[AISWorld] CfP AMCIS 2013: Information Governance in Business Ecosystems

[Paul Drews]

*CALL FOR PAPERS
19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)*
Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 15-17, 2013
http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/
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**Minitrack: **Information Governance in Business Ecosystems**
**Track: Global, International, and Cross Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)*

Although information governance is an established subject to large scale 
companies, there has as yet been little research directed toward how 
information governance is managed within business ecosystems (from 
loosely coupled, short-term virtual enterprises to long-term strategic 
alliances). Due to an increased globalized delivery and demand of (sub) 
services/products, enterprises typically act in evolving networks of 
operational and managerial independent organizations. Examples are 
project networks, logistics chains, partners in supply chains, 
private-public partnerships or enterprise alliances. Business ecosystems 
(as well as their member organizations) share some characteristics like 
dependency on mutually accepted (often cross-national) policies, 
processes, cultures, infrastructure, etc. At the same time they have to 
adapt and change quickly, confronted with information governance and 
standardization challenges on an increasingly large scale. In 
particular, it is little understood how information governance tasks and 
values are to be managed and distributed in a step-by-step, partly 
national-specific and partly international manner.

This means, we are interested in how management tasks are organized 
within the business ecosystem as a whole and how they are to be extended 
within each member organization in order to comprise ecosystem related 
topics. Furthermore, supporting extended management tasks requires 
appropriate and aligned structures/processes as well as new methods, 
tools, and information systems.

Conceptual, empirical and design-oriented works are welcome and will be 
considered for this minitrack.
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**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:*
- Theories, models, approaches and concepts of information governance in 
business ecosystem and other forms of inter-organizational collaboration
- Cooperation, coordination and communication related to information 
governance in business ecosystems
- Management tasks in business ecosystems (e. g. strategy development, 
large scale project governance, risk management, standardization 
management, sourcing management, implementation of control frameworks 
for legal and compliance aspects)
- Emergent and evolving behavior in business ecosystems
- Case studies or surveys on information governance, for example, with a 
focus on very large scale project management or information governance 
tasks in business ecosystems
- Extensions to enterprise architecture management in order to comprise 
national borders, to compare sites, national-dependent 
business-processes, and large scale IT landscapes or to capture business 
partners
- Alignment of management structures/processes and reporting levels in 
very large scale inter-organizational projects
- Modeling and visualization approaches comprising complex management 
structures, distribution of responsibilities in very large projects, 
reporting/modeling on different levels of granularity
- World-wide standardization and centralization efforts of information 
governance
- Interdependencies of multi-national corporate governance, enterprise 
governance, information governance and IT governance
- (Cross) Cultural issues of information governance in business ecosystems
- Research methods and theories suitable for guiding research on 
information governance in business ecosystems

*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.

*Important dates:*
- January 4, 2013: Paper submissions officially begins
- *February 22, 2013: **AMCIS 2013 Paper Submission Deadline 11:59 PM 
Central Time (CST)*
- April 19, 2013: Notification of acceptance
- May 9, 2013: Final copy due
- August 15-17, 2013: AMCIS Conference

*Minitrack Chairs:*
Ingrid Schirmer, University of Hamburg, schirmer at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Matthias Goeken, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, m.goeken at fs.de
Paul Drews, University of Hamburg, drews at informatik.uni-hamburg.de 
(primary contact)

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