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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011)
August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA
Track: Design Science
Mini-track: Researcher-Practitioner
Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer
DESCRIPTION
The Information Systems (IS) research community is discussing the
relevance
of its results. The transfer of principles of design sciences from
other
domains, such as engineering, to IS research is considered a
promising
way of addressing the issue appropriately. Design Science Research
(DSR)
aims at delivering research results which are of scientific rigor
and of
practical relevance at the same time. An integral part of DSR is
the identification
and description of a relevant practical problem and the evaluation
of design
artifacts. To perform these tasks, the design-oriented IS
researcher has
to rely on intensive knowledge transfer from practitioners to
research
and vice-versa. However, existing research provides only little
guidance
and support for facilitating and ensuring the required transfer of
knowledge.
The Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), for example, says
that
resources required for this activity would "include knowledge of
the
state of the problem and the importance of its solution", but does
not specify this any further.
This mini-track addresses this gap and aims at giving a forum for
original
and rigorously conducted research in the following (not
conclusive) list
of areas:
* Methods and approaches for researcher-practitioner collaboration
* Measures for success of researcher-practitioner collaboration
* Required skills and competencies in industry and academia
* Organizational design for researcher-practitioner collaboration
* Funding researcher-practitioner collaboration
* Obstacles and boundaries of researcher-practitioner
collaboration
* "Stakeholder" management in researcher-practitioner
collaboration
* DSR and knowledge management
* Researcher-practitioner collaboration and project management
* Theories for explaining the transfer of knowledge in
researcher-practitioner
collaboration
* Methods and techniques supporting and ensuring the transfer of
knowledge
* Knowledge transfer in proven approaches such as "Engaged
Scholarship",
"Living Labs", and "Collaborative Practice Research"
* Case studies and applications
PAPER SUBMISSION
Please submit papers via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2011
Author notification: April 4, 2011
Final copy due: April 25, 2011
MINI-TRACK CHAIR
Boris Otto
Assistant Professor & Head of Competence Center Corporate Data
Quality
University of St. Gallen, Institute of Information Management
Visiting Research Fellow
Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth
E-mail: Boris.Otto@unisg.ch
Tel.: +1-603-646-8991