First International Workshop on Organizational Design and Engineering
13-14 December 2009
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

This boundary-breaking event is about the application of social science and computer science research and practice
to the study and implementation of new organizational designs, including the integrated
structuring, modelling, development and deployment of systems and people.

Please check the IWODE web site http://iwode09.ist.utl.pt/.

** Topics of interest **

We welcome both theoretical and practical papers related to aspects such as (but not limited to):

- The impact of organizational qualities on the design of computer-based artefacts
- Development process of organizational computer-based artefacts - the continuous development cycle driven by emergent designs
- The organizational impact of organizational computer-based artefacts - from planned to emerging impacts
- The limits of organizational modelling - integrating design-by- decision with emergent design modelling
- Visual management - the power of computer-based artefacts for making emergent designs visible
- Real-time organization - the impact of real-time information on organizational design
- New organizational design principles and rules - the co-evolution of design-by-decision and emergent design
- Social networking - networking applications as catalysts of emergent design
- Knowledge management - the role of systems supporting emergent knowledge processes
- Ethical issues - the limits of organizational self-awareness arising from the new modelling and technological capabilities
- Dynamic enterprise architectures - adaptation of business architectural models in line with emergent designs
- Organizational change - learning and change through the misalignment of planned and emergent design
- Organizational strategy - computer-based artefacts as drivers of strategy instead of merely supporters of strategy

** Important Dates **

- Paper Submission: 1 May 2009
- Authors Notification: 1 August 2009
- Final Paper Submission: 1 November 2009
- Registration: 1 November 2009

** Submission Guidelines **

Contributions should be submitted electronically preferably as PDF files, but Word files are also acceptable. The Harvard referencing format should be used. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length (about 7500 words), one column, single spaced, in Times New Roman font, size 12. Main title in Times New Roman font, size 14 bold, paragraphs separated by one line and numbered pages. Please prepare an Abstract of up to 300 words.

Papers must be submitted ready for blind review, that is, with no indication of author(s) or affiliation(s).

The EasyChair conference system will be used for the submission process. Please create an EasyChair account and submit at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwode09. Alternatively, you can send your paper to Rodrigo Magalhaes (rodrigo.magalhaes@inov.pt) or Ant?nio Rito Silva (rito.silva@inov.pt) by the due date.

** Publication **

All the accepted papers will be available on the workshop web site.

Selected authors will be invited to submit their papers to the International Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering (IJODE).
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijode