[AISWorld] CfP: Enterprise Systems and Organizational Issue in IS Track - AMCIS 2011

Fri Feb 11 20:12:08 EST 2011

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17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Enterprise Systems and Organizational Issues in IS Track (and associated
mini-tracks)

August 4-7, 2011

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Enterprise Systems and Organizational Issues in IS Track

Track Chairs:

Anandhi Bharadwaj

Emory University

Marcus Rothenberger

UNLV

Norbert Gronau

University of Potsdam, Germany

TRACK INFORMATION

We are pleased to announce a track on Enterprise Systems and Organizational
Issues in at the upcoming 17th Annual Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS 2011) to be held in Detroit, Michigan.

The use and management of information systems have substantial impact on
organizational competitiveness and success. This may occur through the
effects of the information technologies employed on the organization as a
whole or individuals interacting with the organization. This track solicits
research concerned with the organizational issues in information systems and
information technology. Papers submitted to mini‐tracks may have the
organizational‐level as the unit of analysis or may focus on individual‐
level impacts in connection with organizational issues. We invite you to
submit your original research to one of the following mini-tracks.

Mini-track One: Organizations, Information Systems, and Competitiveness

Mini-track Chairs:

 <mailto:Pratyush.Bharati at umb.edu> Pratyush Bharati

University of Massachusetts

 <mailto:achaudhu at bryant.edu> Abhijit Chaudhury

Bryant University

Information systems (IS) are integral to providing organizations a
sustainable competitive advantage. According to strategy scholars,
competitive advantage lies in value activities as a mutually reinforcing
system and not separately in its parts. Information systems are the glue
that makes a disparate system of activities an integrated and interlocking
whole. With less successful firms persistently imitating winners, winning
firms have to engage in a continuous quest to strategically relocate,
reorder, and regroup their activities to retain their competitive lead. New
systems of activities lead to organizations with novel capabilities and
characteristics. Firms employ information technologies to not just redesign
and refocus their value-chain but also to create new knowledge and to
innovate. The need of IS, in the era of increased globalization, is most
evident in multinational corporations' (MNCs) organizing their value-chain
spanning the world. Information systems enable MNCs to develop a sustainable
competitive advantage through this trans-national strategy. Information
systems scholarship has focused on individual and group level issues of
organizations. Studies focusing on organizational characteristics and IS
architectures are now coming into vogue. The mini-track will provide an
opportunity for presentation and discussion on issues pertaining to
organizations and IS and their mutual impact on firms’ competitiveness. The
authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work on
organizations, information systems and competitiveness.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Organizational IS diffusion and assimilation;
*	Operational efficiency and IS;
*	Firm-level e-Business challenges;
*	IS enabled firm capability issues;
*	Organizational IS, suppliers, and customers;
*	Institutional environment, organizations and competitiveness;
*	Organizations, IS and B2B/B2C contexts;
*	Firm level challenges of enterprise resource planning (ERP);
*	Knowledge management and IT strategy;
*	Open-source software and competition;
*	Case studies of organizational IS issues;
*	Innovative qualitative studies of organizational challenges;
*	IS strategy implementation and competitive advantage;
*	MNCs and global IT strategy;
*	Outsourcing strategy and IS;
*	Industry-specific IS strategies; and
*	Aligning IS and strategy for competitiveness.

Mini-track Two: Enterprise Systems Adoption and Business Models

Minitrack Chairs

 <mailto:eisoja at cyf-kr.edu.pl> Piotr Soja

Cracow University of Economics

 <mailto:andresen at tfh-berlin.de> Katja Andresen

Technical University of Applied Science Berlin

 <mailto:Carsten.brockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de> Carsten Brockmann

University of Potsdam

 <mailto:roztockn at newpaltz.edu> Roztocki, Narcyz

State University of New York at New Paltz

This mini-track recognizes modeling methods and languages’ importance and
continued relevance to the systems development process. The mini-track
highlights the ongoing growth and creativity in this field. Having been a
successful AMCIS and SIGSAND component since 2003, the mini-track provides a
forum for researchers, educators, and practitioners working in the areas of
systems analysis and design, method engineering, and modeling language
development, use, modification, and assessment. This mini-track also serves
as an outlet for studies in theory development, design science, and
behavioral science. An objective is to work toward a more standardized set
of concepts which would in turn benefit researchers, educators, and
practitioners in this field. In that light we welcome both technical and
empirical pieces, and are open to all aspect of research methods (e.g.,
survey, experimentation, case studies, action research, etc.).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Advances in ER Modeling
*	Advances in Process based modeling
*	Database Systems and Technologies
*	Enterprise Modeling
*	Database Modeling Languages
*	Modeling Cloud Computing Architectures
*	Service Oriented Architecture/Service Oriented Computing
*	Modeling Web Services
*	Modeling E-Commerce Architectures
*	Modeling E-Commerce, M-Commerce, and U-Commerce
*	Object-Oriented Modeling (e.g., UML)
*	Requirements Engineering
*	Method Engineering

Mini-track Three: Enterprise Systems Education

Minitrack Chairs

 <mailto:g.stewart at qut.edu.au> Glenn Stewart

QUT

 <mailto:w.bandara at qut.edu.au> Wasana Bandara

QUT

 <mailto:p.hawking at vu.edu.au> Paul Hawking

Victoria University

Enterprise Systems education has been a topic of interest for academics
since the early 1990’s. Since that time, academics have been developing
innovative curriculum to introduce their students to the business processes
inherent in Enterprise Systems, the functionality of the systems, the
architecture of such systems and how to implement Enterprise Systems.
Recently, the issues of teaching the technology of business intelligence has
been of great interest as well as teaching how to use such systems in
business decision making. Finally, the underlying business processes have
been of interest to many faculty and formal courses in business process
modelling, business process management and workflow systems have been
developed.

The purpose of this mini--‐track is to give academics an opportunity to
share their innovations in Enterprise Systems Education and to discuss the
future of enterprise systems and BPM education.

Topics include:

*	Model curriculum
*	Improving engagement of students through use of enterprise systems.
*	Industry projects in Enterprise Systems, Business Process
Management, Enterprise Architecture or workflow.
*	Future directions in enterprise systems education.
*	Research into effectiveness of curriculum, teaching or learning
using enterprise systems, business process management, workflow or
enterprise architecture.

Model curriculum areas include:

*	Enterprise systems, including the functional perspective, the
business process perspective and the work flow perspective.
*	Process modelling.
*	Process management.
*	Extended enterprise systems including supply chain, customer
relationship management, supplier relationship management, business
intelligence.
*	Product life cycle management and strategic enterprise management.
*	Enterprise systems implementation.
*	Enterprise Architectures.

For papers dealing with model curriculum, authors should present its
purpose, relationship to source curriculum guidelines, curriculum design and
effectiveness measures used in evaluating the offerings.

Mini-track Four: Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Success

Minitrack Chairs

 <mailto:carsten.brockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de> Carsten Brockmann

University of Potsdam

 <mailto:loos at iwi.uni-sb.de> Peter Loos

Saarland University

Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process of developing an enterprise
Information Technology architecture - both its description and its
implementation. An EA description focuses on a holistic and integrated view
of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are used
for within an organization. An enterprise architect (and his/her team)
develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, developing,
and deploying IT systems to support the business operations as well as to
assess, select, and integrate the technology into the organization’s
infrastructure. Alignment between business and IT has remained one of the
top three issues for CIOs and IS managers for several years as reported by
CIO magazine.

An EA implementation focuses on remediating, renovating, or replacing IT
systems in compliance with the EA description to achieve the proposed
benefits. EA is central to the execution of business strategies.
Organizations vary in their degree of EA maturity. While the research
literature has devoted substantial attention to the development of effective
EA frameworks and the alignment of business and IT, there is very little
empirical evidence about the organizational benefits of EA. For example, we
know very little about which processes, approaches or coordination practices
lead to an effective architecting effort or whether this effort leads to
measurable organizational benefits. Consequently, we are soliciting paper
submissions that advance our knowledge of EA; help us learn about effective
processes and approaches to effectively manage the EA; and begin to identify
ways to measure the organizational benefits derived from EA.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Architecting Processes, Methodologies and Practices
*	Architectural Frameworks and Theory
*	Tools and Techniques Supporting Architecting
*	Service-Oriented Architectures (including Web Services)
*	System versus Software Architectures
*	Addressing EA Challenges
*	Integration of EA with IT Governance and SOA
*	Surveys and Case Studies
*	EA and Organizational Success

MiniTrack Five: Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning Through Technology

Minitrack Chairs

 <mailto:kurbel.bi at uni-ffo.de> Karl E. Kurbel

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

 <mailto:jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de> Jorge C. Marx Gomez

Carl von Ossietzky University

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved from large
monolithic systems to more and more fragmented systems distributing just
about any aspect of a system: functions, processes, data, hardware and
infrastructure. This change has gone hand in hand with the incorporation of
more and more business functionality into ERP. Starting from material
requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II),
the financial and human resources functions as well as executive information
systems and eventually long-term strategic planning support for senior
management have been included. These developments have made an ERP system
"the" core information system of an organization - and the technological
backbone that other information systems need to collaborate with. ERP
related functionality such as supply chain management (SCM), customer
relationship management (CRM) and supplier relationship management (SRM) is
either integrated, embedded or closely coupled with an ERP system.

Software, hardware and networking technology has enabled the increased
importance of ERP systems, but it also posed technological and managerial
challenges. In contrast to the early ERP monoliths, we nowadays have
distributed architectures - both conventional in-house architectures such as
client-server and service oriented architectures (SOA) as well as externally
hosted architectures used by application-service-providing (ASP) and
software-on-demand solutions. With the appearance of mobile commerce,
software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches and cloud computing, additional
challenges have emerged.

Technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) have opened up
new opportunities for an organization to act and react in real-time. RFID,
smart items and the "Internet of things" impose new requirements on ERP
systems, such as being capable of context-aware information processing.

For the new technologies to be successfully implemented, security issues
need to be resolved and a satisfactory level of trust in the technologies
has to be created. The major vendors' inability to generate significant
revenue from software-on-demand solutions indicates that businesses are not
ready yet to adopt out-of-house ERP solutions on a large-scale basis. The
hurdle is likely to be even higher when anonymous providers of
infrastructure and services come into the game, as is the case with cloud
computing. Organizations seem to be hesitant about having their
mission-critical business processes run somewhere out in a "cloud" and
maintaining their core business data in a nirvana. The rationale of this
minitrack is exploration of new technologies that can further enhance
enterprise resource planning. We invite papers that pursue a constructionist
approach to information systems development, following an engineering-like
or design-science research style. Papers presenting the development of
prototypes as a proof of concept are welcome. Technology-oriented papers
should give consideration to the business value of the proposed approaches
or solutions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Architectures for ERP and related business information systems
*	ERP systems based on service oriented architectures (SOA)
*	Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for ERP and related areas
*	Orchestrating an ERP system from web services/enterprise services
*	ERP on demand for small and medium-size enterprises
*	Federated ERP systems, standardization and collaboration issues
*	ERP and cloud computing
*	Impact of virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service on ERP
*	Integrating RFID solutions with ERP
*	Impact of the "Internet of things" on future ERP systems
*	Integrating legacy ERP systems with new components using
state-of-the-art technologies
*	Mobile ERP and related areas such as mobile SCM, mobile CRM and
mobile SRM
*	Security issues and trust in new technologies for enterprise
resource planning

MiniTrack Six: IS for the Non-Profit Sector

Minitrack Chairs

 <mailto:abhatt at usf.edu> Anol Bhattacherjee

University of South Florida

 <mailto:rlee at psu.edu> Roderick L. Lee

The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg

The non-profit sector represents a substantial part of the US economy (5% of
the GDP). While the penetration of information systems and information
technologies (IS/IT) among non-profit organizations has been increasing,
studies have consistently shown that non-profits lag behind their
counterparts in the private and public sectors with respect to IS/IT
adoption and strategic use. This phenomenon has been coined the
organizational digital divide - the inequalities between organizations in
society that can strategically use IS/IT to advance their mission and those
that cannot.

The non-profit sector in the United States consists of over 1.5 million
organizations. In response to the economic recession, these non-profits are
increasingly being called upon to provide essential programs and services
that the public and private sectors cannot or will not provide. However, the
current operating environment of the non-profit sector has become
increasingly more complex and challenging. While some non-profit
organizations have benefited from new advances in IS/IT, many struggle to
manage their technical infrastructures. These challenges bring great
opportunities for IS research and practice.

The purpose of this mini-track is to provide researchers with a forum for
presentation and discussion of the key issues and challenges related to the
adoption and strategic use of IS/IT by non-profit organizations. Authors are
encouraged to submit papers on IS/IT issues within the non-profit context.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	Theoretical perspectives and frameworks describing the
organizational digital divide.
*	Barriers to IS/IT diffusion and adoption among non-profit
organizations.
*	IS/IT planning and management in non-profit organizations.
*	Design, implementation, and use of IS/IT to improve non-profit
organizations’ social mission.
*	Strategic uses of IS/IT among nonprofit organizations.
*	Alignment of IS/IT strategy and non-profit organization’s social
mission.
*	Measuring effectiveness of IS/IT use in nonprofit organizations.
*	Issues related to improving sustainable practices in the non-profit
sector.
*	Methods and techniques for helping non-profit managers exploit the
potential of IS/IT.
*	IS/IT to support creativity and innovation in non-profits.

MiniTrack Seven: Implementing and Supporting End-user Technologies (with a
special focus on industry specific issues and applications)

Minitrack Chair

 <mailto:brookshire at sc.edu> Dr. Robert Brookshire

University of South Carolina

IT is transforming how business and government enterprises operate and, as a
result, how people work. Although computing devices have become ubiquitous
in the workplace, IT applications seldom are used to their potential. As
tools continue to become more powerful and easier to use, end-user computing
represents a growing proportion of all enterprise computing. The study of
EIS is a multidisciplinary field, demanding a combination of organizational
savvy, business knowledge, and technical competence, but not necessarily
computer programming skills. The focus is on providing systems that directly
support individual, group, and departmental needs. It involves implementing,
managing, and supporting computing in the workplace by non-IS technical
specialists. We are particularly interested in field research that addresses
how organizations marry information technology with business process to
transform business products and services.