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CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Americas Conference on
Information
Systems (AMCIS 2011)
August 4-7, 2011 (Thursday-Sunday)
Detroit Marriott Hotel (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dtwdt-detroit-marriott-at-the-renaissance-center/)
Track: Economics and Value of
Information
Systems
Minitrack: IT/IS Evaluation &
Performance
Measurement
DESCRIPTION
Annual worldwide spending on
information
technology (IT) and information systems (IS) has been increasing
for many
years. For 2011, Gartner expects the total expenditure on IT to
reach 2.5
trillion US dollars (Gartner 2010). Simultaneously, however, a
greater
number of IS failures are still emerging. The measurement of
investments
and developed systems’ success, as well as the paradox of high
investments
and low productivity returns (“productivity paradox”)
(Brynjolfsson 1993)
therefore remains a top concern for both practitioners and
researchers.
During the last two and a half decades, research on measuring IS
success
– the clarification of an important dependent variable in IS
research
– has been a popular stream of research. A number of models have
been
proposed in attempts to define IS success (e.g., DeLone and McLean
1992,
1993) and identify the various causes of success or failure
respectively,
mostly from an individual perspective. Complementary, the research
stream
on the business value of IT (e.g., Kohli and Grover 2008, Melville
et al.
2004) has focused on the benefits from a broader – in most cases
the organizational
– perspective. Researchers and practitioners interested in
submitting
papers to this minitrack are encouraged to present their research
into
strategies, methodologies, tools, and stories that relate to the
evaluation
of IT/IS and IS/IT performance measurement.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
Topics and research areas include,
but
are not limited to:
* Frameworks and models for
assessing
IS success/effectiveness and IT business value
* Measuring IS success/IT business
value
in global organizations and globally dispersed communities
* Impact of strategic,
organizational,
process-related, cultural, and other issues on IS success/IT
business value
* Critical discussion of existing
approaches
* IS success factors and key
performance
indicators
* Qualitative and quantitative
evaluation
techniques
* Benefits management/measurement
* Benchmarking initiatives
comparing
IS across different organizations and industries
* Empirical studies evaluating
different
topics and kinds of IS such as
- Customer Relationship
Management
Systems
- Project (Portfolio) Management
Systems
- Knowledge Management Systems
- Decision Support Systems
- Collaborative Systems
- Enterprise Systems
- Management topics (e.g. IS
strategies, IS governance)
- IT service management
frameworks
* Case studies of IS success and
performance
evaluation
IMPORTANT DATES
* Dec 30, 2010: AIS review system
will begin accepting submissions for AMCIS 2011
* Feb 17, 2010: Full paper
submission
deadline
* Mar 24, 2011: Authors notified
of paper acceptance decision
* April 21, 2011: Camera-ready
papers
due
PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper can be submitted using the
online
submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.
Additional information regarding
the
submission process will be made available on the AMCIS 2011
primary website:
http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/
CHAIRS' CONTACT INFORMATION
Nils Urbach (corresponding
co-chair)
Institute of Research on
Information
Systems (IRIS)
EBS University of Business and Law
nils.urbach@ebs.edu
Stefan Smolnik
Institute of Research on
Information
Systems (IRIS)
EBS University of Business and Law
stefan.smolnik@ebs.edu
Murray E. Jennex
Information and Decision Science
San Diego State University
mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu