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********** ULTIMATE FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **********
Integration to Digital Platforms and infrastructures -minitrack
In the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-54) Conference
January 5-8 2021 in Grand Hyatt Kauai
********** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2020 **********
After a successful minitrack in HICSS-53, we are organizing this
minitrack again. As part of the Organisational systems and
technology track
(
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/organizational-systems-and-technology/),
we seek new research describing different issues and solutions in
integrating to digital platforms. The submissions can be research
papers, case studies, novel designs, or practitioner reports on
topics including:
* Strategic choices in joining infrastructures
* Technology choices in joining infrastructures
* Methods for assessing infrastructures when planning either to
join or to leave them
* Risks of being too dependent of a closed infrastructure
* Risks of open infrastructures
* Risks of declining or dying infrastructures
* Empirical studies and experiences on benefits, risks, challenges
or practices in joining or being connected to infrastructures
* Systems and software development and development practices when
joining infrastructures
* IT management practices in the context of digital
infrastructures
* Organizational consequences of using external infrastructures
Evolving digital platforms, or infrastructures, (such as the smart
grid, Google services, cloud platforms, Amazon, Facebook,
e-health, Internet of Things platforms, etc.) are deeply
intertwined to the everyday life of businesses and citizens. We
claim that in the future the success of businesses and public
sector organizations is dependent on their ability to harness both
new technology and its social capacities. These digital
capabilities are afforded by the platforms. The platforms are
often global, remote, and nearly invisible, and thus they cannot
be controlled by people utilizing them. In addition, digital
infrastructures may change or evolve, and include unknown security
risks and strategic threads. Managing these changes, risks and
opportunities is challenging for any local developer, or user, of
different kinds of digital products and services. At the same time
readily, available global platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google apps,
Facebook APIs to name a few) offer enormous power
for even the smallest developer and user organizations.
The minitrack focuses on actors that do not own or are not able to
establish their own infrastructures or platforms. They are often
referred to as non-focal actors (Selander et al. 2013). A
non-focal actor is at the periphery of a digital platform. The
objective is to understand and demonstrate how these local actors
can benefit from the strategic use of existing and coming digital
infrastructures .The platform is not dependent on a single
non-focal actor and, in principle, a non-focal actor may choose to
which platforms it connects. However, to survive and succeed in
their business, non-focal actors need to integrate to platforms
owned and managed by others. Often there are no alternatives, as
global platforms have a tendency to form monopolies because of the
winner-takes-it-all economics. From the non-focal perspective, the
process of development and integration is reactive where most
development is done against the changes in the capabilities of the
infrastructure, or to provide a
match between the infrastructure and the business need
(Henfridsson & Bygstad 2013).
References
Henfridsson, Ola, & Bygstad, Bendik. (2013). The generative
mechanisms of digital infrastructure evolution. MIS quarterly,
37(3), 907-931.
Selander, Lisen, Henfridsson, Ola, & Svahn, Fredrik. (2013).
Capability search and redeem across digital ecosystems. Journal of
Information Technology, 28(3), 183-197.
Submission & conference information, see
http://hicss.hawaii.edu
********** MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS **********
Samuli Pekkola (Primary Contact)
Tampere University
samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi<mailto:samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi>
Matti Rossi
Aalto University
matti.rossi@aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>
Kari Smolander
LUT University
kari.smolander@lut.fi<mailto:kari.smolander@lut.fi>
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Samuli Pekkola
Professor, Adjunct Professor, PhD
Information and Knowledge Management, Organizational Information
Systems
Faculty of Management and Business
Tampere University
PO Box 541, 33101 Tampere, Finland
t: +358 (0)40 586 0791
e:
samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi<mailto:samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi>
twitter: SamuliPekkola
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