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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HICSS 2014: CFP Mini-track TENSIONS, EMERGENCE, AND GENERATIVE MECHANISMS IN COMPLEX SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the mini-track of Tensions, Emergence, and Generative Mechanisms in Complex SocioTechnical Systems for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton
Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Detailed information about the conference can be found here
<a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm</a> and information for potential authors can be found here
<a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tensions, emergence, and generative mechanisms are ubiquitous in complex sociotechnical systems in wide ranging contexts including but not limited to e-health, mobile
platforms, integrated supply chains, innovation ecosystems, and online communities. Conflicting demands, contradictory practices, and competing views create tension that can energize or inhibit the emergence of effective action and create unintended consequences
in complex socio-technical systems. There is a growing literature on tensions, duality, emergence, and generative mechanisms as alternatives to contingency and structural theories. Likewise, complexity theory and agent based modeling are increasingly being
used to understand complex social phenomena in information systems and organizational research, particularly in the areas of interdependencies, emergence, and generative science. The track focuses on papers that theoretically or empirically advance our understanding
of how tensions, emergence, and generative mechanisms can be leveraged, enhanced, and honed to create new and frame-breaking opportunities, enhance their understanding, and ensure successful co-evolution of complex sociotechnical systems in dynamic environments.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We will solicit excellent papers that will develop and expand this area. The papers can use any acceptable methodology and theory. We welcome papers at any level
of analysis and encourage papers that take a cross level perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Center for Business, Technology, and Law, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (primary contact), CBA, B6500, Austin, TX 78712.
Tel: 512 471-1751; Dept Tel: 512 471-3322; Fax: 512-471-0587; <a href="mailto:Sirkka.jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu">
Sirkka.jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Holly Lanham, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive MC7982, San Antonio, Texas 78229. Tel: 512
970-9971; Dept Tel: 210 567-4815; Fax: 210 358-0647; <a href="mailto:lanham@uthscsa.edu">
lanham@uthscsa.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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