[AISWorld] CFP JGIM Special Issue: Business Dynamics and Multinational Enterprise Systems

[William Yu Chung Wang]

Call for Paper Journal of Global Information Management
Special Issue: Business Dynamics and Multinational Enterprise Systems

Guest Editors: 
William Yu Chung Wang (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
David Pauleen (Massey University, New Zealand) 

	Unlike personal software packages, enterprise systems are
normally customized to fit the business scope and strategy and the
designs are based on the development team’s advice and business process
analysis. Existing research has primarily focused on adoption processes
such as the factors of adoption, selection of solutions, and analysis
and design. Though the theoretical lens of information systems adoption
and development cycle can provide a guide for investing in new system
projects; in reality, it does not sufficiently address the impact of
dynamic business environments and new business initiatives during the
post-adoption phase. In fact, business praxis operates in a dynamic
world and organizations face a variety of internally and externally
driven changes. Businesses open and close, market demand goes up and
down and sometimes initiates new enterprise horizons, and innovative
technologies redefine strategies and enhance productivity. Globalization
also makes firms more interconnected, and changes at partners’ sites may
impact operations. Maintaining the expected performance after systems
adoption can be challenging in this dynamic business environment. For
example, a multinational enterprise may relocate part of its operation
or business resources from one country to another (e.g., production or
customer relationship management) necessitating enterprise system
modification, interface redesign (e.g., language issues), business
process reengineering, and/or the recruitment and training of new IT
teams. Mergers and acquisitions are another example when there will be
challenges and decisions around existing enterprise systems to address
changing business needs. 

While industry practitioners and academic researchers fully realize the
importance of investment and adoption of the latest technologies for
quality and productivity improvements, post-implementation issues
associated with these enterprise systems might need equal attention.
Thus, this special issue focuses on the management aspects of enterprise
systems in the post-adoption phase in light of the changes occurring in
dynamic business environments. Submissions are invited to investigate
this phenomenon which can add to the literature and be applied to the
business environment, especially enterprise systems in the multinational
and global context. The prospective topics are not limited to the list
below and all social science research methods are to be considered.
Example topics could be:

•	Research that examines cross-border M&A and the impacts on
information systems management; 
•	Impacts on the enterprise systems based on changes in corporate
strategies;
•	Adjustment of enterprise systems and the associated issues 
caused by virtual, vertical and horizontal integration in the supply
chain ;
•	Projects consolidating pre-established multinational sites;
•	Shifting of business/subordinates, new business processes, and
the turning/reconfiguration of enterprise systems;
•	Changes in information management requirements, such as issues
of data management, information security management, IT staffing, IS
evaluation, maintenance, etc.;
•	Cross-cultural issues in the post-adoption phases of enterprise
systems;
•	Influences on the enterprise systems that are caused by changing
business environments (e.g., economic downturn, governmental policy,
regional issues, and new product/market developments);
•	Factors that influence the decisions at the post adoption stage –
refinement, adjustment, or new adoption. 
•	Change of Buyer/Vendor Relationships and their impacts on the
Enterprise Systems;
•	Models and solutions for the Enterprise Systems of Small and
Medium Firms in the face of changing business environments;
•	HR Related Issues: IT Staff Retention, Training for Systems Use,
and etc. 
•	Amendments to existing theories or new theoretical developments;


When submitting a manuscript, please follow the submission guidelines as
published in the Journal’s web pages at http://www.igi-global.com/jgim.
The deadline for submissions is 1 Nov, 2011. Please submit an electronic
copy of the paper in Microsoft Word format and direct questions to:

Editors

William Yu Chung Wang
Department of Business Information Systems
School of Business and Law
Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142, NZ
Email: william.wang at aut.ac.nz
Tel: 64 9 9219999 ext 5048 
Fax: 64 9219876

David Pauleen
Department of Management
Massey University 
Albany 
North Shore, Auckland, NZ
Auckland
Email: D.Pauleen at massey.ac.nz
Tel: 64 9 4140800 ext 9467