[AISWorld] CFP: Virtualization of work and organizations (WI 2020) - Approaching deadline

[Eckhardt, Andreas]

Call for Papers: Track “ Virtualization of work and organizations”

15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2020), March 9th-11th, 2020 in Potsdam, Germany www.wi2020.de<http://www.wi2020.de<https://webmail.ggs.de/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx>>


Track Chairs:

Sven Laumer, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Andreas Eckhardt, German Graduate School of Management and Law
Christian Maier, University of Bamberg

Description: The technological development is rapidly reshaping when, where, and how people do their jobs. The accelerated digitalization of information is pushing many organizations away from the established archetype of 9-5 office work towards more seasonable approaches to work. What often began as outsourcing of administrative work or an individual concession for employees to perform individual tasks from home (e.g. home office, telework) has increasingly changed into a movement in which organizations partially or even completely virtualize themselves and physical office locations cease to exist. This leads to contemporary approaches to work, including virtual or remote work, offshoring, outsourcing, globally distributed project work, as well as freelancing on demand, brokered through dedicated platforms (e.g. Mechanical Turk, Uber, and TaskRabbit). In addition, the content of work is increasingly changing, as automation and augmentation of work perform operational-administrative and repetitive tasks, allowing employees in organizations to concentrate more on creative and strategic tasks. However, the development also comes along with changes in employment relationships. Jobs are increasingly being carried out in flexible, uncertain and socially insecure work settings. While, organizations will increasingly turn into a shared services provider taking care of project and task allocation in these settings, issues such as individual training and development will be part of the employee’s responsibility. Furthermore, employees are confronted with blurring boundaries between work and private life and constant connectivity, increasing IT-induced demands (e.g., technostress) and may lead to social isolation.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of work-related topics, we explicitly welcome all approaches that take a broad and inclusive perspective addressing virtual work and the virtualization of organizations. We seek submissions on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that examine the phenomenon across different levels of analysis.

Covered areas include, but are not limited to:
·        Automation and augmentation of work
·        Challenges and benefits of virtual work and virtual organizations
·        Digital leadership in remote work settings
·        Digitalization and job mobility
·        Digitalization and the future of occupations
·        Meaning of work in digital workplaces
·        New forms of technology-enabled work arrangements
·        New practices and forms of leadership in digital workplaces
·        New practices and forms of human resources management in digital workplaces
·        New practices and forms of knowledge management
·        Sharing economy and peer to peer work arrangements
·        Structural mechanisms, policy, and regulation to legitimize virtual work
·        Technostress and its consequences on employee performance
·        The great variety of Bring-your-own approaches (e.g., BYOD, BYOC, BYOS)

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: August 16th, 2019
Submission deadline for revised papers: November 11th, 2019

For further information please visit www.wi2020.de/<http://www.wi2020.de/>



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