[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/


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