Best 2007 Published Paper Award
Paul Hart, 2008 Division Chair-Elect

Each year the Division gives an award to the best paper authored or co-authored by an OCIS Division member and published during the previous year.  This year we identified over 85 articles published by OCIS members and four of these were nominated by the membership.  The following are three of the papers nominated followed by the paper that won the award.

Nominated Papers

• Espinosa, J., Slaughter, S., Kraut, R., and Herbsleb, J.  (2007)  Familiarity, complexity, and team performance in geographically distributed software development.  Organization Science 18(4).
• Leonardi, P.  (2007).  Activating the informational capabilities of information technology for organizational change.  Organization Science 18(5).
• O’Leary, M. and Cummings, J. (2007).  The spatial, temporal, and configurational characteristics of geographic dispersion in teams.   MIS Quarterly 31(3).

Best Published Paper of 2007 Award

Boland, R., Lyytinen, K., and Yoo, Y. (2007).  Wakes of innovation in project networks:  The case of digital 3-D representations in architecture, engineering, and construction.  Organization Science 18(4).