[AISWorld] Pre-ICIS 2010 SIM Academic Workshop - Call for Papers

[El Sawy, Omar A]

Pre-ICIS Academic Workshop 2010 and Special MISQE Dec. 2011 Issue

"New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital World"

Sponsored by the Society for Information Management (SIM) and MIS
Quarterly Executive (MISQE)
December 11th 2010, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Central Hyatt Regency. St. Louis at the Arch

You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the pre-ICIS 2010
SIM Academic Workshop to be held from 10am-5pm on Saturday, December
11th, at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, St. Louis, MO. This
year's workshop will include invited and competitive paper presentations
that focus on the theme: New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital World.
 
In today's world we see information technologies increasingly embedded
in organizations' products, processes and decisions.  Trends in the use
of the Internet for multimedia, scalable platforms, analytical software,
wireless technologies and internetworking are changing the way business
is conducted.   Collectively, these trends indicate that there is
greater potential to leverage advantages of digitalization.  But what
does this mean for IT management roles in the company?  What does this
mean for C-level roles?  What does it mean for middle management roles?
Are there newer types of management roles emerging? Are there new ways
to manage IT and business relationships to create new digital value? How
can companies effectively and efficiently leverage these resources?

For this pre-ICIS workshop we are seeking "research for practice" papers
that address the changing role of management in today's increasingly
digital world.  We are defining management broadly - to include not only
C-level roles but the spectrum of roles involving the management of the
IT resource and its relationship with business.  We are particularly
interested in field research that reveals the challenges faced by
managers due to increasing IT embeddedness, and ways of dealing with
these challenges.  These ways could be new or learned from emerging
technology management and e-business innovations of the recent past.
Submissions viewed most favorably will be those that provide interesting
frameworks, rich illustrations and practices that can be applied by
other companies.
  
Themes to be addressed include but are not restricted to:
* Changing roles of C-level and mid-level IS managers
* Changing roles of C-level and mid-level business managers due to IT
embeddedness
* Challenges faced by IS managers due to new digital initiatives
* New ways of fostering IS-business relationships
* CEO management of IS resources in a digital world
* Managing internal and external IT innovation
* Conceiving, managing and evaluating the IT value proposition
* Transformational IS management
* Profiles of successful C-level IS managers


Workshop Deadlines:
* Submit extended paper Abstract (2 pages of text, single spaced):
Friday, October 1st, 2010 
* Notification of workshop acceptance with preliminary editorial
feedback: Monday, November 1st, 2010 

All submissions should be sent to all the Program and Special Issue
Co-Chairs: 
* Varun Grover, Clemson University, vgrover at clemson.edu 
* Elena Karahanna, University of Georgia, ekarah at uga.edu
* Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California,
elsawy at marshall.usc.edu

Workshop registration will be posted on the SIM web site: www.simnet.org

Special Issue of MIS Quarterly Executive for December 2011
We are pleased to announce that the December 2011 issue of MISQ
Executive will be a special issue dedicated to academic research on the
same topic: New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital World. All papers will
be submitted to a regular MISQE review process under the guidance of the
special issue editors.  
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers intended for an IT
executive readership that describe practice-oriented research findings
and guidelines. Authors of accepted SIM Academic Workshop abstracts have
the option of an early full paper submission (January 1st 2011) to
receive preliminary editorial feedback with specific suggestions for
developing their ideas prior to the special issue full paper deadline
open to all researchers. All authors are encouraged to look at prior
published MISQE research articles for presentation models. All prior
articles can be downloaded free by AIS and SIM members at: www.misqe.org

Important Dates: 
Special Issue full paper submission deadline:  February 15th 2011 
First editor reports returned to authors:  April 4th 2011
Resubmission due for selected papers:  June 3rd 2011
Final decisions and editorial suggestions to authors: August 1st 2011 
Final submissions due: September 1st 2011
MISQE editorial work: Completed by October 18th 2011
MISQE publication: December 2011

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Omar A. El Sawy
Professor of Information Systems
USC Marshall School of Business
3670 Trousdale Parkway, Bridge Hall 401-L, Los Angeles, California
90089-1421, USA
elsawy at marshall.usc.edu        Office +1 213.740.4837
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