Guest Editors:
Catherine E. Connelly (McMaster University) connell@mcmaster.ca
Matej Černe (University of Ljubljana) matej.cerne@ef.uni-lj.si
Christian Fieseler (BI Norwegian Business School) christian.fieseler@bi.no
Steffen R. Giessner (Erasmus University) sgiessner@rsm.nl
Sut I Wong (BI Norwegian Business School) sut.i.wong@bi.no
Manuscripts can be submitted for consideration between January 15th and January 31st, 2018
As digital and social technologies advance, the organizational processes, the nature and the meaning of work continue to evolve, thereby rendering work increasingly granular, modular, and decontextualized (Ashford et al., 2007; Hollister, 2011; Connelly & Gallagher, 2004; Rainie & Wellman, 2012; Gregg, 2011; Irani, 2013; Stone et al., 2015). This evolution allows large-scale projects to be broken down into smaller tasks that can be distributed among a digitized workforce (Lehdonvirta & Ernkvist 2011, Kittur et al., 2013; Paolacci, Chandler & Ipeirotis, 2010). Today, these large scale projects can include menial tasks such as usability testing, image tagging, audio transcription and/or evaluation, and text fragment categorization. These projects also increasingly include creative and innovative tasks due to improvements in technology and organizational design. Within this technological shift, wider HR topics such as technology usage and generational issues, the role of information technology in hiring decisions, new working arrangements that have emerged as a result of these advancements, and how technology influences the way that work is structured and carried out, become increasingly relevant (Colbert, Yee & George, 2016; Stone & Deadrick, 2015).
