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.