[AISWorld] Reminder - Academy of Management - OCIS 2016 - Call for submissions - Jan. 12 deadline

[Emmanuelle Vaast, Dr]

Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Call for Submissions

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS (OCIS)

2016 OCIS Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

Submission deadline: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 5pm ET

Submission website: http://submission.aom.org/2016/



Specific Domain: OCIS focuses on the study of behavioral, economic, and social aspects of communication and information systems within and among organizations or institutions. Major topics include: interpersonal communication; verbal, nonverbal, and electronic communication; vertical, horizontal and diagonal communication; inter-group and intra-group communication; communication networks; applications of information technology in business and society; organizational adoption of communication and information technology; communication and information strategy and policy; communication and organizational culture; virtual work, and virtual organizations; the management of information systems professionals; information systems development; managing IT-related organizational change; e-business, e-commerce, and e-markets; electronic value systems, value chains, and value webs; privacy and ethics; knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge networks; IT infrastructure; and organizational networks.

Special Instructions: OCIS invites the submission of innovative empirical or conceptual papers and symposia on all themes of interest to the Academy that touch on organizational communications and/or information systems. Topics that are specifically oriented to the 2016 all-Academy theme of “Making organizations meaningful<http://aom.org/annualmeeting/theme/>” are especially encouraged.

This year’s theme encourages research on how communication and information technology can help (or hinder) the construction of meaning for organizations. It calls for research that questions how values and meaning of all orders (e.g. economic, social, cultural) can be shared, nurtured, or unsettled with the use of new technologies, in particular of web-based communication systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: how organizational expressions of meaningfulness are communicated through various media; how these expressions flow across levels of analyses; how open innovation, open data, and social media affect the meaning of work and organizations; how meaningfulness is captured, signaled, understood at multiple levels; how meaningfulness may connect with yet also differ from business intelligence and data analytics.

OCIS welcomes management, organization, communication, and information systems scholars who rely upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives, methods, and data to investigate processes and outcomes of what makes organizations meaningful or meaningless.  Meaningful methodological innovations are especially encouraged.



Division Awards:  Division awards will be presented for best program paper, best interactive paper, best student paper and best reviewer. The Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award will be presented again at the 2016 meeting. The award, inaugurated by the OCIS division at the 2007 Annual Meeting, is open to solo-authored papers based on a dissertation completed within the past three years (see the OCIS Division website at http://ocis.aomonline.org for more details). The winner of the DeSanctis Award will be automatically nominated for the Academy-wide William H. Newman Award. The OCIS Division will also nominate one paper for the Academy-wide Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award (see the Orientation and Awards section in the submission guidelines for more details). In addition to these program-related awards, an award will be given for the best paper published by an OCIS member during 2015. Finally, the division may award one or more Lifetime Service awards.



 Program Chair: Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University; aomocisprogram at gmail.com