Hello,
I am interested in this, particularly the use of online networks for
decision making. I wondered if anyone on the list would be interested in
discussing a possible collaborative approach?
Regards
Lesley Mackenzie-Robb
Independent Learning Technology Consultant/ Researcher
Vantaggio Ltd
www.vantaggio-learn.com
07730 609 646
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Subject: [VLES] Call for papers: Distributed Leadership & Online Communities
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline for a 2-page proposal or manuscript: July 31, 2008
Special issue of Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
on Humans in ICT Environments:
Distributed Leadership & Online Communities
edited by:
Niki Lambropoulos & Dr. Leslie Gadman
London South Bank University, London, UK
http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23608240896&ref=ts
Overall Objectives of the Special Issue
The main objective of this special issue is to bring together contributions
on the topic of Distributed Leadership and Online Communities. The key
objective is to look into the importance of online communities in
participatory decision making in companies and organisational and
governmental institutions. This special issue also will focus on real life
case studies where such evaluations have been applied and validated. We hope
the special issue not only will report first experiences and debates, but
also go beyond the current state of the art by looking at future prospects
and emerging applications.
Distributed Leadership and Online Communities
Leadership refers to top down, bottom up, and distributed management. Top
down is the traditional model of centralising control, and bottom up is
referring to transformational leadership. In this latter scheme, the
empathic leader plays the role of the instrument between him/herself and the
community to which s/he belongs. Distributed leadership builds upon
participants' contributions in participatory decision making. Despite the
fact that the capacity for leadership is both individual and collective
(Ancona & Bresman, 2007; Senge, 1996), at the moment, managemental
methodologies and techniques for both top down and bottom up approaches
exist, but not for distributed leadership.
Distributed leadership (Woods, 2004) has been related to participatory
decision making and participatory democracy. To Ghosh (2002), it is a matter
of a more purposeful resolve to build "multi-dimensional trust" within an
organisation. This concept is further enhanced by the myriad ICTs and online
technologies available today. Examples of applied participatory management
come from media and computer companies, as well as governmental, educational
, and governmental organisations. For example, some program producers
encourage viewers to vote on the plot and decide on the actual end to a
film, series, or protagonists. Customers for some companies can make
suggestions and vote on their ideas for products. Students' online
communities in universities make suggestions to enhance policy-making
decisions. The EU has made several attempts to involve the citizens in
decision making by providing online discussion forums and tools to
facilitate this process.
(See, for example, the Interactive Policy-making
Tool-http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/ipm-which aims to improve governance by using
the Internet to collect and analyse reactions of citizens and enterprises,
evaluate existing EU policies, and facilitate open consultations on new
initiatives.) However, the organisational structures to support the
non-hierarchical nature of power and authority structures are not widely
studied. Furthermore, there are few studies considering the incorporation of
information systems into a business perspective for building direct ties and
relationships that benefit from improved communication with customers or
reform public services.
As such, this special issue will be of great use to those who study, design,
construct, moderate, evaluate and maintain distributed leadership techniques
in organizations, e-learning, eBusiness, e-government and other related
domains.
References
Ancona, D., & Bresman, H. (2007). X-teams: How to build teams that lead,
innovate and succeed. City, State, USA: Harvard Business School Press.
Ghosh, P. S. (2002). Committing to re-Build trust as a "true servant" of a
fractured civilization: Towards a more enlightened leadership. Leadership
Speeches and Presentations, 2008, IAP Leadership Session. Retrieved April
15, 2008, from http://web.mit.edu/psgleadership/speeches.htm
Senge, P. (1996). Leading learning organizations: The bold, the powerful,
and the invisible. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from
http://www.solonline.org/repository/item?item_id=363266
Woods, P. A. (2004). Democratic leadership: Drawing distinctions with
distributed leadership. International Journal of Leadership in Education,
7(1), 3-26.
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following
. Introduction: Leadership before and after the turn of the century,
concepts analysis
. Distributed leadership: Theories on management and engagement;
organisational strategy and the role of senior management; the role of
communication; vision and organisational goals; research on measuring levels
of engagement
. Online communities: The use of online networks for decision making.
. Analysis: multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches as in
query-based techniques (interviews, focus groups, surveys; content and
discourse analysis); the use of ethnographic methodologies and fieldwork.
. Design: Conceptual and detailed design; ontologies; design to
enhance ideas sharing and co-creativity; participatory design; prototyping
(paper/electronic); screen design; leadership architecture; design of
distributed leadership schemes and features; other innovative design
approaches.
. Evaluation: Tools and evaluation techniques; multidisciplinary
evaluation; frameworks to apply results into practice.
. Applicability of distributed leadership in online communities
. Case studies
. Future trends
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a manuscript or a 2-page
manuscript proposal no later than July 31, 2008. All will be notified by
August 31, 2008 about the status of their proposals. Full rough drafts are
expected to be submitted by November 30, 2008 and will be reviewed on a
blind review basis.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)
to:
Niki Lambropoulos
Researcher, Online Community Architect & Business Analyst
PhD student at the
Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering
London South Bank University
London, UK
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Leslie Gadman
Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy and Organizational Behaviour
London South Bank University
London, UK
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