[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2016 Minitrack “IT Project Success”

[Michalik, Bjoern]

CALL FOR PAPERS
AMCIS 2016, San Diego, August 11-13, 2016, http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/


IT PROJECT SUCCESS minitrack
IT Project Management (SIGITProjMgmt) track


Minitrack Description
The challenge of successfully accomplishing information technology (IT) projects is still prevailing. In both research and practice, many efforts have been made to identify factors that help to avoid failure and to ensure success. Additionally, a central aspect of IT project success research deals with its measurement. Over the past decades, widely used traditional criteria (i.e., project conformance to budget, schedule, and specified requirements) have been challenged by criteria such as stakeholder satisfaction or strategic benefits, which account for subjectivity and the long-term dimension of IT project success. However, since studies related to IT project success typically focus on one of the two research streams, the linkage between success factors and success criteria has been widely neglected and treated as a black box. Research thus lacks in-depth understanding on how success factors actually contribute to successful projects.

Potential Topics
This minitrack seeks high quality research papers that investigate the linkage of IT project success factors and success criteria. We call for studies explaining how (well-known) success factors contribute to specific IT project success criteria. In this regard, we welcome both conceptual and empirical papers that employ a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Possible topics thus include, but are not limited to:

•      Development approaches and its contribution to adherence to budget / schedule

•      Team composition and its contribution to process efficiency

•      Client-vendor communication and its contribution to customer satisfaction

•      Project governance and its contribution to adherence to budget / schedule

•      Time pressure and its contribution to system quality

•      Training and its contribution to end-user satisfaction

•      Top management commitment and its contribution to stakeholder satisfaction

•      Requirements uncertainty and its contribution to strategic benefits

•      Change of the vendor and its contribution to process efficiency

Important Dates
January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin
March 2, 2016: Deadline for AMCIS manuscript submissions

Minitrack chairs
Dirk Basten, University of Cologne, Germany
basten at wiso.uni-koeln.de<mailto:basten at wiso.uni-koeln.de>
Bjoern Michalik, University of Cologne, Germany
michalik at wiso.uni-koeln.de<mailto:michalik at wiso.uni-koeln.de>


Best regards,
Dirk and Bjoern

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Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. Bjoern Michalik
Teaching and Research Assistant / PhD student
University of Cologne | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Department for Information Systems and Systems Development
Pohligstr. 1, 50969 Cologne, Germany
Phone:  +49 173 5324527
Fax:  +49 221 470-5386
Mail: michalik at wiso.uni-koeln.de<mailto:michalik at wiso.uni-koeln.de>
Web:  www.systementwicklung.uni-koeln.de