open” behavior: open models of production (e.g., open source
software), open sourcing of ideas (e.g., crowdsourcing and collective
intelligence), and open access to information resources (e.g., open
educational resources). This includes work among distributed individuals
and organizations using technology-enabled platforms that facilitate “open”
behavior.


This special issue of ISR is designed to stimulate new thinking and
innovative research on the relationship among information, technology, and
the changing nature of work. We invite papers that use a variety of
investigative approaches, including strategic, organizational, behavioral,
economic, and technical perspectives. The scope of the special issue is
limited only by the relationship among information, technology, and work.
Submissions should contribute significantly to understanding and planning
for next steps in research. Ideally, papers published in this special issue
will help guide research in this area for the coming years while
simultaneously being relevant for policy makers.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
      “Open” strategies for organizing and sourcing of work, sourcing of
      ideas, and/or access to work resources
      Intertwining of virtual and physical elements of work
      Reorganization and redistribution of work with new digital
      technologies
      The future of professions, organizational tasks, and functions
      Changes in the organization of highly data- or knowledge-intensive
      work mediated by extensive digital capabilities (science,
      engineering, scholarship, data mining, etc.)
      New work regimes, pace, and temporal structuring of work
      New, technology-enabled models of matching talent and work and new
      methods of credentialing and assessing talent
      Rules, incentives, and participation in digitally mediated work
      Effects of design rules for games and competitions on the outcomes of
      work
      Organization of teams in new and emerging work regimes
      The use of social media in crowdsourcing and organizational
      collaboration
      Effects of job-hopping and short worker–firm collaborations on career
      patterns and firm boundaries and structuring
      New qualification norms and institutional forms of controlling work
      force
      “Big data” and data-driven enterprise as a means to learning and
      change work flow patterns
      New forms of individual and team-level work control
      Intellectual property in open environments and new work regimes

Cordially,
Ritu Agarwal
EIC, ISR

Ritu Agarwal
Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4327 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL
301.405.8655 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
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http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal
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