-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers -PACIS 2022 - Track on IS Sourcing in the digital Age, submission deadline March 1st, 2022 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 18:40:53 +0000 From: Ilan Oshri ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nz To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

PACIS Track: IS sourcing in the digital age

Track Description In the digital age, organizations are faced with the challenge of adapting their IS sourcing practices to a number of major changes (Dibbern et al. 2020). First, digital technologies increasingly permeate the processes, products, and services of companies (Venkatraman 2017)?including those IS services and products offered by a vibrant and increasingly complex ecosystem of external service providers that includes consulting companies, standard software providers, specialized development firms, and digital giants. Second, the digital transformation entails a number of concurrent technological shifts such as the rise of AI and new architectural paradigms (e.g., microservices, low-code platforms, and serverless computing) that fundamentally change the nature of the task that is being sourced (Willcocks et al. 2016), reconfigure firm boundaries, and add further complexity to the already confusing number of alternative sourcing arrangements (Lacity et al. 2010; Oshri et al. 2019, Nevo and Kotlarsky, 2020) and governance mechanisms (Benaroch et al. 2016; Gregory et al. 2013; Huber et al. 2013; Kotlarsky et al. 2018; Wiener et al. 2016). Furthermore, with the growing popularity of data-driven business models issues associated with data sourcing are becoming more prevailed (Wiener et al. 2020). To respond to these changes, sourcing professionals will have to adapt their decision and governance practices?offering unique opportunities for researchers to advance understanding of the evolution and socio-technical underpinnings of sourcing practices (Sarker et al. 2019). This track welcomes papers that improve our understanding of how, why, and under what conditions sourcing can make a positive contribution to the digital transformation of firms. We welcome all types of research, including empirical, conceptual, and simulation-based studies that address social, technical, and socio-technical aspects of IS sourcing. We also welcome ?focus on practice? submissions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* In-depth investigations into the complexities and dynamics of sourcing practices * Sourcing as driver of digital transformation processes * Sourcing of innovative, AI-powered systems, including studies investigating new AI-specific managerial practices such as data governance, management of (algorithmic) learning processes, and the management of autonomous agents (e.g., robots) * Technology-driven changes in sourcing practices including studies exploring how increasingly autonomous systems and/or new architectural innovations transform sourcing decision making and sourcing governance * Sourcing configurations and sourcing arrangements for the digital age (multi-sourcing, plural sourcing, crowdsourcing, cloudsourcing, etc.) * Supplier and client capabilities and competences for the digital age * Sourcing governance and in particular studies investigating change processes, holistic configurations of governance mechanisms, and interactions between them * Sourcing eco-system * Data sourcing * Backsourcing/re-shoring decisions driven by the digital transformation and in particular the changing role of IS * Sourcing of knowledge-intensive and innovative IS services and products * Emerging topics and concepts in sourcing not covered above

Full paper submission deadline: March 1st, 2022

Link: https://pacis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-...https://pacis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-20<https://pacis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-...https://pacis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-20>

Track Chairs: Ilan Oshri University of Auckland, New Zealand ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nzmailto:ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nzmailto:ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nzmailto:ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nz Rong Du Xidian University, Xi?an, China durong@mail.xidian.edu.cnmailto:durong@mail.xidian.edu.cnmailto:durong@mail.xidian.edu.cnmailto:durong@mail.xidian.edu.cn Derek Wenyu Du Beihang University, Beijing, China duwenyu@buaa.edu.cnmailto:duwenyu@buaa.edu.cnmailto:duwenyu@buaa.edu.cnmailto:duwenyu@buaa.edu.cn Fang Su Jinan University, Guangzhou, China sufang2017@jnu.edu.cnmailto:sufang2017@jnu.edu.cnmailto:sufang2017@jnu.edu.cnmailto:sufang2017@jnu.edu.cn _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org