-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: AMCIS 2020: Mini-track: Problems in Financial Information Technology (PFIT ’20) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 17:08:29 +0000 From: Templeton, Gary GTempleton@business.msstate.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org (aisworld@lists.aisnet.org) aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Track: Decision Sciences and Analytics (SIGDSA) 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug. 12-16, 2020 Salt Lake City, Utah
This mini-track solicits papers using methods to critically examine issues hampering the emergence and understanding of financial information technology (FIT) in research and practice. Authors are encouraged to identify and investigate three specific problem areas in finance that affect modern organizations: technology (“FinTech”), analytics and messy data. What are the problems and solutions in these areas? What can researchers do to move beyond the current state of research and practice concerning these IS-relevant issues? In what ways do specified problems impact important IS theories and streams, such as the productivity paradox, IT business value, and information economics? What are the pros and cons and comparative performance of any proposed solutions? These are the types of questions that may be explored in this mini-track. We are particularly interested in completed or emerging research addressing the conference theme, New Frontiers in Digital Convergence. Therefore, we hold at a premium papers advancing our understanding of organizations engaged in digital convergence for value creation. In particular, we are interested in information technology firms since they engage in digital convergence out of competitive necessity.
We encourage thought provoking papers utilizing the wealth of archival data (e.g., Compustat and CRSP) accessible by many in the IS research community. We especially value thought provoking papers pushing known boundaries of the three mentioned FIT themes (FinTech, analytics and messy data) in order to improve IS practice. For these reasons, we are interested in high quality papers that illuminates and addresses the effects of the following issues (among others) on modern organizations:
FinTech
* Finance-Technology alignment * Resistance to change * Barriers to innovation * Systems scalability * FinTech success * Outsourcing FinTech * Issues specific to FinTech firms * Compliance management * FinTech application frontiers * Blockchain and cryptography
Financial Analytics
* Workflows * Queries * Data storage * Analytical efficiency and economics * Analytical skills * Data security and privacy * User-friendliness of big data * Artificial intelligence and machine learning * Big data analytics * Analytical procedures
Messy Financial Data
* Non-normality * Missing data * Imputation * Inflated frequencies * Variables with low levels (i.e. binary) * Outliers * Negative denominators * Measurement bias * Illogical values
Mini-Track co-chairs Gary Templeton, Mississippi State University gft4@msstate.edu Brian Blank, Mississippi State University dblank@business.msstate.edu Andrew Miller, Mississippi State University asm357@msstate.edu Martin Kang, Mississippi State University mkang@business.msstate.edu
Submission Instructions: https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/
Important Dates: January 6, 2020: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2020 begin February 28, 2020: Manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST March 5, 2020: All papers have assigned reviewers April 24, 2020: Revised, camera-ready papers are due
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