[AISWorld] CFP -- HICSS 55 Digital and Social Media in Enterprise minitrack

[Tawei (David) Wang]

*Call for Papers*

*2022 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-55)*

*Minitrack: Digital and Social Media in Enterprise*



Digital and social media (DSM) have transformed the workplace in
organizations. Two decades ago, electronic communication changed
organizational forms, enabled electronic document management, and preserved
organizational memory. During the past two decades, the growth of digital
and social media technologies has impacted organizations in new ways.
Social media includes blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and
microblogging that provide new affordances to its users.  While some prior
studies have provided evidence to show the positive impacts of enterprise
social media on employees, work processes and performance, other studies
have uncovered negative effects of DSM use on employee productivity and
behaviors. Since spring 2020, the global outbreak of the coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic has increased social media use in home offices when
companies sent employees to work from home to contain the spread of the
deadly virus. In order for an organization to amplify the returns or
benefits and to mitigate the drawbacks of their DSM use, it is imperative
for both researchers and practitioners to deepen their understanding of the
implications of DSM use for organizational purposes.



This mini-track focuses on the internal and external organizational use of
digital and social media to facilitate work processes (e.g., communication,
collaboration and socialization) inclusive of both business (for-profit)
and non-profit organizations. Hence, research of this mini-track lies at
the intersection of multiple disciplines, namely Science & Technology,
Organization Science, Marketing, and Behavioral Science.



The Call for Papers welcomes theoretical and empirical studies addressing
organizational, managerial, technical, and behavioral perspectives on
digital and social media by enterprises and their employees.  Potential
issues and topics include, but are not limited to:

•      Digital and social media affordances

•      Digitization of work and its impact on work processes

•      Dark side of enterprise social media

•      Digital and social media use & employee work-life balance

•      Digital and social media use & Information security

•      Enterprise social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic

•      Effects (both positive and negative) of digital and social media at
workplace

•      Methodologies for studying digital and social media in enterprise

•      Organizational management practices associated with digital and
social media use

•      New theories to describe and explain the phenomenon of using digital
and social media in workplace

•      Roles and responsibilities of IS departments in the use of and
support for digital and social media

•      The use of social media & fundraising or donations

•      The use of social media & public perception management

•      The use of social media & enterprise strategy



*Submission deadline: *June 15, 2021 (11:59 pm HST)



*Minitrack co-chairs:*

Tawei (David) Wang <david.wang at depaul.edu>, DePaul University

Xuefei (Nancy) Deng <ndeng at csudh.edu>, California State University,
Dominguez Hills
Ester S. Gonzalez <esgonzalez at fullerton.edu>, California State University,
Fullerton