-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CfP: IS and Process Innovation in Collaborative Networks (SIGOSRA) Datum: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:23:33 +0100 Von: Paul Drews drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
*CALL FOR PAPERS** **20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014)* Savannah, Georgia, USA August 7-10, 2014 http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/
*Minitrack: **IS and Process Innovation in Collaborative Networks** **Track: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change (SIGOSRA)*
Today's organizations are highly interconnected in manifold kinds of collaborative networks, such as virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, business ecosystems, supply chains, social networks, and ad-hoc networks (e.g., in disaster scenarios). These connections provide great potentials for organizations as complementary competencies can be brought together, leading to, e.g., product and service innovations, streamlined cross-organizational operations, and advanced uses of IS/IT. However, organizations within these collaborative settings are faced with an increasing socio-technical complexity which not only arises from integrating diverse organizations, their business processes and corresponding IS/IT infrastructures, but also from their interaction with people outside the organizational boundaries and with society (e.g., by mobile devices and social media).
Traditional approaches for IS/IT innovation management and organizational change can hardly be applied in this context, as they are generally focused on a single organization with well-defined borders. Hence, the design, management and deployment of IS and process innovations in collaborative networks represent relevant and current challenges for IS research. Answers to these challenges may include, for instance, adapting existing or developing novel IS frameworks, methodologies and approaches to deal with the socio-technical complexity of collaborative networks.
This mini-track aims at providing a forum for research on methods for analyzing and intervening into collaborative networks that consider the tremendous size, geographical dispersion, socio-technical intertwining as well as the limited possibilities to influence these networks. We encourage conceptual, theoretical, methodological as well as empirical contributions towards understanding and managing business processes and IS in collaborative networks.
*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to*: - Understanding and managing IS and process innovation in different types of collaborative networks (business ecosystems, virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, etc.) - End-User and customer perspective on IS and process innovation in different types of collaborative networks - Theoretical approaches for unraveling socio-technical complexity in collaborative networks - Suitability of traditional IS management methods and tools (e.g., Business Process Management/Modelling, IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture) for collaborative networks - Design and cultivation approaches for IS innovation and organizational change in collaborative networks - IS and process innovation management in ad-hoc collaborative networks (e.g., in disaster management) - Geospatial approaches for dealing with IS and process innovation in collaborative networks - IS Interoperability and integration issues in collaborative networks - Collaborative and open IS/IT innovation in systems of IS/IT innovation or at ultra large scale - Success and failure of IS innovations in collaborative networks - End-user integration in inter-organizational innovation processes (e.g., by end-user mobile applications or social media) - Methodologies for analyzing and intervening in complex collaborative networks - Teaching cases for IS and process innovation in collaborative networks
*Submission:** *Please follow the instructions given at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers
*Important dates:* March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference
*Minitrack Chairs:* Paul Drews, University of Hamburg, drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (primary contact) João P. de Albuquerque, University of São Paulo, jporto@icmc.usp.br mailto:jporto@icmc.usp.br Jens Pöppelbuß, University of Bremen, jepo@is.uni-bremen.de mailto:jepo@is.uni-bremen.de