Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology
Mini track: Strategic Use of IS and IT in Non-Profits and Social Enterprises
Mini-Track Co-Chairs:
Richelle L. Oakley, rloakle3@uncg.edu, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
A. F. Salam, amsalam@uncg.edu, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lakshmi Iyer, lsiyer@uncg.edu. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kathy White Loyd, kwloyd@uncg.edu, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro


We invite the submission of papers to the IS in Non-profits and Social Enterprises Mini-track at the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), which will be held on August 7-10, 2014 in Savannah, Georgia.
 

Many organizations operate with a primary mission to serve the common good.  Non-profit organizations, such as charities, focus on impacting the root causes of social problems in communities.  Social enterprises aim to improve human well-being using traditional business methods and commercial strategies.  These organizations focus on long-lasting social issues such as poverty, homelessness, education inequality, financial instability, lack of healthcare access and knowledge, etc.  Both non-profits and social enterprises have various constraints that impact technology adoption, diffusion, and utilization towards efforts in achieving their strategic goals.  Examples include regulatory issues, heavy reliance on volunteer staff, limited finances, etc.  Interestingly, given these salient factors, there has been minimal research that focuses on the strategic use of technology within these organization types.

 
There is significant potential to examine and improve how these organization types harness the power of information systems (IS) and technology (IT) to accelerate social impact.  It is essential to focus on IS/IT utilization within non-profit and social enterprise organizations in order to continue developing a more in-depth understanding of strategic use and impact of IS/IT within these organizations.  This mini-track solicits completed and research-in-progress papers addressing IS/IT issues in non-profits or social enterprises.  Papers can be conceptual, theoretical, design, empirical, or case studies.  

 
Situated in non-profit or social enterprise organizations, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*             Design, development, deployment, and use or utilization of IS/IT

*             Intra- and inter-organizational IS/IT issues

*             Individual attitudes, behaviors, or characteristics that impact strategic use of IS/IT

*             Multiple stakeholder perspectives on IS/IT issues

*             IS/IT governance or policy issues

*             Evaluation and assessment of IS/IT impact on organizational performance

*             Social media, networking, and analytics

*             Business intelligence and related tools

*             Innovative and novel IS/IT applications