McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Samer Faraj's Recent Research

2023 SSHRC Insight Grants awarded

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:21:50 +0000

Congratulations to the McGill Desautels professors who received 2023 SSHRC Insight Grants.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.

Samer Faraj, Professor of Strategy & Organization, named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:10:37 +0000

Professor Samer Faraj has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Social Sciences. This honour is conferred upon Professor Faraj in recognition of his outstanding research and scholarly achievement.

Desautels researchers celebrated at Bravo 2023

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:34:01 +0000

�㽶��Ƶ hosted its annual Bravo gala on Thursday March 30, which honours its researchers and scholars who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. Amongst the distinguished honourees from McGill Desautels are Samer Faraj, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Innovation & Organizing (Distinguished Scholar Award), Warut Khern-am-nuai, Associate Professor, Information Systems (Sandra A.

Paolo Leone and Profs Mantere and Faraj's paper is Best Article Finalist

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:18:26 +0000

Congratulations to Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj, whose paper “Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies” has been named Best Article Finalist by the Academy of Management (AOM).

Prof. Faraj named CTO 2022 Distinguished Scholar

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:48:39 +0000

Congratulations to Samer Faraj, Professor in Strategy and Organization, who has been named CTO 2022 Distinguished Scholar by the Communication, Digital Technology and Organization - CTO (A Division of the Academy of Management - AOM).

Professor Samer Faraj was named the 2022 Distinguished Scholar for the Communications Digital Technology and Organization (CTO) Division at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting which took place August 5th to 9th in Seattle, Washington.

Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:44:41 +0000

Authors: Paolo V. Leone, Saku Mantere and Samer Faraj

Publication: Academy of Management Review, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 725–749.

Abstract:

Beyond Uberization: The co-constitution of technology and organizing

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:17:33 +0000

Authors: Samer Faraj, and S. Pachidi

Publication: Organization Theory, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 1-14.

Abstract:

Make Way for the Algorithms: Symbolic Actions and Change in a Regime of Knowing

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:37:39 +0000

Authors: S. Pachidi, H. Berends, Samer Faraj, and M. Huysman

Publication: Organization Science, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 18-41.

Losing Touch: An Embodiment Perspective on Coordination in Robotic Surgery

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:32:09 +0000

Authors: A.V. Sergeeva, Samer Faraj, and M. Huysman

Publication: Organization Science, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1248-1271.

Abstract:

Because new technologies allow new performances, mediations, representations, and information flows, they are often associated with changes in how coordination is achieved. Current coordination research emphasizes its situated and emergent nature, but seldom accounts for the role of embodied action. Building on a 25-month field study of the da Vinci robot, an endoscopic system for minimally invasive surgery, we bring to the fore the role of the body in how coordination was reconfigured in response to a change in technological mediation. Using the robot, surgeons experienced both an augmentation and a reduction of what they can do with their bodies in terms of haptic, visual, and auditory perception and manipulative dexterity. These bodily augmentations and reductions affected joint task performance and led to coordinative adaptations (e.g., spatial relocating, redistributing tasks, accommodating novel perceptual dependencies, and mounting novel responses) that, over time, resulted in reconfiguration of roles, including expanded occupational knowledge, emergence of new specializations, and shifts in status and boundaries. By emphasizing the importance of the body in coordination, this paper suggests that an embodiment perspective is important for explaining how and why coordination evolves following the introduction of a new technology.

Karla Sayegh Receives Best Student Paper Award for her Thesis Work at OBHC Conference

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:09:48 +0000

Karla Sayegh, PhD Student in Strategy & Organization, received the best student paper award for her thesis work at the 11th International Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference held in Montreal from May 13 –16, 2018.

A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:36:10 +0000

Authors: Srinivas Kuduravalli, Samer Faraj and Steven L. Johnson

Publication: MIS Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2017

Abstract:

Despite the recognition of how important expertise coordination is to the performance of software development teams, understanding of how expertise is coordinated in practice is limited. We adopt a configural approach to develop a theoretical model of expertise coordination that differentiates between design collaboration and technical collaboration. We propose that neither a strictly centralized, top-down model nor a largely decentralized approach is superior. Our model is tested in a field study of 71 software development teams. We conclude that because design work addresses ill-structured problems with diverse potential solutions, decentralization of design collaboration can lead to greater coordination success and reduced team conflict. Conversely, technical work benefits from centralized collaboration. We find that task knowledge tacitness strengthens these relationships between collaboration configuration and coordination outcomes and that team conflict mediates the relationships. Our findings underline the need to differentiate between technical and design collaboration and point to the importance of certain configurations in reducing team conflict and increasing coordination success in software development teams. This paper opens up new research avenues to explore the collaborative mechanisms underlying knowledge team performance.

Read full article: MIS Quarterly

Special Section Introduction—Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:57:21 +0000

Authors: Faraj, S., Krogh, G., Monteiro, E., Lakhani, K.R.

Publication: Information Systems Research

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Professor Samer Faraj and Dr Hani Safadi, PhD’14, awarded Best Published Paper 2016

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:54:58 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Samer Faraj and Dr Hani Safadi, PhD’14, on being awarded Best Published Paper 2016 by Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) for “The Emergence of Online Community Leadership".

Shots Fired! Switching Between Practices in Police Work

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:59:38 +0000

Authors: Schakel, J.K, Fenema, P.C, Faraj, S.

Publications: Organization Science

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Organizational knowledge generation: lessons from online communities

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:24:36 +0000

Authors: Zablith, F., Faraj, S., Azad, B.

Publication: Business Process Management Journal

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Leading collaboration in online communities

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:35:11 +0000

Authors: Faraj, S., Kudaravalli, S., and Wasko, M.

Publication: MIS Quarterly

The emergence of online community leadership

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:11:08 +0000

Authors: Johnson, S.L., Safadi, H., Faraj, S.

Publication: Information Systems Research

Open-source health information technology: A case study of electronic medical records

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:30:43 +0000

Authors: Hani Safadi, David Chan, Martin Dawes, Mark Roper, Samer Faraj

Publication: Health Policy and Technology

Abstract:

Making Decisions about Activity-Based Financing in Health Care: Payment Mechanisms and Policy Goals

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:38:49 +0000

Authors: Strumpf, Erin; Faraj, Samer; Verter, Vedat

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"The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:09:38 +0000

Authors: Majchrzak, Ann; Faraj, Samer; Kane, Gerald; Azad, Bijan

Publication: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Professors Faraj and Vaast's Insight Grant Ranked First by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:46:39 +0000

Desautels Professors Samer Faraj and Emmanuelle Vaast’s Insight Grant to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), entitled: "Complex Collaboration in Communities of Innovation," was ranked 1st out of 90 applications in Committee 435-3C and was awarded $189,409 in the competition year 2012-2013.

"Using signature matrix to analyze conflicting frames during the IS implementation process," International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:41:31 +0000

Authors: Azad, Bijan; Faraj, Samer

Publication: International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, June 2013

Abstract:

Designing a post-genomics knowledge ecosystem to translate pharmacogenomics into public health action

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:17:35 +0000

Authors: Dove, E.; Faraj, S.; Kolker, E.; Ozdemir, V.

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Collective theranostics and postgenomics entrepreneurship: rethinking innovations as knowledge ecosystems built by complex collaboration

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:08:51 +0000

Authors: Faraj, S.; Kolker, E.; Bevilacqua, L.; Ozdemir, V.

Getting the innovation climate right: tenets of post genomics entrepreneurship

Transcending Knowledge Differences in Cross-Functional Teams

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:05:28 +0000

Authors: Majchrzak, Ann; More, Philip; Faraj, Samer

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Professor Samer Faraj won Best Publication of 2011 Award

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:43:55 +0000

Professor Samer Faraj is the winner of the Best Publication of 2011 Award, a joint award given by the Association of Information Systems and the International Conference on Information Systems for the following article:

Faraj, S., Jarvenpaa, S. and Majchrzak, A. et al., Organization Science. “Knowledge collaboration in online communities.”

This is the biggest award in the field of Information Systems.

IT in healthcare: An integrative study of organizational change

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:16:06 +0000

Authors: Safadi, Hani; Faraj, Samer

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Partnering portfolios, value-creation logics, and growth trajectories: A comparison of Yahoo and Google (1995 to 2007)

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:01:50 +0000

Authors: Rindova, Violina P.; Yeow, Adrian Yong Kwang; Martins, Luis L.; Faraj, Samer A.

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