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CALL FOR PAPERS
18th Americas Conference on
Information
Systems
Seattle, Washington, August 9-12,
2012
Track: Enterprise Systems
(SIGENTSYS)
Minitrack: Enterprise System
Adoption
and Business Models
DESCRIPTION
Enterprise systems (ES) are
extremely
complex software packages designed for integrating data flow
across an
entire company, emerged from earlier MRP, MRP II and ERP systems.
Over
time, ES have expanded to include more and more areas of an
organization’s
operations, and have extended organizational boundaries and
support interorganizational
activities. Today’s enterprise systems are expected to support
modern
organizations that operate in dynamic and turbulent business
environments,
compete in global markets, face mergers and takeovers, and
participate
in business alliances and joint ventures.
Frequently, the adoption of an ES
is
an enormous challenge for an organization, due to system
complexity, organizational
context and the people involved in the implementation project.
Usually,
ES adoption is a long and multi-stage process during which various
problems
and complications may occur. Moreover, ES adoption projects
typically involve
a large number of stakeholders representing different departments,
various
organizational hierarchies, and often external companies operating
in various
industries. These stakeholders may have conflicting interests, and
their
own definitions of project success. Overall, ES implementation
projects
tend to be very unique and challenging endeavors.
Providers of enterprise systems
have
traditionally relied on strong revenues from maintenance fees, in
addition
to license revenue. Nowadays, shorter product lifecycles, rising
consulting
revenues, Open Source Software and SaaS are impacting their
business models.
ES providers have the challenge of delivering systems which are
highly
customizable software products, able to fit the needs of a variety
of adopters.
This might be important since, as prior research suggests, the
issue of
alignment between ES and adopting organizations is one of the
determinants
of successful enterprise system implementation.
This mini-track invites papers that
examine various aspects related to the determinants of ES success
and business
models. Both empirical and theoretical papers are invited. The
general
research questions addressed in this mini-track can be formulated
as follows:
What are the mechanisms determining successful ES adoption? What
are the
underlying business models of companies delivering successfully
adaptable
ES? What kind of business models exist?
Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
motivation and justification for ES
adoption,
- alignment between ES and
adopting organization,
- barriers and impediments to
ES adoption
success,
- risk factors in ES adoption,
- critical failure factors for
ES adoption,
- critical success factors for
ES adoption,
- understanding of ES adoption
success,
- evaluation and benchmarking
of ES projects,
- multi-cultural and
multi-national issues,
- multiple stakeholder
perspective in
ES adoption and use,
- business model frameworks,
- impact of new trends within
the software
industry on business models,
- business model innovation for
standard
software companies,
- implications of shorter
product lifecycles
on business models,
- SaaS related business models,
- open source software related
business
models.
IMPORTANT DATES
January 2, 2012 Manuscript Central
will start accepting paper submissions
March 1, 2012 Deadline for paper
submissions
April 2, 2012 Authors will be
notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 20, 2012 For accepted
papers,
camera-ready copy due
SUBMISSION SITE
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012
Minitrack Chairs:
Katja Andresen
Beuth University of Applied
Sciences
Berlin, Germany
andresen@beuth-hochschule.de
Carsten Brockmann
University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
carsten.brockmann@wi.uni-potsdam.de
Piotr Soja
Cracow University of Economics
Cracow, Poland
eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl
J.P. Allen
University of San Francisco, School
of Management
San Francisco, CA, USA
jpallen@usfca.edu