[AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CfP: Information Governance and Resilience in Business Ecosystems (SIGCCRIS)

[Paul Drews]

*CALL FOR PAPERS**
**20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014)*
Savannah, Georgia, USA
August 7-10, 2014
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/

*Minitrack: Information Governance and Resilience in Business Ecosystems**
**Track: Global, International, and Cross Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)*

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 chain, 
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.

Although information governance is an established subject to large scale 
companies, there has 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). 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.

Furthermore, the members of a business ecosystem need to react to the 
risks arising from the increasing mutual interdependencies of processes 
and information systems by negotiating about how to analyze and improve 
the their own resilience as well as the resilience of the business 
ecosystem. Processes and information systems are often a major part of 
the business ecosystems backbone. Extreme events in some parts in the 
world or a change in the partner constellation may have a tremendous 
impact on a whole business ecosystem. Understanding and improving the 
resilience of business ecosystems and their member organizations goes 
beyond the challenge of traditional risk management, as the influence on 
important parts of the common infrastructure may be limited as well as 
the availability of information about partners and competitors.

We are interested in how management tasks are organized within a 
business ecosystem as a whole and how they are to be extended within 
each member organization in order to comprise ecosystem related topics. 
To support these extended management tasks, appropriate and aligned 
structures/processes as well as new methods, tools, and information 
systems are required.

Conceptual, empirical and design-oriented works are welcome and will be 
considered for this minitrack.

*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to*:
- Theories, models, approaches and concepts of information governance 
and resilience in business ecosystems and other forms of 
inter-organizational collaboration
- Cooperation, coordination, competition and communication related to 
information governance and resilience 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
- Case studies on extreme events in IT in network organizations
- Impact of IT and technological innovation on resilience in business 
ecosystems, tension between the adoption of IT innovations and 
resilience in business ecosystems
- Resilience and IT governance frameworks, extension of IT governance 
and resilience concepts to network organizations
- Extensions to enterprise architecture management in order to compare 
sites and national-dependent business-processes, large scale IT 
landscapes, and resilience properties or to capture the extended 
enterprise (e. g. 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 and 
during extreme events, reporting/modeling on different levels of granularity
- World-wide standardization and centralization efforts of information 
governance and resilience
- Interdependencies of multi-national corporate governance, enterprise 
governance, information governance and IT governance
- (Cross) Cultural issues of information governance and resilience in 
business ecosystems
- Research methods and theories suitable for guiding research on 
information governance and resilience in business ecosystems

*Submission:**
*Please follow the instructions given at 
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers

*Important dates:*
March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions
April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due
April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference

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

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