[AISWorld] Call for Mini-Track Proposals - Changing Nature of Work (CNoW) AMCIS 2022

[Allen, Jonathan P.]

We invite you to submit a mini-track proposal for the newly inaugurated 
Changing Nature of Work with ICT (CNoW) track at AMCIS 2022 if you do 
research related to these areas. AMCIS 2022 will be held in Minneapolis, 
MN in August 2022. Please see the track description, topics of interest, 
and submission instructions below. Feel free to reach out if you have 
any questions.

*Track****Description***

The nature of work and organizations is changing with the deeper 
embedding of modern new digital technologies in the workplace. 
Especially with the advent of COVID-19 at this point of time, 
work-from-home and/or hybrid work is becoming more than a fad. This is 
transforming work but also changing and challenging core aspects of 
organizations such as employee connectedness, engagement, and how 
meaning and identity are formed and reproduced in day-to-day work. These 
deep effects contribute to the emergence of new forms of organizing 
based on open platforms of communication, collaboration, and exchanges 
for example the growing use of crowd-based work platforms where it 
becomes less relevant to which organizations individuals belong. Digital 
workplace platforms and ecosystems can thus support more dynamic and 
fluid work arrangements within and across organizations, and allow for 
more flexibility in terms of when, where, and how we work. The potential 
to leverage the opportunities from this new landscape of work in 
organizations to improve the lives of workers is enormous but also, 
there is great potential to create a better society and more sustainable 
and resilient organizations. Yet, this changing nature of work also 
raises many concerns and unintended consequences (e.g., digital fatigue, 
impact on well-being, meaningless work with algorithmic management, and 
the corrosion of privacy). This is the theme for this track where we 
would like to discuss new and current research that improves or 
challenges our understanding of these themes.

Topics of mini tracks include, but are not limited to:

  * Emerging new patterns of work and organizing
  * Digital nomadism
  * Digital working and workplace technologies
  * Algorithmic management within work platforms
  * WFH (Work From Home) and/or Hybrid work
  * Digital infrastructures of work
  * Modern workspace as a combination of physical and digital environments
  * Changing spatial and temporal dimensions of work
  * Work fragmentation and nomadic work practices
  * New forms of virtual teamwork and virtualization of work
  * Virtual collaboration in the digital organization
  * New technology-enabled forms of employee participation and engagement
  * The gig economy and crowd-work

Submissions are due by November 30, 2021.

To submit a mini-track Proposal, log in to the AMCIS conference 
submission system:
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login 
<https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login>
Under submissions, make a new submission using the following information
Society: AIS
Conference/Journal: AMCIS 2022
Track: AMCIS 2022 Minitrack Submissions
Edit the submission providing the mini-track title, chairs, and an 
abstract and brief topic list.

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Track Co-Chairs

Jonathan P. Allen, Professor, University of San Francisco, 
jpallen at usfca.edu <mailto:jpallen at usfca.edu>

Louise Harder Fischer, Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, 
louf at itu.dk <mailto:louf at itu.dk>

Jungwoo Lee, Professor, Yonsei University, jlee at yonsei.ac.kr 
<mailto:jlee at yonsei.ac.kr>

Liana Razmerita, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, 
lra.msc at cbs.dk <mailto:lra.msc at cbs.dk>