[AISWorld] second CfP: AMCIS 2011 Minitrack on Stakeholder Involvement in Systems Development

[Heinz Roland Weistroffer]

2nd Call for Papers

Minitrack: User Involvement in Systems Development and Improvement

Track: Systems Analysis and Design (SAND)

AMCIS 2011 August 4-7, 2011


Minitrack Co-chairs:

H. Roland Weistroffer

Virginia Commonwealth University

hrweistr at vcu.edu

Angela Mattia

Jacksonville University

amattia at ju.edu

User involvement in information systems (IS) development and  
implementation is generally considered essential for a successful  
development process and outcome. However, research on the impact of  
user participation or involvement on system success has been mixed,  
and there is no agreement on how to make user or other stakeholder  
involvement as effective as possible. In addition, today IS  
development environments (agile development methods, open source,  
service-oriented architecture, etc.) are very different from the  
environments in previous decades, perhaps making many common  
assumptions on effective stakeholder involvement and user  
participation obsolete. It has also been proposed that perhaps, rather  
than looking at user participation or involvement in information  
system development, it would be more useful to look at project  
collaboration in the improvement of technology reliant work systems.

The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for scholars to  
re-examine the theoretical and practical issues related to user  
participation, stakeholder involvement, and project collaboration in  
systems development in light of the changing environments.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* User involvement in different project environments or development  
settings

* Nature and style of effective user involvement under various  
conditions

* Case studies of participation or collaboration in systems design and/ 
or implementation

* Social network analysis of participation during system design and/or  
implementation

* User involvement in the design and/or implementation of websites  
that use social media

* Project management strategies for user collaboration and/or  
stakeholder involvement

* The developer viewpoint of user participation

* User Participation and data quality issues

* User participation as a way to accelerate user acceptance

* Stakeholder involvement and its relationship to operational issues  
in IS projects

* User participation and its relationship to different political  
environments

* The effect of user attitude during IS design and/or implementation

* Stakeholder involvement and its relationship to realistic user  
expectations

* User participation and its relationship to budget and schedule  
performance in IS projects

* Stakeholder involvement and its relationship to effective  
relationship management

* Individual and organizational awareness of the need for user  
involvement

* Procedural guidance on how to foster user participation or  
collaboration

* Stakeholder involvement and the affect on productivity

* IS development participants and their use of formal modeling tools

* User participation techniques during the requirement elicitation  
process

Important dates:

February 28, 2011 Deadline for paper submissions

April 4, 2011  Notification of acceptance of papers

April 25, 2011  Final copy due

August 4-7, 2011 Conference

Instructions for authors:

The maximum length for papers is 5000 words. Please go to the AMCIS  
2011 Web site at http://amcis2011.aisnet.org for formatting and  
submission instructions.