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Are you interested in the societal and institutional impact of emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, robotics, big data analytics or the metaverse? Are you studying new forms of organization occasioned by emerging technologies and feel that we have hardly scratched the surface of how they are shaping our society and institutions?
Please consider submitting your work and/or joining us during Egos Athens 2025 at Sub-theme 33: Technologies of Transformation: Studying Emergent Digital Technologies as Ongoing Organizational and Institutional Experiments organized by Nelson Phillips, Elisa Villani and myself.
Our sub-theme addresses scholars across a range of communities with a shared interest in advancing organization studies in the face of emerging technologies.
We encourage submission of conceptual and empirical work that can help shape the way we understand the relationship between organizations, institutions, and emerging digital technology, for instance:
· How do new digitally enabled institutional arrangements emerge, diffuse, and are proposed as legitimate within institutional contexts?
· How does the rapid scaling of new technologies, such as blockchain or generative AI platforms, alter institutions and institutional logics?
· To what extent and why does technological change increase the compatibility of certain institutional logics and the contradictions and tensions among others?
· How do emergent technologies employ sedimented institutional logics such as markets, professions, community or state to achieve promises of societal disruption and break from tradition?
· How do socio-material affordances and constraints of emergent technologies contribute towards institutional work and change?
· What is the relationship between the technological arrangements of the present and future promises of societal change and disruption? What are some intended and unintended consequences (e.g., self-fulfilling prophecies, delusion, deception)?
· How do emerging technologies reconfigure organizational and institutional boundaries, possibly transforming organizing and coordination within and across organizations?
· How do organizations trust or verify the work of emerging technologies and how is that related to existing institutions and their transformation?
· How do organizational and institutional experiments with emergent technologies contribute to the creation of new technological fields?
· What is the role of emergent technology entrepreneurs in driving localized and large-scale organizational and institutional change?
More details about the sub-theme can be found here: https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1721760205556&subtheme_id=1701316892918
Conference Details
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: July 3-5, 2025
Deadline for short paper submission (max 3,000 words, all-inclusive): January 7, 2025
For questions or feedback please feel free to contact a sub-theme convenor:
Nelson Phillips
University of California, USA
nelson_phillips@ucsb.edu
Paula Ungureanu
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
paula.ungureanu@unimore.it
Elisa Villani
University of Bologna, Italy
e.villani@unibo.it
We are looking forward to receiving your short paper submissions and encourage you share this invitation with others who may be interested.
On behalf of the conveners,
Paula Ungureanu
Associate Professor
Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering (DISMI)
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Via Giovanni Amendola, 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia RE
E: paula.ungureanu@unimore.it
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Paula Ungureanu
Associate Professor
Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering (DISMI)
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Padiglione Morselli
Via Giovanni Amendola, 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia RE
Tel: (+39)0522522113
E:
paula.ungureanu@unimore.it------------------------------