<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div><div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.2;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">Call for Papers</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.2;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">Brave New Work: The Future of Work, Tasks and Jobs</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.2;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.2;text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em"><br></span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">MIS</span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em"> </span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">Q</span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">uarterly </span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em">Executive</span></span><span style="line-height:19.200001px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:16px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:28.799999px;font-size:1.5em"> Special Issue</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.285;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:12px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-size:1.5em">Guest editors:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Fred Niederman</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, St. Louis University</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'"><a href="mailto:fred.niederman@slu.edu">fred.niederman@slu.edu</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Damien Joseph</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, National Technical University of Singapore</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px"></span><a href="mailto:ADJOSEPH@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">ADJOSEPH@ntu.edu.sg</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Hope Koch, Baylor University, </span><a href="mailto:Hope_Koch@baylor.edu"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">Hope_Koch@baylor.edu</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Tim W</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">e</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">itzel, University of Bamberg, </span><a href="mailto:tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Commonwealth University, </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><a href="mailto:bakerew@vcu.edu">bakerew@vcu.edu</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Mary Sumner, </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><a href="mailto:Mary.B.Sumner-1@ou.edu">Mary.B.Sumner-1@ou.edu</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.285;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:12px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-size:1.5em">Overview</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) has undoubtedly influenced the nature of</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;text-indent:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">J</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">obs (the combination of tasks listed and unlisted in job descriptions), </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;text-indent:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">W</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">ork (the type of tasks we perform and how we perform them), </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;text-indent:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">C</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">areers (the movement over time from one job to another), and </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;text-indent:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">E</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">mployment (the broad set of relations between employees and organizations).</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Clearly IT has influenced jobs, work, careers, and employment through the automation of otherwise solely human tasks and the secondary effects of how individuals </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri'">and organizations organize these tasks as well as their effects on society at large (Bailey and Barley, </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri'">2020</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri'">; Willcocks, 2020</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri'">).</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">With the evolution of </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">computing from platform to platform (Hirschheim and Klein, </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">2012</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">; Niederman et al., </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">2016</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> we have seen the need for tasks and the skills to do them arise, become obsolete, and simply change. Given the continuation of Moore’s Law, there is every reason to believe that new platforms and applications will continue to emerge, change how we undertake tasks, and eventually initiate reshaping organizational and societal approaches to employment.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">These transformations affect</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">IT professionals (those directly designing, building, deploying and maintaining/operating IT), </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">E</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">mployees applying computer technology to purposes outside of IT (e.g.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> the flier of the drone, rather than the one programming its guidance system), and </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;padding-left:36px">​</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">T</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">hose engaged in traditional jobs with minimal use of computing (though as </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">information </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">system</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">s increasingly</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">infiltrate machinery like tractors or </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">create </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">substitute</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">s</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> like 3D printing for an assembly line</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> these may be shrinking in proportion of the workforce, if not gross numbers).</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The e</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">volution of tools affects not only the number of jobs and how they are distributed, but </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">also </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">how and even where work is performed. Coming out of the pandemic lockdown, the sudden shift of many jobs from face to face to remote</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> followed by a set of new hybrid options</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> presents salient problems and opportunities for organizations.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Looking at the issues of the future of work as a hierarchy, we might be able to examine the </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">plausible </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">effects of individual technologies like blockchain </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">and chatbots while also considering both the technical and social impacts of their possible, perhaps likely, convergence</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> (Chiasson, et. al, 2018)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Individual</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> employee</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">s will need to consider the effects on what work possibilities are open to them, which they prefer, how to </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">pursue </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">opportunities, and how to fulfill obligations.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Organizations will need to consider which tools to invest in (both for products and services offered, but also for efficient and humane means of production). Human resource concerns across the </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">entire </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">lifespan of engagement </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">from </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">recruiting to retirement may need to be reconsidered and reorganized. </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">IT leaders planning for future personnel needs must account </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">for </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">strategic initiatives</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> while remaining responsive to outside trends and forces</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Society </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">in the sense of multitudinous individual decisions and their emergent effects will set limits on what is allowed and acceptable in creating employment relationships (Susskind, 2020). Basic relationships between humans and work may need reconsideration as software guided agents become increasingly better at a broader range of tasks that are exclusive to humans now. Will humans find ways to maintain opportunities for work if machinery can </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">better </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">perform any task? If jobs become unnecessary or scarce, how will basic resources be distributed among humans? Will a future with more leisure lead to utopian freedoms or dystopian nightmares (or how will be two be combined)? What will humans who do not need to work do to support an identity as a contributor to society and structure their time?</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The central concern is how organizations, particularly IT managers and employees, especially IT specialists or "power users," can best prepare for the changes suggested by the rapid evolution of computing technologies.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The project seeks future-oriented papers</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> (</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Glenn & Gordon</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">2009</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, Gray and </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Hovav</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, 2008; </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Hovorka & Peter, 2022)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">including</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">:</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(1) </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">conceptual studies focused on extrapolation of </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">trends</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(particularly revealing inferences of converging technologies, social norms, and organizational structures</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">;</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(2) empirical studies</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> particularly cases</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> showing current </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">conceptualizations of the future and</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">planning</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> for future organizational </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">work-related</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> systems</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> and/or recent actions taken anticipating future work needs, relationships, or structures</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> (Lalot et al., 2020);</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(3) empirical or conceptual papers</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">particularly constructed from public sources like the </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">U</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">nited </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">N</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">ations and/or national/regional labor organizations</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">forecasting</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> from current </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">and recently past data</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">; </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(4) studies, particularly Delphi and/or scenario based</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">showing </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">either how individuals currently conceptualize the future of work or envision </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">plausible futures</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> and the values they suggest</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Fergnani</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> and Song, 2020</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, Markus & Mentzer, 2014</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">; Walsham, 2012</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">; and</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(5</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">) education-oriented</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> studies in terms of organizations and/or educational institutions</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> planning for future skills and abilities for yet unknown technologies and techniques for performing tasks.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Because the intended primary audience for this work is academics valuing practice and practitioners, the emphasis is decidedly on relevance.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Three main criteria will be usefulness – can such a future stimulate useful planning, values clarification and/or actions; plausibility – can intermediate steps leading to such a future be articulated, even if requiring some leaps of assumed not yet realized capabilities; and surprise – can readers </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">experience:</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> “I hadn’t thought of that before.”</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Future studies work largely requires a different paradigm and mindset from traditional IS research.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">It is not about prediction</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(Carmel and Sawyer</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> (2023)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, but about </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">setting out multiple logical possibilities (in the spirit of “what if” analysis); it is not about “proving” the strength of causal relationships among variables, but rather illuminating the interrelationships </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">within and between</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> systems; and while there are multiple methods for conducting such research, strict adherence to a particular method</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">’</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">s detailed steps is less important than using solid judgment </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">revealing</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> important insights.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The centrality of focus on information technology may vary but must be present.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Submitted papers must </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">speak to the IS practitioner and/or IS academic audience.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> There must be a </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">strong and clear </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">connection to IS in the paper.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">W</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">here articles are likely to focus on particular geographic locations or individual organizations, we would be looking for specificity in these cases but encourage discussion, even speculation, about how the lessons </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(or cautions) </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">might be applied elsewhere</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Some potential topics are shown below. Other relevant topics are welcome.</span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Assuming that the nature of work will continue changing, how will IT faculty adjust teaching style, curriculum and courses to accommodate these changes</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">H</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">ow will organizations convey changing needs, requirements, and preferences to IT faculty?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">How </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">can </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">accumulated technology or specific families of them (e.g., metaverse, blockchain) be expected to change work, jobs, and/or tasks</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">H</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">ow will these in turn affect the way organizations are structured and individual</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">s</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">connect into them?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Given radical reshaping of the way society structures work, jobs, and distribution of resources, what support would be needed from information technologies</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">H</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">ow would information technologies contribute to the new order, and what secondary</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">, tertiary, and further</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> impacts </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">might arise</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> from these sorts of changes?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Are there examples of work arrangements existing now that can provide a glimpse of future possibilities?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">How did these come about?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">What seems to be required to make these effective (to the extent that they are)?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Average or typical generational characteristics (e.g., boomers versus gen Z) seem to be evolving and taking new forms</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">H</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">ow would this affect the trajectory of organizational work and what role would IT play in supporting and/or inhibiting this?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:54px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:13.2px;font-size:11px;font-family:'symbol'">• </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Given continued information technology evolution and growth in capabilities, what ethical, moral, and practical consequences can be inferred?</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Are </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">there</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> lessons from adoption of technologies in the past that might guide or help us </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">to </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">improve the equity and benefits derived from the emergence of new ones?</span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Conceptual </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">papers</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> should focus on “big picture” issues</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Proposed counterfactuals (e.g., states projected for the future without currently being instantiated) need not be imminent</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> or even likely</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">,</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> but should generate consideration of salient issues and trigger provocative responses.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">The evaluation of such papers cannot be based on a “checklist” or precise </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">adherence to</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">mandated steps, but rather on the subjective views of reviewers, associate editors, and </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">workshop/special issue editors.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.285;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:14.4px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:12px;font-family:'calibri light';font-weight:bold"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-size:1.5em">Submission and Review</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Consult the following MIS</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Q</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">uarterly </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">E</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">xecutive</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> editorials </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">before</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">submission:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">“Guidance for Research Articles Submitted to MIS Quarterly Executive – Where</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Research Shapes and is Shaped by Practice” (Volume 22, Issue 2)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> (available at: </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol22/iss2/1/">https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol22/iss2/1/</a></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">, and “Pathways to Writing MIS Quarterly Executive Articles” (Volume 23, Issue 1)</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(available at: </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol23/iss1/1/">https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol23/iss1/1/</a></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">).</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Consult the following Future Studies </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">(including those among the references listed below) </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">and MIS Quarterly Executive for some sample papers</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">For example:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Eden, Rebekah; Jones, Andrew Burton; Casey, Veronica; and Draheim, Michael (2019) "Digital Transformation Requires Workforce Transformation," </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-style:italic;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">MIS Quarterly Executive</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">: Vol. 18: </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Iss</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">. 1, Article 4.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Available at: </span><a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/4"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/4</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Eckhardt, Andreas; Endter, Florian; Giordano, Anthony; and Somers, Paul (2019) "Three Stages to a Virtual Workforce," </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-style:italic;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">MIS Quarterly Executive</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">: Vol. 18: </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Iss</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">. 1, Article 5.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Available at: </span><a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/5"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/5</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;margin-left:36px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Xiao, Xiao and Hedman, Jonas (2019) "How a Software Vendor Weathered the Stormy Journey to the Cloud," </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-style:italic;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">MIS Quarterly Executive</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">: Vol. 18: </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Iss</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">. 1, Article 6.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">Available at: </span><a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/6"><span style="line-height:21.6px;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:'calibri'">https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol18/iss1/6</span></a></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Submissions will be subject to an initial screening for suitability; suitable papers will be p</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">r</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">e</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">-</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">reviewed</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">by the special issues editors and members of the editorial board</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Note that </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">participation in the SIM pre-ICIS conference </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">workshop is </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">not </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">require</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">d</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)"> for a journal submission</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Full paper submissions are due </span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">March 1, 2025</span><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">. </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• First round notifications will be sent to authors on May 1, 2025</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Paper resubmissions, based on editorial feedback, are due July 1, 2025</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Second round notifications will be sent to authors on August 1, 2025</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.175;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-family:'calibri';color:rgb(32,31,30)">• Publication time: December 2025</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px;font-weight:bold">REFERENCES</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="line-height:21.6px">Bailey, D.E. and Barley, S.R. (2020).</span><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px">Beyond design and use: How scholars should study intelligent Technologies.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px">Information and Organization 30 (2020) 100286.</span><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px">1-12.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:21.6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-webkit-standard';font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a name="_Hlk161473048"></a><span style="line-height:21.6px">Carmel, E. and Sawyer, S. (2023).</span><span style="line-height:21.6px"> </span><span style="line-height:21.6px">The multi-dimensional space of the futures of work.<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