[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 - mini-track on Management of IT Outsourcing Projects in a Global Economy

[Jahyun Goo]

CALL FOR PAPERS

AMCIS 2012
Seattle, Washington
August 9-12, 2012

Track: Management of IT Outsourcing Projects in a Global Economy
Mini-track: IT Project Management
While academics and practitioners alike suggest that relationship management is a crucial factor in the overall success or failure of an IT outsourcing project, managing outsourcing relationship becomes a daunting task as the traditional IT outsourcing projects (application development, database development, etc.) has developed into a highly specialized marketplace of IT-enabled service projects such as business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), etc. over the last decade. The phenomenon of significant, sustained trend of IT project globalization, has led to the fact that researchers in many disciplines are reframing and refocusing their efforts around project management that explore whether findings in one context hold true in another. Along this line, a recent report by Gartner points out that many firms have failed to build a skills base to meet the challenge of managing their new outsourcing environment and are therefore at risk of a low return on service value.  Therefore, this mini‐track invites research articles that focus on social, managerial and knowledge-related topics in IS outsourcing/offshoring project management, which we believe lead to a pathway to the success of IT project. With papers that are both conceptual and empirically based, we seek to contribute to theory building by both reapplying existing frameworks and developing new constructs that help explaining the project t management view of IT outsourcing relationship in general, and offshoring arrangements in particular.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         IT projects management in IT outsourcing/offshoring, considering the relationships between organizational characteristics

  *   Coordination of IT projects in outsourcing/offshoring arrangement

·         Conflict resolution in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects

·         Contractual management in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects

  *   Knowledge flow management in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects

·         Knowledge management, codification processes and their impact on the performance of outsourced IT projects

  *   Cultural issues in IS outsourcing/offshoring projects

·         IT projects management in emerging outsourcing arrangements such as crowed sourcing

·         IT outsourcing project life cycle

·         Retained management capabilities from a social and knowledge perspective

·         Project management mechanisms for the different contexts of IT outsourcing: offshoring, near shore sourcing, captive center, or domestic insourcing as well as single vendor vs. multi-vendor arrangements


IMPORTANT DATES:
January 2, 2012    Submission opens
March 1, 2012    Submission deadline
April 2, 2012    Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2012     Final camera-ready copy due

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012.
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ after January 2, 2012.

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS:
Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, jgoo at fau.edu<mailto:jgoo at fau.edu>
Matthew Swinarski, Penn State Erie, mes35 at psu.edu<mailto:mes35 at psu.edu>



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