[AISWorld] CFP Leadership in virtual collaboration AMCIS-2023

[Fjermestad, Jerry L]

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS-2023)

Panama City, Panama

August 10-12, 2023



Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) Track



https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-33



*Track Chairs*

*Chee-Wee Tan,* Copenhagen Business School, ct.digi at cbs.dk
*Langtao Chen,* Missouri University of Science and Technology,
chenla at mst.edu
*Tom Meservy,* Brigham Young University, tmeservy at byu.edu

*Track Description*

The goal of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track is to
disseminate research and extend our knowledge of how collaboration
manifests in virtual communities. Following a continuing trend toward
globalization and remote or hybrid work arrangements, virtual communities
and collaboration are becoming indispensable elements within organizations.
Virtual communities constitute groups of individuals who interact and
pursue mutual goals within computer-mediated environments. Prevalent across
digital spaces ranging from crowd platforms to social media to virtual
worlds among others, organizations are leveraging on the collective wisdom
of virtual communities to improve business processes and bolster firm
performance. Consequently, there is a necessity for researchers and
practitioners to address cognitive, behavioral, social, and technical
issues in such virtual collaborative environments. Research areas range
from design issues in collaborative environments, to sense of community and
engagement in virtual communities, to the impact of virtual communities and
collaboration in domains as diverse as business, education, and government.
The track aims to solicit contributions from a range of ontological and
epistemological perspectives to not only deepen our understanding of
virtual communities and collaboration but also enhance the theoretical
foundation for research, share insightful empirical findings related to
these venues, and provide guidance to practitioners.



*Leadership in Virtual Collaborative Environments Mini-Track*

Track Chairs

Yeliz Eseryel, East Carolina University, eseryelu17 at ecu.edu
Jerry Fjermestad, NJIT, jerry at njit.edu



We seek to address important questions arising from emerging developments
in virtual communities and collaboration, such as IT self-leadership,
emergent, shared, confederate, and transformational leadership. The
technology used may range from email, texting, teleconferencing, CMC,
artificial intelligence, GSS, social media, crowd-sourcing, and virtual
worlds, to name a few. We are also interested in how leadership plays an
instrumental role in virtual collaborative environments. Topics include:

• Virtual team leadership (emergent, shared, transformational)

• The future of work and new leadership roles and their effect in
collective intelligence

• Emergent leadership in online communities and discussion boards

• Team behaviors in virtual and OSS communities

• Individuals’ IT self-leadership and its effect on collaboration
performance, organizational outcomes
• Organizational leadership in virtual communities associated with social
media, crowdsourcing, and virtual worlds
• Formal and informal leadership in virtual product development teams
• The influence of AI on Individual and Organizational Leadership
• Confederate leadership and AI
• Social analytics and big data analytics of virtual communities and
leadership



IMPORTANT DATES
*   January 21, 2023: Manuscript submissions open

*   March 1, 2023: Completed research and ERFs submissions due

*   April 15, 2023: Authors informed of decision

*   April 25, 2023: Revised, camera-ready papers (Full and ER)


[image: NJIT logo] <https://www.njit.edu/> *Jerry Fjermestad, Ph.D. *
Professor of MIS
MT School of Management
jerry at njit.edu <jerry.l.fjermestad at njit.edu> • (973) 596-3255 <9735963255>