Keynote Speakers :
● Michael Barrett, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
● Manju Ahuja, University of Louisville, College of Business
Deadline for extended abstract submission: 25 September 2019
Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions: 18 October 2019
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Workshop Description
The nature of work in organizations is changing to accommodate new forms of organizing through emerging digital technologies like platforms, AI, robotics, 3D printing, among others. While potentially transforming work, digital technology also has deep effects on employee engagement and how meaning is formed in day to day work. For example, crowd working platforms now span organization boundaries and, in fact, have led to forms of work where it becomes almost irrelevant to which organizations individuals belong or whether they belong to a particular organization at all. Digital ecosystems emerging from these changes can thus be highly decentralized and more flexible in terms of when, where, and how we work. Yet there are also multiple adverse effects associated with these emerging patterns of work, for example too much connectivity and managing boundaries of work and personal life. Ultimately digitalization is transforming the workplace and organizing, including new forms of leadership, governance structures and individual responses to digital ecosystems. These and other issues related to digital ecosystems and the changing nature of work will be explored in this workshop.
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. At the workshop, a combination of short presentations and discussions will be used to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
Potential topic areas include (but are not limited to):
● Emerging new patterns of work in digital ecosystems
● Digital working and workplace technologies
● Algorithmic management
● Digital infrastructures of work
● Modern work space 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
● Transparency and open collaboration
● New technology-enabled forms of employee participation and engagement
● Gig economy, crowdwork
● Impact on professions and labor through digitization and automation
● Changing patterns of leadership, leadership in the digital age
● Impact of the digital workplace on work-life balance and boundary management
The Workshop Business Meeting
All workshop attendees and anyone interested in workshop business meeting are encouraged to attend the WG bsuiness meeting that will follow the workshop at 5 pm. At the business meeting, we will discuss future workshops and working conferences, and conduct other working group related business.
Program Chairs
Bart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (b.j.vanden.hooff@vu.nl)
Lauri Wessel, University of Bremen (lauri.wessel@uni-bremen.de)
Program Committee:
● Margunn Aanestad, University of Agder
● John Baptista, Warwick Business School
● Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen
● Abayomi Baiyere, Copenhagen Business School
● Jonny Holmström, Umea University
● Lars Hornuf, University of Bremen
● Julia Kotlarsky, University of Auckland
● Sven Laumer, FAU Erlangen Nuremberg
● Christian Maier, University of Bamberg
● Christian Meske , Freie Universität Berlin
● Mareike Möhlmann, Warwick Business School
● Manuel Nicklich , FAU Erlangen Nuremberg
● Roxana Oogeanu-Taddei, University of Montpellier
● Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
● Daniel Schlagwein, University of Sydney Business School
● Martha Snyder, Nova Southeastern University
● Mari-Klara Stein, Copenhagen Business School
● Burt Swanson, University of California Los Angeles
● Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Lancaster
The workshop Chairs
Jungwoo Lee, Hitotsubashi University/Yonsei University (jlee@yonsei.ac.kr)
Stefan Klein, University of Muenster (Stefan.Klein@wi.uni-muenster.de)
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, University of Illinois Chicago (mbwm@uic.edu)