[AISWorld] ECIS 2018 CfP: Knowledge Management Track

[Markus Bick]

(Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement.)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018)
Track: "Knowledge Management"
http://ecis2018.eu/wp-ontent/uploads/2017/09/ECIS2018_Track20_KnowledgeManagement.pdf

June 23-28, 2017, Portsmouth, UK (http://www.ecis2018.eu)
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Deadline for paper submissions:  November 27, 2016
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Track Description:
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Many knowledge management (KM) scholars have emphasized the importance of
(big) data, information, and knowledge assets for decision support,
management, and leadership, thereby clearly indicating the relation between
human beings and technology. However, various powerful digital technologies
have led to substantial changes in KM practices in recent years.

Consequently, this track raises the question whether and how digitization
changed or changes the socio-technical aspects related to KM. With respect
to both the increasing influence of digital technologies and the meaning of
KM for organizations’ daily business, directly influencing competitive
advantage and business development, we believe that this research topic has
the potential for valuable contributions to both theory and practice.

Main goal of the proposed track is to gather current research trends with a
focus on KM in more and more digital environments. KM has become an
interdisciplinary research field – the traditional gap between researchers
from a technology-oriented versus a human-oriented angle has been bridged
by holistic, socio-technical approaches. We currently see strong
developments towards research on digital KM tools (such as the use of
social software for business and private purposes) as well as towards
entire digital business models (such as multi-sided online platforms or
networks and online communities). What additionally need to be addressed
are developments complementary to digitization, for instance geographical
dispersion, communication across time zones, or national/cultural influence
factors. Particularly, collaboration takes place in different social or
cultural environments enabled by digital technologies. Due to the usage of
collaborative technologies such as social software, organizational and
national boundaries become more blurred and knowledge can be diffused much
easier. Openness and inter-organizational collaboration build the digital
pathway of rich, contextualized and sustainable knowledge sharing
activities among networked persons within and beyond organizational
boundaries. Going a step beyond, such developments have to be assessed
carefully. Besides undisputable benefits, one might think of negative
outcomes such as a limited work-life balance. Furthermore, in an
increasingly globally distributed world, organizations and knowledge
workers are required to exploit relationships with others and to gain
benefits out of such relationships. All this takes place in digital
environments and leads to enormous changes of KM-related socio-technical
aspects which are rather under-researched, so far.

Motivated by the interest in the emerging field of KM and digitization, the
proposed track aims to promote multidisciplinary contributions dealing with
a managerial, an economic, a methodological, a cultural or a
socio-technical perspective. Submissions based on theoretical research,
design research, action research, or behavioral research are encouraged. We
welcome both full research papers and research in progress papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* KM in the digital age
* From technology-oriented towards human-oriented KM in digital environments
* Impact and diffusion of new digital technologies for KM within
organizations
* Social and behavioral issues in KM
* Mobile technologies and social software usage in KM
* KM and digital learning
* Cross-organizational, cross-border and cross-cultural KM enabled by
digital technologies
* Capturing and sharing knowledge in social networks and distributed
contexts
* KM in the cloud
* Support for mature KM solutions: KM governance, KM strategies, KM
maturity models, and KM performance
* KM and securing and protecting knowledge in digital environments
* KM and risk management
* KM for digital competency development
* KM and the demographic change

Track Chairs:
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Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin, Germany, mbick<at>
escpeurope.eu
Stefan Smolnik, University of Hagen, Germany,
Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hagen.de

Associate Editors:
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Dirk Basten, University of Cologne, Germany
Ulrike Baumöl, University of Hagen, Germany
Tingting Rachel Chung, Chatham University, USA
Katharina Ebner, University of Hagen, Germany
Peter Fettke, Saarland University, Germany
Nora Fteimi, University of Passau, Germany
Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University, USA
Ranjan B. Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
Tyge-F. Kummer, Griffith University, Australia
Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Malte Martensen, IUBH School of Business and Management, Germany
Jan M. Pawlowski, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Henri Pirkkalainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Eric Schoop, TU Dresden, Germany
Dick Stenmark, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Stefan Thalmann, University of Innsbruck, Austria


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