[AISWorld] CFP: PACIS 2013 Track on IT Sourcing and Cloud Computing

[Jahyun Goo]

Dear Colleagues,

See below the Call for Papers for the IT Sourcing and Cloud Computing Track of the 2013 Pacific Asia Conference on IS (PACIS 2013). The PACIS 2013 (www.pacis2013.org<http://www.pacis2013.org/>) will be held in Jeju Island, Korea, in June 18-22, 2013.

High quality papers will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue of several journals, including Information and Management<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-management/>, Journal of Global Information Management<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/journal-global-information-management-jgim/1070>, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications/>, Information Systems Frontiers<http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/>, and Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems<http://apjis.or.kr/>.

All submissions will be in English and will be double blind reviewed. The track accepts completed research papers or research-in-progress papers. All submissions should be submitted through EasyChair system (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013>). For more details, you can refer to the conference Website (www.pacis2013.org<http://www.pacis2013.org/>).


Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2013
Paper Decision: April 1, 2013
Submission Deadline of Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013


Description
IT outsourcing and its variants including cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) have become widely accepted business practices to manage and operate a variety of IT infrastructures, gain access to latest technologies as needed, and bring about radical changes in how organizations leverage IT for delivering concrete business value. With the trends of globalization and IT as a utility available over the Internet continuing to grow unabated, various types of sourcing models have begun to emerge. As a prominent example, cloud computing and SaaS offer various sourcing arrangements through the Internet delivery of IT products and services, providing firms an opportunity to gain access to and deliver applications, infrastructures, and platforms over public or private networks. Specifically, to tap innovation and growth opportunities, firms are transitioning to an on-demand model of IT sourcing enabled by cloud computing and SaaS to create increased flexibility and enhance their ability to scale. These emerging alternatives create challenges for both service provider and recipient organizations as they have to take into account a number of new additional considerations, such as variable hardware capacity needs and multiple and varying user application preferences, to be able to successfully leverage these new sourcing alternatives and manage their new sourcing relationships with their partners. While the development of IT outsourcing, cloud computing, and SaaS happened independently, they have become intricately intertwined and should be considered as a set of viable sourcing options while formulating and executing IT sourcing strategy.

We invite papers that provide insights into all aspects of IT sourcing, cloud computing, and SaaS. In particular, we are also interested in papers that tie the developments of these sourcing models to broader IT strategy issues in firms. Papers that include empirical, analytical, and conceptual approaches that develop or extend theory are welcome. Co-authored papers with practitioners are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

IT Sourcing (including outsourcing and offshoring)

*      Decision making in sourcing

*      Managing and monitoring suppliers in sourcing arrangements

*      Managing intellectual property issues in sourcing relationships

*      Contracting issues in IT sourcing

*      All aspects of global delivery models (i.e. off-shoring, near-shoring, rural sourcing and multi-sourcing)

*      IT capability development: in-sourcing, outsourcing, and back-sourcing

*      Knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, and loss in IT outsourcing

*      Preserving and managing organizational knowledge in outsourcing arrangements

*      Coordination and control in IT outsourcing and offshoring relationships

*      Risk management in outsourced and offshored IT projects

*      Impact of outsourcing at the individual, firm, and national levels, both from a provider and a buyer perspective

*      Structuring IT outsourcing contracts and service level agreements

*      IT outsourcing in global supply chain management

*      IT outsourcing-enabled business transformation and new inter-organizational forms

*      Social, ethical, and regulatory implications in IT outsourcing

*      Emerging trends in IT outsourcing

*      Evolution of global sourcing markets, internal as well as external

*      Implications of switching costs and standards

*      Work life balance issues in IT offshoring

Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) Models

*      Cloud and SaaS frameworks

*      Commercial sourcing models associated with cloud services and SaaS

*      Adoption of cloud computing and SaaS

*      Cloud Computing and SaaS lifecycle

*      Integrating cloud services and SaaS with ERP and legacy systems

*      Critical success factors for adopting cloud computing and SaaS

*      Change in buyer role in cloud computing and SaaS as compared to on-site installations

*      Configurability of cloud applications

*      Implementation models for cloud computing and SaaS

*      Business models for cloud computing and SaaS

*      Cloud computing and SaaS as IT sourcing strategy

*      Security issues in cloud computing and SaaS

*      The open cloud: cloud computing and open source software

*      Case studies in cloud computing and SaaS

*      Evolution of standard cloud computing and SaaS, such as payment services and governmental services

*      Contracting issues in cloud computing and SaaS

*      Relationship management with cloud and SaaS partners

*      Switching issues in cloud computing and SaaS

Track Co-Chairs
Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, USA - jgoo at fau.edu<mailto:jgoo at fau.edu>
Rajiv Kishore, SUNY at Buffalo, USA - rkishore at buffalo.edu<mailto:rkishore at buffalo.edu>


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Jahyun Goo, Ph.D.
College of Business/Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road/Fleming Hall 218
Boca Raton, FL  33431
Voice: (561) 297-2352 / Fax: (561) 297-3043
Email: jgoo at fau.edu<mailto:jgoo at fau.edu>

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