[AISWorld] CfP HICSS-50 minitrack "Knowledge Management Disrupted - Understanding the Impacts of Social and Mobile Media"

[Stefan Smolnik]

(Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement.)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Fiftieth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-50)
January 4-7, 2017 (Wednesday-Saturday)
Hilton Waikoloa Village (http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com)

Submission deadline: June 15, 2016, 11:59 PM Hawaii Time

Minitrack: Knowledge Management Disrupted - Understanding the Impacts of
Social and Mobile Media (
http://www.hicss.org/#!knowledge-management-disrupted/cqic)
Track: Knowledge Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems (
http://www.hicss.org/#!track8/c1pkx)

Recent reports show that more and more companies adopt social media to
support knowledge management (KM). These companies experience considerable
changes in the way they communicate and collaborate internally once they
have implemented related technologies and platforms. In addition, the
challenges of the digital age make transforming underlying work practices
and organizational structures more urgent. While the organizational
capacity to deal with social media is maturing, we are far from embracing
those changes on knowledge practices. A number of questions is to be
addressed: What does the emergence of social and related mobile media mean
for KM initiatives in companies? Do they have to and how do they rethink
their processes and strategies? What are the timely relevant research
fields for academia? Which of our established KM models do still hold,
where do we need new models or frameworks? This minitrack calls for
contributions that take KM one step further in the light of these contexts.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Exploring existent theories to understand social and mobile media related
KM and work place phenomena
* Appropriation and use of social and mobile media upon individual users,
groups, businesses, and governments for KM
* Role of social and mobile collaboration in digital transformation and KM
strategies
* Changing organizational cultures and structures through social and mobile
media
* Social media and KM performance
* Sociomateriality and ontological issues
* New leadership paradigms in knowledge practices and in connected
workforce environments
* Risks and challenges of social and mobile media for knowledge practices,
e.g. information overload, technostress, and protection of information
assets
* Value and risks of analytics through the social and mobile technologies
enabled “digital footprint” of the organization
* New developments in knowledge and work practices, e.g. adaptive mix

For additional information or to submit abstracts, please contact the
minitrack co-chairs:

Alexander Richter (Primary Contact)
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
aric<at>itu.dk

Stefan Smolnik
University of Hagen, Germany
Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hagen.de

Andrea Back
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
andrea.back<at>unisg.ch

Full papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the
IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS
publications account for the top 2% downloads of all IEEE conferences, and
have been consistently ranked as the most cited papers in top journal
publications.

Dates for submission to HICSS-50:
April 1: Paper Submission and Review System for HICSS-50 goes live.
June 15 (11:59 PM, Hawaii Time): Deadline to submit full manuscripts for
review.
August 16: Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to authors.
September 4: Submission deadline for AM papers.
September 15: Deadline for submitting final manuscript for publication to
the Publication System.
October 1: At least one author of each paper should register by October 1
in order secure publication in the Conference Proceedings.

For further submission information, please see the general HICSS-50 Call
for Papers (http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp).