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From: "Goran Goldkuhl" <ggo@ida.liu.se>
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Subject: Cfp ALOIS Workshop
Date sent: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:21:36 +0200
Organization: IDA/LiU
Call for Papers
Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems
ALOIS-2003 - An International Workshop on Scandinavian Basis
March 12-13, 2003, Linköping, Sweden
The ALOIS-2003 web site is: www.vits.org/alois/.
Background
The development of information technology has had a tremendous impact
on organisations during the last decades. New information systems have
been introduced and the effects of them are both positive and
negative. The management of IT in organisations is a very challenging
task. Too often implementation of new information systems fails. The
relations between the IS and its organisational context are complex
and the theoretical understanding of these complex phenomena and
relations are still not sufficiently deep.
The complexities of the organisational practice of information systems
put demands on research and knowledge. There are many conceptual
approaches aiming at describing and explaining these complex
phenomena. Where do we find the promising ones? Some approaches
emphasise the action concept. Without acknowledging actions, there
seems to be difficult to create good scientific descriptions and
explanations. Although such approaches may have differing theoretical
perspectives, they have a unifying interest in the action concept and
its explanatory power. Examples of such approaches are activity
theory, actor network theory, structuration theory and language action
theory. There may be other approaches with theoretical influences of
more or less explicit action orientation, such as social
phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, soft systems
theory, critical social theory, hermeneutics, social semiotics,
socio-pragmatism, situated cognition theory, practice theory and
affordance theory. Together with this interest in action comes also an
interest in many related issues, as for example, knowledge, language,
communication, social interaction, social institutions, coordination,
artefacts, power and values.
The purpose of this research workshop is to bring together researchers
with an interest in action-theoretic approaches for studying
information systems and their relations to organisations. It is a main
assumption that such a forum will contribute to fruitful meetings
between research traditions of different kinds but with some
action-theoretic affinities. We hope that researchers coming from
different traditions can benefit from this attempt of crossing borders
and elaborating syntheses.
Call for papers - topics
We invite researchers interested in action-theoretic understanding to
submit a paper to this workshop "Action in Language, Organisations and
Information Systems" (ALOIS-2003). The area for the workshop is rather
broad. Unifying is an interest for the action notion as a primary tool
for interpretation, description and explanation. The list below, which
presents broad sub-topics should not be seen as exhaustive. We
emphasise papers concerning the interplay between information systems
and organisational issues. In the name of the workshop we have also
included "language". This is done since we think that language has a
decisive role for information systems and interaction in
organisations.
List of possible topics:
· The social interaction of business processes
· Action and communication in organisational coordination and
collaboration
· Negotiation and exchange processes of electronic commerce
· Pragmatics of knowledge management
· Management and strategy of organisational change
· Action oriented theorisation of IT artefacts
· User interfaces as languages for action
· Actability vs usability
· Workpractice languages and IS development
· The language and action of IS methods
· The social action and interaction of IS design
· User - designer interaction in IS development
· Learning in IS development
· The practices of requirements engineering
· Implementation and diffusion of IT
· IS usage as language games
· IS usage, organisational actions and effects
· Pragmatic evaluation of information systems
· Practice epistemologies
· Research strategies and methods for pragmatic studies
· Comparison between different action-theoretic positions
How to submit
Send a full paper (max 7000 words) electronically to Mikael.Lind@hb.se
no later than December 10. Submissions must be made as e-mail
attachments preferably in PDF format. (It is possible to use MS-Word).
Please provide all contact information on a separate cover page and do
not mention authors and institutions in the paper.
Dates
· Submission of full paper (max 7000 words): December 10, 2002
· Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2003
· Submission of revised paper: February 12, 2003
· ALOIS Workshop: March 12-13, 2003 in Linköping, Sweden
Program Committee
Program chair: Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University & Jönköping
International Business School, Sweden ggo@ida.liu.se
PC members:
Peter Bøgh Andersen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Susanne Bødker, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Rodney Clarke, Staffordshire University, UK
Stefan Cronholm, Linköping University, Sweden
Jan Dietz, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ole Hanseth, University of Oslo, Norway
Bo Helgesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Johnny Holmström, Umeå University, Sweden
Juhani Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland
Gianni Jacucci, University of Trento, Italy
René Jorna, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Heinz Klein, Temple University, USA
Kari Kuuti, University of Oulu, Finland
Mikael Lind, University College of Borås, Sweden
Jan Ljungberg, Göteborg University, Sweden
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Eric Monteiro, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Markku Nurminen, University of Turkku, Finland
Kjeld Schmidt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mareike Schoop, RWTH, Aachen, Germany
James Taylor, University of Montreal, Canada
Geoff Walsham, Cambridge University, UK
Boris Wyssusek, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Pär Ågerfalk, Örebro University, Sweden
Organisation Committee
The ALOIS workshop will be organised by the Swedish research network
VITS.
Organisation co-chairs:
Mikael Lind, University College of Borås, Sweden Mikael.Lind@hb.se
Pär Ågerfalk, Örebro University, Sweden pak@esi.oru.se
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