[AISWorld] CfP AMCIS 2013: Understanding and Managing IS Innovation in Collaborative Networks

[Joao Porto]

19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 15-17, 2013
http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/

MINITRACK: Understanding and Managing IS Innovation in Collaborative
Networks
TRACK: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change
(SIGOSRA)

Today’s organizations are highly interconnected in manifold kinds of
collaborative networks, such as virtual organizations, enterprise
alliances, business ecosystems, supply chains, ad-hoc networks (e.g. in
disaster scenarios). Furthermore, the widespread use of mobile devices and
social media by end-users are extending the reach of collaborative networks
across the usual limits of organizations. Traditional approaches for IS/IT
innovation management and organizational change can hardly be applied in
this context, since they are generally focused on a single organization
with well-defined borders. The design, management and deployment of IS
innovations within and for such collaborative networks brings about
important challenges for IS research. These challenges include adapting
existing IS frameworks, methodologies and approaches to deal with the
socio-technical complexity of collaborative networks. Socio-technical
complexity arises in these networks not only from integrating a diversity
of organizations and their corresponding information and technology
infrastructures, but also from their interaction with people outside the
organization boundaries and with society (e. g. by mobile devices and
social media).

This mini-track aims at providing a forum for research on methods for
analyzing and intervening into collaborative networks that consider the
tremendous size, geographical dispersion, socio-technical intertwining as
well as the limited possibilities to influence these networks. We encourage
conceptual, theoretical, methodological as well as empirical contributions
towards understanding and managing IS innovations in collaborative networks.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• Understanding and managing IS innovation in different types of
collaborative networks (business ecosystems, virtual organizations,
enterprise alliances, etc.)
• Theoretical approaches for unraveling socio-technical complexity in
collaborative networks
• Suitability of traditional IS management methods and tools (e.g. Business
Process Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture) for
collaborative networks
• Design and cultivation approaches for IS innovation and organizational
change in collaborative networks
• IS innovation management in ad-hoc collaborative networks (e.g. in
disaster management)
• Inter-organizational information infrastructures for collaborative
networks
• Geospatial approaches for dealing with collaborative networks
• IS interoperability and integration issues in collaborative networks
• Collaborative and open IS/IT innovation in systems of IS/IT innovation
• IS/IT innovation in ultra large-scale collaborative networks
• Success and failure of IS innovations in collaborative networks
• End-User integration in inter-organizational innovation processes (e. g.
by end-user mobile applications or social media)
• Methodologies for analyzing and intervening in complex collaborative
networks
• Teaching cases for IS innovation in collaborative networks

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 4, 2013  Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
February 22, 2013  Deadline for paper submissions
April 22, 2013  Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this
date
May 9, 2013  For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due

SUBMISSION:
To submit a paper, please follow the directions below.
- Please use the AMCIS2013 Paper Template
- Submit your paper after January 4, 2013 via Bepress.  The link will be
available at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ on January 4, 2013. Submissions
will close on February 22, 2013 at 11:59 CST.

MINITRACK CHAIRS:
João P. de Albuquerque
Department of Computer Systems
ICMC, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
P.O. Box 668, 13560-970 - Sao Carlos/SP, Brazil
jporto at icmc.usp.br
http://www.icmc.usp.br/~jporto/en

Paul Drews
Department of Informatics
University of Hamburg, Germany
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30
D-22527 Hamburg
drews at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
http://agis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/itg/personen/dr-paul-drews/
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