---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: GITM 2002 CFP: A Global E-Sourcing and Application Service Providers Track Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:34:47 -0500 From: "Dr. Lei-da Chen" lchen@CREIGHTON.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE TRACK Global E-sourcing and Application Service Providers (ASP) Track Chair: Lei-da Chen

(Please send the track chair an email at lchen@creighton.edu indicating your intent to submit a paper to this track)

Third Annual GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (GITM) WORLD CONFERENCE FOR ALL "INTERNATIONAL" IS/IT RESEARCHERS, EDUCATORS AND PROFESSIONALS on June 23, 24, 25, 2002 in New York, NY, USA http://www.uncg.edu/bae/isom/gitma/gitma3.htm

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 15, 2001 (to be received by this date). Please submit directly to the Conference Chair: Prashant Palvia. For timely processing, we have an all-electronic review process. Therefore, an electronic submission is strongly recommended (email: pcpalvia@uncg.edu). If not possible, please mail 4 copies to the following address and make sure it arrives by the deadline. Please include your email address along with the submission.

Dr. Prashant Palvia Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor ISOM Department Bryan School of Business & Economics University of North Carolina - Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA Email: pcpalvia@uncg.edu Ph: 336-334-5666 Fax: 336-334-4083 http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/palvia/

TRACK DESCRIPTION:

The growth of the Internet and its acceptance among both organizations and end users has paved the way to the rise of ASP vendors. ASP vendors are companies that deliver and manage applications and computer services from remote data centers to multiple users via the Internet. According to Gartner Group, the ASP market will reach $25 billion by 2004 compared to $3.5 billion in year 2000. The major service categories dominating the ASP market include business application hosting, ERP, E-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), digital content storage, Web hosting, and wireless applications. ASP vendors make these applications available to be accessed by their clients via the Internet or the dedicated communication networks. The ASP service delivery model allows ASP vendors to reduce the cost of services through the economy of scale, and at the same time, the valuable resources of the ASP clients can be freed up to focus on their core competencies. Moreover, this model reduces the importance of national boundaries in service providing and allows an increasing level of global IT service delivery not seen before. ASP model differs from the traditional outsourcing in a number of aspects including the types of applications, client organizations, methods of service delivery, pricing structure, contractual agreement, and client-vendor relationships. Therefore, it offers new and fruitful areas for academic research opportunities. This track provides researchers worldwide with a forum for further exploring these issues related to global e-sourcing and ASP.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

Papers (completed or in-progress: about 20 double spaced pages), extended abstracts (completed or in-progress research: about 4-6 pages), panel and workshop proposals (2-4 pages) dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics are invited. Please mention the name of this track on the cover page.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Opportunities and difficulties in global e-sourcing - Global B2B services - ASP value chain analysis - Global business and technical collaboration - Service Level Agreement (SLA) and contractual issues in global e-sourcing and ASP - Global e-sourcing and ASP business models - Client-vendor relationships in global e-sourcing and ASP - Cultural issues in global outsourcing - Security issues in global e-sourcing and ASP - Service quality issues in global e-sourcing and ASP - Issues in global e-sourcing planning

JOURNAL PUBLICATION:

Papers recommended of high quality by the reviewers will be further considered for publication on an expedited basis in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) and the Journal of Information Technology Cases & Applications (JITCA).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2001 (to be received by this date) Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2001 Final Submission Due: January 31, 2002 Registration Deadline for one author of each paper and panelists: February 15, 2002 Early Registration Deadline: April 30, 2002 (at least one author must register) Conference Dates: June 23, 24, 25, 2002

INQUIRIES:

For additional information, please contact the conference chair, local chair, program co-chairs or the track chairs.

Conference Chair: Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, USA. Email: pcpalvia@uncg.edu Local Chair: Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University, New York, 11549 USA Email: khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu

TRACK CHAIR:

Lei-da Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Information Systems and Technology College of Business Administration Creighton University 2500 California Plaza Creighton University Omaha, NE 68178 (402) 280-2614 Email: lchen@creighton.edu Url: http://www.creighton.edu/~lchen

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