We are delighted to invite you to the 11th International Workshop and Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’25) that will be held at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia.
STPIS is a Workshop and Conference that focuses on the importance of Socio-Technical perspective in practice and research. A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as a combination of two components – a social and a technical one. The real pattern of behaviour in the organization is determined by how well these parts fit each other.
While analysing systemic problems of getting things done, adequate consideration should be given to technology as well as informal and formal interactions of people.
Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the IS as well as the organizational discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on Organizational Change and Excellence, IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g., market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that the social-technical perspective continues to be highly relevant in Information Systems, Cybersecurity as well as Organizational Research, practice and teaching.
STPIS is a long-standing professional and academic workshop and conference, held annually for 10 years, dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of Sociotechnical Approaches in the fields of Information Systems, Organizational and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management, Cybersecurity, including Systems Sciences and Cybernetics. The conference provides a forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share insights, explore new approaches, and discuss the challenges and innovations in Sociotechnical Practices.
We invite contributions for Professional Practices, Industrial Research and Practices, Academic Research, Case Studies and work-in-progress/posters are also welcome. PhD and PG Research, proposals for roundtable discussions as well as professional and practitioner oriented non-academic contributions. Papers accepted for the workshop and conference will be published in the STPIS proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. Papers that have been presented at the workshop will also be considered for further development and publication in the Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly Journal. More information about the journal is on: https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv
The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in organizational system development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a meeting place for the community of researchers and practitioners interested in the socio-technical approach.
The workshop will take place over two days. We will focus on engaging academics, researchers and practitioners through a keynote presentation and discussion, paper presentations, and panel discussion. There will be time to network with scholars using socio-technical approaches in information systems research and stimulate discourse to build collaborations.
In collaboration with Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE): https://cepe2025.uniroma2.it/