Sub-theme 63: Rethinking Organizational Knowledge in Unsettling Times: People, Technology, and Knowing

Convenors:
Samer Faraj, McGill University, Canada
Christine Moser, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U9-P1-14
Knowledge and Collaboration for Healthcare
Chair: Samer Faraj
Aurore Fierobe
Reinforce and restrain: The ambivalence of knowledge sharing in digital health partnerships
Olga Kokshagina
Managing complex collaborations – A case of big data for cancer epidemiology
Xian Zhu, Karla Sayegh and Samer Faraj
The work of rules: How organizations negotiate rules to restore coordination practices
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This introductory session will start with a short round of introductions, as well as a program overview.
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P1-14
Emerging Technologies and Organizing
Chair: Georg von Krogh
Jin P. Gerlach and Donald Lange
Humans and intelligent machines together: Implications for organizational knowledge retention
Anand Bhardwaj and Samer Faraj
The AI of the beholder: How local expertise arrangements shape AI
Ricardo Coelho da Silva, Raffi Duymedjian, Charles-Clemens Rüling and Leid Zejnilovic
Generative AI tools as radically-black boxes: Challenges to organizational knowledge
Melanie McCaig and Davar Rezania
“Farming is now morphing”: Exploring the agricultural revolution with the Internet of Things in Canada – A discourse analysis of Canadian farmers, industry members, and government partners
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U9-P1-14
Knowledge and Learning I
Chair: Christine Moser
Zenia Simonella, Simone Pulcher and Lia Tirabeni
Reworking knowledge in the everyday life experience of a French-Italian company. An analysis conducted through the lens of Alfred Schütz
Yuichi Matsumoto
Ceramic district as the landscape of practice: A case study of knowledge sharing in the ceramic industry in Japan
Vegard Kolbjørnsrud, Ragnhild Kvålshaugen and Philipp Hukal
Organizational knowledge creation with Artificial Intelligence: The role of algorithmic opacity
Abhishek Gupte, Callen Anthony and Beth Bechky
Speaking to those who know: How experts manage knowledge overlaps with clients
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U9-P1-14
Knowledge under Pressure: Organizing and Decision-making
Chair: Christine Moser
Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Andreas Walte and Paula Vanninen
Making invisible danger visible: Firefighters’ perceptions of measurement technologies in chemical hazards
Anna Laura Hidegh and Tamás L. Zsombok
Reified knowledge in a people business: The role of technology
Nabila Boukef, Béatrice Toustou and Stephanie Chasserio
Team configuration and knowledge sharing: The specific case of temporary dispersed teams working under time pressure
Kosar Darivandi and Marlo Raveendran
Self-organization for disaster relief: The role of social media platform design
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P1-14
Knowledge and Learning II
Chair: Georg von Krogh
Roy Sijbom, Matthijs Baas and Jessie Koen
New ways of organizing learning and innovation: Understanding dynamics within learning communities
Jerry M. Guo and Kyosuke Tanaka
Communication networks, knowledge specialization, and transactive memory system updating
Helge Klapper, Richard Haans and Emanuel Ubert
Cross-level exploration and exploitation in online learning communities
Rosanna Schropp and Kerstin Kuyken
Swimming with a rope: The juniors’ perspective on organizational knowledge hierarchies
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U9-P1-14
Boundaries and Collaboration
Chair: Samer Faraj
Aurore Haas and Nabila Boukef
Breaking boundaries: The influence of the configuration of shared leadership on knowledge sharing in dispersed teams
Qi Zhang and Gianluca Carnabuci
How does virtual collaboration influence tacit knowledge acquisition? A process via observation and storytelling
Mitali Mathur and Varun Elembilassery
Virtual work and its consequences at individual, group, and organizational level
Mehreen Ashraf and Dirk Lindebaum
Re-examining employee control through ontological consequences: A design perspective
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U9-P1-14
Ecosystems and Innovation
Chair: Christine Moser
Charles Ayoubi, Moran Lazar, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Hen Emuna
Would Archimedes shout “Eureka” if he had Google? The transformative impact of algorithms on the innovation process
Olga Gonzalez-Salmeron and Dirk Deichmann
No second chance for a first impression: How intuition can drive selection of highly novel ideas under time pressure
Matteo Devigili, Simone Santoni and Gianvito Lanzolla
Bit by bit: Crafting contribution trajectories in open-source software
Peiwen Wang, Yunke Wu, Josh Morton and Jatinder S. Sidhu
Innovation in knowledge ecosystems: How characteristics of board directors affect engagement in artificial intelligence
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P1-14
New Frontiers in Ethics
Chair: Samer Faraj
Alex Wright, Katsuhiko Kokubu and David Hollis
Ethical judgment, an Arendtian consideration
Roni Shen and Paul Leonardi
Algorithmic orientations: A constructivist approach to AI in organizational decision-making
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At the end of this session, we will close our sub-theme with discussing some core takeaways; a feedback round (highlights, key lessons learnt) and our famous "Best Presentation Award"!