Call for Short Paper Submissions

EGOS Sub-theme: Practices of Inter-Organizational Collaboration: Designed or Emerging?

We invite you to participate in the track "Practices of Inter-Organizational Collaboration: Designed or Emerging?", which we will convene at the 28^th EGOS Colloquium. The conference will take place in Helsinki (Finland), July 5-7, 2012. 

Our purpose is to bring together researchers who share an interest in practices and processes of inter-organizational collaboration. In particular we want to stimulate debate on possibilities and limitations of purposeful design and orchestration of inter-organizational collaboration by exploring actual practices and processes of collaboration.  We invite papers from all methodological approaches, qualitative, quantitative and conceptual. Our understanding of "inter-organizational collaboration" aims to include and illustrate the diversity and breadth of inter-organizational collaboration. 

Questions and themes that may be addressed in this sub-theme include, but are not limited to:

·    Which actors are involved in the generation of practices, and how does that affect design and emergence?

·    The effects of the relational context (e.g., power, dependency and trust between partners) on the design and emergence of inter-organizational practices

·    The need for design in order to initiate collaboration versus the impossibility to anticipate how practices will evolve

·    The duality of design and emergence, e.g. design for emergence and the emergence of design through practices

·    How do the relative importance of design and emergence, and their interaction, depend on types of practices and their scope?

·    What limits of design are unveiled by inter-organizational coordination?

·    What role do artefacts play in the design and emergence of inter-organizational practices?

If you are interested, we encourage you to submit a short paper before January 16, 2012. You can access the full call for papers and instructions for submission through the following link:

http://www.egos2012.net/2011/06/sub-theme-56-practices-of-inter-organizational-collaboration-designed-or-emerging/

If you have any question, please contact one of the convenors:

Kristina Lauche (Radboud University Nijmegen) (k.lauche@fm.ru.nl)

Hans Berends (Eindhoven University of Technology) (j.j.berends@tue.nl)

Anne-Laure Fayard (Polytechnic University New York) (alfayard@poly.edu)

Hans Berends

Assistant Professor

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

School of Industrial Engineering

Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing group

Postal Address: P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, NL

Office: Connector 0.06

Phone: (+31 40) 247 2352 / 2170

j.j.berends@tue.nl

http://home.ieis.tue.nl/jberends

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