Business & Economics

Dr Simeon Vidolov

BA, MSc, PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer - Contract Type B
College of Business, Public Policy & Law
University of Galway
E: Simeon.Vidolov@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Simeon is an assistant professor in Business Information Systems (BIS) at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, University of Galway. Prior to this, Simeon lectured at University College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He also held positions as a Research Scientist at University College Dublin and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster in Germany, where he served as Managing Director of the Competence Centre for Smarter Work between 2015 and 2020. Previously, Simeon was a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral fellow at LaSalle (Ramon Llull University) in Barcelona. For his PhD studies, he was awarded the Ad Astra Scholarship at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin, where he also worked as a post-doctoral researcher.

Simeon has held various roles within the academic community, including track chair, associate editor, and program committee member for conferences such as ECIS, ICIS, HICSS, and IFIP 8.2. He has also organized multiple editions of the Quadrangular Post-Graduate Conference and the NITIM PhD Schools, in addition to serving as a Board member of NITIM. Simeon is a frequent reviewer for premier IS and Management journals such as MISQ, JIT, and Management Learning.

Research Interests

Simeon's research, teaching and consulting interests center on critical study of the relationship between technology and organizations that shape contemporary modes of working, collaborating and managing. He has worked with various organizations and communities in research areas including:

- digital innovation and organizational change
- critical data and AI studies
- virtual and distributed forms of working and organizing
- critical approaches to project work and management
- communal practices of leadership and entrepreneurship
- organizational and inter-organizational communication and conflicts
- embodiment and affectivity in new modes of working

Simeon employs a diverse array of methodological approaches in his work, ranging from granular ethnographic to quantitative analytic methods. Additionally, he is a certified facilitator of Lego Serious Play and Design Thinking methodologies, which he applies in his work with different organizations and teams to promote change in thinking, speaking, and acting.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack' Vidolov, S and Geiger, S and Stendahl, E (2023) 'Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack'. Organization Studies, 44 (9):1413-1438 [DOI] [Details]
	(2023)	'Affective resonance and durability in political organizing: The case of patients who hack' Vidolov, S and Geiger, S and Stendahl, E (2023) 'Affective resonance and durability in political organizing: The case of patients who hack'. Organization Studies, [Details]
	(2022)	'Uncovering the affective affordances of videoconference technologies' Vidolov, S (2022) 'Uncovering the affective affordances of videoconference technologies'. Information Technology and People, 35 (6):1782-1803 [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Virtual collaboration as co-enacting intercorporeality' Simeon P Vidolov (2022) 'Virtual collaboration as co-enacting intercorporeality'. European Journal of Information Systems, :1-23 [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic' Zimmermann, BM and Wagenaar, H and Kieslich, K and Prainsack, B and Meyers, G and Buyx, A and El-Sayed, S and Fiske, A and Galasso, I and Geiger, S and Hangel, N and Horn, R and Johnson, S and Kuiper, JML and Lucivero, F and McLennan, S and Paul, KT and Pot, M and Radhuber, I and Samuel, G and Sharon, T and Siffels, L and Van Hoyweghen, I and Awad, S and Bourgeron, T and Eichinger, J and Gaille, M and Haddad, C and Hayes, S and Hoffman, A and Jasser, M and Kenens, J and Lanzing, M and Libert, S and Lievevrouw, E and Marelli, L and Ongolly, F and Phillips, A and Pinel, C and Riesinger, K and Roberts, S and Saxinger, G and Schlogl, L and SchÃ¶nweitz, F and Sierawska, A and Spahl, W and Stendahl, E and Vanstreels, S and Vidolov, S and Weiss, E (2022) 'Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic'. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	'Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy' Kelly, S., Noonan, C., & Vidolov, S. (2016) 'Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy' In: Exploring a Neo-Institutional Approach To Policy Research: The Politics of the Emergence of a Field of Science, Technology and Innovation in Ireland. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]
	(2014)	'Collaborative Re-orderings in Humanitarian Aid Networks' Vidolov, S. (2014) 'Collaborative Re-orderings in Humanitarian Aid Networks' In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Toulouse, France: Springer Link. [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2025)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vieru, D and Vidolov, S and Westergren, U (2025) Introduction to the Minitrack on Socio-technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
	(2024)	*57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Westergren, U. H., Vieru, D., Plugge, A., Vidolov, S. (2024) Introduction to the Minitrack on Socio-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
	(2023)	*EGOS Annual Colloquium* Vidolov, S and Geiger, S (2023) Lineology of commoning: Following the emergence of commoning lifelines in co-responsive flows of communal interactions EGOS Annual Colloquium [Details]
	(2023)	*EGOS Annual Colloquium* Kavanagh, D and Friedman, A and Klein, S and Kelly, S and Ryle, F and Vidolov, S (2023) Democratic planning on large projects: co-creating a parliament with things EGOS Annual Colloquium [Details]
	(2022)	*International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, 11 Dec 2022 - 14 Dec 2022* Vidolov, S and Stendahl, E and Geiger, S (2022) Emergent Leadership in Online Communities: An Interactive Process of Coinfluencing International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, 11 Dec 2022 - 14 Dec 2022 [Details]
	(2022)	*EGOS Annual Colloquium* Kavanagh, D and Friedman, A and Klein, S and Nicolau, M and Ryle, F and Vidolov, S (2022) Making new ways of making new things EGOS Annual Colloquium [Details]
	(2021)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vieru, D and Westergren, UH and Vidolov, S (2021) Introduction to the social-technical issues in organizational information technologies minitrack organizational systems and technology track HICSS-54 Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , pp.6420-6421 [Details]
	(2021)	*XII International Symposium on Process, Rhodes, Greece* Vidolov, S and Stendahl, E and Geiger, S (2021) Organizationality as affective economy: The role of affect in organizing and sustaining online communities XII International Symposium on Process, Rhodes, Greece [Details]
	(2021)	*EGOS Annual Colloquium* Vidolov, S and Geiger, S (2021) Uncovering the incipient becomings of (digital) social movements: The example of health data privacy activism EGOS Annual Colloquium [Details]
	(2021)	*First Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies (PHILOS), Rhodes, Greece* Vidolov, S (2021) The flesh of ambiguity First Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies (PHILOS), Rhodes, Greece [Details]
	(2021)	*International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2020 - Making Digital Inclusive: Blending the Local and the Global* Vidolov, S and Kelly, S and Noonan, C (2021) Project management as skilful performance: Animating and enchanting collaborative work in distributed projects International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2020 - Making Digital Inclusive: Blending the Local and the Global [Details]
	(2020)	*IFIP 8.2 + IFIP 9.4 + IFIP 9.1 Conference, India, Islamabad* Kim, S and Choi, H and Vidolov, S and Jungwoo, L (2020) Non-verbal Communication on the Web: Digital Gestures IFIP 8.2 + IFIP 9.4 + IFIP 9.1 Conference, India, Islamabad [Details]
	(2020)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vieru, D and Vidolov, S and Westergren, U (2020) Introduction to the Minitrack on Social-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
	(2020)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vieru, D and Westergren, UH and Vidolov, S (2020) Introduction to the social-technical issues in organizational information technologies minitrack Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
	(2020)	*4S Annual Meeting, Prague, 18 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2020* Vidolov, S and Stendahl, E and Geiger, S (2020) Hybridity and Fluidity in Crowd Organizing in Biomedicine 4S Annual Meeting, Prague, 18 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2020 [Details]
	(2020)	*European Conference of Information Systems* Vidolov, S and Thapa, R (2020) Evaluating Distributed Leadership in Open Source Software Communities European Conference of Information Systems [Details]
	(2019)	*The 14th Global Sourcing Workshop, Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria* Higgins, A and Ennis, PJ and Vidolov, S and Higgins, C and Beregszaszi, A (2019) Working in the dao: understanding how nomadic remote workers perform design-at-a-distance in site-less decentralised organisations The 14th Global Sourcing Workshop, Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria [Details]
	(2019)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vidolov, S and Sabou, J and Mitev, N (2019) Trust development in networked environments: A performative account Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , pp.5787-5796 [Details]
	(2019)	*Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vidolov, S and Vidolov, I (2019) Understanding Virtual Embodiment: A Phenomenological Lens Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	*EGOS Annual Colloquium* Vidolov, S (2019) Examining power dynamics in distributed inter-organisational settings EGOS Annual Colloquium [Details]
	(2019)	*Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* Vidolov, S and Vidolov, I (2019) Understanding Virtual Embodiment: A Phenomenological Lens Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [Details]
	(2019)	*Eleventh International Symposium on Process Organisation Studies* Vidolov, S and Marton, A and Sabou, J (2019) Post-humanist account of trust(ing) in networked environment Eleventh International Symposium on Process Organisation Studies [Details]
	(2018)	*ECIS Workshop* Vidolov, S. & Klein, S. (2018) Materializing collaborative ideation with Lego ECIS Workshop [Details]
	(2018)	*Academy of Management Proceedings, Chicago* Vidolov, S (2018) Virtual Interactions as Intercorporeal Engagements Academy of Management Proceedings, Chicago , pp.16996-16996 [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	*IFIP 8.2, San Francisco* Klein, S., Ngwenyama, O., Vidolov, S. (2018) Monstrous `matterings¿ of Academic Publishers: The Story of Elsevier IFIP 8.2, San Francisco [Details]
	(2016)	*32nd EGOS Colloquium* Vidolov, S and Sabou, J (2016) Unpacking trust development in networked environments 32nd EGOS Colloquium [Details]
	(2016)	*ISCRAM* Vidolov, S and Sabou, J (2016) An analysis on the role of trust in digital humanitarian actor networks ISCRAM [Details]
	(2016)	*ISCRAM* Kumar, A and Vidolov, S (2016) Humanitarian effectiveness: Reconsidering the ethics of community engagement and the role of technology ISCRAM [Details]
	(2016)	*Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference* Kumar, A and Vidolov, S (2016) Humanitarian effectiveness: Reconsidering the ethics of community engagement and the role of technology Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference [Details]
	(2015)	*Seventh International Symposium on Process Organization Studies* Kelly S, Noonan C, Vidolov S (2015) Collaboration as Skillful Performance: Animating and enchanting collaborative work Seventh International Symposium on Process Organization Studies [Details]
	(2014)	*MKWI* Vidolov, S and Miralles, F (2014) An Exploratory Study of Crisis Response Configurations from a Sociomateriality Perspective MKWI [Details]
	(2014)	*2014 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation: Engineering Responsible Innovation in Products and Services, ICE 2014* Vidolov, S (2014) Network innovation in humanitarian affairs 2014 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation: Engineering Responsible Innovation in Products and Services, ICE 2014 [Details]
	(2012)	*Making Projects Critical 6* Vidolov, S, Kelly S, Noonan C (2012) Unpacking the 'affective' dimension of project work and its management Making Projects Critical 6 [Details]
	(2010)	*The Fourth Information Systems Workshop on Global Sourcing* Kelly S, Noonan C, Vidolov S (2010) Facilitating Productive Distributed Communication in Offshore Software Development: The role of Articulation Work and 'Senseshaping' The Fourth Information Systems Workshop on Global Sourcing [Details]
	(2009)	*Quadrangular Conference in Technology, Organizations & Society 2009: Identity, Policy and Innovation in the Information Society, Cambridge* Vidolov, S. (2009) Global Software Work: Towards a Novel Conceptualization of Distributed Communication' Quadrangular Conference in Technology, Organizations & Society 2009: Identity, Policy and Innovation in the Information Society, Cambridge [Details]
	(2009)	*ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems* Vidolov, S and Kelly, S (2009) Distributed communication as collective sociomaterial sensemaking in global software work ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems [Details]
	(2008)	*IFIP International Federation for Information Processing* Higgins, A and Vidolov, S and FrÃ¶ÃŸler, F and Mullaney, D (2008) Xenia: A metaphor for sense-making and acting in information systems innovation IFIP International Federation for Information Processing , pp.197-209 [Details]
	(2008)	*ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems* Higgins, A and Vidolov, S and FrÃ¶ÃŸler, F (2008) Hospitality analysis of is innovation ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems [Details]
	(2007)	*10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW)* Vidolov, S. (2007) Global Software Development: A Relational Perspective 10th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) [Details]
	(2007)	*Triangular Postgraduate Conference Changes and Challenges for Contemporary Organisations* Vidolov, S. (2007) Global Software Development: The Challenge of Distributed Collaboration Triangular Postgraduate Conference Changes and Challenges for Contemporary Organisations [Details]
	(2006)	*Irish Academy of Management (IAM)* Vidolov, S. (2006) Basic Assumptions in Global Software Development Irish Academy of Management (IAM) [Details]

Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
		Organization Studies Summer Workshop, Vidolov, S Performing virtual intracorporeality: new modes of displaying. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Organization Studies Summer Workshop, Greece . [Details]

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	(2011)	Understanding and managing distributed collaboration in global software work projects: a praxiological perspective (Style, Moods, Momentum and Artefacts). Vidolov, S. (2011) Understanding and managing distributed collaboration in global software work projects: a praxiological perspective (Style, Moods, Momentum and Artefacts). Thesis [Details]

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2024	Best Associate Editor Award	European Conference of Information Systems
2007	AdAstra Scholarship	University College Dublin
2006	Open Post-graduate Scholarship	University College Dublin

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
AIS	Member	/
EGOS	Member	/
AOM	Member	/

Other Activities

	Description
	Track chair - Socio-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies. 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025
	Track chair - Business Technology track, Irish Academy of Management, 2024
	AE - Digital Transformation track, 2025 European Conference for Information Systems
	AE - Track 14 \| (e)Sports, Gaming, and the Metaverse, 2024 European Conference for Information Systems
	Track chair - Socio-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies. 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024