17 novembre - Questionnaire en ligne

Les allers-retours m'ont pris presque un mois jusqu'à ce que je sois enfin capable de poster le questionnaire en ligne et de l'envoyer en pré-test.

Maintenant, c'est fait, gràce aux efforts combinés des collègues de PPM.

Voici le courriel du pré-test

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Dear colleagues and friends,

you have been kind enough to accept my invitation to answer to a questionnaire in the framework of my DBA. As most of you already know (thanks to the doctoral seminars for several of you), my research focuses on e-mail, and more precisely on friendly spam.

I have defined friendly spam as unsolicited e-mail originated by "friendly" sources, e.g. by sources that can't be properly filtered by spam filters. In the professional environment, these sources include co-workers, supervisors, supervisees, partners, etc.

With this questionnaire, I am trying to evaluate how organizations answer, at the policy level, to the following questions:

1) How do organizations address the issue of the impact of the usage of electronic communications on their employees' work/life balance?
2) How do organizations manage, at a policy level, the usage of electronic communications in the professional environment.

By providing input to this questionnaire, both by answering to it on-line and by providing me with your direct feedback, you will help me finalizing the questionnaire and fine-tuning the questions. This pre-test is in my view a significant milestone in the preparation of the final questionnaire, which will be distributed early December to 500+ organizations in the ICT sector.

I am therefore already extremely thankful to all of you who have accepted to contribute to my research. I also seize this opportunity to thank (and congratulate!) the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is hosting this on-line survey, as well as the colleagues of my team, who are contributing to this work.

The questionnaire is available at this url:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/CDS/gq/generic/questionnaire.asp...

It goes without saying that your input will remain confidential.

You may note that, with a view to separating the different roles of my compound identity (!), I have created a specific e-mail account for my DBA research. Please be kind enough to use this address for all issues in relation with this questionnaire.

Once again, I thank you very much.

With my best regards,

Fernando Lagraña
Research Fellow, Grenoble Ecole of Management

19 octobre - Questionnaire

Annalyse des politiques d'entreprise en matière d'équilibre vie professionnelle/vie privée (work/life balance)

Aujourd'hui, j'ai envoyé le premier projet de questionnaire à Vincent. L'objectif, le transmettre asap à 300 membres du secteur D pour avoir leur avis. 100 réponses devraient permettre d'obtenir des résultats fiables.

Document de référence: Questionnaire_E.doc

 

5 octobre - TELECOM

Cette semaine, pas de cours, à cause de TELECOM. Mes étudiants auront pour mission de me trouver à Palexpo. Au moins, cela me prouvera qu'ils sont passés !

5 septembre 2009

Envoie du chapitre final à l'éditeur, Daniel Palmer, après intégration des commentaires et corrections dans le manuscrit.

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Dear Daniel,

I am pleased to inform you that I finalized the review of the paper according to the comments I received for the reviewers and from yourself and you will find attached the final version. First of all, I would reiterate my thanks to yourself and to the reviewers for their kind support and guidance. You have help strengthen the impact of the document, its clarity and focus.

I addressed the comments received in two steps:

- for those comments which were inserted with revision marks and notes within the text itself, I clarified or corrected according to your comments and those of the reviewers.
- for those comments which were provided separately, as part of the Chapter Evaluation, I did a specific work to address all of them.

For this second group of comments, please find hereunder some specific responses:

The author uses several definitions and ideas in the introduction and background section but does not adequately cite the literature. For instance, email is defined under email structure yet no source is provided as to where that technical definition comes from.

- I have completed the introduction as well as the definition of e-mail. I have completed the list of references accordingly.

More information on some of the other types of issues explored in e-business would be informative. The author refers to “ Previous research on ethical issues in e-business mainly addresses the relation of e-businesses with their external environment” (p.2) Including some of the literature that the author is referring to would strengthen this area.

- I have completed the litterature review as to be in line with this comment.

Table 2 provides a nice “at a glance’ overview of the actions and organizational consequences with email misuse. This table should be better labeled – clearly explaining what the horizontal and vertical column headers represent.

- I have reviewed the labeling of the table, and provided an explanation of its content.

The author states in the opening that “three specific avenues are explored: modernity and communication with the “absent other”, the right of privacy, and information overload.” When these are introduced later in the chapter, they should be given some type of introduction to let the reader know that these are the three areas of exploration. Otherwise, they get lost in with the other ideas.

- The various headings as well as the introduction to this section have been reviewed accordingly, so that the reader can follow more easily and doesn't get lost.

- I have also taken good note of the references to sociatechnical theory and I thank the reviewers for these elements. I should be using them for my further research.

- I have also considered the addition of a table comparing e-mail to traditional media. However, I finally decided not to include it in this paper, since this would have requested further restructuring of the chapter. I'll neverthelss use this advice in future work.

I hope the attached paper will correspond to your expectations. Please feel free to come back to me.

Best regards,

Fernando Lagraña

Research Fellow, Grenoble Graduate School of Business

Adjunct Professor, Webster University

Pièce jointe : ChapterRevisions1&FL.doc

11 août 2009 - Lettre de confirmation

Daniel Palmer avait oublié de m'envoyer la lettre officielle d'approbation...

AcceptanceLetter.doc

11 août 2009 - Chapitre approuvé !

Le chapitre a été approuvé ! Je vais être publié !

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Dear Fernando,

I am happy to let you know that your paper has been accepted, with minor revisions, for final inclusion in the volume Ethical Issues in E-Business.  I am including, with this e-mail a formal acceptance letter, as well as a page that includes the comments of the reviewers (I have combined them) and a marked-up version of the paper that includes comments and revisions by the reviewers, along with my own comments and requested revisions (some of these were just small grammatical issues, others are slightly more substantial).  If you would carefully review both of these documents and address the issues requested by the reviewers and myself and revise your paper accordingly in preparing your final version for publication, it would be greatly appreciated.  If you have any questions about the comments or what not, feel free to contact me at any point in the process, as I would be happy to help you prepare the final version of your paper.  Ideally, it would be nice to have the revised version of your paper back within three weeks (roughly around the end of August), though I can allow some extra time if there are any specific issues- just let me know if you need more time so that I can build it into my time frame.  Since the revisions called for are fairly minor, I think you should be able to respond to them fairly quickly, but again, if there are any questions or problems just let me know.  I would also appreciate your letting me know that you received this e-mail and the attached documents, since as we get closer to the publishers deadlines, I want to make sure all information has been received.  Finally, I will be sending you some information that you will need to prepare your final submission (after the final revisions are done) for the publisher shortly, which you will need to read carefully in preparing your final submission packet. Again, I am happy that we are able to include your paper in our volume, and look forward to receiving the final version.

Sincerely,

Daniel Palmer
Editor, Ethical Issues in E-Business

Pièces jointes :

ChapterRevisions1.doc

ReviewerCommentsSummarized.doc

26 juin - Session poster

Nous sommes tous conviés à une session de posters. Voici les miens :

Spam&BoundariesPoster1.doc

Spam&BoundariesPoster2.doc

Spam&BoundariesPoster3.doc

Spam&BoundariesPoster4.doc

Spam&BoundariesPoster5.doc

 

26 juin - Séminaire Webster

Nouveau séminaire à Genève, cette fois pour traiter de l'analyse quantitative.

Je suis avec le plus d'attention possible, sachant que je devrais, au moins en partie, utiliser cette méthode (interviews...)

Je  présente une nouvelle question, car Benoit est venu évaluer notre progression. Nous devons tous présenter nos travaux.

Document de référence : Spam&Boundaries.doc

4 juin 2009

Discussion avec VMM. Il m'envoie toute une série de documents à parcourir, afin de déterminer "avec qui je souhaite engager une conversation (académique)".

L'approche qui me convient le plus est celle de Blake E. Ashforth: All in Day's Work: Boundaries and Micro Role Transitions.

Document de référence : ART105-AhshforthKreinerFugate2000.pdf

20 mai - Nouvelle approche

Me voici donc avec un nouveau superviseur, Vincent Mangematin (un nom de la Nièvre, et non du Canada !). Son profil est impressionant, il publie beaucoup.

Nous avons discuté via VoIP et nous avons défini un nouvel axe de recherche (quoique toujours centré sur le e-mail), qui est celui des micro-transitions entre les rôles (fonctionnels) qui définissent notre personnalité. Cela devrait nous permettre d'affiner la question de la perception des mails reçus. Quand un mail est-il perçu comme un spam ? Conflit de rôle, de lieu, de temps ?

À suivre...