[AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CFP CONSUMERIZATION OF IT- BYOD AND BEYOND

[Robert Nickerson]

CALL FOR PAPERS - AMCIS 2014

MINITRACK: CONSUMERIZATION OF IT - BYOD AND BEYOND


20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savannah, GA, 
August 7-10, 2014

Conference website: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/ 
<http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/>
Manuscript submission website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014

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*IMPORTANT DATES:*

January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions open

March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript submissions

April 4, 2014 -- Author notification


  Description

Organizations are facing an expanding challenge in managing enterprise 
information technology: the consumerization of IT. The arrival of 
consumer-oriented devices and applications into the workplace is 
re-defining how corporate IT is adopted, delivered, and consumed. 
Personal devices such as smartphones and tablets may be brought to the 
workplace by employees (called BYOD) or provided by employers for use by 
the workforce to help employees in their jobs. Consumer-oriented 
applications, often in the cloud (such as Dropbox, Skype, Yammer 
LinkedIn, and GoogleDocs), may be used by employees for work-related 
activities with or without company sanction. While there is no single, 
universally accepted definition of IT consumerization, it can loosely be 
defined as the enterprise use of technologies that were originally 
designed for the consumer market.

End-users have mastered new digital technologies enough to begin to 
assert their independence from the constraints that the IT department 
has previously put in place to ensure the compliance, security, and 
stability of the corporate IT platform. Although the IT department has 
confronted "rogue" or "shadow" IT efforts in the past and dealt with 
"End User Computing" in the 1980s and 1990s, the recent technological 
advancements and the expanding level of IT literacy are changing the 
nature of how corporate IT and users of IT are managed.

While there are numerous industry-oriented articles on the 
consumerization of IT, little academic research has appeared. This 
dearth of research publications highlights the need for theoretical and 
empirical investigation into this topic. The purpose of this minitrack 
is to provide a forum for presenting research in this new and important 
area.


  Suggested Topics

Topics for this mini track include, but are not limited to, the following:

·Managing BYOD and CYOD in the enterprise

·Organizational impact of consumer-oriented devices and applications

·New organizational structures for corporate IT (vs. private IT)

·Competitive advantages enabled by IT consumerization

·Organizational design impacts as private and business boundaries 
increasingly blur

·Digital co-creation as end-users have access to increasingly 
sophisticated consumer tools

·Behavioral impacts of IT consumerization, for example, impacts on 
employee morale and job motivation

·Issues pertaining to inter- and intra-organizational ecosystems (e.g., 
implementing a digital innovation platform with internal and/or external 
partners)

·Managing the imbalance between IT supply and demand (e.g., frustrated 
users who believe the IT department cannot deliver quickly enough)

·Challenges to security brought on by employees using their own devices 
at work

·IT support and IT governance issues brought on by the consumerization 
of IT

·Legal issues pertaining to data ownership and terms-of-service liability

MINITRACK CHAIRS

*Rob Nickerson*

San Francisco State University

RNick at sfsu.edu <mailto:RNick at sfsu.edu>


  Iris Junglas

Florida State University

ijunglas at fsu.edu <mailto:ijunglas at fsu.edu>

*Sebastian Köffer*

University of Münster

sebastian.koeffer at ercis.uni-muenster.de 
<mailto:sebastian.koeffer at ercis.uni-muenster.de>

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