Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Mini-track: Paradoxes and tensions in innovation and implementation of
complex systems
Within the 46th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS), we organize a minitrack on Paradoxes and tensions in innovation and
implementation of complex systems. The 46th HICSS, one of the most
prominent Conferences on Information Systems and Sciences worldwide, will be
held on January 7-10, 2013, in Maui, Hawaii (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu).
Paradoxes and tensions are ubiquitous to innovation and change in
socio-technical systems in a wide range of contexts including but not
limited to open innovation, e-health, mobile platforms, and integrated
supply chains. Conflicting demands, contradictory practices, and competing
views create fiction that can energize or inhibit the performance of a
complex socio-technical system. There is a growing literature on paradoxes,
tensions, and duality and recently paradox theory has been proposed as an
alternative meta-theoretical approach to problems that have previously been
addressed by contingency theory or structural theories. Paradox theory
reconceptualizes opposing poles of paradoxes, not as a tradeoff but as a
duality where the opposing poles of the paradox are leveraged simultaneously
and considered as mutually dependent and mutually enabling. The track
focuses on papers that theoretically or empirically advance our
understanding of how tensions and paradoxes can be leveraged, enhanced, and
honed to create new and frame-breaking opportunities, enhance their
implementation and acceptance, and ensure successful co-evolution of complex
systems in dynamic environments.
We solicit excellent papers that develop and expand this area. The papers
can use any acceptable methodology and theory including innovation and
implementation of complex systems, tensions, paradoxes, complexity theory,
institutional theory, innovation theories, control theory, ambidexterity
theory, trust asymmetry theory, etc.
Possible topics:
How does a paradox perspective change or alter our view of technology
related dynamics in socio-technical systems?
How does duality contribute to better management of socio-technical innovation?
How do institutional logics shape development and implementation in complex
systems?
How can technologies be designed to better leverage opposing poles of
paradoxes?
What is the role of technology in nesting and interweaving tensions/paradoxes?
MINITRACK CHAIRS
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at
Austin, USA (primary contact),
Sirkka.jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu
Holly J. Lanham, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio, USA,
Lanham@uthscsa.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
June 15 Submission full manuscripts
Aug 15 Acceptance Notifications
Sept 15 Submission camera-ready paper
Oct 1 Early Registration fee deadline
More info:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
Holly J. Lanham, PhD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine,
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio;
South Texas Veterans Health Care System;
Visiting Scholar, McCombs School of Business,
The University of Texas at Austin
c: 512.970.9971
http://hollylanham.com