[AISWorld] CFP HICSS51 Mini-track on Conflict, Conflict Management, and Climate in Digital Collaborations

[Souren Paul]

Conflict, ConflictManagement, and Climate in Digital Collaborations
In Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track
Fifty-First Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January3-6, 2018)


 
Fast-tracking opportunities to a specialissue/special section of The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems are available for outstandingpapers

Call for Papers

Thepurpose of this mini-track is to attract research on conflict and climate indifferent types of digital collaborations ranging from virtual teams to onlinecommunities and social networks.  The keyaspects of team climate are trust, respect, cohesiveness, openness, and likingamong the participants of digital collaborations.  The mini-track will provide a discussionforum for researchers interested in identifying the conditions that shapeconflict and climate in digital collaborations. 

Relevanttopics include, but are not limited to:

●    Understandingconflict in various forms of digital collaborations, such as virtual teams,crowd work, online communities, social networks, and global solutions networks.

●    Understandingthe types of conflict prevalent in short-duration and long-duration digitalcollaborations.

●    Understandinghow digital collaboration influences conflict management and sharedunderstanding in virtual teams, crowd work, online communities, and socialnetworks.

●    Understandingthe impact of various forms of diversity (such as, cultural, educational,skill, informational) on conflict in virtual teams, crowd work, onlinecommunities, and social networks. Exploring the application of faultline theory in digitalcollaborations.  Examining the positiveeffects of diversity, faultlines, and variety in digital collaborations.

●    Understandingthe impact of communication media capability on conflict in virtual teams,crowd work, online communities, and social networks.

●    Understandingthe nature of team climate in various types of digital collaborations.

●    Understandingthe relationship between team climate and conflict in digitalcollaborations.  

Extendedversions of outstanding papers of this mini-track will be invited to submittheir work to a special issue or special section in The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems.

Submission Process:

Full paper submissions must be made electronically through theHICSS on-line submission system at https://confs.precisionconference.com/~hicss/by June 15, 2017.  Papers should notexceed ten pages and the initial submission will not have author names. Pleasecheck the above web site or contact the mini-track co-chairs for moreinformation.

Key Dates:


|  Paper Submission Deadline
 Notice of Acceptance/Rejection
 Final Manuscripts for Publication Due
 Deadline for at least one author to register

  |  June 15, 2017, 11:59 p.m. HST August 17, 2017 
 September 22, 2017 
 October 1, 2017

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Mini-track Co-Chairs

SourenPaul
College of Engineering and Computing
Nova Southeastern University
souren.paul at gmail.com

Sirkka Jarvenpaa
James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Regents Chair in Business Administration
McCombs School of Business
TheUniversity of Texas at Austin
Sirkka.jarvenpaa at mccombs.utexas.edu