[AISWorld] Pre-ECIS 2013 workshop - Submission date 10th March - Pre-ECIS Date: 4th June - Title: Reinterpreting the relationship between technology and organisations: A sociomaterial perspective

[Andrea Carugati]

Pre-ECIS 2013 workshop
Call for Papers

Title: Reinterpreting the relationship between technology and
organisations: A sociomaterial perspective

Date: June 4, 2013 in Utrecht, just before ECIS 2013

Paper Submission date: March 10th 2013
 
 
 

** Topic of the workshop **
The increased flexibility of technologies and routines calls for new ways
of organizing in which IT and organizations are inextricably interwoven.
These emerging organizational changes in turn, call for alternative ways
of analyzing change processes. Instead of traditional perspectives on IS
such as the transactional or decision making perspective, or a
technological or organizational imperative perspective, a growing body of
IS research employs a sociomaterial perspective. Such as perspective
acknowledges that material and human agencies are intertwined and that one
cannot talk about a technology without reference to the social setting.
One way to study the interconnection between material and human agencies,
is through the lens of Œaffordances¹, recognizing how the materiality of
an object favors, shapes or invites as well as constrains new ways of
working and organizing. The aim of the workshop is to discuss and present
research papers on this interplay between technology and organizational
change.  We invite researchers and PhD students to join the discussion and
present their papers and work in progress investigating new ways of
working and organizing afforded by technology.
 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
·         Technology affordances and constraints
·         Studying systems of imbrication
·         Practice based perspective on social media and web 2.0
Applications
·         Studying practices of online collaboration and virtual work.
 

** Organizers **

--Marlous Agterberg is assistant professor in Knowledge, Information and
Networks. Her research interests include (online) knowledge networks,
participation and learning in new organizational forms, and managing
emergent types of collaboration.

--Andrea Carugati is associate professor in Information Systems at the
Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences. His research interests
include the management of information system development projects, project
management in distributed organizations, knowledge exchange and the effect
of boundary objects, and the interplay of IT, organizations, work
practices and mental models.

--Marleen Huysman is full professor of Knowledge and Organization, head of
the KIN Research Group (www.kinresearch.nl <http://www.kinresearch.nl/>)
and of the department of Information Systems, Logistics and Innovation
Management, VU University Amsterdam. Her teaching, research projects and
international publications focuses on Information Technology and
Organizational Change, Social Media, Social Capital, Management of
Knowledge and Organizational Learning.

--Bart van den Hooff is full professor of Organizational Communication and
Information Systems at the at the VU University Amsterdam (KIN Research
Group) in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the interaction between
ICT and organization, knowledge sharing and retention, and distributed
collaboration.
 

**Deadlines**
Paper submission                                                    March
10, 2013
Notification for paper acceptance/rejection         April 10, 2013
 
 
Both full research papers and research-in-progress papers are welcome.
 

Contact person: Marlous Agterberg (m.agterberg at vu.nl)
 

Workshop URL: http://www.kinresearch.nl/pre-ecis2013/
 
 


Best regards,
Andrea Carugati, Ph.D,

Associate Professor
Head of Information Systems Research Group

 
Aarhus University, School Business and Social Sciences

Department of Business Administration
Office 232, Building 1325
Bartholins Allé 10
DK-8000 Aarhus C
 
T: +45 87164945 
M: andreac at asb.dk
W: http://au.dk/en/andreac@asb.dk