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CFP for 'Infrastructuring for Organizational Resilience: Experiences and Perspectives for Business Continuity' workshop at ECSCW2021

                Infrastructuring for organizational resilience: Experiences and perspectives
for business continuity

This workshop discusses organizational resilience and resilient
infrastructures by uniting -researchers, professionals, and experts from
various disciplines. It hopes to broaden this research horizon by overlapping
the multidisciplinary perspectives of resilience and crisis research with
human-computer interaction (HCI), CSCW, organizational, and business studies.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent physical and social constraints have
been detrimental to different organizations' activities, especially to small
and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs must recognize and search for
opportunities to adapt to this crisis by developing resilient organizational
infrastructures. These adaptations can be crucial to overcoming the current
disruptions challenging the continued existence keeping in view the intrinsic
diversification of various business and industrial sectors:

So, how should organizational infrastructures be designed to instill resilient
properties like adaptive capacity, self-adjustment, and continuity?

We intend on bringing this discussion under the umbrella of CSCW to explore
the potentials of collaboration and cooperative work in organizational
infrastructure. Through this workshop, we offer research prospects by applying
resilience theories to study organizational infrastructure and
infrastructuring activities, which can be used for their prospective
transformations into resilient infrastructures.

For more information about the topic and background of the workshop, please
see our website: https://bcmecscw.kompetenzzentrum-siegen.digital/

How to participate?

The workshop aims to help build a richer understanding of issues related to
the analysis and design of resilient infrastructures by:


  *   building on case studies from empirical fields addressing different
organizational infrastructures (including tools, services, networks etc.)
  *   discussing salient features of organizational infrastructures concerning
resilience theories and therefore,
  *   bringing the discussion on organizational resilience under the umbrella
of CSCW to explore the potentials of collaboration and cooperative work in
organizational infrastructure.

To achieve these aims, the workshop will involve a collective sharing and
analysis of case studies and experience from HCI, CSCW, business studies,
organization theory, SME research, digital transformation, crisis informatics,
and resilience research. We invite participants to submit short position
papers between 2-4 pages comprising one or more case studies, empirical
research, or at least some description of infrastructure or organizational
setting that the workshop participant is familiar with and can discuss at the
workshop. The position paper should also include some context information
about that setting and relate to the focus areas of the workshop. We hope to
articulate research dimensions around organizational infrastructuring that is
akin to the research arenas in organizational resilience.
The short position papers will be distributed to all the participants before
the workshop to allow preparation beforehand and to foster intense discussions
at the main event. The organizers will facilitate interactive debate by
providing some prominent and overlapping themes identified in advance from the
papers. To create a productive setting in the workshop right away, we would
like to encourage you to reflect on the following issues: field of your
research or/and development, SME or organizational context of the case study,
the understanding of resilience strategies, theories, the concept of
infrastructure, infrastructuring and methods concerning your research. We hope
to address topics (questions) within this work such as (but not limited to):


  *   Barriers to resilient infrastructures
  *   Infrastructural evolution over time
  *   Disruption, change, and innovation as stimuli for infrastructural
evolution
  *   Impact of resonance activities on organizational resilience
  *   Improvised collaborations for organizational resilience
  *   Collaborative organizational resilience
  *   Collaboration in coping and recovery work
  *   Collaborative innovation through and by infrastructural inversion
  *   Implications of digital transformation on organizational infrastructure
  *   Implications for resilient organizational infrastructure design
  *   Strategies for continuity in crisis
  *   Role of situation awareness in business continuity
  *   Digitalization and the increasing vulnerabilities in organizational
infrastructure
  *   Internet of things for improved organizational resilience
  *   Infrastructural obsolescence
  *   Critical resilient infrastructures

Please submit following the provided template formatted according to the ECSCW
template, available in 
LaTeX,

RTF , or
 MS
Word format.

The workshop organizers will review the short position papers of the
applicants.
We would like to limit the number of participants to a maximum of 15 to
provide a setting with an appropriate time frame for presentations,
collaborative work, and group discussion.
The collective research in the workshop will be published as a special issue
in CSCW Journal

Important dates:

Workshop paper submission deadline: April 20th, 2021

Decision notification: May 10th, 2021

Camera-Ready: May 20th, 2021

Workshop: 7th and 8th June 2021, between 3-7 pm CET on both days, completely
digital via Zoom

Organizers:

Hussain Abid Syed
Marn Schorch
Sam Addison Ankenbauer
Sohaib Hassan
Volkmar Pipek
Konrad Meisner
Martin Stein
Sascha Skudelny
Helena Karasti
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