Changing the nature of work: Digitizing for the next generation

When:  Dec 10, 2022 from 09:00 to 17:00 (IDLW)

Call for Papers

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11th International Workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW)

Pre-ICIS 2022 Workshop - SIG CNoW

 

Workshop theme: Changing the nature of work: Digitizing for the next generation

 

Workshop date and time: 10 December 2022, from 9:00-17:00 in Copenhagen

 

Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 18 September 2022

Notification of acceptance: 18 October 2022

 

Workshop website: https://communities.aisnet.org/sigcnow/cnow-2022

 

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=11thcnow

 

 

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

 

The 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 where it becomes less relevant to which organizations individuals belong. 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. 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 ICIS.  

 

There will be three keynote speakers:

  • Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, Professor and department head at University of Illinois
  • Alexander Richter, Victoria University of Wellington (TBC)
  • 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.

 

Teaching Changing Nature of Work: Towards a Digital Future, sharing experiences from the international summer university course, at Copenhagen Business School, by Liana Razmerita. It will be organized in an interactive round table format. 

 

Potential topic areas 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

 

This is the 11th CNoW workshop. CNOW 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 (SIG CNoW).

 

Program Committee members:

 

        Abayomi Baiyere

 Copenhagen Business School

        Jonny Holmström

 Umeå University

        Julia Kotlarsky

 University of Auckland

        Mareike Möhlmann

 Bentley University

        Steve Sawyer

 Syracuse University

        Martha (Marti)Snyder

 Nova Southeastern University

        Burt Swanson

 UCLA Anderson School of Management

        Mari Klara Stein

Copenhagen Business School

        Lauri Wessel

Europa-Universität Viadrina

        Ella Hafermalz

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

        Niki Panteli

Royal Holloway, University of London

        Monideepa Tarafdar

Isenberg School of Management

        Cristina Trocin

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

 

Please feel encouraged to officially join our community when signing up to ICIS conference and join us in Copenhagen!

 

The Workshop Program Chairs look forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen,

 

Louise Harder Fischer, IT-University of Copenhagen, louf@itu.dk

Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, lra.msc@cbs.dk 

Joao Baptista, Lancaster University, j.baptista@lancaster.ac.uk

Bart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, b.j.vanden.hoof@vu.nl

 

 

Contact

Liana Razmerita

lra.msc@cbs.dk