19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)

Chicago, Illinois, USA

August 15-17, 2013

http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ 

MINITRACK: Understanding and Managing IS Innovation in Collaborative Networks

TRACK: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change (SIGOSRA)

Today’s organizations are highly interconnected in manifold kinds of collaborative networks, such as virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, business ecosystems, supply chains, ad-hoc networks (e.g. in disaster scenarios). Furthermore, the widespread use of mobile devices and social media by end-users are extending the reach of collaborative networks across the usual limits of organizations. Traditional approaches for IS/IT innovation management and organizational change can hardly be applied in this context, since they are generally focused on a single organization with well-defined borders. The design, management and deployment of IS innovations within and for such collaborative networks brings about important challenges for IS research. These challenges include adapting existing IS frameworks, methodologies and approaches to deal with the socio-technical complexity of collaborative networks. Socio-technical complexity arises in these networks not only from integrating a diversity of organizations and their corresponding information and technology infrastructures, but also from their interaction with people outside the organization boundaries and with society (e. g. by mobile devices and social media).

This mini-track aims at providing a forum for research on methods for analyzing and intervening into collaborative networks that consider the tremendous size, geographical dispersion, socio-technical intertwining as well as the limited possibilities to influence these networks. We encourage conceptual, theoretical, methodological as well as empirical contributions towards understanding and managing IS innovations in collaborative networks.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Understanding and managing IS innovation in different types of collaborative networks (business ecosystems, virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, etc.)

• Theoretical approaches for unraveling socio-technical complexity in collaborative networks

• Suitability of traditional IS management methods and tools (e.g. Business Process Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture) for collaborative networks

• Design and cultivation approaches for IS innovation and organizational change in collaborative networks

• IS innovation management in ad-hoc collaborative networks (e.g. in disaster management)

• Inter-organizational information infrastructures for collaborative networks

• Geospatial approaches for dealing with collaborative networks

• IS interoperability and integration issues in collaborative networks

• Collaborative and open IS/IT innovation in systems of IS/IT innovation

• IS/IT innovation in ultra large-scale collaborative networks

• Success and failure of IS innovations in collaborative networks

• End-User integration in inter-organizational innovation processes (e. g. by end-user mobile applications or social media)

• Methodologies for analyzing and intervening in complex collaborative networks

• Teaching cases for IS innovation in collaborative networks

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 4, 2013  Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions

February 22, 2013  Deadline for paper submissions

April 22, 2013  Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date

May 9, 2013  For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due

SUBMISSION:

MINITRACK CHAIRS:

João P. de Albuquerque

Department of Computer Systems

ICMC, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil

P.O. Box 668, 13560-970 - Sao Carlos/SP, Brazil

Paul Drews

Department of Informatics

University of Hamburg, Germany

Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30

D-22527 Hamburg