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Cfp: Intl. Conf. on Management of Global Work, Bangalore, India
First International Conference on Management of Globally Distributed Work
Theme: GDW and Asia: Opportunities, Strategies and Challenges
Bangalore, India, December 28-30, 2005
Work and Business Processes distributed across the globe characterize
the twenty first century. While global distribution of business
organizations, and consequently work, have been with us for quite some
time, with the advent of modern computing, and bridging technologies
such as telecommunications and aviation, the trend towards global
distribution of work has gained considerable momentum.
Globally Distributed Work (GDW) is an emerging area of modern business
practice addressing management of work distributed geographically across
nations, economies and cultures. The concept of GDW includes offshore
and near-shore IT Services, software and BPO work, global supply chains,
globally distributed R&D activities, global engineering and electronics
research projects, technical and financial research, medical, biotech,
and pharmaceutical research, media and entertainment industries, and
globally distributed production and manufacturing facilities. It
includes both outsourced work as well as work distributed to and
conducted at MNC-owned or partnered companies and work-units at various
sites around the globe. Moreover, these globally distributed work
activities span relatively structured and concrete day-to-day operations
to abstract, less structured research and development.
Though lower costs and access to new markets were initial drivers for
work distribution, increasingly companies are realizing that access to
global talent pools, innovative and knowledge rich work cultures, and
multicultural settings provide vast new opportunities for growth and
competitive advantage. However, globally distributed work arrangements
involving space, time, organizational, infrastructure and cultural
distances have posed significant problems in adapting management
practices that were developed primarily in the context of co-located
work. While some companies have been successful in evolving new
structures and patterns of working in a globally distributed work
environment, many others, through a perception of risks and problems,
have been deterred or frustrated in their attempts to do so.
As a concept-rich and potentially rewarding domain for empirical
research and theory building, Globally Distributed Work is attracting
increasing academic attention. However given the complexities of
researching this topic, there is a need to bring together researchers
and practitioners from diverse domains of interest to help develop
frameworks for analysis and document best practices
Focus on Asia: Asia has been at the forefront of emerging patterns of
business and work. Moreover, with the accelerating movement of
sophisticated manufacturing to China, South-East Asia, and South Asia,
and intellectual research and development work to India and China, the
center of gravity of the global work is rapidly shifting towards Asia.
However, while in the recent years, research on the management of GDW
from a Western (primarily US and European) perspective is beginning to
emerge, work focused on the opportunities and issues from an Asian
perspective has been limited, localized, and generally not accessible.
The objective of the First International Conference on Globally
Distributed is to stimulate and bring together a community of
researchers and practitioners in the topic of GDW.
The conference Program Committee invites Research Submissions,
Work-in-Progress submissions, and Proposals for Panels and Tutorials.
Instructions for submission are provided below. We encourage you to
write to the Conference Chairpersons (kumark@fiu.edu and
skrishna@iimb.ernet.in ) to discuss your ideas for submission and to
express your interest in participating.
Suggested Topics:
By its very nature, the practice and research in this area is likely to
be multi-disciplinary involving practitioners and researchers from
various disciplines including operations, supply chains, international
business, engineering, software engineering, MIS, management, and human
resource development. Typical research issues in this topic area may
include:
Strategic and transformational reasons for distributing work globally
Models and patterns for global work distribution
Governance structures for managing Globally Distributed work
Coordination and Control of GDW
Enabling processes, structures, and technologies for GDW
Knowledge transfer and sharing across globally distributed work sites
Knowledge creation and integration across globally distributed work sites
Metrics for assessing the success of global work distribution
Role of Standardization in GDW
Virtual and Multi-Cultural Teams in globally distributed work sites
ICT Infrastructure Support for global work distribution
Process and Software support for global work distribution
Issue of cultural differences in global work
Theoretical, Ideological, and Social Perspectives on GDW
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Intellectual Property Issues and Risk (Liability) issues in global work
distribution
Impact of Global Work on local societies and economies
Relationship between GDW and Geo-politics
Location
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
December 28- 30, 2005 (Wednesday-Friday)
Bangalore, India often called the software capital of India is at the
forefront of the movement towards globally distributed work, not only in
the context of software development, but also in global Research and
Development. For information on Bangalore visit:
http://www.bangalorenet.com/index.asp
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: March 30th to July 1st 2005
Acceptance: September 25, 2005
Revised Manuscripts Due: November 20, 2005
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairpersons
Kuldeep Kumar
Florida International University USA & Erasmus University Netherlands
email: kumar@fiu.edu
S.Krishna
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore India
email: skrishna@iimb.ernet.in
Program Committee Members
Anadalingam G, University of Maryland, USA
Wei KK, City University of Hong Kong, China
Anca Metiu, INSEAD, France
Atreyi Kankanhalli, NUS, Singapore
Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, China
Erran Carmel, American University, USA
Ephraim R. McLean, Georgia State University, USA
Frank Go, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Jos van Hillegersberg, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Deependra Moitra, Infosys Technnologies, India
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Geoff Walsham, Cambridge University, UK
Kulbhushan Saxena, Management Development Institute, India
Laurie Kirsch, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Leslie Willcocks, Warwick University, UK
Mary Ann Von Glinow, Florida International University, USA
Mary Teagarden, Thunderbird University, USA)
Max van Zedvitz, Tsinghua University, China
Metta Ongkasuwan, NIDA, Bangkok, Thailand
Paola Bielli, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Ramachandran J, IIM Bangalore, India
Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Robert De Souza, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Richard Welke, Georgia State University USA
Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, USA
Ruth King, University of Illinois, UC, USA
Venkatesh G, IIM Bangalore, India
Sridhar V, Management Development Institute, India
Tung Bui University of Hawaii, USA
Submission Instructions
Research Submissions
Research papers and submissions reporting work in progress are invited.
Full papers may be limited to a length of 5000 words. Reports of work
in progress may be limited to 3000 words. Manuscripts should be
submitted in MS-Word format. The manuscript should be double spaced, in
size 12, Times New Roman font.
Panels and Tutorials
Proposals for panel sessions and tutorials relevant to the theme of the
conference are invited. Proposals should include a topic description,
names, affiliations and brief biographical sketches of speaker(s) and
the intended duration of the session.
Instructions for Submitting Online:
Papers should be submitted in electronic form (MS Word .doc file)
through the following page (After March 1 and before July 1, 2005):