-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 CfP : *Mini-Track Title: Innovation and Project Management* Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:53:49 -0500 From: Sumantra Sarkar ssarkar@binghamton.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Radu Vlas rvlas@isenberg.umass.edu

**Mini-Track Title: Innovation and Project Management** Track: IT Project Management (SIG ITProjMgmt)

*Description:* Early researchers such as Peter Drucker defined innovation as firm’s ultimate *raison d’être*. Innovation creation is considered to be more the result of a recombination process than of a natural creative process (Fleming and Sorenson 2004). Research in this tradition argues that innovative capabilities are born out of a novel way of combining knowledge (Nelson and Winter 1982) or out of the ability to reconfigure already existing combinations (Henderson and Clark 1990). Overall, the innovation process is difficult, capital intensive, and time consuming. Research acknowledges the criticality of good project management skills in support of technological innovation (Lyytinen and Rose 2003). Artifact innovations (such as Apple iPad, 3D printing, iFit, virtual reality gear) represent the end result of successful projects. It has also been shown that well managed projects foster business innovation (Shenhar and Dvir 2007). In the context of high-tech industries, alliances have been a predominant force driving innovativeness. Partnerships have also been shown to enhance innovative capabilities of organizations through means of resources transfer. With regards to the types of innovation, vast majority of organizations are more likely to sustain incremental (capability-enhancing) rather than radical (capability-destroying) innovations (Anderson and Tushman 1990).

*Call for Papers:* This mini-track seeks high quality research articles (theoretical or empirical) aligning with the objectives of this mini-track that are insightful, coherent and methodically sound. This mini-track is open to various types of research including those that use quantitative, qualitative, and design science approaches.

Topics in this mini-track focus on the exploration of *all aspects of managing innovation and projects*, including but not limited to:

· innovation in healthcare

· security projects and innovation

· innovation and process improvement projects

· knowledge transfer innovation projects

· technology development innovation

· incremental and radical innovation

· innovation through alliance formation

· managing and meeting innovation expectations

· dissemination of innovative project outcomes

*Important Dates:*

* January 7, 2019 - Manuscript Submissions Begin * March 1, 2019 - Manuscript Submissions Due * April 22, 2019 - Notification of Initial Decision

*Submissions may be of two types:*

· Completed Research papers (limit of 10 pages including everything - tables, figures, references, appendices)

· Emergent Research Forum papers (research-in-progress) (limit of 5 pages including everything - tables, figures, references, appendices)

* All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2019 website at https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org

Anderson P, and Tushman ML (1990) Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs: A Cyclical Model of Technological Change. *Administrative Science Quarterly* (35:4):604-633.

Fleming L, and Sorenson O (2004) Science as a Map in Technological Search. *Strategic Management Journal* (25:8-9).

Henderson RM, and Clark KB (1990) Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. *Administrative Science Quarterly* (35:1):9-30.

Lyytinen K, and Rose GM (2003) The Disruptive Nature of Information Technology Innovations: The Case of Internet Computing in Systems Development Organizations. *MIS Quarterly* (27:4):557.

Nelson R, and Winter S (1982). *An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change*, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press:: Cambridge, MA.

Shenhar AJ, and Dvir D (2007). *Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation*, Harvard Business Review Press. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org