[AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 CfP: IS and Process Innovation in Collaborative Networks (SIGOSRA)

[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: **IS and Process Innovation in Collaborative Networks**
**Track: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational 
Change (SIGOSRA)*

Today's organizations are highly interconnected in manifold kinds of 
collaborative networks, such as virtual organizations, enterprise 
alliances, business ecosystems, supply chains, social networks, and 
ad-hoc networks (e.g., in disaster scenarios). These connections provide 
great potentials for organizations as complementary competencies can be 
brought together, leading to, e.g., product and service innovations, 
streamlined cross-organizational operations, and advanced uses of IS/IT. 
However, organizations within these collaborative settings are faced 
with an increasing socio-technical complexity which not only arises from 
integrating diverse organizations, their business processes and 
corresponding IS/IT infrastructures, but also from their interaction 
with people outside the organizational boundaries and with society 
(e.g., by mobile devices and social media).

Traditional approaches for IS/IT innovation management and 
organizational change can hardly be applied in this context, as they are 
generally focused on a single organization with well-defined borders. 
Hence, the design, management and deployment of IS and process 
innovations in collaborative networks represent relevant and current 
challenges for IS research. Answers to these challenges may include, for 
instance, adapting existing or developing novel IS frameworks, 
methodologies and approaches to deal with the socio-technical complexity 
of collaborative networks.

This mini-track aims at providing a forum for research on methods for 
analyzing and intervening into collaborative networks that consider the 
tremendous size, geographical dispersion, socio-technical intertwining 
as well as the limited possibilities to influence these networks. We 
encourage conceptual, theoretical, methodological as well as empirical 
contributions towards understanding and managing business processes and 
IS in collaborative networks.

*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to*:
- Understanding and managing IS and process innovation in different 
types of collaborative networks (business ecosystems, virtual 
organizations, enterprise alliances, etc.)
- End-User and customer perspective on IS and process innovation in 
different types of collaborative networks
- Theoretical approaches for unraveling socio-technical complexity in 
collaborative networks
- Suitability of traditional IS management methods and tools (e.g., 
Business Process Management/Modelling, IT Governance, Enterprise 
Architecture) for collaborative networks
- Design and cultivation approaches for IS innovation and organizational 
change in collaborative networks
- IS and process innovation management in ad-hoc collaborative networks 
(e.g., in disaster management)
- Geospatial approaches for dealing with IS and process innovation in 
collaborative networks
- IS Interoperability and integration issues in collaborative networks
- Collaborative and open IS/IT innovation in systems of IS/IT innovation 
or at ultra large scale
- Success and failure of IS innovations in collaborative networks
- End-user integration in inter-organizational innovation processes 
(e.g., by end-user mobile applications or social media)
- Methodologies for analyzing and intervening in complex collaborative 
networks
- Teaching cases for IS and process innovation in collaborative networks

*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)
João P. de Albuquerque, University of São Paulo, jporto at icmc.usp.br 
<mailto:jporto at icmc.usp.br>
Jens Pöppelbuß, University of Bremen, jepo at is.uni-bremen.de 
<mailto:jepo at is.uni-bremen.de>

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