[AISWorld] Digital Practices: Unpacking the New Logics of Organizing in a Digital Age (AoM Paper Development Workshop)

[Abayomi Baiyere]

Digital Practices: Unpacking the New Logics of Organizing in a Digital Age
Call for extended abstracts - Paper Development Workshop at the Academy of Management

Participant: Abayomi Baiyere, Copenhagen Business School
Participant: Michel Avital, Copenhagen Business School
Participant: Michael Barrett, U. of Cambridge
Participant: Nicholas Berente, U. of Notre Dame
Participant: Ioanna Constantiou, Copenhagen Business School
Participant: Daniel Furstenau, Freie U. Berlin
Participant: Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State U.
Participant: Ola Henfridsson, Warwick Business School
Participant: C. R. Hinings, U. of Calgary
Participant: Sirkka Jarvenpaa, The U. of Texas at Austin
Participant: Natalia Levina, New York U.
Participant: Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U.
Participant: Philipp Tuertscher, Vrije U. Amsterdam
Participant: Lauri Kristian Wessel, Free U. Berlin
Participant: Youngjin Yoo, Case Western Reserve U.

Overview: This PDW (professional development workshop) session engages the workshop attendees to debate and get feedback on their research related to unpacking the essence and peculiarities of digital practices. In particular, the PDW is aimed at examining how the organizing logics in a digital age requires new theoretical viewpoints as well as expositions on how prior theories and assumptions may be used to unpack digital practices. Attention to digital practices is pertinent as digital is gradually becoming a sticker concept. In recent years, we have seen a growing trend in which the term digital is affixed to well-known management and IT concepts (Yoo et al. 2010; Bharadwaj et al. 2013; Baiyere et al. 2017; Tumbas et al. 2018; Hinings et al. 2018). One may be wary and skeptical about the ongoing digital relabeling considering there has been similar patterns with the rise and decline of trends such as mobile "x", "e-everything", to mention a few. Yet, there seem to be a sentiment in the community that digital is not necessarily another buzzword, but the emergence of a fundamental shift. A shift that may hold profound implications for extant management practices and assumptions. Evidence of this can be deduced in the growing use of the digital labels across several divisions and beyond management disciplines. But, going beyond mere labels, scholars have shown how digital organizing is an ongoing process (see for instance Garud, Jain & Tuertscher, 2008). To address these issues, this PDW is organized to attract scholars with interests in exploring, debating or unpacking the value, necessity and positioning of the digital notion within management scholarship. Specifically, we aim to engage in unpacking digital practices that we conceptualize as the logics of organizing in a digital age.

Format of the PDW: Participants are encouraged to submit extended abstracts of research papers or ideas they are working on that is related to the digital theme of the workshop. The idea is that this are abstracts the participants would like to discuss and receive constructive feedback on. Submitted abstracts would be carefully read and grouped into related themes. These groups will be paired with at least one of the listed renowned scholars who would have already read the abstracts. These papers are then discussed in roundtables along with other participants who would have received copies of the abstract prior to the workshop. Concluding reflections addressing the key question of the nature of digital practices as reflected in the papers are then presented in panel and open discussion format.

Date and Venue: The PDW is tentatively scheduled to take place at  Boston Marriott Copley Place / Grand Ballroom Salon IJ on Saturday, Aug 10 2019, 8:00AM - 11:00AM.

To participate in the Paper Development Workshop: Interested participants are required to submit an extended abstract (5-page max PDF or MS Word file excluding references but including author affiliations) of the paper to be discussed to aba.digi at cbs.dk<mailto:aba.digi at cbs.dk>. Extended abstracts should be submitted by July 12th to obtain the approval code. For more info: https://aom.org/meetings/sess2019.asp?id=15314


Abayomi Baiyere
Assistant Professor

Department of Digitalization
Copenhagen Business School - CBS
Howitzvej 60, 3.18 | 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Tel: +45 4185 2611 | +358 503 290 991
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