[AISWorld] CFP - IS Professional Services - SIGLEAD Mini-track AMCIS 2016

[Taylor, Joseph D]

CALL FOR PAPERS
***AMCIS 2017: Mini-Track on IS Professional Services ***
August 10-12, 2017, BOSTON, MA, USA
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017
https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/

Mini-Track Title: IS Professional Services
Track: Human Capital in Information Systems (SIGLEAD)

Mini-Track Chair
Joseph Taylor, Ph.D., California State University, Sacramento,  Joseph.taylor at csus.edu<mailto:Joseph.taylor at csus.edu>

Aims and Scope:
IS consultancy and professional services are important forces in the IT industry today. From consulting to outsourcing to off-shoring to in-sourcing, there are a variety of mechanisms that combine internal IS personnel with external augmentation. The objective of this mini-track is to allow academics and practitioners to look at the issues surrounding the use of consultants and other service providers to IT organizations. The mini-track welcomes emerging and completed research on issues including service providers or advisors to the CIO or small business owner; in-sourcing, out-sourcing, crowdsourcing, off-shoring, near-shoring and reshoring decisions and impacts; relationship management between IS departments, consultants and service-provision partners; impacts of migration of services and managed services arrangement; and contract and service-level arrangement issues within professional services, amongst others.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*         Vendor Management

*         The use of standards in managing service providers

*         Balance in-house and outsourced workforce

*         Emerging sourcing practices

*         Delivering business value through professional services engagements

*         The implications of Saas, PaaS and IaaS on sourcing practices

*         Global talent management

*         Training and career issues
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website

*Important Dates:*
*January 9, 2017:* ScholarOne opens for Completed and ERF paper submissions
*March 1, 2017:* ScholarOne closes for Completed and ERF paper submissions
*April 17, 2017:*  Notification of initial decisions on Completed and ERF paper submissions

All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2017 website: http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/


Joseph Taylor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Business Administration
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819

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