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HICSS-44 Call for papers for the minitrack on:
"CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS"
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track
of the Forty-Fourth Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Kauai, HI - January 5 - 8, 2011

Papers are invited for the minitrack on "CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS" as part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the following issues can be discussed:
1. Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and distributed groups
2. Design and Evaluation of Systems and technology for enhancing creativity
3. Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
4. Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
5. Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
6. The creation and implementation of innovations in teams and organizations
7. Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
8. Building team-based organizations
9. Multi-level issues of creativity in teams and organizations
10. Research linking individual creativity to group level creativity and organizational level innovation
11. Multi-disciplinary approaches to creativity
12. Creative collaboration between business partners and customers (e.g. co-creation of products and services)

Thus, papers are welcome that contain original ideas on how to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving: Understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review. We seek papers that suggest methodical, technical, theoretical, or practical improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or developmental in nature.

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

• Creativity techniques and approaches

• Tools, technologies, and contexts to support creativity

• Creativity in teams and organizations

• Theoretical issues in creativity and innovation


MINITRACK COORDINATORS:

Roni Reiter-Palmon
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Director of Research, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-4081
E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu

Triparna de Vreede (primary contact)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

Gerhard Schwabe
University of Zurich
Department of Informatics
Chair of Information Management
Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH-8050 Zürich
Tel: +41-44-63-5 43 05
Email: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch


The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.

Instructions for submitting papers:
1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors' names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.
2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
3. Provide the required information to the review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).
4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max) 300-word abstract.

DEADLINES:
• May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper.
• June 15: Full papers uploaded in the directory of the appropriate minitrack.
• August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.
• September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded; author(s) must register by this time.

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:

Triparna de Vreede
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu --- COGNET@aomlists.pace.edu Discussion list for the AoM Managerial & Organizational Cognition Division To post messages: cognet@aomlists.pace.edu To (un)subscribe: http://aomlists.pace.edu (then select Subscriber's Corner and follow the instructions).