[AISWorld] AMCIS 2018 CfP : Mini-Track: IT-enabled Organizational Agility and Security

[Sumantra Sarkar]

2018 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
New Orleans, LA. August 16-18, 2018, https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/  AMCIS
2018 Conference

**Mini-Track Title: IT-enabled Organizational Agility and Security**
Track: Digital 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:*

-  Mid- January, 2018: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin
-  March 01, 2018 1 PM EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions


*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 2018 website at *https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/
<https://amcis2018.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
https://www.binghamton.edu/som/research/profile.html?id=ssarkar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumantrasarkar