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AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: Enterprise
System
Adoption and Business Models
Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013
Deadline for submissions: 22nd of
February
2013
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.
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.
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,
- Multi-cultural and
multi-national issues,
- Multiple stakeholder perspective
in ES adoption
and use,
- Business model frameworks for ES
providers,
- 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:
February 22, 2013 Deadline
for paper submissions
April 22, 2013
Notification of acceptance
May 9, 2013
Final copy due
Instructions for authors:
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including
all materials
and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All
conference submissions
will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted
using the online
submission system at http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013
For complete instructions for authors and information about
the conference,
visit the AMCIS 2013 website at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/.
Mini-Track Co-Chairs
Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam,
cbrockmann@wi.uni-potsdam.de
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics,
eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl
JP Allen, University of San
Francisco, JP
Allen, jpallen@usfca.edu
Katja Andresen, Beuth University of
Applied
Sciences, andresen@beuth-hochschule.de