Professors Nugus and Faraj's Grant Ranked First

Professors Peter Nugus and Samer Faraj’s Insight Grant to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), entitled: "Emerging Organizational Practices: Lessons from Radical Hospital Re-structuring," was ranked 1st out of 46 applications and was awarded $70,494 for the fiscal years 2014-15 and 2015-16.

ISR Special Issue on Collaboration and Value-Creation in Online Communities

The Information Systems Research (ISR) Journal has issued a call for papers for a Special Issue on Collaboration and Value-Creation in Online Communities edited by Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Karim Lakhani,and Eric Monteiro.

You can read the complete call for papers here.

GCC Student receives Best Student Paper Award for the Information Systems Division of ASAC

GCC Student Karla Sayegh has received the Best Student Paper Award for the Information Systems Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Her paper entitled Understanding the Materiality of Technology: Thing or No-Thing? Substance or Consequence? will be presented at the next ASAC Conference to be held in Muskoka, ON in May.

Karla will also present a second paper at the Organizational Theory Division with the title How Lower Participants in Complex Organizations Acquire Informal Power: A Tune-Up of Mechanic’s Power. GCC Student Diego Mastroianni will also present at the same division his most recent work entitled Synchronizing Knowledge in Cross-Functional Teams.