[AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 CfP: Enterprise System Adoption and Business Models

[Carsten.Brockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de]

CALL FOR PAPERS


18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 
Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012

Track: Enterprise Systems (SIGENTSYS)
Minitrack:  Enterprise System Adoption and Business Models


DESCRIPTION 
Enterprise systems (ES) are extremely complex software packages designed 
for integrating data flow across an entire company, emerged from earlier 
MRP, MRP II and ERP systems. Over time, ES have expanded to include more 
and more areas of an organization’s operations, and have extended 
organizational boundaries and support interorganizational activities. 
Today’s enterprise systems are expected to support modern organizations 
that operate in dynamic and turbulent business environments, compete in 
global markets, face mergers and takeovers, and participate in business 
alliances and joint ventures.
Frequently, the adoption of an ES is an enormous challenge for an 
organization, due to system complexity, organizational context and the 
people involved in the implementation project. Usually, ES adoption is a 
long and multi-stage process during which various problems and 
complications may occur. Moreover, ES adoption projects typically involve 
a large number of stakeholders representing different departments, various 
organizational hierarchies, and often external companies operating in 
various industries. These stakeholders may have conflicting interests, and 
their own definitions of project success. Overall, ES implementation 
projects tend to be very unique and challenging endeavors.
Providers of enterprise systems have traditionally relied on strong 
revenues from maintenance fees, in addition to license revenue. Nowadays, 
shorter product lifecycles, rising consulting revenues, Open Source 
Software and SaaS are impacting their business models. ES providers have 
the challenge of delivering systems which are highly customizable software 
products, able to fit the needs of a variety of adopters. This might be 
important since, as prior research suggests, the issue of alignment 
between ES and adopting organizations is one of the determinants of 
successful enterprise system implementation.
This mini-track invites papers that examine various aspects related to the 
determinants of ES success and business models. Both empirical and 
theoretical papers are invited. The general research questions addressed 
in this mini-track can be formulated as follows: What are the mechanisms 
determining successful ES adoption? What are the underlying business 
models of companies delivering successfully adaptable ES? What kind of 
business models exist?
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
motivation and justification for ES adoption,
alignment between ES and adopting organization,
barriers and impediments to ES adoption success,
risk factors in ES adoption,
critical failure factors for ES adoption,
critical success factors for ES adoption,
understanding of ES adoption success,
evaluation and benchmarking of ES projects,
multi-cultural and multi-national issues,
multiple stakeholder perspective in ES adoption and use,
business model frameworks,
impact of new trends within the software industry on business models,
business model innovation for standard software companies,
implications of shorter product lifecycles on business models,
SaaS related business models,
open source software related business models.


IMPORTANT DATES

January 2, 2012  Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
March 1, 2012  Deadline for paper submissions
April 2, 2012  Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this 
date
April 20, 2012  For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due



SUBMISSION SITE

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012


Minitrack Chairs:

Katja Andresen
Beuth University of Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany
andresen at beuth-hochschule.de

Carsten Brockmann
University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
carsten.brockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de

Piotr Soja
Cracow University of Economics
Cracow, Poland
eisoja at cyf-kr.edu.pl

J.P. Allen
University of San Francisco, School of Management
San Francisco, CA, USA
jpallen at usfca.edu
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