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CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)
Track: Advancing Theories and Theorizing in IS Research
(http://ecis2014.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2.-Advancing-Theories-and-Theorizing-in-IS-Research3.pdf)
June 9-11, 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel (http://ecis2014.eu/)
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TRACK CHAIRS
Shirley Gregor, Australian National University, Australia,
shirley.gregor@anu.edu.au
Dorothy E. Leidner, Baylor University, Texas, USA,
dorothy_leidner@baylor.edu
Benjamin Mueller, University of Mannheim, Germany,
mueller@es.uni-mannheim.de (Corresponding track chair)
Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth, Germany, nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de
DESCRIPTION
While IS research placed an emphasis on methodological advances in the
past decade, the issue of theory, theorizing, and theoretical
contributions of IS research reemerged only recently through
contributions of various senior scholars. Although the attention to
theoretical work has been at the heart of our discipline for a while,
there has been little agreement as to what constitutes valid theory,
theorizing, or theoretical contributions. Even more so, the increasing
permeation of digital work and life with IS and the recognition that IS
have the potential to contribute to solving some of the greater societal
challenges pose a significant challenges to our theorizing.
This calls for a dedicated discussion on the evolution of existing
conceptual and methodological approaches to theorizing and a careful
development of new theories. Our track seeks to fill this void and
provide a place to share research that debates the nature and meaning of
theory in IS. Moreover, some of our reference disciplines have recently
turned towards reviving their examination of theories and theorizing. It
is this rekindled interest that leads us to suggest that the IS
discipline, too, should further intensify its discussion on the matter.
Our track provides a platform for the discussion and development of new
approaches to theorizing and new methods to inform this theorizing. We
also want to engage in a differentiated discussion on the nature and
role of our theorizing in light of the increasing digitization of work
and life. In this, we seek submissions that are innovative, novel, and
significant in terms of advancing our discipline's ability to theorize
phenomena of digital work and life. We place particular emphasis on a
submission's ability to highlight how it helps us as a discipline to
better describe, explain, predict, and design these phenomena. In
methodological contributions, we thus encourage potential authors to
elaborate on how and why the phenomena we study can now be captured
better. In theoretical pieces, we will look not only for novel ideas,
but also for a careful integration with what is known already and how
and why the new contribution advances existing nomological nets.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Conceptual advances in theories for IS research
* New theories on phenomena of digital work and life
* Significant advances of existing theories (e.g., innovative or
substantially improved construct conceptualizations or meaningful
extensions through additional constructs)
* Integration / synthesis of existing theories
* Detailed application of existing theories to inform design and action
* Reflections on theories-in-practice and what we can learn from their
application
Methodological advances in theorizing about IS phenomena
* New or advanced methods for data collection with an emphasis on what
kind of data they contribute beyond conventional methods as well as a
discussion of how and why this advances our theorizing
* New or refined methods of data analysis (theorizing or theory
building) with an emphasis on a comparison to established approaches and
a discussion of how and why they advance our theorizing
* Strategies for inductive theorizing and the building of substantive
theories grounded in an IS context
* A constructive critique of existing methods and an identification of
impacts on and limits to current theorizing
The nature and role of theoretical contributions of IS research
* An analysis of the current state-of-the-art of the discipline’s theorizing
* Reflections on what can be learned from reference disciplines
* Frameworks and typologies for theories and theoretical work in IS
SPONSORSHIP
Our track collaborates closely with the European Journal of information
Systems (EJIS). Based on the reviews and editorial recommendations, the
authors of the best papers submitted to the track will be invited to
participate in the EJIS paper development workshop immediately after the
ECIS conference. There, authors will have the opportunity to further
develop their papers for consideration as part of a planned EJIS special
issue building upon the track.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission begins: 1 November, 2013
Submission Deadline Date: 8 December, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: March 3, 2014
Final version of accepted papers due: March 30, 2014
Early Bird Registration closes: April 16, 2014
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida, Florida, USA
Yogesh Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK
Dirk Hovorka, Bond University, Australia
Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA
Sebastian Olbrich, Mercator School of Management, Germany
Uta Renken, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany
Kai Riemer, The University of Sydney, Australia
Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University, Washington, USA
Carol Saunders, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA
David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Frédéric Thiesse, University of Würzburg, Germany
Michael Wade, IMD Business School, Switzerland
Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia
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Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach
Professor of Information Systems
and Strategic IT Management
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth
GERMANY
Phone +49 921 557661
Fax +49 921 557662
nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de
www.sim.uni-bayreuth.de
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