Nowadays, 4.0 stands for the new means of the information and knowledge storage and transfer – like Bid Data, Internet of Things, Internet of Services; new concepts and life style like Economies of sharing, co-working spaces, self-organized working teams, HR systems built around competences instead of job descriptions, etc. We already have entered the new era of networks, transparency, mobility, uncertainty, velocity multitasking and diffusion of private and public spheres. How should we live with it? It is proven that human brain was not built for multitasking and constant attention distractions. In times when knowledge is the main commodity many facts are counter intuitive – there are almost no linear relations in social sciences and normal distribution statistics are not working properly to explain wealth variation or start up growth. Those tens of thousands of years in which human brain has developed until now were much different from what we are experiencing in the last decade, which imposes enormous number of research questions in all fields of science.

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On the other hand, although means of communication are changing along with our physical environment and electronic or nano or whatever devices we use, the human nature and basic assumptions are intact. Or are they? Basic virtues needed for happy life stated in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle do sound up to date like never before. Many newest management theories are based on well known, old statements dated back to antient times.

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Futurists are proposing that at least half of professions will disappear in the next 50 years due to the new technologies. All routine works will be done by robots, so human will be able to do the fun part, being creative and inspirational. Are we ready to it? When social networks make people and organizations so visible to the public, when workforce becomes too educated to take for granted many organizational values that were not questioned before, when basic function of universities as knowledge centres has switched to entrepreneurship and innovation boosters, how should we address those changes?

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All previous ISSWOV conferences were devoted to actual topics related to organizational science and forthcoming conference at the University of Trieste is continuing this tradition. We encourage scholars to submit papers on a wide range of topics, from the micro level of individual work to the macro level of societal organisation. As in the previous conferences the main sub-topics are related (but not limited to) ethics, leadership, work-family conflict, cross-cultural perspectives, motivation, human resource management, diversity management, corporate governance, and organizational culture.

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Moreover, this time we will be happy to welcome topics on issues that have recently gained major public and academic interest, such as artificial intelligence, behavioural economics, big data, refugee integration, management of creative and knowledge professionals, corporate governance, future of organizational structures and other “hot topics” connected to organizational studies. And, as always in ISSWOV conferences, the submitted texts will be considered for publication in a book or in special issues of leading journals.

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Paper selection process consists in a blind peer review process to ensure high standards of scholarship. Submissions and registrations will be handled electronically via ConfTool.

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https://www.conftool.com/isswov2018/

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We welcome contributions as:

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• Papers (250 words abstract)

• Symposia (500 words abstract; 3-6 contributions; min. 3 countries)

• Posters (250 words abstract)

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Abstracts should be sent by 10 January 2018.

Acceptance will be notified by 26 February 2018.

Full papers should be sent by 15 May 2018 (full papers submission is optional).

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Scientific Chair, Dr. Ilona Baumane-Vitolina, University of Latvia