[AISWorld] CFP

[Mahmood, M. Adam]

Call for Papers

19th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013
Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology

MINI-TRACK: MOBILE ENTERPRISE

DESCRIPTION
The application of mobile technologies opens new possibilities for the efficient and effective design of business
processes in various enterprise areas (Enriquez et al. 2007). In recent years, the diffusion of smartphones and other
mobile devices such as tablets has rapidly increased and offers new potentials for companies' business processes
(Cheon-Pyo & Shim, 2006). Especially the emergence of so-called mobile apps has yielded novel possibilities in the
use of mobile phones that can be valuable adopted by companies.

The ubiquitous availability of crucial enterprise information through mobile devices leads to an increasing
independence of employees from their stationary workplace. As a consequence, the traditional workplace begins to
lose its importance and a growing share of work-related activities takes place outside the office, resulting in a "mobile
enterprise" (Venezia & Alee, 2007). Generally "mobile enterprise" is defined as a corporation or large organization
that supports business processes by the use of enterprise applications via wireless mobile devices such as
smartphones or tablets (Panos & George, 2012). In this sense, "mobile enterprise" implies external utilization, with a
strong focus on marketing and distribution activities, as well as an internal perspective where organizational issues
are the focal point of interest. Employees are enabled to use mobile devices to interact with colleagues or customers,
to get access to all needed information, as well as to share information e.g. uploading data into enterprise information
systems while being "on the road" (Stieglitz & Brockmann, 2012; Unhelka & Murugesan, 2010; Wajcman et al., 2008).
However, the rapidly emerging diffusion of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in enterprises presents new
challenges for CIOs and decisions makers as they respond to these technologies to achieve competitive
organizational performance (Dery & MacCormick, 2012). Mobile technologies have a rapid innovation rate and as
usual in IT, enterprises must be always prepared to respond to new technologies and upcoming trends like, Bring
Your Own Device (BYOD), Tablets, Long Term Evolution (LTE) or Near Field Communications (NFC). Therefore,
corporate wide strategies are necessary to manage risks, ensure competitive organizational performance and
consider upcoming trends. The transformation of emerging mobile technologies into organizational performance is
currently particularly under researched. Therefore the goal of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and
practitioners to identify and explore issues, opportunities, and solutions surrounding the valuable transformation
process towards a mobile enterprise. Empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) as well as theoretical work is very
welcome.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
In this mini-track we are inviting papers from the following fields (however, it is not limited to these areas of research):
* Theories related to mobile enterprises and competitive organizational performance
* IT-business value creation throughout mobile services
* Organizational strategies for enabling a mobile enterprise
* Enterprise related discussion of upcoming technologies (e.g. NFC, LTE)
* Bring Your Own Device (adoption, security, policies, laws)
* Business vs. enterprise applications
* Mobile Device Management (MDM)
* Mobile Knowledge Worker / Mobile Employee
* Mobile Work - challenges for Work-Life Integration
* Utilization of mobile applications in organizations (best practices and implications for research)
* Change management strategies for mobile applications
* Distance Leadership
* M-collaboration
* Utilization of mobile application in organizations (best practices and implications for research)
* Changing role for the CIO in a mobile enterprise

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submit your manuscript using the Bepress system at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org

IMPORTANT DATES
* January 4, 2013: Paper submissions officially begins
* February 22, 2013: Paper Submission Deadline 11:59 PM CST
* April 22, 2013: Program Chairs Notify Authors of Paper Acceptance
* May 9, 2013: Camera-ready Copy of Accepted Papers Due
* Updated information at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Stefan Stieglitz
University of Münster
Department of Information Systems
Germany
stefan.stieglitz at uni-muenster.de
Kristine Dery
The University of Sydney
Business School
Australia
kristine.dery at sydney.edu.au
Tobias Brockmann
University of Münster
Department of Information Systems
Germany
tobias.brockmann at uni-muenster.de


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