-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HICSS 2021 CFP Integration to Digital Platforms and infrastructures Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 12:32:46 +0000 From: Samuli Pekkola (TAU) samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

********** ULTIMATE FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **********

Integration to Digital Platforms and infrastructures -minitrack

In the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54) Conference

January 5-8 2021 in Grand Hyatt Kauai

********** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2020 **********

After a successful minitrack in HICSS-53, we are organizing this minitrack again. As part of the Organisational systems and technology track (http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/organizational-systems-and-technology/), we seek new research describing different issues and solutions in integrating to digital platforms. The submissions can be research papers, case studies, novel designs, or practitioner reports on topics including:

* Strategic choices in joining infrastructures * Technology choices in joining infrastructures * Methods for assessing infrastructures when planning either to join or to leave them * Risks of being too dependent of a closed infrastructure * Risks of open infrastructures * Risks of declining or dying infrastructures * Empirical studies and experiences on benefits, risks, challenges or practices in joining or being connected to infrastructures * Systems and software development and development practices when joining infrastructures * IT management practices in the context of digital infrastructures * Organizational consequences of using external infrastructures

Evolving digital platforms, or infrastructures, (such as the smart grid, Google services, cloud platforms, Amazon, Facebook, e-health, Internet of Things platforms, etc.) are deeply intertwined to the everyday life of businesses and citizens. We claim that in the future the success of businesses and public sector organizations is dependent on their ability to harness both new technology and its social capacities. These digital capabilities are afforded by the platforms. The platforms are often global, remote, and nearly invisible, and thus they cannot be controlled by people utilizing them. In addition, digital infrastructures may change or evolve, and include unknown security risks and strategic threads. Managing these changes, risks and opportunities is challenging for any local developer, or user, of different kinds of digital products and services. At the same time readily, available global platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google apps, Facebook APIs to name a few) offer enormous power for even the smallest developer and user organizations.

The minitrack focuses on actors that do not own or are not able to establish their own infrastructures or platforms. They are often referred to as non-focal actors (Selander et al. 2013). A non-focal actor is at the periphery of a digital platform. The objective is to understand and demonstrate how these local actors can benefit from the strategic use of existing and coming digital infrastructures .The platform is not dependent on a single non-focal actor and, in principle, a non-focal actor may choose to which platforms it connects. However, to survive and succeed in their business, non-focal actors need to integrate to platforms owned and managed by others. Often there are no alternatives, as global platforms have a tendency to form monopolies because of the winner-takes-it-all economics. From the non-focal perspective, the process of development and integration is reactive where most development is done against the changes in the capabilities of the infrastructure, or to provide a match between the infrastructure and the business need (Henfridsson & Bygstad 2013).

References Henfridsson, Ola, & Bygstad, Bendik. (2013). The generative mechanisms of digital infrastructure evolution. MIS quarterly, 37(3), 907-931. Selander, Lisen, Henfridsson, Ola, & Svahn, Fredrik. (2013). Capability search and redeem across digital ecosystems. Journal of Information Technology, 28(3), 183-197.

Submission & conference information, see http://hicss.hawaii.edu

********** MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS **********

Samuli Pekkola (Primary Contact) Tampere University samuli.pekkola@tuni.fimailto:samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi

Matti Rossi Aalto University matti.rossi@aalto.fimailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi

Kari Smolander LUT University kari.smolander@lut.fimailto:kari.smolander@lut.fi

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Samuli Pekkola

Professor, Adjunct Professor, PhD Information and Knowledge Management, Organizational Information Systems

Faculty of Management and Business Tampere University PO Box 541, 33101 Tampere, Finland t: +358 (0)40 586 0791 e: samuli.pekkola@tuni.fimailto:samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi twitter: SamuliPekkola

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