EMoWI 2019 - Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics

Submissions to the workshop are invited to discuss ethical and moral questions arising in the whole spectrum of topics of Business Informatics. The following suggestions provide an impression of the intended orientation of the workshop, but you are cordially invited to propose additional topics.
- Are the subjects of Business Informatics associated with specific ethical questions? If so, what is the content and nature of these questions?
- The subjects in Business Informatics typically are intangible. Does this raise a need for specific procedures to justify proper conduct of Business Informatics research?
- Do (research) methods in Business Informatics involve specific value statements or Weltanschauungen? Is it possible to assume the possibility of value-free statements in Business Informatics?
- Are certain species of moral philosophies (e. g., deontologist or consequentialist moral theories) especially relevant for Business Informatics? Do typical decision models in Business Informatics implicate the basic principles of specific moral theories (e. g., consequentialism)?
- What is he role of models in Business Informatics? Can models be considered ethically neutral, or do they necessarily entail specific moral presuppositions?
- What kind of statements could a „Code of Ethics“ for Business Informatics professionals include (as opposed to the “Code of Ethics” of ACM)?
- Is it possible to formulate accessible „Dos” and “Don’ts” as guidelines for Business Informatics professionals?
- What experiences in relation to ethical questions were made in previous Business Informatics research projects?
- What initiatives concerning ethical values in Business Informatics do already exist in academia and industry? What are the results of these initiatives?
- Are ethical topics considered in Business Informatics curriculums at different universities globally?
- ...and many more.
The workshop invites submissions that discuss actions or principles of actions as manifested in methodological assumptions and commitments in Business Informatics from an ethical point of view. This also includes experience reports about concrete projects in academia and industry where questions about right and wrong conduct played a significant role. Submissions are both invited to raise questions and to report about situations where questions have already been answered in specific ways. Philosophical methods of inquiry are welcome, but not required.
The workshop’s primary language is German, but submissions in English are invited as well. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. Accepted submissions must be presented by at least one author at the workshop. The results of the workshop will be presented at the conference dinner and they will be published as part of the conference proceedings.
The maximum page number of submissions is 10 pages (including title, abstract, bibliography, appendixes, author names and affiliations and acknowledgements). Short papers with a size up to 4 pages are also welcome. The abstract should not exceed 150 words. Keywords are optional. Additional information on submission requirements and the conference MS Word paper template are available at: http://wi2019.de/call-for-papers/, under „Format“.
Please upload your submission at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi19.