[AISWorld] AMCIS 2013 CfP: Enterprise System Adoption and Business Models

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

AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: Enterprise System Adoption and Business Models 

Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013 

Deadline for submissions: 22nd of February 2013

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. 
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. 
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,
Multi-cultural and multi-national issues,
Multiple stakeholder perspective in ES adoption and use,
Business model frameworks for ES providers,
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: 
February 22, 2013               Deadline for paper submissions 
April 22, 2013                  Notification of acceptance 
May 9, 2013                     Final copy due 

Instructions for authors: 
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all 
materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All 
conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be 
submitted using the online submission system at  
http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013 For complete instructions for authors 
and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2013 website at  
http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/.

Mini-Track Co-Chairs
Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam, cbrockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, eisoja at cyf-kr.edu.pl
JP Allen, University of San Francisco, JP Allen, jpallen at usfca.edu
Katja Andresen, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 
andresen at beuth-hochschule.de
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