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Call for Papers: Inter-Organizational Collaborative Dynamics at HICSS

  • 1.  Call for Papers: Inter-Organizational Collaborative Dynamics at HICSS

    Posted 04-22-2014 11:16
    48th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences
    Track:     Organizational Systems and Technology
    Mini-track: Inter-Organizational Collaborative Dynamics

    Within the 48th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), we organize a minitrack on Inter-organizational Collaborative Dynamics. HICSS, one of the most prominent Conferences on Information Systems and Sciences worldwide, will be held on January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu).
     
    Inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) involves "a cooperative, inter-organizational relationship that is negotiated in an ongoing communicative process, and which relies on neither market nor hierarchical mechanisms of control" (Hardy, Phillips, & Lawrence, 2003). Such collaborations have increasingly been facilitated by information and communication technology.  The interest in IOCs crosses sectors and industries wherein organizations may be private or public sector parties or individuals collaborating with other independent individuals.
     
    Breakthrough innovation increasingly requires intense interaction that involves external parties jointly solving problems or exploring new opportunities. In healthcare, care coordination and transitions of care require coordination of patient care among multiple and often independent care settings that are often completely different systems of care, both professionally and institutionally. Multiparty cloud solutions and infrastructure management services require close collaboration by multiple vendors and the client particularly during times of transition. The aftermath of catastrophic events often involves impromptu groups of individuals from different organizations and backgrounds that collaborate to provide disaster relief. While research on inter-organizational collaboration is extensive, most studies focus on static factors rather than dynamics that happen during the collaboration.
     
    This track explores the change and development in the collaboration particularly in terms of multi-level dynamics and the role of technology in such dynamics. We welcome papers that theoretically or empirically advance our understanding of how and why change in any form, quality or state takes place, the sources and effects of the change. Such changes can involve single-variable or multi-variable changes and can take on abrupt or evolutionary forms. We will solicit excellent papers that will develop and expand this area. The papers can use any acceptable methodology and theory. We welcome papers at any level of analysis and encourage papers that take a cross level perspective.

    Minitrack Co-Chairs:
    Sirkka Jarvenpaa     (primary contact), McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, Sirkka.jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu
    Holly Lanham, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, lanham@uthscsa.edu
     
    IMPORTANT DATES
    June 15, 2014                         Submission full manuscripts
    August 15, 2014                     Acceptance Notifications
    September 15, 2014              Submission camera-ready paper
    October 1, 2014                     Early Registration fee deadline
     
    More info: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

    Holly J. Lanham, PhD, MBA
    Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Hospital Medicine
    The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
    South Texas Veterans Health Care System
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information, Risk & Operations Management
    McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
    c: 512.970.9971
    http://hollylanham.com