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Subject: [AISWorld] JAIS Special Issue CFP: The Role of
Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:46:50 +0000
From: Whelan, Eoin <eoin.whelan(a)nuigalway.ie>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue
/Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)/
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*The Role of Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation*
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*SPECIAL ISSUE CO-EDITORS**
Eoin Whelan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
eoin.whelan(a)nuigalway.ie <mailto:eoin.whelan@nuigalway.ie>
Kieran Conboy, University of New South Wales, Australia
k.conboy(a)unsw.edu.au <mailto:k.conboy@unsw.edu.au>
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA crowston(a)syr.edu
<mailto:crowston@syr.edu>
Lorraine Morgan, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland
Lorraine.morgan(a)ul.ie <mailto:Lorraine.morgan@ul.ie>
Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
matti.rossi(a)aalto.fi <mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>
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The concept of open innovation advocates that in today?s
increasingly boundary free world, organizations should seek
to exploit inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate
internal innovation, and expand themarkets for external use
of innovation (Chesbrough 2003). This open model of
innovation challenges the traditional closed view, where
invention and design is restricted to internal resources.
Indeed, the past decade has witnessed a flurry of
experimentation with different styles of open innovation in
industries as diverse as consumer goods, semi-conductors,
automotive engineering, and software engineering. IS has
played a prominent role in creating the necessity for, and
the implementation of, open innovation models. For example,
the convergence of cheap personal computers, fiber optic
cable, and powerful workflow software has been attributed to
the ?flattening? of the planet and the rise in global
collaboration (Friedman 2006). Major corporations like IBM,
GE, Boeing, and Proctor & Gamble have integrated online
crowdsourcing platforms as part of their open innovation
programs. Likewise, the open source software movement is
also often viewed as a role model for openinnovation.
Yet, open innovation theory is not without controversy.
Mowery (2009) questions whether open innovation is actually
a new theory of innovation while Groen and Linton (2010)
suggest that the conceptitself is a communication barrier to
theory development. Trott and Hartman (2009) are even more
forceful and argue that Chesbrough creates a false dichotomy
by claiming that open innovation is the only alternative to
a closed innovation model.
While open innovation may be a growing trend, it is clear
that better theory is needed in order to extract the
potential value it offers. IS has much to contribute to the
development of this theory due to the pivotal role of
digital technologies in enabling open innovation
initiatives. However, the IS field has so far taken a very
narrow perception of this important business paradigm.
Within the open innovation movement, IS scholars have
primarily directed their attention towards the Free/Libre
Open Source Software (FLOSS) phenomenon (von Hippel and von
Krogh 2003). While IS research has aided in refining and
extending open innovation theory, through investigations of
crowdsourcing platforms (Di Gangi and Wasko 2009; Leimeister
2009), web-enabled innovation brokers (Whelan et al. 2012),
proprietary knowledge leakage (Teigland and Wasko 2003),
open IS development (Conboy and Morgan 2011), and IT?s
contribution to absorptive capacity (Chatterjee et al. 2002;
Chircu and Kauffman 2000), studies in this vein have been
sporadic over the past decade.
As open innovation is rapidly gaining importance in research
and practice, new questions and challenges arise that
require a deeper understanding of these phenomena from an IS
perspective. There is much that has yet to be understood
about the role of IS in enabling open innovation, and the
implications of open innovation movement on the various
aspects of the IS discipline.The aim of this special issue
is to expandand advance the state of open innovation
research within the IS field, highlighting work that makes
significant theoretical and empirical advances to our
understanding of IT enabled open innovation.
*Example topics for the special issue*
Papers are invited for the special issue on any topic
related to the role of IS in enabling open innovation.
Papers should be theory-driven or theory-building, with
clear implications for further research and practice.
Example topics include:
·IS enabled open innovation models
·Open innovation in services and the enablement role of IS,
and particularly cloud computing
·The application of social capital, social network, and
value creation theories to open innovation communities
·Alignment of IS and open innovation models
·IS case studies that describe the implementation of open
innovation in organizational settings
·Open innovation/co-creation through digital enabled social
networks
·Open principles in information systems development e.g.
distributed environments, intra and inter-organizational
development
·The translation of FLOSS best practice to the non-software
realm
·Use of ICT in inter-organizational innovation systems
·Technology scouting and the role of social media
·The intersection of knowledge management and open innovation
·The role of IS in closed innovation, and the evolution from
closed to open
·Assessing organizational boundaries in open innovation
networking
·Knowledge leakage and other legal issues in open innovation
communities
·Globally Distributed open innovation teams
·Issues for R&D and IT departments in implementing open
collaboration systems .
*Important dates*
Initial submissions of full papers: 5^th August 2013
Reviews sent to authors: 2^nd December 2013
Workshop: 16^th December 2013 at ICIS (for papers through to
2^nd round)
Revised papers from authors due: 31^st March 2014
Decision notification: 30^th June 2014
Final papers due: 25^th August 2014
Publication (anticipated): November 2014
*Editorial review board*
Göran Goldkuhl, Linkoping University, Sweden
Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein
Jason Thatcher, Clemons University, USA
Jeremy Hayes, University College Cork, Ireland
Joe Feller, University College Cork, Ireland
Karl-Heinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Pat Finnegan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Paul DiGangi, Loyola University, USA
Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Salvatore Parise, Babson College, USA
Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University, USA
Xiaofeng Wang, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dr. Eoin Whelan
Lecturer, Business Information Systems Group
J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics
National University of Ireland Galway
Ireland
t. +353 (0)91 494224
e. eoin.whelan(a)nuigalway.ie