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
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