Collaborating and innovating with new technologies
Organised by Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) VU University Amsterdam
Target Group PhD candidates and post doctoral researchers
Period June 10th - 13, 2013
Deadline for Applications May 15th, 2013
Literature on organizations and information technology (IT) has witnessed a change over the last few decades. Whereas it received a lot of attention until the end of the 1980's, interest declined in the years following. IT was primarily used to automate existing operations and increase the speed of communication, with no significant changes nor impact on organizational forms and outcome. Mainly due to the rise of the Internet, the increased knowledge-intensity of organizational performance and the growing distributed and mobile forms of working and organizing, literature on IT and organizations has regained its importance in organizations since the past several years. Moreover, over the years the significance of using interpretive and process based research to study these new phenomena, has gained acceptance among a growing number of related international journals. As a result, there is a need among scholars to understand in more detail what and how to study learning and collaborating practices that emerges from the interplay between (new) technologies and new ways of working as well as the management thereof.
Building on the success of last year's workshop (see http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and- workshops/kin/archive/index.asp) this year's workshop is designed to help develop the insights and skills of PhD and early career researchers in theory development and methodologies within this multi-disciplinary field of knowledge, information technology and networks (KIN). The purpose is to expand academic skills in order to conduct and publish valuable research.
See attached document for more information.
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<st1:personname productid="Hans Berends" w:st="on">Hans Berends</st1:personname>
Associate Professor Organizational Learning and Innovation
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
VU University Amsterdam
Address: De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam
Office: 3A-24
Phone: (+31) (0)20 5986062
j.j.berends@vu.nl
www.kinresearch.nl