[AISWorld] Fwd: cfp:Mini-Track ---Distributed Group Decision-Making

[Yuko SJ Murayama at Tsuda College]

Dear Colleagues:

After successful sessions last year, we are continuing our mini track on 
Distributed Group Decision-Making (part of *Virtual Communities and 
Collaboration track)*.  We invite you to submit your paper to this 
minitrack . A call for papers is attached.

Regards,

Anil Aggarwal

Doug Vogel

Yuko SJ Murayama

*2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)*

*Boston,  MA,  August 10-12, 2017, **http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/***

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*MiniTrack : Distributed Group Decision-Making*

*Part of: Virtual Communities and Collaboration track***

*Important dates:*

- January 09, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin

- March 01, 2017 1pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions

- April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers

- April 25, 2017: Deadline for camera-ready revisions

- April 28, 2017: Notification of decision on revised camera-ready papers

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*Mini-track Description:*
Emerging issues like big data, data analytics, visual analytics, data 
mining, e-government and e-health are giving new meaning to distributed 
decision making. In addition, recent outbreak of Ebola epidemic, missing 
Malaysian flight 17, are only some of the examples of swift virtual 
teams requiring collaboration. Coordination among individuals with 
varying skills is becoming common. Teams must quickly adapt to the 
changing environment be it face-to-face, mobile or in the cloud. Agile 
teams adapt and deliver quickly and provide maximum customer 
satisfaction. Can distributed teams be agile and adaptable? This 
mini-track examines the emerging issues related to team configuration 
and performance in distributed environment. Research related to emerging 
issues like diversity, cohesiveness, agility and adaptability related to 
group collaboration across semi or unstructured tasks is still emerging. 
The mini track will address these issues as well as the underlying 
theories of group dynamics, coordination and communications in 
distributed environments.

*Call for Papers:
*The mini track will address emerging issues such as diversity, culture, 
adaptability and agility related to teams in distributed group decision 
making, as well as the underlying theories of group dynamics, 
coordination, communications and decision-making in distributed 
environments, in creation of competitive advantage.

Examples of topics in the discussion of globally distributed decision 
making mini-track will include the following (but are not limited to):

·Virtual collaboration in e-Health teams

·Models of globally distributed agile/adaptable teams

·Knowledge creation, transfer and integration across globally 
distributed teams

·Leadership/cohesiveness issues in globally distributed teams

·E-government(s)inter- , intra-collaboration

·Collaboration through crowdsourcing

·Swift team collaboration

·Public-private collaboration

·Delivering health services through collaboration

·Economics of distributed decision making in the clouds

·Trust and distrust as motivator in distributed decision making

·Can agile teams be globally distributed?

·Agile/Adaptable team configuration in globally distributed teams

·The “e (internet)” to “m (mobile)” transformation of globally 
distributed teams

·Communication and coordination in globally distributed teams

·Diversity issues in globally distributed teams

·Customer satisfaction, performance and “trust” building in globally 
distributed teams

·Synchronous and asynchronous decision making in globally distributed teams

·Comparison of issues across internal, inter-, intra and offshore 
distributed teams

·Turbulent economy and its impact on outsourcing

·Issues related to functional and dysfunctional globally distributed teams

·Security, privacy and risk associated with globally distributed teams

·Case Studies (success/failures) related to decision making by globally 
distributed teams

*Types of Submissions:*

·COMPLETED RESEARCH PAPERS

·EMERGENT RESEARCH FORUM (ERF) PAPERS

Please see - 
http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/for more 
information.

Chair(s):
Dr. A. K. Aggarwal**
University of Baltimore, USA
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD21202, USA
410 837-5275
aaggarwal at ubalt.edu <mailto:aaggarwal at ubalt.edu>

Dr. Doug Vogel
Harbin Institute of Technology, PRC
vogel.doug at gmail.com <mailto:vogel.doug at gmail.com>

Dr. Yuko Murayama
Tsuda University, Japan
murayama at tsuda.ac.jp <mailto:murayama at tsuda.ac.jp>

**contact person