CALL FOR PAPERS - AMCIS 2015

 

Minitrack: Consumerization of IT - BYOD and Beyond

 

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015

Conference website: http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/

Manuscript submission website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 5, 2015 - Manuscript submissions open

February 25, 2015 - Manuscript submission deadline

April 21, 2015 – Author notification

 

Description

Organizations are facing an expanding challenge in managing enterprise information technology: the consumerization of IT. The arrival of consumer-oriented devices and applications into the workplace is re-defining how corporate IT is adopted, delivered, and consumed. Personal devices such as smartphones and tablets may be brought to the workplace by employees (called BYOD) or provided by employers for use by the workforce to help employees in their jobs. Consumer-oriented applications, often in the cloud (such as Dropbox, Skype, Yammer LinkedIn, and GoogleDocs), may be used by employees for work-related activities with or without company sanction. While there is no single, universally accepted definition of IT consumerization, it can loosely be defined as the enterprise use of technologies that were originally designed for the consumer market.

 

End-users have mastered new digital technologies enough to begin to assert their independence from the constraints that the IT department has previously put in place to ensure the compliance, security, and stability of the corporate IT platform. Although the IT department has confronted “rogue” or “shadow” IT efforts in the past and dealt with “End User Computing” in the 1980s and 1990s, the recent technological advancements and the expanding level of IT literacy are changing the nature of how corporate IT and users of IT are managed.

 

While there are numerous industry-oriented articles on the consumerization of IT, little academic research has appeared. This dearth of research publications highlights the need for theoretical and empirical investigation into this topic. The purpose of this minitrack is to provide a forum for presenting research in this new and important area.

 

Suggested Topics

Topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to, the following:

·         Managing BYOD and CYOD in the enterprise

·         Organizational impact of consumer-oriented devices and applications

·         New organizational structures for corporate IT (vs. private IT)

·         Competitive advantages enabled by IT consumerization

·         Organizational design impacts as private and business boundaries increasingly blur

·         Digital co-creation as end-users have access to increasingly sophisticated consumer tools

·         Behavioral impacts of IT consumerization, for example, impacts on employee morale and job motivation

·         Issues pertaining to inter- and intra-organizational ecosystems (e.g., implementing a digital innovation platform with internal and/or external partners)

·         Managing the imbalance between IT supply and demand (e.g., frustrated users who believe the IT department cannot deliver quickly enough)

·         Challenges to security brought on by employees using their own devices at work

·         IT support and IT governance issues brought on by the consumerization of IT

·         Legal issues pertaining to data ownership and terms-of-service liability

 

MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS

 

Rob Nickerson

San Francisco State University

RNick@sfsu.edu

 

Iris Junglas

Florida State University

ijunglas@fsu.edu

 

Sebastian Köffer

University of Münster

sebastian.koeffer@ercis.uni-muenster.de