[AISWorld] AMCIS 2017 Track and Mini-Track journal fast-tracking, CFPs

[Tom Stafford]

The AMCIS 2017 Advances in MIS Research Track welcomes submissions across a range of topics, specifically featuring 5 distinct mini-tracks, each with a journal fast-track opportunity to The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems.

1) Our general topics mini-track, “Advances in MIS Research – General Topics,” is intended as a broad submission venue for the track, enabling colleagues who wish their papers to be considered for Data Base fast tracking but do not have a topic that directly fits a targeted mini-track. It is also a venue for mini-track chairs to submit their own research to a venue that will not represent a conflict of interest in review, thus enabling colleagues engaged in conference service to also benefit from conference publication. 

2) The Advances in Chief Data Officer Research and Practice mini-track recognizes that the success of organizations has become increasingly dependent on data. To harness the value of data, many organizations have established a new breed of executive, the Chief Data Officer (CDO). Depending on different choices and focuses in collaboration (inwards vs. outwards), data space (traditional data vs. big data), and value impact (service vs. strategy), a CDO plays various vital roles in an organization. This mini-track solicits original research contributions that explore CDO practices and their organizational impacts. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome. The mini-track also solicits well developed, forward-thinking discussion and position papers that will have breakthrough impacts on the MIS field. 

3) The Advances in Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Research mini-track welcomes completed papers and research-in-progress submissions that offer insights into the security and privacy challenges of technological innovation in the health sector. The healthcare industry is currently undergoing a radical technological transformation. From medical devices to clinical information systems to smartphone applications, the opportunities to leverage the capabilities of modern technology to improve health outcomes are innumerable and in many cases invaluable. However, these novel capacities to improve healthcare outcomes bring new risks to the security and privacy of medical technologies and systems as well as individuals’ sensitive health related information. Examples of general research topics that fit this mini-track include but are not limited to: (1) cybersecurity of medical devices, (2) health IT security, (3) health information security and privacy, (4) health information systems (HIS) security, (5) security and privacy issues with BYOD in healthcare, (6) security and privacy issues in mobile health (mHealth) applications.  

4) The Information Systems and Positive Organizational Scholarship mini-track (POS) focuses on “what is positive, flourishing, and life-giving in organizations” and can be understood as investigating ideas such as compassion, virtuousness, wisdom, humility, respect, vitality, relationship quality, employee personal growth, and empowering aspects of positive leadership in organizational contexts. Until recently, there have been only sporadic investigations of the roles of Information Technology within the POS research stream.   This still small body of work is ripe for new, distinctive contributions by IS researchers.   Hence, the aim of this track is to facilitate additional IS research on POS, and to draw greater attention by the IS academic community to this promising research area.  We intend to blend theoretical and empirical approaches in these two fields so as to enrich our IS discipline. We hope this track will stimulate more IS researchers to engage in studying POS issues. All methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as theoretical papers and essays are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Individual humility in the networked world, Practicing respect in virtual teams, Technological challenges to, and opportunities for, fostering human flourishing, Harnessing organizational wisdom using IT, IT as a source of organizational vitality, The influence of expressing care and concern using IT on quality of relationships with organizational stakeholders, Building positive organizations using IT, IT affordances’ roles in positive leaders’ empowerment of employees, IT’s influence the generation and practice of organizational virtues, and Sociomaterial conceptions of ethical organizing.

5) The  Internet of Things: Emerging IS Research Challenges mini-track indicates that we have arrived at a critical juncture in the history of information systems. It is projected that the number of electronic nodes (“things”) linked to the internet will reach 50 billion by 2020. Only a fraction of these “things” will be conventional computing devices such as laptops, phones etc. Many nodes will be the result of recent and future innovations in sensor technology. These devices will shape the environment we live in, analyzing, controlling, monitoring, and optimizing our world. There is growing realization that the IS community is faced with a challenge to address IoT-related issues such as (a) Privacy, Security and Ethics (b) Reference Architectures and Development Technologies (c) new Business Processes and Business Models and (d) new methods of evaluating and improving technology usage in the IoT era. The papers in this mini-track will highlight how the IS community is responding to the research challenges posed by IoT.

Specific questions as to research track fit or format can be directed to the general track email address:  AdvancesInMIS at gmail.com. Inquiries regarding the fast track opportunities with The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems can be directed to Editors at TheDatabASe.org.

Tom Stafford, J.E. Barnes Professor
Louisiana Tech College of Business
Editor-in-Chief, ACM Data Base
Track Co-Chair, Advances in Information Systems Research
AMCIS 2017, Boston
Conference Co-Chair
AMCIS 2018, New Orleans