[AISWorld] AMCIS 2016 CFP: Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage

[Abhishek Kathuria]

22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS),
August 11 - 13, 2016, San Diego

*** Mini Track: Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage ***

Main Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology (SUIT)

We invite you to submit your manuscripts for AMCIS 2016 in San Diego. Please consider the minitrack "Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage" (please go to http://abhishekkathuria.com/call-for-papers/ for details) under the Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology (SUIT) track.

*Description:*

Information Systems (IS) are a competitive imperative in the digital economy of the 21st century. A number of studies in the IS literature have focused on the impact of information systems on firm performance and competitive advantage (e.g., Melville et al. 2004). The role of innovative organizational strategies as a key driver of competitive advantage is well established in the strategic management literature. In comparison, the role of Information Technology (IT) in facilitating strategic innovation, through which performance gains are realized, is a relatively under-explored area in the existing IS literature.

IT is emerging as a vital element in enabling innovations in strategy, business models and management practice. Several examples affirm the importance of exploring the impact of IT on strategic innovation. For example, IT has enabled new business models for firms such as Amazon, Netflix, Uber and Airbnb. IT has facilitated service-oriented innovations in communication services, such as providing audio, video, interactive and social modes of communication through mobile Apps and other tools such as WeChat and WhatsApp. IT has enabled the emergence and sustained success of new business models based around the sharing economy and crowdsourcing (e.g., Agarwal et al. 2010; Rai and Sambamurthy 2006). IT has facilitated new innovations in digitized access and delivery of services and goods. Furthermore, IT has enabled information access and exchange in several sectors, including health care, education and travel. Likewise, IT can also facilitate new product and service development via its capabilities to enhance knowledge creation (e.g., Kleis et al. 2012). These business model innovations, IT-enabled service-oriented innovations, digitized product and process innovations and associated information capabilities are the result of strategic innovation at the firm level. Thus, IT enabled strategies have emerged as a business imperative to foster innovation and competitive strategy in recent times.

Despite the developments in practice around the role of IT in enabling several forms of innovation and innovative strategies, literature examining the role of information systems in this process is sparse. This mini-track solicits studies that examine the nuances associated with leveraging information technology for strategic innovation. Although the focus is on studies at the firm level, studies at the individual, team, group, or industry levels are also welcome. The main focus of the studies would be to explore how IT enables any or several innovative strategies for firm performance. This mini-track serves as a venue for a wide range of research methodologies, including empirical, case study, conceptual and simulation research.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

*How IT-enabled strategies lead to firm performance.
*How IT strategy and firm strategy interact to result in value creation for firms.
*Different facets of IT-enabled innovative strategies: IT-enabled service innovation, IT-enabled business innovation, IT-enabled business model innovation, and IT-enabled co-innovation.
*Role of IT to manage, augment, or shape innovation.
*Role of IT in new product development and process innovation.
*Please click here for Call for Papers and important dates. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts.

*Submission*

Authors can submit Full Papers or Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers. ERF papers are limited to 2,500 words (excluding references and appendices) and will be included in the conference proceedings either with the submitted paper or with the abstract of the paper. Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 began on January 4, 2016 and the deadline for submissions is March 02, 2016 at 10:00 AM PST.

*Minitrack Co-Chairs:*

Abhishek Kathuria, Assistant Professor, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong
Terence Saldanha, Assistant Professor, Carson College of Business, Washington State University
Jiban Khuntia, Assistant Professor, Business School, University of Colorado Denver

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Abhishek Kathuria, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Innovation & Information Management
School of Business, The University of Hong Kong

Room 812, KK Leung Building, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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