With growing integration of corporations, public authorities, non-profit organizations, project teams, and individuals in cross-organizational, international and global settings, ICT collaboration is getting increasingly relevant. Cross-organizational and particularly international and global collaboration is much more complex than within one single organization. Critical success factors or challenges of ICT collaboration in such settings are for example physical locations of collaborating partners, varying levels of ICT infrastructure, cultural similarity or differences, legal regulations or the economic environment. The role of ICT in cross-organizational, international, and global collaboration is twofold: ICT can be a collaboration enabler, but also a collaboration purpose and goal. This mini-track focuses on conceptual and empirical research that contributes to a clearer understanding of ICT collaboration processes, their challenges, success factors, and benefits in cross-organizational, international, or global settings. All methodological approaches, including case studies, surveys, literature reviews, design science etc. are welcome. 

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

•          Processes of ICT collaboration in global development

•          Success factors of collaboration technologies

•          Inter-organizational, international, or global collaboration and ICT productivity

•          Conceptual frameworks of ICT collaboration in global development

•          Multinational teams and ICT productivity

•          Cross-organizational, international, or global value-chains and value-networks

•          Standardization of collaborative technologies and/or processes

•          ICT productivity studies at the country, industry, firm, or project level

•          Comparative cross-country research on ICT collaboration

•          Country-specific case studies on cross-organizational collaboration

•          ICT offshoring/outsourcing into emerging economies

•          International or global ICT project management

•          Antecedents of cross-organizational, international, or global collaboration

•          Diffusion of collaborative technologies in emerging economies

•          ICT productivity instrument development and validation