<div style>7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (<span class="il" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">MCIS</span>) 2012 </div><div style>Adopting Emergent Knowledge & Technologies to Develop Innovative Information Systems (CloudWisdom)</div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Guimarăes, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012</font></p></span></div><div style>Track Title: Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and Creativity <br></div><div style><br></div>
<div style>Track Chairs:</div><div style>Isabel Ramos, University of Minho</div><div style>Lee Erickson, The Pennsylvania State University</div><div style>Paul M. Di Gangi, Loyola University Maryland</div><div style>Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>In today’s fast-paced globally competitive marketplace, organizations are looking for new ways to reduce costs, increase productivity, and bring innovative products to market. To accomplish such tasks, organizations are beginning to leverage the “crowd” both internally and externally as a source of knowledge, creativity, and expertise. Whether ggregating the collective “wisdom of the crowd” or looking for individual input for problem solving or ideation, many organizations are experimenting with the crowd to complement or even replace existing innovation resources and processes. “Crowdsourcing” is the act of leveraging a large group of people to perform tasks commonly performed by designated employees or agents. Information Systems (IS) and Web technologies are key to organizations’ ability to reach out to, interact with, and manage the input of the crowd. Today for-profit corporations, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies are leveraging IS to connect with the crowd for a variety of different purposes. Additionally, completely new business models are emerging that rely on sustained engagement from a vast, unknown user population. Similar to other open innovation models, “crowdsourcing” presents </div>
<div style>several challenges that organizations must overcome in order to achieve success (e..g, absorptive capacity issues, legal implications, knowledge spillover, competitor access, etc.). </div><div style><br></div>
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The objective of the “Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and Creativity” track is to promote the exchange of knowledge on the roles of IS and technology to facilitate organizational crowdsourcing initiatives. Papers examining the role of IS platforms, social media tools, and IT infrastructures that enable crowdsourcing, organizational uses of the crowd (non-profits, for-profits, associations, governmental, etc.), economic benefits, policy issues, theoretical frameworks and taxonomies are welcome. Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from a variety of perspectives are encouraged. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Topics include, but are not limited to: </div><div style>- Platforms, tools, and technologies </div><div style>- Design of analytical tools for managing crowd-based initiatives </div><div style>
- Organizing taxonomies, frameworks, and classifications </div><div style>- IS and business strategy alignment </div><div style>- Theoretical exploration of the role of collective intelligence, distributed knowledge, and diversity in crowdsourcing - Crowdsourcing for innovation, problem solving, productivity, and creativity </div>
<div style>- Practical approaches to fostering creativity at individual, group and organizational levels </div><div style>- Social, managerial, and legal implications of crowdsourcing </div><div style>- Marketing and brand awareness </div>
<div style>- Characteristics and motivations of the crowd </div><div style>- Collecting, filtering, and evaluating of crowd input for knowledge and business intelligence purposes </div><div style>- The use of incentives and rewards to motivate participation </div>
<div style>- Integration into and impact on institutionalized processes </div><div style>- Information quality frameworks </div><div style>- Value creation </div><div style>- New forms of organizing </div><div style>- Building crowd-based or crowd-supported organizations </div>
<div style>- Organizational learning and the use of social media for crowdsourcing initiatives </div><div style>- Knowledge management systems for managing crowdsourcing </div><div style>- Crowdsourcing, collaboration, problem solving with social media </div>
<div style>- Governance and policy issues </div><div style>- Application and extension of IS theory </div><div style>- Organizational and cultural influences (e.g., leadership, organizational culture, technology infrastructure, regulation, and economics) </div>
<div style>- Comparisons to open innovation, open source software, and outsourcing </div><div style>- Emergence of new business models </div><div style>- Methodological techniques for understanding network structures of crowdsourcing initiatives </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Conference Submissions </div><div style>The conference invites papers and poster submissions on a broad range of IS themes relevant to crowdsourcing. </div><div style><br></div><div style>
Types of contributions, in English, via the EasyChair Submission System (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2012" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2012</a>): </div>
<div style>- Full research papers (7–12 pages) </div><div style>- Extended abstracts and short research-in-progress papers (3–7 pages) </div><div style>- Panel proposals (2–3 pages) </div><div style>- Posters (A2) </div>
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<br></div><div style>Important Due Dates </div><div style>- Deadline for submissions: <b>March 25, 2012</b></div><div style>- Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012</div><div style>- Camera-ready versions: June 1st, 2012</div>