15th International Workshop
on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW)
Pre-ICIS 2024 Workshop - SIG CNoW
Workshop theme: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Work
Workshop date and time: Saturday, 14 December 2024, from 9:30 AM -17:00 PM local time
Submission deadline for extended abstracts (5 pages all included): 18 September 2024
Notification of acceptance: 18 October 2024
SIG CNoW website: https://communities.aisnet.org/sigcnow/home
Submission via e-mail at: cnowsig@gmail.com
Please use the submission template linked here.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The nature of work and organizing is changing with the deeper embedding of new digital technologies in the workplace. New emerging digital work practices and arrangements based on remote and hybrid work are now the new normal way of working in many organizations. Recent developments in, for instance, (generative) AI and VR/AR raise new relevant questions about the collaboration between humans and technologies at work. Digitization is transforming work but also changing and challenging core aspects of organisations such as employee connectedness, engagement and how meaning and identity are formed and reproduced in day-to-day work. Transformations also range from micro to macro in scale and come in many different flavours depending on local contexts, cultures and norms. These complex effects challenge us to investigate how both local (idiosyncratic, indigenous) and global (common, standardized) practices are supported, enhanced and also hindered by digital technologies – and also highlight the possible threats that the use of these technologies may pose to those practices. On the one hand, new digital technologies can possibly support more dynamic and fluid work arrangements within and across organisations, enable access to the labor market to larger populations of workers, and allow for more flexibility in terms of when, where, and how we work. There is great potential to leverage the opportunities from this new landscape of work in organisations to improve the lives of workers. Yet, this changing nature of work also raises many concerns and unintended consequences (e.g., challenges in distinguishing between what is “real” and what is virtual, digital fatigue, impact on well-being, meaningless work with algorithmic management, worsening digital inequalities, and the corrosion of privacy and security). We need therefore to consider both local and global perspectives on the future digitization of workplaces and organizing. This is the theme for this workshop where we would like to discuss new and current research that improves or challenges our understanding of these themes.
At the workshop, a combination of short presentations and group discussions will be used to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
The workshop will include keynote speakers: TBC
You are invited to submit extended abstracts about your research (maximum 5 pages) related to the theme of the workshop. Indicate whether this is a completed research project or research-in-progress.
Please feel encouraged to officially join our community when signing up to ICIS conference!
Potential topic areas include (but are not limited to):
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Emerging new patterns of work and organising
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Digital working and workplace technologies
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Algorithmic management within work platforms
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Digital infrastructures of work
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Modern workspace as a combination of physical and digital environments
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Changing spatial and temporal dimensions of work
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Work fragmentation and nomadic work practices
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New forms of virtual teamwork and virtualization of work
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Virtual collaboration in digital organizations
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The use of (generative) AI in shaping new work practices
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New technology-enabled forms of employee participation and engagement
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Gig economy and crowd-work
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Local and global impacts on professions and labour through digitization and automation
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Work-life balance, technostress and boundary management
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Creating more sustainable and resilient work arrangements locally and globally
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Managing digital exhaust and privacy issues
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Workplace datafication
This is the 15th CNoW workshop. It started out at ICIS in Milan in 2013 and has been held every year since. We are a growing community and in 2021 we joined AIS as a Special Interest Group - the Changing Nature of Work (SIGCNoW).
The Workshop Program Chairs look forward to welcoming you in Bangkok.
Mari-Klara Stein, TalTech, mari-klara.stein@taltech.ee
João Baptista, Lancaster University, j.baptista@lancaster.ac.uk
Louise Harder Fischer, IT-University of Copenhagen, louf@itu.dk
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, lra.msc@cbs.dk
Bart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, b.j.vanden.hooff@vu.nl