It is 10 years since the publication of The Internet and Workplace Transformation (Anandarajan, M., Teo, T., & Simmers, C.A. (Eds.). 2006. The Internet and Workplace Transformation. Advances in Management Information Systems Series. New York: M.E.Sharpe).
The performance of this volume has done well, so we were approached by Routledge, who acquired the ME Sharpe imprint, to write a follow up book. We hope you will submit an electronic copy of your chapter proposal (5 pages) to us (simmers@sju.edu) by June 30, 2016.
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
The Internet of People, Things and Services: Workplace Transformations
Editors:
Claire A. Simmers (Saint Joseph's University University)
Murugan Anandarajan (Drexel University)
The transformational technologies of the Internet continue to exert a vast influence on the way we live and work. "Around 40% of the world population has an internet connection. In 1995, it was less than 1%. The number of internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013. The first billion was reached in 2005; the second billion in 2010, and the third billion in 2014." 1 Since the publication of "The Internet and the Transformation of the Workplace" in 2006, the impact of the Internet on the context and content of the workplace continues to grow and the boundary between work and personal life is even more porous ten years later. Not only has Internet reach grown, the technologies to access the Internet have evolved increasing portability and accessibility.
In 2016, the Internet consists of billions of digital devices, people, services and other physical objects with the potential to seamlessly connect, interact and exchange information about themselves and their environment. Organizations now use these digital devices and physical objects to produce and consume Internet-based services. This new Internet eco system is commonly referred to as the Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS). The Internet of People (IoP) is a traditional perspective of people and machine interaction which continues to be of interest as the ubiquitous intertwining of work and personal carries on. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connectivity among objects; with sensors, code and infrastructure, any object – from a car, to a pet, to glasses, to exercise trackers has the potential to be networked. Debate over the IoT is often divided between total confidence and total suspicion as IoT creates opportunities as well as increased security risks. The Internet of Services (IoS) is a perspective that a collection of IoT devices becomes a service to both commercial and individual users supporting work and personal functions, often in integrated systems.
Thus, information and communications technology (ICT) expansion from desktops to laptops to ubiquitous smart objects that sense and communicate directly over the internet – the IoPTS - offers us the opportune time to revisit how the Internet transforms our workplaces.
In this follow-up volume, we examine how IoPTS transforms our workplaces. We expect to see the IoPTS contributing towards disconcerting transformations as well as promising transformations in the workplace. We also recognize progress in our insights on how transformative modes either contain or diminish the disconcerting transformations or enhance promising transformations.
We invite conceptual and empirical chapters that discuss disconcerting transformations, promising ones, or ways that the disconcerting transformations can be redeemed for organizational, personal or societal value or ways that encouraging transformations can enhance organizational, personal or societal value.
Submission Information
Authors should submit an electronic copy of their chapter proposal (5 pages) to the Editors of the volume (simmers@sju.edu) by June 30, 2016.
Chapter proposals received by June 30, 2016, will be reviewed by the editors and publisher and authors will be notified on or before August 31, 2016.
Invited authors will submit a full chapter by January 31, 2017 which will be sent for double-blind peer with final draft due by June 15, 2017.
The submission deadline for final, revised chapters is July 31, 2017 – and the publication date of the volume is November, 2017.
1Internet Live Stats. (n.d.). Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
claire
Claire A. Simmers, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
Department of Management MV 323
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Erivan K. Haub School of Business
Saint Joseph's University
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