TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 6, No. 38 (December 22, 2009)
Table of Contents:
· Table of Contents
o Inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
· 2010 Other Meetings (Call for Papers)
o Two online structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops using SmartPLS scheduled for early January 2010
o EGOS June 28-July 2, 2010, Lisbon Call for Papers due 10 January 2010 - Track 10 "Sourcing Knowledge Work Globally: The dynamics of firm decisions, industry changes, national policies and professional careers"
o The 9th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2010)
The 9th Global Mobility Roundtable (GMR 2010)
13-15 June 2010, Athens, Greece CFP 15 February 2010
o An International Conference on Institutions and Work June 17-19, 2010 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Abstracts 31 January 2010
o International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum in Washington DC in 2010 – Call for Papers 8 January 2010
· Call for Papers
o International.
· Job Positions
o Bocconi University PhD in Business Administration and Management Call for 7 PhD student positions
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Journal Table of Contents
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Dear colleagues,
(Apologies for cross posting!)
It is with great pleasure that I write to you to announce that the long awaited and much anticipated inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning has now been published at http://journal.elnet.com.au/impact. A copy of the issue's Table of Contents is included at the end of this message.
The inaugural issue, the theme of which is "Current issues and future directions in workplace e-learning: Mapping the research landscape", is a 'bumper' issue containing no less than 14 refereed articles written by authors from France, the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia. The full text of all 14 articles is available to all those who register for a free account at http://journal.elnet.com.au/index.php/impact/user/register.
The publication frequency of Impact will increase to bi-annual in 2010, followed by quarterly in 2011 and subsequent years. Manuscript submissions are now being accepted via the online submission system for the first regular issue of the journal (Vol 2, No 1 - to be published in July 2010) - Please see the "About" section of the journal's Web site for information about the journal's focus and scope as well as detailed guidelines for authors.
The second issue of Impact in 2010 (Vol 2, No 2), which will be published in December, is intended to be a special, themed issue on the topic of e-learning evaluation and transfer. More details, including a formal Call for Papers, will be made available in early 2010. Meanwhile, expressions of interest can be sent to impactjournal@elnet.com.au.
Best wishes to all for the festive season!
Kind regards,
Mark J.W. Lee
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Editor-in-Chief, Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
Email: impactjournal@elnet.com.au
Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning Vol 1, No 1 (2009): Inaugural issue – "Current issues and future directions in workplace e-learning: Mapping the research landscape"
Table of Contents
http://journal.elnet.com.au/index.php/impact/issue/view/1
Editorial
Vol 1, No 1 (inaugural issue) (pp. 1-4)
Mark J.W. Lee
Refereed articles
Knowledge work in a connected world: is workplace learning the next big thing? (pp. 5-11) Richard Straub
Learning and technology - what have we learnt? (pp. 12-26) Martyn Sloman
Whose context is it anyway? Workplace e-learning as a synthesis of
designer- and learner-generated contexts (pp. 27-42) Andrew Whitworth
Heutagogy and e-learning in the workplace: some challenges and opportunities (pp. 43-52) Stewart Hase
Connectivism: a theory for learning in a world of growing complexity (pp. 53-67)
Kay Strong, Holly Hutchins
Exploring corporate e-learning research: what are the opportunities?
(pp. 68-79) Consuelo Waight, Barbara Stewart
Enhancing the experience of e-learning among working students: a systematic review with thematic analysis (pp. 80-96) Christopher Carroll, Andrew Booth, Diana Papaioannou, Anthea Sutton, Ruth Wong
The use of e-learning in the workplace: a systematic literature review (pp. 97-112)
Miguel Nunes, Maggie McPherson, Fenio Annansingh, Irfan Bashir, David Patterson
E-learning maturity in the workplace - the benefits and practices (pp. 113-136)
Laura Overton, Howard Hills
Optimising work-based e-learning in small and medium-sized enterprises:
contemporary challenges (pp. 137-153) Ian Roffe
The Learn@Work Socrates-Minerva Research Project 2005-2007: what did it do and what has happened with it since? (pp. 154-168)
Anne Murphy, Kevin O'Rourke, Pauline Rooney
Workers researching the workplace using a work-based learning framework:
towards an agenda for improving supervisory practice (pp. 169-182) Jon Talbot
How do executives evaluate e-learning? A grounded theory study (pp. 183-204)
Paul Hardt
Case studies (Refereed)
The evolution of the business case for e-learning at St George Bank (pp. 205-219)
Colin Pitt, Andrew Heys
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Other 2010 Meetings
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(apologies for cross-postings)
This is the second TIM notice of two online structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops using SmartPLS scheduled for early January 2010. Online registration is still open. There are two January 2010 SmartPLS workshops:
1) January 5-6, 2010, from 6PM until 10PM EST. To register for this workshop visit (there are 9 seats remaining):
https://www.regonline.com/smartpls-jan-5-6-2010
2) January 8-9, 2010 from 9AM until 1PM EST. To register for this workshop visit (there are also 9 seats remaining):
https://www.regonline.com/smartpls-jan-8-9-2010.
(if you get an error message or a request for a username and password when you click on either of the above links, please try cutting and pasting the link directly into your browser url address bar)
For information on content, cost, etc., please read this message or email ghubona@cis.gsu.edu or visit http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~ghubona/smartpls/default.htm
Please note that we have increased the contact hours for all of our workshops to 4 hours on each of two consecutive days (instead of 3 1/2 hours on two consecutive days). The fees for the workshops remain at: $250 for faculty and practitioners; and $150 for full time graduate students (who should use the discount code 'student7' when registering to realize the discount at checkout). If you register as a student, you may be asked to provide evidence of your full-time student status. Also, group discounts for registrations of five or more participants from the same organization may be negotiated. Registration fees are refundable (less a $25 processing charge) if the participant cancels his/her registration up to one week prior to the workshop.
In cooperation with: (1) the University of Hamburg (http://www.uni-hamburg.de) and SmartPLS (http://www.smartpls.de); (2) Radboud University (http://www.ru.nl) and PLS-School (http://www.PLS-school.com); and (3) faculty at Georgia State University (http://www.gsu.edu), we are offering synchronous, live, interactive, video- and audio-supported online workshops for structural equation modeling (SEM) partial least squares (PLS) path modeling using SmartPLS. The live, synchronous, online workshops are conducted using the award-winning eLearning platform Elluminate Live ! The purpose of the online workshops is to inform participants of the uses and applications of PLS path modeling using SmartPLS and to provide live, "hands-on" demonstrations of the basic and intermediate techniques of using SmartPLS.
Each workshop consists of two integrated sessions on two consecutive days. All that is required to participate is a fast, reliable Internet connection (not dial-up) and a set of inexpensive headphones with a microphone (cost: $13 anywhere). There is no cost for participants to use the Elluminate Live ! platform. Participants will receive the SmartPLS software, all training materials, data sets, and slides from the training sessions, and access to high-fidelity reproductions of all of the presented live material after the workshop is completed (on Internet-provided recordings available free of charge for three months following the workshop). These workshop recordings are for individual participant use only, and include all video, audio and "hands-on" demonstrations and exercises.
The content and agenda for the two workshops is identical and is described below. Both workshops run for 4 hours on two consecutive days. The only difference is that one is offered in the morning (on the East Coast of the United States) for the convenience of participants in the Eastern US, Canada and Europe, whereas the second is offered in the evening (on the East Coast of the United States), for the convenience of participants in the Western US, Canada, and the Pacific Rim countries, including Japan, China, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.
In addition to an introduction to PLS path modeling using SmartPLS, the following topics (in addition to others) are included:
CB-SEM vs. PLS-SEM
SmartPLS Visual Interface
Scale Development
Bootstrapping vs. Jackknifing
Blindfolding
PLS Algorithm
Theory Testing vs. Prediction
Assessment of PLS Path modeling estimates (measurement model and structural model)
Interpreting SmartPLS Output
Overall Goodness-of-Fit
Effect Size
Reflective vs. Formative indicators
Second-order Factor Models
Mediating Factors
Assessing the effect
Moderating Factors
Product indicator approach
Group differences approach
Three-Way Interactions
Determining strength of moderating effect
Two-stage approach
Non-linear Effects
Multi-Group Models
Heterogeneity, Segmentation and FIMIX-PLS
The workshop agenda approximates the following schedule. There are seven separate learning modules in each workshop, five of which conclude with a "hands-on" exercise using SmartPLS with existing data sets (provided).
DAY 1
1) Introduction to PLS, Latent Constructs, SEM and SmartPLS
2) Basic path modeling with SmartPLS
Basic path modeling exercise – TAM model data
3) Evaluating PLS path models
Model evaluation exercise – UTAUT model data
DAY 2
1) PLS algorithm, bootstrapping, jackknifing and blindfolding
2) Mediation
Mediation exercise – Social presence model data
3) Moderating variables
Moderation exercise – UTAUT moderating relationships
4) Second order models, multi-group analysis, heterogeneous data and FIMIX-PLS
FIMIX-PLS exercise – UTAUT heterogeneous data
A more detailed agenda, or answers to any questions will be provided upon email request sent to ghubona@cis.gsu.edu.
Thank you for your interest in SmartPLS !
Geoffrey S. Hubona
Associate Professor
Information about SmartPLS workshops: http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~ghubona/smartpls/default.htm
Computer Information Systems
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia
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EGOS 2010 Track 10 "Sourcing Knowledge Work Globally: The dynamics of firm decisions, industry changes, national policies and professional careers"
We are inviting submissions of short papers to our special track "Sourcing Knowledge Work Globally: The Dynamics of Firm Decisions, Industry Changes, National Policies, and Professional Careers" at EGOS 2010 in Lisbon (Sub- theme 10). The EGOS meeting takes place June 28 - July 2 2010. We are hoping to attract many stimulating papers by management, organization and international business scholars. For more details on the CfP and submission guidelines see below.
Sub-theme conveners
Arie Y. Lewin, Duke University, Durham (NC), USA
ayl3@duke.edu
Stephan Manning, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
sdm24@duke.edu
Silvia Massini, University of Manchester, UK
silvia.massini@mbs.ac.uk
Call for Papers
Firms in the developed countries are increasingly sourcing knowledge-intensive and value-creating work, including engineering services, product design, software development and R&D, but also legal and analytical services, from emerging economies. This trend is anticipated to have a significant long-term impact on multinational corporations, national economies, labor markets and professional careers. Unlike earlier times, when companies (re)located, for example, product development work to foreign countries mainly to customize products for local markets, offshore operations in recent years are designed to support domestic and global activities. This trend is partly driven by opportunities to recruit offshore qualified (often lower-cost) 'knowledge workers', including scientist and engineers, and by the emergence of specialized knowledge service providers in many developing countries.
New geographic knowledge clusters are emerging in countries beyond India and China (e.g. Russia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South East Asia and Latin America). These are becoming sources of new pools of talent and service providers. According to findings of the Offshoring Research Network (ORN), small firms have been particularly adept at sourcing knowledge work from globally dispersed locations, driven by their need to find talent and to augment limited in-house R&D capacity. However, MNCs and larger companies are entering this space. Web-based collaborative technologies are becoming important tools in coordinating globally dispersed innovation projects and teams. A growing number of niche service providers and Internet-based platforms have emerged to provide access to pools of experts and special expertise in solving science and engineering problems. One related trend is open innovation which has become an umbrella concept to describe the shift of innovation processes from mainly in-house R&D activities to the regular use of external sources of ideas and solutions.
Policy-makers in advanced and emerging economies are seeking to influence these trends by enacting innovation, education and labor market policies that are designed to attract domestic and foreign knowledge-intensive investment. In the U.S., for example, policies are under way to develop a new technological economy and to increase the attractiveness of science and engineering careers. Policy-makers in emerging economies have created career incentives for graduates, who receive professional training abroad, to return to their home countries. However, increasing competition for talent is one of the big challenges that both foreign investors and local service providers are grappling with.
In this track, we seek to better understand these emerging and intersecting dynamics. We invite papers that take innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to study the dynamic relationships between independently evolving trajectories at the firm, industry, national economy and individual level. In particular we welcome empirical studies integrating multiple levels of analysis and analyzing longitudinal data. We also welcome conceptual papers that help us better understand and analyze these multi-level dynamics and their long-term implications. However, we do not expect papers to be fully developed in terms of analytical rigor and conceptual depth. In this track we seek to explore and break new ground, which requires open minds and a trans-disciplinary interest in a phenomenon whose multiple dimensions we are only beginning to understand.
Potential research questions are listed here:
· Firm-level strategies and decisions to source knowledge work globally. Why are companies sourcing knowledge work offshore? How are strategic decisions facilitated but also constrained by firm-level capabilities? What role do global sourcing strategies, absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial resources play and how do companies develop these?
· Emergence of new global organizational capabilities. What capabilities have companies developed to coordinate far-flung knowledge processes and innovation activities? To what extent have they adopted collaborative technologies, interface management and other coordination capabilities? How do companies learn how to recruit and retain offshore talent?
· Emergence of new knowledge service industries. To what extent are knowledge processes becoming further distributed across organizational and national boundaries? What role do Internet-based providers play in the globalization of knowledge work and innovation?
· Emergence of new geographic knowledge clusters: How is the globalization of knowledge work shaped by the local concentration of specialized talent and expertise? How have new geographical knowledge clusters emerged? And how do they get integrated into firm-level processes?
· National innovation, education and labor market policies: How do national policies affect firm-level sourcing decisions, the emergence of new service industries and the availability of science and engineering talent? How do policy-makers respond to emerging trends?
· Changing professional career patterns: How do sourcing decisions and national policies relate to migration and changes in career patterns? How do they stimulate the emergence of new forms of employment and utilization of globally dispersed talent?
Deadline for short paper submissions
January 10, 2010, 23:59:59 CET
Submission via the EGOS website at www.egosnet.org
Dr. Silvia Massini
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Technology Management
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
Booth Street West
Manchester M15 6PB
Phone: +44 (0)161 306 8794
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 7143
Email: silvia.massini@mbs.ac.uk
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 9th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2010)
The 9th Global Mobility Roundtable (GMR 2010)
13-15 June 2010, Athens, Greece
http://www.mbusiness2010.org/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions Due: February 15, 2010
Acceptance Notifications: April 15, 2010
Camera Ready Copies Due: May 10, 2010
CONFERENCE OUTLINE AND STRUCTURE
The International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB) and the Global Mobility Roundtable (GMR), the two most prominent conferences in the field of mobile business, are being held together for the first time. The combined ICMB/GMR2010 welcomes theoretical and technical research papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. The conference encourages plurality in research methods, as well as industry experience papers and case studies. The conference sessions will include full-length papers, research-in-progress papers, and panels, organized under the following tracks:
A. Theoretical Foundations of mBusiness (Eusebio Scornavacca and Jonathan Wareham)
B. Mobile Value Services & Business Models (Christer Carlsson and Jan Marco Leimeister)
C. Strategies, Policies & Economics of mBusiness (Paul Pavlou and Ming-Hui Huang)
D. Mobile Entertainment (Hans van der Heijden and Sirkka Javernpaa)
E. Mobile Government (Elizabeth Fife and Jochen Scholl)
F. Contextual & Pervasive Systems (George Roussos, Hannes Werthner and Youngjin Yoo)
G. Social Networking & Societal Implications of mBusiness (Claudia Loebbecke and Keng Siau)
H. Mobile Marketing & Advertising (Indranil Bose and Angelika Dimoka)
I. Mobile User Behavior (Jan Damsgaard and Sunanda Sangwan)
J. Innovation Networks in mBusiness (Omar El Sawy and Ola Henfridsson)
K. Enterprise Applications/Mobility (Rahul Basole)
L. Industry Track (George Stefanopoulos, Managing Director, Association of Greek Mobile Network Operators)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Conference Chairs, together with the respective Editors-in-Chief, will invite best conference papers for consideration in the following journals, after revision:
a. Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS)
b. International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC)
c. International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Conference Chairs
George M. Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Vladimir Zwass, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA
Academic Chairs
Patrick Y.K. Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Nikos Mylonopoulos, ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece
Advisory Board
Detmar W. Straub, Georgia State University, USA [Chair]
Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia, Canada
Georgios Doukidis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ram Gopal, University of Connecticut, USA
Shirley Gregor, Australian National University, Australia
Varun Grover, Clemson University, USA
Sid Huff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Elena Karahanna, University of Georgia, USA
Bill Kettinger, University of Memphis, USA
Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jae Kyu Lee, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun-Yat-San University, Taiwan
Kalle Lyytinnen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Anne Massey, Indiana University, USA
Jay Nunamaker, University of Arizona, USA
Michael Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA
Carsten Sorensen, London School of Economics, UK
Nadia Thalmann, Research Institute for Media Innovation, Singapore
Virpi Tuunainen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas, USA
Siva Viswanathan, University of Maryland, USA
Rick Watson, University of Georgia, USA
K.K. Wei, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Andrew Whinston, University of Texas, USA
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Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers
An International Conference on Institutions and Work
June 17-19, 2010, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
& Special Issue of Organization Studies on Institutions and Work
http://institutionsandwork.wordpress.com
Organizers:
Tom Lawrence, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Email: tom_lawrence@sfu.ca
Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Email: mstbz@mscc.huji.ac.il
Bernard Leca, Groupe ESC Rouen, France. Email: Bernard.Leca@groupe-esc-rouen.fr
Aims of the Conference:
The notion of institutional work was introduced to embody and extend several streams of research on institutional processes. Defined as "the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions" (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 215), the idea of institutional work reflects a shift in focus from isomorphism to change (Dacin et al., 2002), deterministic effects of structures to actors' power and agency in manipulating and even transforming the institutional order (Battilana et al., 2009; Greenwood et al., 2008), and large scale, macro-level inquiries which concentrate on structures and practices to an interest in micro-level ideational dynamics (Zilber, 2008). The concept of institutional work also holds promise by connecting to a broader range of analytical tools and methodological avenues than have traditionally been employed to consider institutional dynamics and effects (Lawrence et al. 2009).
In this second international conference on institutional work, our aim is to revisit this concept by critically exploring new directions to develop (and problematize) it. In particular, our focus is on the relationship between institutions and work. Two sets of questions in particular motivate this conference:
· The consequences of applying the concept of work to the study of agency and institutions. The concept of work invokes notions such as effort, intentionality, coordination, roles, resistance, context and time. We aim to explore the implications of this metaphor for understanding the relationship between agency and institutions by addressing such question as: What is institutional work? What are its limits? How does it interact with that which is not workable? On which institutional levels does work take place and how do they interact? Can "institutional work" be performed toward any sort of institution, including those so naturalized that they are 'taken for granted', and if so under which conditions? Most generally, what are the costs and benefits of employing work as a metaphor to understand the relationship between agency and institutions?
· The relationship between institutional work and other forms of work, and discussions and treatments of "work" in other contexts and disciplines. Work has been a central topic of scholarly concern for a long time and across a broad range of disciplines and approaches. We encourage research that leverages and contributes to those traditions. How, for example, do ideas such as identity work (e.g. Alvesson et al., 2008) and emotional labor (Hochschild, 1983) connect to the concept of institutional work? What can we learn from such literatures as labor process theory (Braverman, 1974; Knights & Willmott, 1990), critical studies of work and resistance (Jermier et al., 1994), studies of the experience of work (Terkel, 1974), or gender studies and the treatment of reproductive/maintenance work and how gender as an institution is reproduced across life domains (e.g. West & Zimmerman, 1987), for example through discursive work (Butler, 1993)? Can research on institutional work learn from insights gained by looking at concepts close to the notion of work such as bricolage (Levi-Strauss, 1966)? Exploring the relationship between institutional work and others forms of work might also lead to question what is distinctive about institutional work, and to which extend it can be distinguished from other kinds of works and practices.
We welcome empirical research, as well as theoretical and methodological discussions that touch upon the potential of institutional work to reinvigorate institutional theory. We also encourage efforts to use the notion of institutional work to bridge institutional theory with other literatures and theoretical concerns within the discipline of Organization Theory and beyond.
Conference Structure
The conference is intended to provide the opportunity for high quality discussion and feedback for presenters. To achieve those ends, it will be structured as a set of parallel streams, with a set of plenary talks and panels connecting the streams. All presented papers will be given reasonable time slots to allow for meaningful discussion and development of ideas.
Participants
The conference is intended to host approximately fifty participants for intensive mutual discussions. Our aim is to secure participation from around the world and to give equal opportunity to newer as well as more established scholars.
Doctoral student workshop
Prior to the conference, we will hold a one-day workshop for doctoral students with the participation of leading scholars in the field. Any students interested in participating, whether or not they are submitting a paper for consideration at the conference, are encouraged to contact us.
Venue
Vancouver, Canada, (www.vancouver.ca) provides an extraordinarily beautiful and cosmopolitan setting for the conference. Bordered by the Coast Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver is consistently recognized as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities in the world. Its downtown is flanked by beaches and one of the largest urban parks in the world. The conference will be held in the outstanding facilities of the Segal Graduate School of Business (business.sfu.ca), in the heart of downtown Vancouver, a few minutes walk from the ocean, Stanley Park and historic Gastown.
Submissions
If you are interested in participating, please email an extended abstract (500-1000 words) of your proposed paper to the organizing committee by January 31, 2010. Please include contact information: name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) of all authors. We also ask that you indicate who will attend the conference if your paper is accepted. PhD students who wish to participate in the pre-conference workshop should note this clearly on their submission. Authors will be notified on February 28, 2010 whether their paper is accepted for presentation. Full papers should be submitted by May 31, 2010. Following the conference we will consider possible avenues for publication.
Special Issue of Organization Studies
Following the workshop, a Special Issue on "Institutions and Work" will be announced in Organization Studies. Details of the special issue will be announced in Organization Studies and at the conference. The latest guidelines for submission and information on the review procedures can be found on the Organization Studies internet pages. It should be made clear that participation in the workshop is not a prerequisite to submit a paper for the Special Issue. Further details will be available at http://institutionsandwork.wordpress.com.
References
Alvesson, M., Ashcraft, K. L., & Thomas, R. 2008. Identity matters: Reflections on the construction of identity scholarship in organization studies. Organization, 15(1): 5-28.
Battilana, J. & D'Aunno, T. 2009. Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency. In T. B. Lawrence & R. Suddaby & B. Leca (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations: Cambridge University Press.
Braverman, H. 1974. Labor and monopoly capital: The degradation of work in the Twentieth century. Monthly Review Press.
Butler, J. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". Routledge.
Dacin, M. T., Goodstein, J., & Scott, W. R. 2002. Institutional theory and institutional change: Introduction to the special research forum. Academy of Management Journal, 45(1): 45-56.
Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K., & Suddaby, R. 2008. Introduction. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism: 1-46. Sage.
Hochschild, A. R. 1983. The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press.
Jermier, J. M., Knights, D. & Nord, W. R. (Eds.). 1994. Resistance and power in organizations. Routledge.
Knights, D. & Willmott, H. (Eds.). 1990. Labor process theory. Macmillan.
Lawrence, T. B. & Suddaby, R. 2006. Institutions and institutional work. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, W. R. Nord & T. Lawrence (Eds.), Handbook of organization studies. Sage.
Lawrence, T. B., Suddaby, R., & Leca, B. 2009. Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work. In T. B. Lawrence, R. Suddaby & B. Leca (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations. Cambridge University Press.
Levi-Strauss, C. 1966. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press.
Terkel, L. 1974. Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. Pantheon/Random House.
West, C. & Zimmerman, D. H. 1987. Doing gender. Gender & Society 1(125-151).
Zilber, T. B. 2008. The work of meanings in institutional processes and thinking. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism: 151-169. Sage.
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Hi All
The deadline for the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is approaching fast (Jan 8th, 2010). I encourage you to attend and present your research.
The ICWSM group is interdisciplinary and the organizers are making a big push this year to include social scientists (see their list of invited speakers, which includes James Pennebaker, Craig Watkins, Nicole Ellison, and Robert Kraut). This conference should be of interest to anyone doing research on blogs, microblogs (e.g., twitter), and other social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, wikipedia, match, email, eBay, flickr, dopplr, etc.).
If you would like submit a paper or poster please note that the ICWSM uses the model common in the computer sciences where submissions are full papers (up to 8 pages), are subject to peer review, and, if accepted, are printed in full in the conference proceedings where they count as full publications. (I checked with the organizers to find out whether publication in the conference proceedings precludes other extended papers on the same research. Here is what I was told: "It is very common for lengthier, more in-depth versions of proceedings papers to be published in journals. Copyright pertains only to the words and expressions. It does not apply to ideas. It is for that reason that expanded versions of conference papers [presenting the same basic research results, but in far more detailed form] can be published in journals.")
The full call for papers is below.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Best,
Sam Gosling
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78701
512-471-1628
samg@mail.utexas.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
http://www.icwsm.org
May 23-26, 2010
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations.
Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology
are especially encouraged.
The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington D.C. In addition to the
usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited
presentations, ICWSM 2010 will include a session of invited talks from
prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of
talks from leaders of government projects who are experimenting with
social media platforms for various purposes, e.g. to increase
transparency and better engage the citizenry.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: January 8, 2010
- Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010
- Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010
- Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010
SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers:
- Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty,
"Designing Online Communities from Theory"
- Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
"Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks"
Speakers in Special Sessions:
- Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies
and Media, Michigan State Univ.
- James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin
- S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin
- Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia
- Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director
- Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media
Tutorial Speakers will include:
- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research,
"Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop"
- Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas,
"Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media"
TECHNICAL AREAS
More specifically, ICWSM welcomes submissions from researchers in a number of disciplines:
- Computational Linguistics/NLP
- Text Mining/Data Mining/Machine Learning
- Psychology
- Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
- Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
- Visualization
- HCI
- Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models
Submissions are welcome that study a broad array of types social data,
including:
- Weblogs, including comments
- Social Networking Sites
- Microblogs
- Wikis (wikipedia)
- Forums, usenet
- Community media sites: youtube, flickr
Technical topics of interest include:
- Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
- Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
- Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
- Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
- Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
- Social network analysis; communities identification;
expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
- Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
- Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and
visualization
- Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion
identification and extraction
- Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age
identification
- Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting;
measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
- New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Author registration:
Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper
submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net). The software will assign
a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract
and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are
encouraged to register as soon as possible, and well in advance of
the January 8, 2010 submission deadline.
Abstract and paper submission:
Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10
paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or
(preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by
e-mail or fax.
Papers must be in high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter
(8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers should be
at most 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages
(poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column,
camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note
that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers;
no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition,
the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase.
Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or
papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission.
AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered
with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later
than January 15, 2010.
Submissions to other conferences or journals:
ICWSM-10 will *not* accept any paper that, at the time of submission,
is under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. This restriction
does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with
a limited audience.
Registration:
All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the
conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the
conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission.
The registered author must attend the conference to present
the paper in person.
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated up to 8 (eight)
pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to
transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.
DATA CHALLENGE
ICWSM-10 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring
freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of
the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection
from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable
Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset (mentions,
coreference, meronymy and sentiment targeting) from
J.D. Power and Associates described by Kessler and Nicolov at
ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple
datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found
on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml.
Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and
should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for
technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format).
ORGANIZERS
General Chair:
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information
Program Chairs:
William Cohen, CMU Computer Science
Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology
Data challenge chairs:
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Akshay Java, Microsoft
Tutorials Chair:
Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Publicity Chair:
Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates/McGraw-Hill
Sponsorship Chair:
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft
Senior Program Committee Members:
- Lada Adamic, Univ. of Michigan
- Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ.
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
- Claire Cardie, Cornell Univ.
- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Cindy Chung, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
- Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media,
Michigan State University
- Tim Finin, UMBC
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research
- Lise Getoor, Univ. of Maryland
- Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC
- Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research
- Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs
- Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation
- Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
- Marc Smith, Telligent Systems
CONTACT
For more info: icwsm10@aaai.org
www.snoopology.com
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TIM Division List Serve Manager
Adjunct, University of Phoenix
Global Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
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