[AISWorld] EJIS Special Issue on Transforming Decision-Making Processes

Mon Aug 1 02:16:04 EDT 2011

Dear Colleagues,

Guest Editors for the European Journal of Information Systems' Special Issue on "Transforming Decision-Making Processes: The Next IS Frontier" will be available to meet with prospective authors at the forthcoming conferences. Rajeev Sharma (rajeev at uow.edu.au<mailto:rajeev at uow.edu.au>) will be available at AMCIS and Atreyi Kankanhalli (atreyi at comp.nus.edu.sg<mailto:atreyi at comp.nus.edu.sg>) will be available at the Academy of Management Meeting.

The Special Issue focuses on the roles of business analytics and business intelligence technologies in transforming decision-making processes and contributing to organizational performance.

The Call for Papers is available on http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/CFP_EJIS_TDM.pdf.

Dr. Rajeev Sharma
Associate Professor
School of Information Systems and Technology
Faculty of Informatics
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia.
CRICOS Provider No: 00102E

email: rajeev at uow.edu.au<mailto:rajeev at uow.edu.au>
phone: +61-2-4221 3286
url: http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/sisat/index.html<http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/sisat/index.html>

Call for Papers
European Journal of Information Systems
(www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/index.html<http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/index.html>)

Special Issue on
Transforming Decision-Making Processes: The Next IS Frontier
The potential of information systems (IS) to improve decision-making and organizational
performance has been recognized since the early days of IS research. Research and practitioner
interest in this area has been re-invigorated by recent advances in business analytics and business
intelligence (BAI) technologies. BAI systems promise to deliver quantum gains by transforming
organizational decision-making processes. This is similar to the promise of enterprise systems,
which delivered quantum improvements in performance by transforming business processes.
Spending on these technologies is expected to exceed $50 billion in the next few years.

Indeed, after business process transformation, transforming decision-making processes may be
the next frontier for IS. However, despite a long-standing research tradition investigating the role
of IS in decision-making, including those at the strategic and board level, there is little
understanding of how BAI systems may transform decision-making processes, generate
improvements in organizational performance, and serve as a source of competitive advantage.

The theoretical issues raised in the study of BAI systems parallel those investigated in the
research on enterprise systems, and also go beyond those previously examined. Research into
enterprise systems has highlighted the roles of organizational transformation, process integration,
structural change and management support, among others, in capturing benefits from enterprise
systems. Adding further complexity, BAI systems involve boundedly rational decision-makers,
and decision-making and resource allocation processes embedded in highly institutionalized
organizational contexts. The organizational issues in transforming decision-making processes
may be different and even more complex than those involved in transforming business processes.

We solicit papers for this Special Issue that advance the above research agenda. A number of
theoretical perspectives may fruitfully inform this stream of research, including, but not limited
to dynamic capabilities, configuration theory, organizational transformation, structural
contingency theory, structuration theory, institutional theory, organizational culture, managerial
decision-making, group decision-making, resource-based theory, IS implementation theory,
organizational performance and competitive advantage. We welcome both qualitative and
quantitative research papers. We also welcome theoretical papers that have a clear relevance to
managerial practice.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Role of IS in managerial search for problems and solutions
Role of information in managerial decision-making and strategy formulation
Organizational systems for actioning managerial decisions
Transformation of decision-making processes, resource allocation processes and
organizational structures
Role of IS-enabled decision-making processes in organizational performance
Impact of BAI systems on decision-making cycle times, competitive response cycle
times, quality of decisions, competitive actions and competitive advantage
Change management for BAI systems
BAI systems and organizational strategy
Sectoral studies (e.g. retail, health care, government etc.) of use of BAI systems

Special Issue Guest Editors
Rajeev Sharma, University of Wollongong (rajeev at uow.edu.au<mailto:rajeev at uow.edu.au>)
Sunil Mithas, University of Maryland
Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore

Special Issue Editorial Board
Frederic Adam, University College Cork
Sven Carlsson, Lund University
Kunsoo Han, McGill University
Hee-Woong Kim, Yonsei University
Lakshmi Iyer, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Uday Kulkarni, Arizona State University
Jan Marco Leimeister, Universität Kassel
Fiona Nah, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University
Narayan Ramsubbu, Singapore Management University
Nilesh Saraf, Simon Fraser University
Ali Tafti, University of Illinois
Huseyin Tanriverdi, University of Texas Austin
Jonathan Whitaker, University of Richmond
C. Jason Woodard, Singapore Management University

Key Dates and Submission Guidelines
* Papers may be submitted to the special issue any time before February 1, 2012.
* Submit using the EJIS online paper submission system (Select the "TDM" Special Issue during
submission) at http://ejis.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex.
* Papers should be no longer than 8000 words. Follow the EJIS formatting guidelines at
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/author_instructions.html.
The guest editors will screen all submissions before sending papers out for review.

Dr. Rajeev Sharma
Associate Professor
School of Information Systems and Technology
Faculty of Informatics
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia.
CRICOS Provider No: 00102E

email: rajeev at uow.edu.au
phone: +61-2-4221 3286
url: http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/sisat/index.html<http://www.uow.edu.au/informatics/sisat/index.html>

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