[AISWorld] AMCIS 2017 CfP : Mini-Track: IT-enabled Organizational Agility and Security

[Sumantra Sarkar]

>
> Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Boston, August 10-12,
> 2017, https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/
>
> *Mini-Track Title: IT-enabled Organizational Agility and Security*
> Track: IT-Enabled Agility
>
> *Description:*
> We live in a turbulent volatile world today. In this context Prahalad
> (2009) aptly describes this hypercompetitive environment, "In Volatile
> Times,Agility Rules." Organizations aspire to be agile in this highly
> unstable market. IT has enabled organizational agility by helping adapt to
> changing conditions (Lucas Jr. and Olson 1994), building digital options
> (Sambamurthy,  Bharadwaj et al. 2003), etc. While there has been a great
> focus on increasing organizational agility with IT enablement, we are not
> sure whether there have been compromises on security practices while the
> firm tries to be more agile (Baskerville 2004). Organization agility makes
> the organization more flexible while security practices follow strict rules
> and processes. The objective of this minitrack is to invite research
> articles which investigate the interplay between organizational agility
> through IT enablement and security practices which may have been
> compromised because of the focus on agility.
>
> *Call for Papers:*
> The objective of this minitrack is to encourage research articles
> (theoretical, empirical or design science research) which are insightful,
> coherent and methodically sound aligning with the objectives of this
> minitrack. This minitrack is open to various types of research including
> those that use quantitative, qualitative, and theoretical approaches.
>
> Topics in this mini-track focus on IT-enabled organization agility and
> security in the areas listed below, but is not limited to:
> o   IT security practices and organizational agility
> o   IT security architectures and Organization agility
> o   Role of organization culture in organizational agility and IT security
> o   Agile methodologies in regulated (high secured) organizational
> environment
> o   Organizational security planning in implementation of Agile development
> o   IT security assurance in Agile development
> o   Agile development and IT security requirements
> o   Agile approach to implement organization security
> o   Tension between organizational agility through IT enablement and
> security practices
>
> *Important Dates:*
>
> *   January 9, 2017 - Manuscript Submissions Begin
> *   March 1, 2017 - Manuscript Submissions Due
> *   April 17, 2017 - Notification of Initial Decision
>
>
> *        * Submissions may be of two types:*
> o   Completed research papers (< 5000 words, excluding references, tables,
> and figures)
> o   Research-in-progress papers (< 3500 words, excluding references,
> tables, and figures)
>
> *         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 at *http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/
> <http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/>*
>
>
> Regards
>
> Sumantra Sarkar, Ph.D, MBA, PMP, CISA
> Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems
> School of Management
> Suite # 316
> State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
> Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
> Phone: (607) 777-6863 ; Fax: (607) 777-4422
> email : ssarkar at binghamton.edu
> http://binghamton.edu/som/faculty-research/sarkar.html
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumantrasarkar
>