[AISWorld] CfP HICSS 2022 MiniTrack: Innovation in Organizations: Learning, Unlearning and Intentional Forgetting

[Christof.Thim at wi.uni-potsdam.de]

Transition and crisis emphasizes the importance of knowledge and knowledge
management in order to create ideas and develop innovative solutions for
the problems at hand. While knowledge management has been researched for
some decades now, new technological and social developments raise new
questions about knowledge dynamics. Beside organizational learning aspects
of unlearning and forgetting need to be considered in order to provide
capacities and capabilities for organizations to be innovative.

We therefore present our mini track "Innovation in Organizations: Learning,
Unlearning and Intentional Forgetting" at HICSS 2022 and are looking
forward to your contributions.

Link:
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#innovation-in-organizations-learning-unlearning-and-intentional-forgetting-minitrack
Dates:
- Paper submission: June 15 2021
- Decision: August 17 2021
- Final Manuscript: September 22 2021
- Conference: January 4-7 2022

Description:

This minitrack highlights examining the role of knowledge in organizations
and individuals. How it is decided to change, update, use, or disregard
knowledge elements and how it is determined to intentionally suppress
existing knowledge is of interest. This minitrack therefore, expresses
diversity of organizational learning methods within a Knowledge Management
framework. It seeks to explore different ways in which organizational
knowledge base is created, used, and modified. The lens to view
organizations may be diverse; organizations using socio-technical systems,
where the term knowledge base could broadly refer to individual or
organizational knowledge (i.e., organizational and individual goals, norms,
and processes) or refer to machine knowledge (i.e., information systems,
data stores, and analytics) that can be applied or put into action.
Several factors that affect the success of knowledge base change within
knowledge and learning organizations will be limited to research in the
following areas: organizational cultural considerations in knowledge
management, trust factors and human social interactions, communication
strategies to promote knowledge acquisition and learning, knowledge
transfer, knowledge selection, updating processes, and change methods
within organizations. In addition, submissions dedicated to knowledge and
learning organizations focused on leadership processes will be accepted.
Interdisciplinary contributions connecting related research streams using
innovation, learning, unlearning, and intentional forgetting of knowledge
(i.e., information systems and psychology) are welcome.
Contributions from this minitrack may include, but are not limited the
following topics: :
Organizational Learning
- Individual, group and organizational learning processes
- Knowledge creation, acquisition, transfer, change and forgetting
- Organizational memory and knowledge base
- Knowledge/ Organization adaptation, routines or resistance issues
- Promoting a Learning or Knowledge Organizations
  - Innovation, entrepreneurship and technological change
  - Methods to promote organizational learning
- Organizational sense making
- Learning of innovativeness

Knowledge Management
- Ethical and cultural considerations in the management of knowledge
- Knowledge management in virtual and global organizations
- Issues of creation and maintenance of trust within organizations
- Modeling learning and forgetting in knowledge intensive processes

Leadership Challenges in Learning Organizations
- Leadership in knowledge creation, acquisition, transfer, and change
- The nature of leadership and leader behavior in knowledge and learning
organizations
- Leadership and learning leaders in virtual and global organizations

Knowledge Workers in Learning Organizations
- Describing competency and knowledge management development
- Describing skills maintenance programs
- Interplay of human and machine learning


Minitrack Chairs/Contact:

Julee Hafner (Primary Contact)
haf2lead at gmail.com
Christof Thim
University of Potsdam
cthim at lswi.de