I am proud to be part of an amazing panel of faculty advisors for the AOM CTO Doctorial Consortium this summer in Chicago! Please circulate to relevant PhD Students!
The CTO Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Friday August 9th, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. The DC is an opportunity for doctoral students to network, receive feedback on their research, and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research at the intersection of communication, digital technology, and organizing are welcome to apply. We encourage diverse submissions from the full diversity of approaches to research on these phenomena, including behavioral, social, technical, and economic issues.
4. Aron Lindberg (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
5. Patrick Mikalef (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
6. Shaila Miranda (University of Arkansas, USA)
7. Eivor Oborn (Warwick Business School, UK)
8. Jan Recker (University of Hamburg, Germany)
9. Monideepa Tarafdar (University of Massachusetts, USA)
10. Will Venters (London School of Economics, UK)
11. Sam Zaza (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
Travel support is available for some students admitted to the DC, pending approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Acceptance is based on a review of the application materials.
Preference for attendance and funding will be given to students who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their dissertations by the date of the consortium, to those who have not previously participated in the CTO DC, and to those whose institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented.
The application includes:
1) A 5-page, double-spaced, 12-point extended abstract of the proposed dissertation research.
2) A letter of recommendation from dissertation chair/advisor supporting the student’s participation in the Doctoral Consortium.
3) A 1-page informational document with: Name of applicant; PhD program university/school affiliation; Dissertation title; Expected completion date; Educational background; Professional background/prior work experience; Future career aspirations. Please indicate whether you have attended the DC before.
Important dates:
– Due date for applications and letters of recommendation is May 10th, 2024.
– DC, Friday August 9th, 2024, from 10am to 4pm. Social event offsite will follow.
– PhD students poster reception, Saturday August 10th, 2024, 6:00pm (all mentors will attend the reception).
Please email all application materials as attachments in a single email to Roberta Bernardi (roberta.bernardi@bristol.ac.uk). Please subject the email with the following: “DC CTO AOM 2024 application”.
This 14th OAP workshop jointly organized by Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM), ESSEC and ESSEC Metalab will be an opportunity to come back to the issue of Artificial Intelligence and its relationship with the history, philosophy and politics of management and organization.
Artificial Intelligence now pervades discussions about the future of organizations and societies. AI is expected to bring deep changes in work practices and our ways of living. Utopian and dystopian narratives are abundant. However, AI is far from being a fleeting trend; rather, it constitutes a collection of techniques with a rich history dating back to the 1950s. AI serves as a broad framework deeply intertwined with ideals of rationalism and representationalism – much like the broader digital landscape it epitomizes. The aspiration in the realm of AI is that self-sufficient techniques will progressively and continuously enhance our comprehension of the world. By means of rules and the use of massive amounts of data, it is expected that learning capabilities make AI tools more and more likely to expose and elucidate the underlying realities of the processes they initially are designed to represent. Increasingly, AI transcends its role as a ‘unraveller’ of complexity in the present. It discloses our future, what will happen in the next seconds, days, month, years or centuries. It arguably encompasses the entirety of our potential futures.
As well as having a certain hold on our future(s), these powerful tools are impacting how we think. Our cognition and understanding of the world are dramatically extended, amplified, revolutionized, but also individualized, siloed, and cut off from traditional social processes of interaction and sensemaking. In this vein, the gap between our ways of acting (in an embodied way) and our ways of thinking, grows. The dualism at the heart of representationalism, although more and more visual, narrative and corporeal, become central and even foundational. Part of our cognition – and our social practice of gaining and sharing knowledge – is delegated to AI.
These artificialities of intelligence (in particular collective intelligence), will be at the heart of this 14th OAP workshop in Paris. Behind and beyond AI as a set of codes, norms, standards, and massive use of data, our intelligence is more and more artificialized. Our collective intelligence relies on a representationalist philosophy which starts from a problem (a request) submitted to Bard or Chat GPT, generative AI tools, offering then a relevant narrative likely to answer brilliantly and confidently. Co-problematization, inquiry, concerns, openness, in short, life, are not at all part of this equation. This artificial organizing process will be central in our discussions.
In particular, we welcome abstracts likely to cover the following topics:
Artificialities of intelligence as organization and organizationality;
Historical perspectives on digitality and AI;
Historical perspectives on calculative techniques, cybernetics, AI and digitality in general, in relationship with management and organizationality;
Revisiting and problematizing traditional assumptions about knowledge sharing and communities of practice;
Ethnographies, collaborative ethnographies and auto-ethnographies about AI in organizations ;
Pragmatist inquiries about collective intelligence;
Critiques of cognitivism in organization studies and management, e.g., strategic management, accounting, marketing, logistics and MIS;
Explorations of the relationships between new managerial techniques and AI;
Temporal and spatial views about AI and artificialities of intelligence;
Phenomenological and post-phenomenological perspectives about AI in organizations;
Process perspectives on the artificiality of intelligence;
Critical views of AI and the artificialities of intelligence;
AI and the metamorphosis of scientific practices;
AI the dynamic of scientific communities and scientific paradigms;
AI and its political dimension in organizations.
Of course, our event will also be opened to more traditional OAP ontological discussions around the time, space, place and materiality of organizing in a digital era, e.g., papers discussing ontologies, sociomateriality, affordances, spacing, emplacement, atmosphere, events, becoming, practices, flows, moments, existentiality, verticality, instants in the context of our digital world.
Please note that OAP 2024 will include a pre-event, the Dauphine Philosophy Workshop also hosted by University Paris Dauphine-PSL on June 6th 2024 and entitled: “Beyond judgement and legitimation: reconceptualizing the ontology of institutional dynamics in MOS”.
Those interested in our pre-OAP event and our OAP workshop must submit an extended abstract of no more than 1,000 words to workshopoap@gmail.com. The abstract must outline the applicant’s proposed contribution to the workshop. The proposal must be in .doc/.docx/.rtf format and should contain the author’s/authors’ names as well as their institutional affiliations, email address(es), and postal address(es). Deadline for submissions will be February 3rd, 2024 (midnight CET).
Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision by February 28th, 2024.
Please note that OAP 2024 will take place only onsite this year.
There are no fees associated with attending this workshop.
Organizing committee: Hélène Bussy-Socrate (PSB), François-Xavier de Vaujany (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, DRM), Albane Grandazzi (GEM), Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte (CNRS, LEM, IESEG, Univ. Lille), Sébastien Lorenzini (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, DRM) and Julien Mallaurent (ESSEC).
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The post holder will work on the EPSRC funded project: Interface, Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS). The IRIS project is a collaboration between University College London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The successful candidate will manage all stages of the research process. This will include coordination of data gathering; research production; dissemination and communication of research findings; demonstrating the impact of the research; and contributing to applications for further research funding. The post holder will co-author outputs for the projects and will likely co-author the academic papers.
Candidates should haveexpertise and research interests in Information Systems and Innovation.
A completed PhD, or close to obtaining a PhD, in Information Systems or a relevant related field by the post start date. Proven ability or potential to publish in internationally excellent publications; and experience in qualitative research method skills.
If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email W.Venters@lse.ac.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is 7 June 2021 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.
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