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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Bold'">Call for Proposals
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) at Arizona State University
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">“Research Frontiers for Crowdsourcing </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">in Organizational Research</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">”
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Phoenix, Arizona
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">September 24</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:5pt">th</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">-25</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:5pt">th</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">, 2015
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Announcing a new two-day multi- and cross-disciplinary workshop hosted periodically by the ASU Center for
Organization Research and Design. We invite scholars from across the globe to join us for an intimate meeting to
discuss frontiers in organizational research. At this inaugural symposium the topic will be crowdsourcing.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Crowdsourcing is a powerful approach to harvesting opinions and other data from large or small numbers of people,
near or far. The technique is used by researchers in structured and unstructured ways. Through open calls or contests,
researchers have enlisted the public to complete tasks or identify solutions to problems, both of which have served as
data for research. Today we see crowdsourcing platforms being used to design and conduct experiments, generate
large-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">scale collective intelligence, and implement interactive “games” played in real time among groups of
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">individuals to solve various technical or engineering problems. The mobile web and other technological advances
present new opportunities to incorporate the public into the research and data collection of public, private, and
nonprofit organization scholars.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Although </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">scholars debate what counts as crowdsourcing (as opposed to other forms of “open innovation”), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">they are
using it in research on various fronts. We invite research presentations on applications of crowdsourcing to
organizational research problems, especially: 1) Papers that consider how crowdsourced data might enhance
organizational research; and 2) Papers that answer specific research questions with crowdsourced data. We
anticipate tracks in the following three areas:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Methodological discussions of crowdsourcing and crowdsourced data in the study of organizations;
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Creative applications of crowdsourcing and crowdsourced data to traditional research questions;
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">New frontiers in crowdsourced in the analysis and evaluation of crowdsourced data.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">TO APPLY: Submit 250- to 400-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">word proposals by email to Mary O’Brien at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:mcobrie3@asu.edu">mcobrie3@asu.edu</a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by May 1, 2015.
We will invite presenters and announce track schedules in early June. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Bold'">Research summaries or papers at least 3-5
pages in length will be due by late August for dissemination among workshop participants</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Italic'">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">All attendees will
be asked to serve as a discussant for a paper during a workshop session. Please direct all your questions to Justin
Stritch at <a href="mailto:jstritch@asu.edu">jstritch@asu.edu</a>. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'">There will be no registration or conference fees</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">. Attendees will be responsible for their
own travel, meals, and lodging costs. CORD will provide one boxed lunch and a cocktail social for participants
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">__ </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">___________
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The ASU Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) promotes, supports and conducts fundamental research
on public, nonprofit, and hybrid organizations and their design, focusing particularly, though not exclusively, on
knowledge-based and science intensive-organizations. CORD performs research on governmental organizations but
typically in the context of public-private relations and partnerships, sector blurring, dimensional publicness, and nonprofit
and third sector interactions. CORD strives to integrate its organization and management work with public policy theory,
research and practical policy advice</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Italic'">. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">While CORD has no formal curricular or degree component, a major element of its
mission is to serve as a training site and a research resource for postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate
students from the variety of academic disciplines. Visit our website at <a href="https://cord.asu.edu/">https://cord.asu.edu/</a> </span></p>
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<p class=""><span class="">Kevin C. Desouza, PhD</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Associate Dean for Research, College of Public Service & Community Solutions</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Interim Director, Decision Theater, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Professor, School of Public Affairs</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Arizona State University</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Email: <a href="mailto:kevin.desouza@asu.edu"><span class="">kevin.desouza@asu.edu</span></a></span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.kevindesouza.net/">http://www.kevindesouza.net</a></span></p>
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