Prof. Faraj, Prof. Pachidi, and GCC student Karla Sayegh publish a new paper: "Working and organizing in the age of the learning algorithm"

Professor Faraj, Professor Pachidi, and GCC student Karla Sayegh publish a new paper "Working and organizing in the age of the learning algorithm" at Information and Organization. More details can be found at the journal website.

Faraj, S., Pachidi, S., & Sayegh, K. (2018). Working and organizing in the age of the learning algorithm. Information and Organization. (forthcoming)

Prof. Faraj and GCC student Takumi Shimizu publish a new book chapter: Online Communities and Knowledge Collaborations.

Professor Faraj and GCC student Takumi Shimizu publish a new book chapter "Online Communities and Knowledge Collaborations" in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. More details can be found at the Oxford University Press Website.

Faraj, S. & Shimizu, T. (2018). Online Communities and Knowledge Collaborations. In R. Aldag (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management (pp.1-20). Oxford University Press.

Prof. Faraj and GCC student Karla Sayegh publish a new book chapter: Knowledge collaboration in organizations.

Professor Faraj and GCC student Karla Sayegh publish a new book chapter "Knowledge collaboration in organizations: From information processing to social knowing" in The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems. More details can be found at the Taylor & Francis Group Website.

Faraj, S., Sayegh, K., & Rouleau, L. (2017). Knowledge collaboration in organizations: From information processing to social knowing. In R.D. Galliers and M.K. Stein. (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems (pp. 370-386). London: Taylor and Francis.

Prof. Faraj will serve as a track chair at EGOS 2018

Professor Faraj will serve as a chair with Prof. Ben-Menahem and Prof. von Krogh for the track of "New Approaches to Organizing Collaborative Knowledge Creation" at 34th European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS). EGOS 2018 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia on July 5-7, 2018.

You can find the track information here and conference information here.

Prof. Faraj publishes a new paper: "A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams" (MISQ)

Professor Faraj, Professor Kudaravalli, and Professor Johnson publish a new paper "A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams" at MIS Quarterly. More details can be found at the MISQ Website.

Kudaravalli, S., Faraj, S., & Johnson, S. L. (2017). A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams. MIS Quarterly, 41(1). pp. 43-64.

Prof. Faraj publishes a new paper: "Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows" (ISR)

Professor Faraj publishes a new paper "Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows" at Information Systems Research coauthoring with Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro, and Karim R. Lakhani. This paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You can freely download it from the ISR website.

http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/isre.2016.0682

This paper is an overview piece on the ISR special issue project on Collaboration and
Value Creation in Online Communities edited by Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Karim R. Lakhani,and Eric Monteiro. Seven papers were selected for inclusion in this special issue. The list of the papers is below.

• Arazy O, Daxenberger J, Lifshitz-Assaf H, Nov O, Gurevych I (2016) Turbulent stability of emergent roles: The dualistic nature of self-organizing knowledge coproduction. Inform. Systems Res.
• Barrett M, Oborn E, Orlikowski WJ (2016) Creating value in online communities: The sociomaterial configuring of strategy, platform, and stakeholder engagement. Inform. Systems Res.
• Bauer J, Franke N, Tuertscher P (2016) Intellectual property norms in online communities: How user-organized intellectual property regulation supports innovation. Inform. Systems Res.
• Lindberg A, Berente N, Gaskin J, Lyytinen K (2016) Coordinating interdependencies in online communities: A study of an open source software project. Inform. Systems Res.
• Majchrzak A, Malhotra A (2016) Effect of knowledge-sharing trajectories on innovative outcomes in temporary online crowds. Inform. Systems Res.
• Shaikh M, Vaast E (2016) Folding and unfolding: Balancing openness and transparency in open source communities. Inform. Systems Res.
• Stanko MA (2016) Toward a theory of remixing in online innovation communities. Inform. Systems Res.

Prof. Faraj wins Best Published Paper Award (AOM 2016)

Professor Samer Faraj, Professor Steven Johnson, and Professor Hani Safadi are the winners of the Best Published Paper Award of 2016, an award given by the OCIS division of Academy of Management for the following article: Johnson, S. L., Safadi, H., & Faraj, S. (2015). The emergence of online community leadership. Information Systems Research, 26(1), 165-187.

More details can be found at the OCIS website.

GCC student Karla Sayegh receives Best Conference Reviewer Award (AOM 2016)

Ph.D. Student Karla Sayegh receives Best Conference Reviewer Award at the OCIS Division, Academy of Management Conference 2016.

Talk on Online Communities (Videos on The Globe and Mail)

Professor Faraj gives talks on online communities at the video interview series by The Globe and Mail.

1. What are Online Communities?
  - Talks about the different between online communities and Social Media and where online communities are most effective.

2. The Great Leaders of Online Communities
  - Talks about what makes great leaders of online communities.

Prof. Faraj delivered a keynote to the 13th Open and User Innovation Society Meeting

Prof. Faraj delivered a keynote address on "Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities" at the 13th Open and User Innovation Society Meeting, Lisbon on July14 2015.

 (source: http://oui2015.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt/)

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.

Professors Faraj and Vaast's Grant Ranked First

Professors Samer Faraj and Emmanuelle Vaast’s Insight Grant to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), entitled: "Complex Collaboration in Communities of Innovation," was ranked 1st out of 90 applications in Committee 435-3C and was awarded $189,409 in the competition year 2012-2013.

With the overall objective of gaining a deeper understanding of open innovation, Profs Faraj and Vaast’s research focuses on how online communities focused on innovation create, share, and evolve knowledge artifacts. Specifically, the grant will explore the development, evolution, and knowledge dynamics in a Community of Innovation centered on an open-source Electronic Medical Record (EMR) named OSCAR. This community is primarily Canadian, has been in existence for a decade, and has developed an EMR that is rapidly diffusing (currently used by over 1500 Canadian doctors to follow over a million patients). The OSCAR EMR is a freely available open-source software and is gaining market share against commercial products typically costing $25,000 per year per user. Given the complexity of such software, the mission-critical nature of patient records for solving Canadian and world health issues, and the fact that the vast majority of users (family doctors) are not computer savvy, this success is unusual and significant. The research contributes theoretically by exploring the knowledge exchanges and innovation dynamics in these Communities of Innovation that involve very different groups of participants (e.g., doctors, programmers, nurses, administrators, private firms). For practitioners, this study will shed light on an important class of innovation communities, ones where Canada is a leader and where the innovation outcomes are helping computerize healthcare in Canada.

SSHRC is the federal agency that promotes and supports postsecondary-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. The SSHRC Insight program aims to support and foster excellence in social sciences and humanities research intended to deepen, widen and increase our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges. Committee 435-3C covers grant applications in Canada on the topics of business, management and related fields.

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Prof. Faraj delivers keynote on "technology and sociomaterial performation"

Prof. Faraj delivered a keynote address on "technology and sociomaterial performation" at the 2nd European Theory Development Workshop, Paris on June 21.

GCC student awarded Quebec doctoral grant

GCC PhD student Mahmood Zargar was awarded a Quebec Research Fund for Culture and Society (FQRSC) doctoral research grant to study collaboration in multi-disciplinary research units. FSQRC doctoral grants secure government funding for a three-year period and are allocated further to a province-wide competition.

Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management and Health Care renewed

Professor Samer Faraj's Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management and Health Care (TMH) has been renewed. Canada Research Chairs are granted to outstanding scholars and provide stable funding for career-defining projects with the potential to lead in the field. The TMH Chair was established in 2008 as a Tier 2 chair with the ambition to study how information technology is transforming work and the provision of health care. The Canada Research Chairs program allocates the grants based on peer assessments, and has reaffirmed the eligibility of TMH for a five-year funding plan.

Prof. Samer Faraj wins "Best Supervisor Award"

Prof. Samer Faraj won this year's "Best Supervisor Award" at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management. Every year, the doctoral students at Desautels hold a vote to choose the most supportive, most available mentor and teacher in the program. He shared the honor with Marketing Professor Ashesh Mukherjee.

GCC students Hani and Diego receive excellence in teaching awards

PhD Students Hani Safadi and Diego Mastroianni received today from the Desautels Doctoral Student Society (DDSS) the excellence in teaching award for their achievements in courses taught in 2012. Hani conducted the course Managing Data & Databases in the Winter term, while Diego taught the course Managing Knowledge with IT in the Fall term.

Two GCC papers accepted for the next EGOS Colloquium

Two submissions from our PhD students Mahmood Zargar and Diego Mastroianni were accepted for presentation at the 29th EGOS Colloquium 2013 in Montreal. They will both present at Sub-theme 54 (Rethinking the Social, Technical and Material Foundations of Organizations). Their papers are entitled "Managing knowledge boundaries in bioinformatics research units" and "Entanglement or imbrication? Bridging the divide of sociomateriality literature", respectively.