[AISWorld] CFP HICSS-55: AI, Organizing, and Management

[Stefan Seidel]

Minitrack: AI, Organizing, and Management

Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
 

Description
Software tools using artificial intelligence (AI) methods are now being used within a variety of organizational routines and practices,  creating new types of human-machine configurations and playing an increasing role in the context of contemporary organizing. Examples can be found across areas such as management decision making, manufacturing, and even  design and creative applications. These tools use data science techniques to generate predictive insights, some of which can be described as rational agents that perform tasks in an autonomous fashion,  i.e., with little or no user intervention. AI methods are guided by their underlying machine learning models and associated functions. They constitute a new type of material agency in the context of contemporary organizing. 
 
But as organizations become more reliant on AI methods, they need new management theories, frameworks, and methodologies that can  help them understand the consequences of using these AI tools—both at the level of structures and organizational practices. Such agents often rely on complex internal processing, their behavior is less predictable than that of the types of IT artifacts we  are used to dealing with. This opens up a number of problem areas with regards to managing and organizing these methods. For example: 
- How does coordination shift as AI tools are used, and what new types of organizational hierarchies and structures emerge? 
- How do power relations change, and how do different organizational actors use these new technologies to reshape power relations? 
- What is the impact of using AI on those processes that have traditionally been seen as being entirely driven and controlled by humans?
- How can the organization evaluate the ethical implications of deployed AI methods?
- What are relevant KPIs and metrics for assessing the effectiveness of AI applications?
- How should an organization manage, staff and coordinate AI development teams?
 
This mini-track aims to contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms through which humans organize together with AI-based systems  as well as the process organizations use to develop these AI methods and systems.
 
We aim to provide a platform for thought and discussion in this important and emergent field within information systems and IT research.  We invite conceptual as well as empirical contributions using different methodological approaches (qualitative, quantitative, design-oriented, simulation, etc.).
 
In addition to the questions raised above, potential topics include, but are not limited to: 
- AI & coordination: How does AI change the way humans coordinate?
- AI & power: How does AI affect corporations, markets, and peer production structures?
- AI & governance: Who runs the technology? What does the technology run?
- AI & development: How to manage project and deployment risk?
- AI & creativity: How can AI be creative? How can humans and AI be co-creators?
- AI & design: What does AI design? Should it design itself?
- AI & innovation: How does AI foster innovation?
- AI & crowds: What do crowds do for machine learning, and what’s in it for the crowds?
- AI & organizational routines: How does AI change the nature of work?

Minitrack Chairs:
Aron Lindberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (primary contact) (aron.lindberg at stevens.edu) 
Jeff V. Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (jnickers at stevens.edu) 
Jeffrey Saltz, Syracuse University, USA (jsaltz at syr.edu)
Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein (stefan.seidel at uni.li)

Important Deadlines:
April 15               Paper submission system open for HICSS-55
June 15               Papers due
August 17           Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 22   Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication
October 1           Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for HICSS-55
Conference Website:  http://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Author Guidelines:  http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/