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Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers (Reminder): Pre-ICIS Workshop on Sports Digitalization (Deadline October 10th, 2019)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:55:09 +0000
From: Xiao Xiao <xx.digi@cbs.dk>
To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org>


Pre-ICIS Workshop, Munich, Germany
Sports Digitalization: A New Game for IS

Workshop Committee:
Xiao Xiao, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark xx.digi@cbs.dk<mailto:xx.digi@cbs.dk>
Felix Tan, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, f.tan@unsw.edu.au<mailto:f.tan@unsw.edu.au>
Jonas Hedman, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark jhe.digi@cbs.dk<mailto:jhe.digi@cbs.dk>

Important Dates:
Short Paper Submission deadline: October 10th, 2019
Acceptance notification: October 25th, 2019
Workshop: December 14th, 2019, 1pm- 5pm, Location TBA

Workshop Description:
Ever since its first manifesto in Greece around 3000 years ago, sports as a field has accumulated a long history with strong traditions while at the same time, gone through tremendous changes toward professionalization and commercialization. The current waves of digitalization have intensified its evolution, as digital technologies are increasingly entrenched in a wide range of sporting activities and for applications beyond mere performance enhancement.
Though the use of digital tools in sports can be traced back to Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” where Billy Bean, the head coach of Oakland Athletics, deployed analytics to make decisions regarding the composition of the team, nowadays digitalization in sports settings goes beyond data analytics, and expands to areas such as organizing and managing sports teams and their stakeholders, accessing and interpreting sports information, inventing new instruments and strategies that would not be possible otherwise. Further, digitalization has also led to creation of new sports – e-sports, which poses profound implications for the very nature of the sports field.
This pre-ICIS workshop focuses on the broad phenomenon of digitalization in the context of professional sports. Our goal is three-fold: (1) to examine how sports organizations have approached digitalization and utilized various digital tools across different sports areas, as well as how digitalization and/or digital technologies changes the practices and the very organization of sports; (2) to investigate the sports context and how this context can contribute to our understanding of digitalization; (3) and to form a network of scholars and practitioners who share similar interests of the theme.

Topics:
We welcome papers with all methodological approaches and encourage submissions from researchers representing all ontological perspectives. Our intention is to provide a forum for bringing together researchers with similar interests both to share their current work and to plan future directions for the theme. We also hope to stimulate future collaboration in research development.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* e-sports and its relationship with traditional sports
* Sports analytics, its use and impacts
* Digitalization of sports related experiences
* Digitalization and the changing nature of sports
* Technology adoption and sports
* Business models of technology and sports
* Organizational issues in sports

Submissions (Short Papers):
Submission deadline: October 10th, 2019
Authors are encouraged to submit short papers on research (completed, research in progress and issues and opinion research) that are original. The authors are required to submit a cover page of the submission.
Length: Maximum of 8 pages including all titles, abstracts, figures, tables, but exclude references.
Formatting: All submissions must be formatted for 8½ x 11 inch page (1 inch = 2.5 cm) and have 1 inch margins all around. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font with double spacing for the body of the paper.
File Formats: Word and PDF file formats will be accepted.
Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee.

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted as email attachments to the workshop program co-chair: Xiao Xiao (xx.digi@cbs.dk<mailto:xx.digi@cbs.dk>), with the subject heading "Sports Digitalization Workshop Submission." Authors can use the body of the email as the cover letter for the submission.

Authors of accepted papers should make sure that the following steps are taken:
1. At least one author has to register for the workshop.
2. Each author will be asked to provide constructive feedback and serve as a discussant for at most 2 other papers.

Cost:
Please visit the ICIS'19 website for accommodation information including conference hotels and rates. Please note that the registrar and conference planner are still working on our room assignments. Once done, the workshop will be listed on the main registration links. We thank you for your patience. Colleagues may register for the workshop without a paper.

References:
Davenport, T. H. 2014a. “Analytics in Sports: The New Science of Winning,” (available at http://balancedoffense.com/uploads/8/2/3/7/82373604/iia_-_analytics_in_sports.pdf).
Davenport, T. H. 2014b. “What Businesses Can Learn From Sports Analytics,” MIT Sloan Management Review, (55:4), p. 10.
Caya, O., and Bourdon, A. 2016. “A Framework of Value Creation from Business Intelligence and Analytics in Competitive Sports,” in 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January, pp. 1061–1071 (doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.136).
Troilo, M., Bouchet, A., Urban, T. L., and Sutton, W. A. 2016. “Perception, Reality, and the Adoption of Business Analytics: Evidence from North American Professional Sport Organizations,” Omega, Business Analytics, (59, Part A), pp. 72–83 (doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.05.011).
Xiao, X., Hedman, J., Tan, F.T.C., Tan, C.W., Lim, E.T., Clemenson, T., Henningsson, S., Vatrapu, R., Mukkamala, R.R. and Van Hillegersberg, J., 2017. Sports Digitalization: An Overview and A Research Agenda. In Thirty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems, Seoul 2017(pp. 1-21).
Tan, F., Hedman, J., and Xiao, X. 2017. “Beyond ‘Moneyball’ to Analytics Leadership in Sports: An Ecological Analysis of Fc Bayern Munich’s Digital Transformation,” AMCIS 2017 Proceedings (available at http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/StrategicIT/Presentations/10/).
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