[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2017 Mini-Track on Information Systems and Positive Organizational Scholarship

[Fulk, Dr. H. Kevin]

We invite your submissions to the new AMCIS 2017 mini-track at the intersection of Information Systems and Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). POS focuses on "what is positive, flourishing, and life-giving in organizations" (Cameron and Caza 2004, p. 7), and investigates ideas such as compassion, virtuousness, wisdom, resilience, relationship quality, and employee personal growth. POS research is emerging, as exemplified by special issues in respected journals like AMR and JBE. Current IS research trends - such as building a bright society (JAIS special issue call) and societal challenges (MISQ special issue published) - are decidedly humanistic in focus and align well with POS. We contend that research at the intersection of POS and IS offers opportunities for the IS discipline to make additional, distinctive contributions, including answering recent calls to use IS to make the world a better place (Walsham 2012). The mini-track aims to stimulate IS researchers to engage in studying POS-related phenomena. All methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as theoretical papers, are welcome.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Individual humility in the networked world.
2. Practicing respect in virtual teams.
3. Technological challenges to, and opportunities for, fostering human flourishing.
4. Harnessing organizational wisdom using IT.
5. IT as a source of organizational vitality.
6. The influence of expressing care and concern using IT on quality of relationships with organizational stakeholders.
7. Building positive organizations using IT.
8. IT affordances' roles in positive leaders' empowerment of employees.
9. IT's influence on the generation and practice of organizational virtues.
10. Sociomaterial conceptions of ethical organizing.

Important Dates:

*    Wednesday, March 1, 2017: ScholarOne closes for Completed and ERF paper
submissions
*    Monday, April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decisions on Completed and
ERF paper submissions
*   Tuesday, April 25, 2017: Camera ready submissions due on Completed Research
and ERFs

The IS and POS mini-track is part of the Advances in Management Information Systems Research track. Because of this association, the IS and POS mini-track offers fast-tracking publication opportunities for high-quality research in the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems?.

Mini-Track Co-Chairs:

H. Kevin Fulk, Tarleton State University
Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson University
Sutirtha Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Mini-Track's email address is: isandpositiveorgscholarship at gmail.com

To learn more, visit: https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-3??

Best Regards,


H. Kevin Fulk, J.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Tarleton State University
Office:  Business Building * Room 165
Mailing:  Box T-0170, Stephenville, TX 76402
Phone: 254.968.1977 | Fax: 254.968.9345 |Email: hkfulk at tarleton.edu