Call for papers: Mass collaboration and knowledge management

This article is part of a series of articles exploring the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic from a knowledge management perspective.

As we’ve discussed in previous articles exploring the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to respond quickly to the crisis has stimulated rapid innovation and efforts to speed up the production and dissemination of research knowledge.

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Organizational Analysis advise that mass collaboration technologies and solutions are also helping to shorten the COVID-19 response time, and giving more collective power to the creation, sharing, and exploitation of new knowledge for dealing with the crisis.

In response, the special issue editors are interested in reflections on best practices and lessons learned in regard to how countries, organizations, and individuals across the world are using collaboration to create, share, and exploit new knowledge.

The call for papers is currently open, and the deadline for abstract submission is 31 August 2020.

The main purpose of the special issue is to encourage reflection and debate, theoretical and applied, about mass collaboration (especially collaboration based on web technologies and solutions) and its effects on knowledge management processes in health, education, business, social, and security organizations. Over the past few years, web-based applications and solutions have emerged to encourage collaboration across international borders, opening new horizons which a few decades ago seemed impossible.

As a multidisciplinary social science journal, the International Journal of Organizational Analysis is focused on economics, business, and social implications rather than vaccine development or medical treatments.

Topics include:

• Mass collaboration and knowledge creation

• Mass collaboration and knowledge sharing

• Mass collaboration and knowledge utilization

• Mass collaboration and improving the quality of knowledge

• Barriers, critical success factors, and best practices in regard to the synthesis of mass collaboration and knowledge management in different organizations

• Leadership and trust in the synergy between mass collaboration and knowledge management

• Risk analysis in the mass collaboration and knowledge management relationship

• Ethical dilemmas in activating mass collaboration and knowledge management.

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