11th International Workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW)
Workshop theme: Changing the Nature of Work: Digitizing for the Next Generation
Workshop date and time: 10 December 2022, from 10:00-17:00 in Copenhagen
Location: IT-University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300 Copenhagen. See specific details of location of the workshop within the university.
Getting there: Take the M1 metro from Bella Center (the ICIS conference venue) towards Vanløse. Ride two stops, and leave at DR Byen. Walk 800 meter to ITU. https://goo.gl/maps/iTR3ds1P8adzAXGS8
Program of the day:
- 10.00 – 10.15: Opening by Organizers Louise Harder Fischer, Joao Baptista, Bart Van den Hooff, and Liana Razmerita (in Auditorium 2)
- 10.15 – 11.00: Keynote by Mary Beth Watson-Manheim on “Investigating Digital Human Configuration Work and Its Implications” (in Auditorium 2)
- 11.00 – 11.15: Coffee break (in Atrium)
- 11.15 – 12.00: Panel discussion organized by Liana Razmerita on “How to teach Changing the Nature of Work” Panel participants: Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindstrom and Antje Schwarz (in Auditorium 2)
- 12.00 – 12.45: Keynote by Alexander Richter on "From Hybrid Work to Thriving" (in Auditorium 2)
- 12.45 – 13.30: Lunch (in Atrium)
- 13.30 – 15.30: Round-table discussions in Sky Boxes. Please see the detailed program to the right.
- 15.30 – 16.00: Coffee and Cake (in Atrium)
- 16.00 – 16.45: Keynote by Margunn Aanestad on “Implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics as reconfiguration of organizational work systems” (in Auditorium 2)
- 16.45 – 17.00: Closing by Organizers (Auditorium 2)
- 17.00 – 18.00: Business meeting and election (for members only)
Call for PapersThe nature of work and organizing is changing with the deeper embedding of modern new digital technologies in the workplace. In response to the Covid 19 pandemic organisations have accelerated the pace of digital transformation. New emerging digital work practices and arrangements based on remote and hybrid work are now the new normal way of working in many organizations. Digitization is therefore 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. These deep effects contribute to the emergence of new forms of organising based on open platforms of communication, collaboration, and exchanges - for example, the growing use of crowd-based work platforms is redefining work arrangements and forms of organising. Digital workplace platforms and ecosystems can thus support more dynamic and fluid work arrangements within and across organisations, and allow for more flexibility in terms of when, where, and how we work. The potential to leverage the opportunities from this new landscape of work in organisations to improve the lives of workers is enormous. At the same time, there is great potential to create a better society and more sustainable organisations. Yet, this changing nature of work also raises many concerns and unintended consequences (e.g., digital fatigue, impact on well-being, meaningless work with algorithmic management and the corrosion of privacy). We need therefore to consider the future digitization of workplace and organizing and how to digitise for the next generation. 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 take place in presence subject to confirmation of AIS.
We are pleased to have three keynotes speakers at the event stimulating our thinking and setting context for the round table discussions:
- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois
- Alexander Richter, Victoria University of Wellington
- Margunn Aanestad, University of Agder
You are invited to submit extended abstracts about your research (maximum 5 pages) related to the changing nature of work. Indicate whether this is a completed research project or research-in-progress.
Potential topic areas for extended abstracts include (but are not limited to):
· Emerging new patterns of work and organising
· Digital working and workplace technologies
· Algorithmic management within work platforms
· Effects of remote work due to COVID pandemic
· Digital infrastructures of work
· Modern workspace as a combination of physical and digital environments
· Changing spatial and temporal dimensions of work
· Work fragmentation and nomadic work practices
· New forms of virtual teamwork and virtualization of work
· Virtual collaboration in digital organization
· The use of AI in shaping new work practices
· New technology-enabled forms of employee participation and engagement
· Gig economy and crowd-work
· Impact on professions and labour through digitization and automation
· Impact of the digital workplace on work-life balance and boundary management
· Creating more sustainable and resilient work arrangements in modern organisations
· Managing digital exhaust and privacy issues
· Workplace Datafication
We will also have a section of the workshop dedicated to teaching this topic, and we invite all that have experience in teaching topics related to the Changing Nature of Work to participate. To start with Liana Razmerita will share her experiences from the international summer university course, at Copenhagen Business School. The section will be organized in an interactive round table format.
The workshop is followed by at Business Meeting, where we will select a President, a President Elect, a Treasure and a Secretary.
This is the 11th 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 with ICT (SIGCNoW).
Program Committee Members
Abayomi Baiyere, Copenhagen Business School
Bart Van den Hooff,
Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBurt Swanson, UCLA School of Management
Cristina Trocin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ella Hafermalz,
Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamJohn Baptista, Lancaster University
Lauri Wessel, European New School of Digital Studies
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School
Louise Harder Fischer, IT-University in Copenhagen
Mareike Mohlmann, Bentley University
Mari-Klara Stein, TalTech
Martha Snyder, NSU Florida
Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Niki Panteli, Royal Holloway University of London
Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
Anne Sophie Mayer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gislene Feiten Haubrich, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stefan Klein, University of Muenster
Malarvizhi Hirudayaraj, Rochester Institute of Technology
Aleksi Aaltonan, Temple University
Kathrin Kirchner, Danish Technical University
Nathaliya Berbynk Lindstrom, University of Gothenburg
Helena Valo Hult, University West
Nicola Ens, Copenhagen Business School
Marta Stelmaszak Rosa The School of Business Portland State University
Please feel encouraged to officially join our community when signing up to ICIS conference and join us in Copenhagen to celebrate in-person the formation of this new SIG!
The Workshop Program Chairs look forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen,
Louise Harder Fischer, IT-University of Copenhagen,
louf@itu.dkLiana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School,
lra.msc@cbs.dk Joao Baptista, Lancaster University,
j.baptista@lancaster.ac.ukBart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
b.j.vanden.hoof@vu.nl