[AISWorld] CFP: SIGOPEN Mini-Tracks at AMCIS 2017

[Matt Levy]

AIS SIGOPEN is proud to host it’s second AMCIS track on Openness and
Research and Practice and invite you to submit your papers, panels,
workshops, tutorials, and other proposals.

Track Chairs
Joe Feller, University College Cork, jfeller at afis.ucc.ie
Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska at Omaha, mgermonprez at unomaha.edu
Matt Levy, Hawai'i Pacific University, mlevy at my.hpu.edu
Lorraine Morgan, National University of Ireland, Galway,
lorraine.morgan at nuigalway.ie

Track Description

The track seeks research papers in all things related to “openness” and the
sharing of information in organizations and society. Papers in this track
will be those that share new ideas about theoretical and empirical research
on the wide range of phenomena emerging at the intersection of Information
Systems on the one hand, and various forms of legal, technological,
organizational, and societal openness, on the other.

Relevant topics for papers include: New modes of knowledge creation
embedded in open source and open content licensing, radical inclusivity of
the crowd to share knowledge, effort and value, the tearing down of
traditional organizational boundaries to enable new forms of innovation, or
the reinvention of commons or open spaces to share information related to
education, science, and democratic participation. Openness continues to be
a disruptive and transformative force that demands the rigorous and
considered investigation of the Information Systems community. This track
provides a forum to further our understanding of these disruptive ideas.

Mini-Track 1: Breakthroughs in Openness in Science, Research, and Pedagogy

Openness has the potential to disrupt and transform academic work in many
known and unknown ways. Open approaches to scholarship have taken many new
forms, including open data sets, publishing, peer review, evaluation of
scholarly research, and the all-encompassing idea of Open Science. However,
what we do not know are the effects, positive or negative, of such ideas.
For an academic field to advance, there must be a free and open exchange of
ideas in order to foster ‘democratic discourse (Mingers and Walsham, 2010),
and a ‘deliberative democracy’ which include the characteristics of
openness, participation, truthfulness, and non-privilege (Apel, 2001;
Habermas, 1996). This mini-track invites research papers,
research-in-progress, and panel proposals on all topics related to openness
in scientific discovery, the practice and evaluation of research and
pedagogical practice. We are interested in the production, use, evaluation
and impacts of openness in scholarship in its many forms – quantitative,
qualitative, theoretical, literature review, case study, scientometric and
other research approaches are welcome.

Lorraine Morgan, NUI Galway, lorraine.morgan at nuigalway.ie
Jim Love, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center,
james.love at ololcollege.edu
Michael Cuellar, Georgia Southern University, mcuellar at georgiasouthern.edu

Mini-Track 2: Breakthroughs in Openness in Organizations and Society

Contemporary discourse has fostered new forms of openness spanning the
technological, legal, socio-cultural, and economic systems in modern
organizations and across society. This includes advances in open source
software, open source hardware, open content, open data, and open design,
and even the ‘industrialization’ of the maker’s movement and how openness
has shaped the funding of new innovation. These phenomena have crossed the
boundaries of the specialist communities from which they emerged and have
expanded into a wide number of communities and sub-cultures (makers,
gamers, virtual world builders, social media prosumers, etc.). This
mini-track invites conceptual and empirical research that will contribute
to our understanding of openness in these contexts as it relates to the
systems and technology that the individual, collaborative, and collective
production and sharing of complex knowledge goods and creative works.

Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska Omaha, mgermonprez at unomaha.edu
Joe Feller, Cork University Business School, University College Cork,
jfeller at ucc.ie

The AMCIS 2017 Conference is accepting the following types of submissions.
Please click here for more information.

Completed Research, due 01-March-2017 1:00 PM EST (13:00)
Emergent Research Form (ERF), due 01-March-2017 1:00 PM EST (13:00)
Workshops and Tutorials, due 03-April-2017
Panels, due 03-April-2017
Technology Research, Education, and Opinion (TREO) Talk Sessions, due
25-April-2017
Professional Development Symposia (PDS), due 25-April-2017


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Matthew Levy
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Dept. of Fin. Econ & Information Systems
Office: (808) 544-9378
Mobile: (619) 249-1079 <+(619)+249-1079>
Email: mlevy at hpu.edu