-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: The International Workshop on Software-as-a-Service Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:01:04 +0000 From: Luoma Eetu eetu.luoma@jyu.fi To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Call for Papers

The International Workshop on Software-as-a-Service Co-located with the International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB-13) Potsdam, Germany, 11-14th of June, 2013

http://icsob.it.jyu.fi/saasws/ Papers due: March 18, 2013

Workshop focus and topics:

This workshop aims at advancing and communicating the scientific and industrial research on the type of software provisioning characterized by one-to-many delivery over the Internet. The workshop focuses on economic and business management aspects of the Software-as-a-Service phenomenon, exploring both client and provider standpoints.

Research on the economic and business management aspects of SaaS has been called for by several scholars. Suggested viewpoints in the literature include pricing and marketing strategies, organizational structures, technology adoption, contractual and regulatory issues, IT business alignment and technology diffusion. Similarly, SaaS entrepreneurs and managers in SaaS firms are keen to learn about the market evolution, competition and best practices in configuring their business models, about functioning marketing and sales channels, as well as about fine-tuning their pricing models software products and service offerings.

The International Workshop on Software-as-a-Service aims to advance the body of knowledge in this multidisciplinary field by providing researchers and practitioners with a community and forum to contribute, discuss and learn about the latest results and progress. The first workshop shall address the current state, unsolved issues and future developments of the SaaS business.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Descriptive literature reviews and identification of a future research agenda • Classifications of SaaS firms • Novel approaches to observing and analyzing SaaS firms • Overview of the Software-as-a-Service market • Regulation of Cloud Computing services and its impact on SaaS business • SaaS adoption in organizations and diffusion • SaaS and IT business alignment in client organizations • Transformation of business models towards SaaS • Critical success factors for SaaS business models • Managing SaaS products and services • Channels for marketing, sales and distribution • Business and legal issues of SaaS firms • SaaS start-ups; Entrepreneurship, growth and organizational structure • Case studies on success factors or failures • Risks of SaaS offerings and adoption • Software-as-a-Service in the context of IS strategy

Submissions:

We invite full research papers of 12 pages and industry presentations (abstract). Research papers are formatted using Springer LNBIP template.

All submissions must relate to the workshop objective and broad topic coverage. The articles should communicate their content to both scientific and industry audiences. In accordance with academic and professional protocols, the workshop only accepts original articles, which have not been published before, or are currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. We aim at an acceptance rate of roughly 40 percent (depending on the volume and quality of the submissions).

Accepted full papers will be included in the ICSOB conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the workshop and present the paper).

Workshop chairs:

Peter Buxmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Eetu Luoma, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Program committee:

Alexander Benlian, TU Darmstadt, Germany Thomas Hess, LMU Munich, Germany Jari Kekkonen, Ixonos Plc, Finland Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arto Ojala, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Karl Michael Popp, SAP AG, Germany Antti Pietilä, Loyalistic, Finland Mikko Rönkkö, Aalto University, Finland Harald Schöning, Software AG, Germany Inge van de Weerd, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Important dates:

Paper submissions due: March 18th, 2013 Notification: April 22nd, 2013 Camera-ready: May 10th, 2013 ICSOB-13 Conference: June 11-14, 2013

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