[AISWorld] ECIS 2017 CfP: Knowledge Management track

[Nory Jones]

Does anyone know of a good ERP or e-commerce simulation that can be used in
either an undergraduate or graduate MIS course?  Thank you-

Nory

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Stefan Smolnik <fuh at smolnik.net> wrote:

> (Apologies for cross-postings of this announcement.)
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017)
> Track: "Knowledge Management"
> http://www.ecis2017.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ECIS2017-T21.pdf
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> June 5-10, 2017, Guimarães, Portugal (http://www.ecis2017.eu)
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> Deadline for paper submissions:  December 03, 2016
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> Track Description:
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> Many scholars have emphasized the importance of (big) data, information,
> and knowledge assets for smart decision support, sustainable management,
> and leadership. Consequently, knowledge management (KM) is essential for
> organizations’ daily business, directly influencing competitive advantage
> and business development in a smart world. Eventually, KM per se aims at
> the sustainable development of knowledge exchange and preservation, from
> the individual to the team/group to the organizational level and beyond, in
> a globalized world.
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> Main goal of this track is to gather current research trends in KM with a
> focus on smart, sustainable, and inclusive knowledge environments. KM has
> become an interdisciplinary research field – the traditional gap between
> researchers from a technology versus a human-oriented angle has been
> bridged by holistic, interdisciplinary approaches. This is highly necessary
> due to the context of research: organizations are more and more
> distributed, the need for sustainable management of knowledge-intensive
> processes becomes still higher. We currently see strong developments
> towards research on social and inclusive aspects (like the use of social
> software for business and private purposes across generations) as well as
> towards global organizations (like smart KM solutions for offshoring,
> inter-organizational KM, etc.). The influence of geographical dispersion,
> communication across time zones, or national/cultural influence factors
> needs to become a focus issue in research. Particularly, collaboration
> takes place in different smart social or cultural environments. Due to the
> usage of collaborative technologies like social software, organizational
> and national boundaries become more blurred and knowledge can be diffused
> much easier. Openness and inter-organizational collaboration build the
> global pathway of rich, contextualized and sustainable knowledge sharing
> activities among networked persons within and beyond organizational
> boundaries. Furthermore, in an increasingly globally distributed world,
> organizations and knowledge workers are required to exploit relationships
> with others and to gain benefits out of such relationships. Eventually, KM
> supports dealing with the demographic change by, for example, providing
> inclusive measures like age-based learning offers for elderly persons.
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> The KM track aims to promote multi-disciplinary contributions dealing with
> a managerial, an economic, a methodological, a cultural or a technical
> perspective. Submissions based on theoretical research, design research,
> action research, or behavioral research are encouraged. We welcome both
> full research papers and research in progress papers.
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> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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> * Capturing and sharing knowledge in social networks and distributed
> contexts
> * Cross-organizational, cross-border and cross-cultural KM
> * Sustainability of indigenous knowledge and knowledge societies
> * KM and the demographic change
> * KM and smart cities
> * KM in the cloud
> * Support for mature KM solutions: KM governance, KM strategies, KM
> maturity models, and KM performance
> * Social and behavioral issues in KM
> * Mobile technologies and social software usage in KM
> * KM and learning
> * Sustainable KM: securing and protecting knowledge
> * KM and risk management
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> Track Chairs:
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> Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Wirtschaftshochschule Berlin, Germany, mbick<at>
> escpeurope.eu
> Stefan Smolnik, University of Hagen, Germany,
> Stefan.Smolnik<at>FernUni-Hage
> n.de (Primary Contact)
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> Associate Editors:
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> Ulrike Baumöl, University of Hagen, Germany
> Tingting Rachel Chung, Chatham University, USA
> Katharina Ebner, University of Hagen, Germany
> Kelly J. Fadel, Utah State University, USA
> Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University, USA
> Ranjan B. Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
> Tyge-F. Kummer, Griffith University, Australia
> Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
> Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
> Kent Marett, Mississippi State University, USA
> Malte Martensen, Promerit, Germany
> Jan M. Pawlowski, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany
> Henri Pirkkalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
> Eric Schoop, TU Dresden, Germany
> Dick Stenmark, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
> Stefan Thalmann, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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N.B. Jones
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University of Maine Business School
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