Dear Colleagues,
In the spirit of interdisciplinary research, we invite scholars of management and teams to submit their research to the 2017 Design Management Academy conference in Hong Kong (June 7-9, 2017), themed "Research Perspectives on Creative Intersections" and hosted by Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The deadline for papers (5-6k words) is 9 January 2017; workshop proposals are due 15 February 2017. Full details of submission processes and timelines available from: http://designmanagementacademy.com/dma2017/
Submissions are open for all conference tracks (see below). Those particularly interested in teams, knowledge processing, and related management topics may be interest the following:
Design teams in the pursuit of innovation: This track invites research that explores how design teams engage in knowledge work as they pursue innovations (e.g., in products, services, or business models), or search for innovative solutions to problems of organizing, managing, or strategizing. To address this, we invite contributions from different disciplinary perspectives – including, but not limited to, design studies, management and organization studies, and psychology (social or industrial-organizational). Previous work has shown that the integration of knowledge in functionally diverse teams poses considerable challenges, including a lack of clarity on how design features and performance are related (Stewart, 2006). This work has adopted two main opposing perspectives to describe the positive and negative outcomes of team attempts at knowledge integration. The negative perspective highlights social categorization processes, which increase the potential for team conflict. The positive perspective builds on information processing theory, which states that the enlarged knowledge pool should enable the team to make better decisions (Mannix & Neale, 2005). However, team members often struggle to integrate each other's perspectives. The processing of knowledge requires teams to not only understand each other's perspective, but also integrate them in an innovative outcome. Different epistemological beliefs, concerns, and languages make information processing very difficult. This track explores traditional divides between positive and negative perspectives, and instead to enhance our understanding of how design teams integrate knowledge and innovate in practice (Nicolini, Gherardi, & Yanow, 2003).
Research questions addressed in this track may include:
Which processes do design teams employ to identify, share and apply their (diverse) knowledge bases?
How do design teams achieve an understanding of where knowledge critical to their work resides?
How do communication methods (visual practices, material practices, verbal practices, analogical or metaphorical communication, implicit or explicit coordination) shape knowledge work and innovation outcomes?
In complex and uncertain environments, how do design teams form and structure themselves for agility and adaptability?
Track chairs:
Daniel Graff (Loughborough University, London)
Mark Clark (American University, Washington D.C.)
Alice Comi (Kingston University, London)
Fan Fei (Tongji University, Shanghai)
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Mark Clark, Kogod School of Business, American University
(202) 885-1873 mark.clark@american.edu
www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/maclark.cfm
CALL FOR PAPERS: Design Management Academy 2017 Hong Kong "Research Perspectives on Creative Intersections"
Hosted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Full papers submission deadline: 9th January 2017
Conference dates: June 7–9, 2017 Hong Kong
Full details of submission processes and timelines available from: http://designmanagementacademy.com/dma2017/
The Design Management Academy's international research conference will be hosted by the School of Design School at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The DMA International Research Conference is organised under the auspices of the Design Society's Design Management Special Interest Group (DeMSIG) and Design Research Society's Design Innovation Management Special Interest Group (DIMSIG) in collaboration with: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Loughborough University, Tsinghua University, University of Strathclyde and Delft University of Technology.
The theme of the conference is: "Research Perspectives on Creative Intersections". Design is becoming more strategic, both in the private and in the public sector. There is a wider range of interfacing activities with internal and external clients and collaborators than before and there is also a wider spread of disciplines to productively interact with. New methods and technologies for collaboration and interfacing have come up. China has been the centre of manufacturing for quite some years. Now it has become a leader in the development of internet services and the most important market in the world in many categories. In this new landscape, the roles and responsibilities of designers are changing dramatically, both in Asia and in the rest of the world.
The Design Management Academy invites an international community of scholars to formulate areas of explorations and academic contribution which are outlined by the following 7 meta themes, within the 19 tracks around which the conference is organised:
http://designmanagementacademy.com/dma2017/dma-2017/theme/
Any questions please contact the conference organisers via this email address dma@designmanagementacademy.com
http://designmanagementacademy.com/dma2017
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