Final Call for Papers

 

28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2020)

June 15th – 17th 2020 / Marrakesh, Morocco

Track: Business Analytics and Big Data

(https://ecis2020.ma/ecis-2020-tracks/)

 

*Track Description*

 

Applications benefitting from data, information, and knowledge constitute the foundation for the datafication of our society reshaping the nature of information systems. While the datafication can help the drive towards a sustainable and inclusive future enabling Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in a Digitizing World, the use of data can also lead to threats to our freedoms, to fairness, and to community. Consequently, ethical consideration in novel and advanced approaches for collecting, storing, managing, and analyzing data are required and challenge practitioners and academia as more and more data (big data) becomes available. This trend, as well as digitalization in general, fosters the assimilation and further development of business intelligence and business analytics approaches within organizations and across various industries. In addition, governments and non-profit organizations can benefit from new opportunities raised by analytical applications and technologies.

 

Many scholars are now emphasizing the importance of business analytics and big data approaches as well as information assets for efficient and effective decision support, management, and leadership. Business analytics is essential for an organization’s daily business, directly influencing firm performance and business development in a global world. The application of business analytics and big data approaches enables us to integrate, analyze, visualize, and ultimately understand and improve the complex processes that make up our digitized world. Such approaches are enablers for knowledge discovery benefitting societies, organizations, and individuals leading to smart technologies. Improved communication, more sustainable processes, as well as new business models are examples for the innovative use of disparate data sources (such as mobile, the Internet of Things, streaming data or social media data). Furthermore, the availability of seemingly endless computing and cheaper storage capabilities available through cloud computing enables new opportunities in providing a global gateway to information as a service.

 

Over the past few years, there has much enthusiasm around business analytics as organizations explore how they can leverage their data to create and maintain a competitive advantage. As such, today’s companies try to collect and process as much data as possible, with the aim of improving their decision-making processes. Nevertheless, while there is some empirical evidence that business analytics can create value, the thesis that it leads to performance gains requires deeper analysis. To date, there is limited understanding of how organizations need to change to embrace these technological innovations, and the business shifts they entail. As big data tools and applications diffuse into the organizational fabric, they will inevitably change long-standing ideas about decision making, management practices, and most importantly competitive strategy formulation.

 

Motivated by the explosion of interest in these emerging fields, the present track aims to promote multidisciplinary contributions dealing with socio-economic, organizational, technological, cultural, and societal perspectives. Furthermore, outcomes that demonstrate critical success factors on the organizational impact of business analytics and big data in terms of competitive performance, innovativeness, increased agility, and market capitalizing competence are encouraged. We welcome submissions based on quantitative and qualitative work, theoretical research, design research, action research, or behavioral research.

 

We are especially interested in papers that discuss and expand our understanding of how digital technologies are influencing and impacting fundamental human values, whether at the individual, the organization and/or the societal level. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

 

* The role of business intelligence, business analytics, and big data for liberty, equality, and fraternity in a digitizing world

* Strategic and change management issues stemming from business analytics and big data

* Business value and success of business analytics and big data

* Emerging and changing concepts and methodologies for business analytics and big data

* Use cases and innovative applications for business analytics and big data

* Adoption, routinization, maturity, and use of business analytics and big data

* Data privacy, data quality, and data governance

* Opportunities and challenges of sharing data and of open data

* Big-data-driven business model innovation and the digital ecosystem big data

* Data visualization, visual analytics

* Business analytics in the cloud, business analytics as a service

* Data, text and social media analytics for business analytics

* Process mining and the benefits of robotic process automation

* Digital manufacturing and the Internet of Things

* Operational, real-time, or event-driven business analytics

              

*Special Issue*

 

Following ECIS 2020, selected papers will be invited to submit a considerably enhanced and extended revision of the paper reflecting the discussion at ECIS to the Journal of Business Analytics (JBA). JBA encourages empirical papers focusing on real problems using real data to provide innovative methodological contributions. JBA’s current issue is available at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjba20/current.

 

*Track Chairs*

 

Christian Janiesch (contact), University of Würzburg, Germany, christian.janiesch@uni-wuerzburg.de

Barbara Dinter, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, barbara.dinter@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de

Patrick Mikalef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, patrick.mikalef@ntnu.no

Olgerta Tona, Lund University, Sweden, olgerta.tona@ics.lu.se

 

*Important Dates*

 

November 29th, 2019: Submission deadline

Late February 2020: Notifications

June 15th-17th, 2020: ECIS 2020 conference

 

We are looking forward to your submissions and seeing you in Marrakesh!

 

Kind regards

Christian, Barbara, Patrick, and Olgerta

 

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Prof. Dr. Barbara Dinter

Chemnitz University of Technology

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Business Information Systems Group

 

Thueringer Weg 7, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany

Barbara.Dinter@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/wi1