| Betreff: | [AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CFP CONSUMERIZATION OF IT- BYOD AND BEYOND |
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| Datum: | Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:38:02 -0800 |
| Von: | Robert Nickerson <rcnickerson@gmail.com> |
| An: | aisworld@lists.aisnet.org |
CALL FOR PAPERS - AMCIS 2014
MINITRACK: CONSUMERIZATION OF
IT - BYOD AND BEYOND
20th Americas
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savannah, GA,
August 7-10, 2014
Conference website: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/
Manuscript submission website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions
open
March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript
submissions
April 4, 2014 – Author notification
Organizations are
facing an expanding challenge in managing enterprise
information technology: the consumerization of IT. The arrival
of consumer-oriented devices and applications into the
workplace is re-defining how corporate IT is adopted,
delivered, and consumed. Personal devices such as smartphones
and tablets may be brought to the workplace by employees
(called BYOD) or provided by employers for use by the
workforce to help employees in their jobs. Consumer-oriented
applications, often in the cloud (such as Dropbox, Skype,
Yammer LinkedIn, and GoogleDocs), may be used by employees for
work-related activities with or without company sanction.
While there is no single, universally accepted definition of
IT consumerization, it can loosely be defined as the
enterprise use of technologies that were originally designed
for the consumer market.
End-users have
mastered new digital technologies enough to begin to assert
their independence from the constraints that the IT department
has previously put in place to ensure the compliance,
security, and stability of the corporate IT platform. Although
the IT department has confronted “rogue” or “shadow” IT
efforts in the past and dealt with “End User Computing” in the
1980s and 1990s, the recent technological advancements and the
expanding level of IT literacy are changing the nature of how
corporate IT and users of IT are managed.
While there are
numerous industry-oriented articles on the consumerization of
IT, little academic research has appeared. This dearth of
research publications highlights the need for theoretical and
empirical investigation into this topic. The purpose of this
minitrack is to provide a forum for presenting research in
this new and important area.
Topics for this mini track include,
but are not limited to, the following:
· Managing BYOD and CYOD in the
enterprise
· Organizational impact of
consumer-oriented devices and applications
· New organizational structures for
corporate IT (vs. private IT)
· Competitive advantages enabled by IT
consumerization
· Organizational design impacts as
private and business boundaries increasingly blur
· Digital co-creation as end-users have
access to increasingly sophisticated consumer tools
· Behavioral impacts of IT
consumerization, for example, impacts on employee morale and
job motivation
· Issues pertaining to inter- and
intra-organizational ecosystems (e.g., implementing a digital
innovation platform with internal and/or external partners)
· Managing the imbalance between IT
supply and demand (e.g., frustrated users who believe the IT
department cannot deliver quickly enough)
· Challenges to security brought on by
employees using their own devices at work
· IT support and IT governance issues
brought on by the consumerization of IT
· Legal issues pertaining to data
ownership and terms-of-service liability
MINITRACK CHAIRS
Rob Nickerson
San
Francisco State University
Florida State University
Sebastian Köffer
University of Münster
sebastian.koeffer@ercis.uni-muenster.de