-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] Final Call for Papers: AMCIS 2011 Mini-track "Researcher-PractitionerCollaboration and Knowledge Transfer" Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:45:34 +0100 (CET) From: Boris Otto boris.otto@unisg.ch Reply-To: postmaster@idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de To: undisclosed-recipients:;

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011) August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA

Track: Design Science Mini-track: Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer

DESCRIPTION

The Information Systems (IS) research community is discussing the relevance of its results. The transfer of principles of design sciences from other domains, such as engineering, to IS research is considered a promising way of addressing the issue appropriately. Design Science Research (DSR) aims at delivering research results which are of scientific rigor and of practical relevance at the same time. An integral part of DSR is the identification and description of a relevant practical problem and the evaluation of design artifacts. To perform these tasks, the design-oriented IS researcher has to rely on intensive knowledge transfer from practitioners to research and vice-versa. However, existing research provides only little guidance and support for facilitating and ensuring the required transfer of knowledge. The Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), for example, says that resources required for this activity would "include knowledge of the state of the problem and the importance of its solution", but does not specify this any further.

This mini-track addresses this gap and aims at giving a forum for original and rigorously conducted research in the following (not conclusive) list of areas:

* Methods and approaches for researcher-practitioner collaboration * Measures for success of researcher-practitioner collaboration * Required skills and competencies in industry and academia * Organizational design for researcher-practitioner collaboration * Funding researcher-practitioner collaboration * Obstacles and boundaries of researcher-practitioner collaboration * "Stakeholder" management in researcher-practitioner collaboration * DSR and knowledge management * Researcher-practitioner collaboration and project management * Theories for explaining the transfer of knowledge in researcher-practitioner collaboration * Methods and techniques supporting and ensuring the transfer of knowledge * Knowledge transfer in proven approaches such as "Engaged Scholarship", "Living Labs", and "Collaborative Practice Research" * Case studies and applications

PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit papers via _http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011_.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2011 Author notification: April 4, 2011 Final copy due: April 25, 2011

MINI-TRACK CHAIR

Boris Otto

Assistant Professor & Head of Competence Center Corporate Data Quality University of St. Gallen, Institute of Information Management

Visiting Research Fellow Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

E-mail: Boris.Otto@unisg.ch Tel.: +1-603-646-8991