[AISWorld] AMCIS 2016: Call for Minitrack Proposals - Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)

[Harindranath, G]

AMCIS 2016 San Diego: Call For Minitrack Proposals
Track: *** Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) ***
http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/index.php/sessions/minitrack-proposals

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2016;
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit:
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
b) minitrack title;
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2016 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016

Important Dates:
September 22, 2015: Manuscript Central opens for Minitrack proposal submissions
October 19, 2015: Minitrack proposal submissions are due
October 28, 2015: Minitrack decisions are complete
November 1, 2015: Minitrack description revisions are due
January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin
March 2, 2016: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST

Track Chairs
G. ‘Hari’ Harindranath, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, g.harindranath at rhul.ac.uk<mailto:g.harindranath at rhul.ac.uk?Subject=AMCIS%202016>
Edward W.N. Bernroider, WU Vienna, Austria, edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at<mailto:edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at?Subject=AMCIS%202016>
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, fichman at indiana.edu<mailto:fichman at indiana.edu?Subject=AMCIS%202016>
Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University, UK, m.tarafdar at lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:m.tarafdar at lancaster.ac.uk?Subject=AMCIS%202016>

Track Description:
Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on systems use, adoption or development)
Research on global IT sourcing strategies (e.g. cloud sourcing)
Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use and development (e.g. ERP diffusion and impacts compared between different economies)
Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies)
Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams)
Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level (e.g. IT infrastructure sophistication across countries)
Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations)
Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries)
Issues relating to global information governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks)
Use and impacts of IT in the context of multinational organisations (e.g. impacts on relationship between HQ and other locations; issues relating to standardisation vs flexibility)
Issues relating to security in information systems that span multiple countries (e.g. natural and man-made threats, reliability, availability etc.)
Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of IT policies on a transition economy)
Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development (e.g. ERP implementations involving multiple countries)

Best wishes
Hari, Edward, Pnina, Monideepa