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Call for Papers
Conference: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS
2020), August 12-16, 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah
Track: Organizational Transformation and Information Systems
Minitrack: Digital Transformation through Data Analytics,
Artificial Intelligence and Other Epistemic
Technologies
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(see Minitrack #6).
Please consider submitting your paper to our minitrack on how
analytics, AI and other Epistemic Technologies transform
organizing at AMCIS 2020.
This minitrack aims to explore how the use of new epistemic
technologies in organizations influence key aspects of organizing,
including processes of information processing, insight generation,
decision making, organizational structuring, and strategizing. We
define epistemic technologies as tools that play a key part in the
ongoing construction of knowledge (Anthony 2018). Such
technologies include, for example, big data analytics tools,
Artificial Intelligence tools, augmented reality applications, and
technologies that leverage the Internet of Things (IoT). The
reliance of these new epistemic technologies on data and
algorithms poses unique challenges for organizations and has given
rise to several debates in the academic community (Günther et al.
2017). The emergence of new epistemic technologies calls for a
better understanding of distinct digital practices that are
enacted as organizations actually leverage such technologies in
practice (Baiyere et al. 2017), as well as how this may or may not
allow organizations to actually create social and economic value
(Sumbal et al. 2019).
To understand how organizations may leverage such technologies
requires examinations of the processes around the information
value chain (Abbasi et al. 2016) as they take place in
organizational context. The minitrack is open to any methodology
that suitably examines the phenomenon including quantitative,
qualitative as well as conceptual papers. We highly value work
that takes a longitudinal perspective and aims to understand how
organizations, and people, actually work with epistemic
technologies in practice. In doing so, scholars may rely on
different types of data and a range of (mixed) methods, such as
qualitative observations, document content analysis, and advanced
analytical techniques to model and understand people's actions and
behavior. Emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary studies
that bridge the domains of organizational theory and information
systems as well as information sciences. Overall, this mini-track
endeavors to initiate a discussion about the use of new epistemic
technologies, thereby going beyond the examination of these
technologies at discrete level (Sharma, Mithas & Kankanhalli
2014) as many anecdotal examples suggest that the incumbent firms
fail to reap benefits of these technologies against the promise
(Bean & Devenport 2019; Marchand & Peppard 2013; Sumbal et
al. 2019).
Broadly the topics of interest include but are not limited to the
following:
* Data-driven decision-making v/s intuition-based decision-making
in organizations
* New epistemic technologies and transformation of organizational
decision-making processes
* New epistemic technologies and transformation of organizational
decision-making structure
* New epistemic technologies and transformation of strategizing /
strategy making processes
* New epistemic technologies and transformation of organizational
as well as individual identity
* New epistemic technologies and the emergence of data science as
a new occupation
* New epistemic technologies and insights generation processes
Submission Process:
Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2020
Manuscript Submission Site
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Papers will be peer reviewed basis a double-blind process.
Important Dates:
Jan 6, 2020: Submission system opens
Feb 28, 2020: Completed Research and ERF submissions due (5:00p.m.
MST)
April 22, 2020: Camera-ready papers due (5:00p.m. MST)
Please refer the minitrack description on AMCIS Website>
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(See Mini-Track #6 under the Track Organizational Transformation
and Information Systems) or see the full Call for Papers here>
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Feel free to contact us for more details or clarifications.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Dr Wendy
Günther
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Lecturer, Initiative for the Digital Economy at Exeter (INDEX),
University of Exeter, London, United Kingdom. Email:
w.gunther@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:w.gunther@exeter.ac.uk>
Mayur P.
Joshi
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PhD Candidate, Ivey Business School, Western University, London,
Canada. Email:
mjoshi.phd@ivey.ca<mailto:mjoshi.phd@ivey.ca>
Regards,
Mayur P. Joshi,
PhD Candidate in Information Systems,
Ivey Business School at Western University,
1255 Western Road, London, ON, Canada N6G 0N1
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