CALL FOR PAPERS

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savannah, Georgia, USA

August 7-10, 2014.

 

Mini$B!>(Btrack title: Management of Agile IT Sourcing Options

 

Track: IT Project Management

 

Instructions for Authors:

Submission deadline is March 1, 2014 via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014.

For more information including submission, visit: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org

 

Description

With the trends of globalization and IT as a utility available over the Internet continuing to grow unabated, various types of sourcing models have begun to emerge. As a prominent example, cloud computing offers various sourcing arrangements through the Internet delivery of IT products and services, providing firms an opportunity to gain access to and deliver applications, infrastructures, and platforms over public or private networks. Specifically, to tap innovation and growth opportunities, firms are transitioning to an on-demand model of IT sourcing enabled by cloud computing to create increased flexibility and enhance their ability to scale. These emerging alternatives create challenges for both service provider and recipient organizations as they have to take into account a number of new additional considerations, such as variable hardware capacity needs and multiple and varying user application preferences, to be able to successfully leverage these new sourcing alternatives and manage their new sourcing relationships with their partners. While the development of IT outsourcing and cloud computing happened independently, they have become intricately intertwined and should be considered as a set of viable sourcing options while formulating and executing IT sourcing strategy.

We invite papers that provide insights into all aspects of IT sourcing and various IT sourcing models over the network such as cloud computing and SaaS. In particular, we are also interested in papers that tie the developments of these sourcing models to broader IT strategy issues in firms. Papers that include empirical, analytical, and conceptual approaches that develop or extend theory are welcome. Co-authored papers with practitioners are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

•      Decision making in IT sourcing alternatives

•      Cloud computing and SaaS as IT sourcing strategy

•      Commercial sourcing models associated with cloud services and SaaS

•      Coordination and control in IT outsourcing and network-based IT sourcing arrangements

•      Change in client role in emerging sourcing models with cloud computing

•      Relationship management with cloud and SaaS partners

•      Contracting issues in traditional IT sourcing vs. sourcing models with cloud computing and SaaS

•      Structuring IT outsourcing contracts and service level agreements

•      Security issues in IT sourcing over the network such as cloud computing and SaaS

•      Risk management in network-based IT sourcing projects

•      Service disruption and recovery

•      IT outsourcing in global supply chain management

•      IT outsourcing in healthcare, and healthcare information exchange (HIE)

•      IT outsourcing-enabled business transformation and new inter-organizational forms

•      Switching issues in cloud computing based IT sourcing from the tradition

•      Managing and monitoring suppliers in sourcing arrangements through the Internet delivery of IT products and services

•      Managing intellectual property issues in sourcing relationships

•      Social, ethical, and regulatory implications in IT outsourcing

•      Knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, and loss in IT outsourcing

•      Preserving and managing organizational knowledge in outsourcing arrangements

•      Impact of outsourcing at the individual, firm, and national levels, both from a provider and a buyer perspective

•      Emerging trends in IT outsourcing

•      Challenges facing vendors as they adapt to sourcing models with cloud computing, including but not limited to:

o   Capabilities Required

o   Pricing and contracts

o   New service development

o   Service customization

o   Service supply chain management

 

Mini$B!>(Btrack Co-Chairs:

Matthew Swinarski

Penn State Erie

mes35@psu.edu

814.898.6439

 

Jahyun Goo

Florida Atlantic University

jgoo@fau.edu 

561.297.2352

 

 

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Jahyun Goo, Ph.D.

College of Business/Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road/Fleming Hall 218

Boca Raton, FL  33431

Voice: (561) 297-2352 / Fax: (561) 297-3043

Email: jgoo@fau.edu