[AISWorld] AMCIS 2018 CFP: Minitrack: Issues in the IT Profession

[Taylor, Joseph D]

*Minitrack*: * Issues in the IT Profession** (sponsored by SIGLEAD)

*Title of Track: * IS Leadership and the IT Profession Track (sponsored by SIGLEAD)



*Description of Minitrack*

The Issues in the IT Profession mini-track in the IS Leadership and the IT Profession track is aimed at fostering a forum for IS scholars engaged in issues highly relevant to the practice of  managing information systems to share their research, engage in exchange of perspectives, and encourage future collaborations. Management within the IT profession is broadly defined to include research on issues as relevant to IS leaders such as CIOs and CTOs, as well as other individuals responsible for managerial oversight of organizations with IS responsibilities. This proposed mini-track would be sponsored by the AIS Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIG LEAD).

Though articles on issues in the IT profession are common in both the practitioner press and the technology vendor community, much less attention has been devoted to the topic from an academic perspective. Managing IT requires leaders to understand the interplay between managerial decisions and information technologies and systems.  Research regarding issues in the IT profession examines the business impacts relating to the decisions that IS leaders must make regarding the people, processes, data and technology that make up information systems. It is, thus, an enduring concern to IS academics and practitioners alike. Research areas related to issues of the IT profession are informed by the results of the Society of Information Management (SIM) annual survey of IS leadership priorities. The mini-track seeks to explore the various dimensions, theoretical bases, and perspectives on issues in the IT profession and to advance the state of scholarship on the issue. Authors are encouraged to submit both conceptual and empirical papers that employ a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

*Call for Papers*

We are seeking high quality research papers for this track that investigate
various aspects of leadership in the IT profession. Possible topics include, but
are not limited to:

Issues of specific interest to IT practitioners
*Managerial implications of process and technology decisions
*IS Organizational impacts of technology provisioning practices
*Strategic positioning within the organization

Research linked to SIM survey priorities
*Examination of key issues of IT leaders from vendor neutral positions
*Evaluation of the business impacts of IT decisions
*IT strategy development

Research and practice papers and contributor
*IS organizational implications of technology change
*Practitioner driven research
*Managing success and failure of IS


*Submission Process *

Full paper submissions (<5000 words, excluding references, tables, and
figures) and ERF papers (<3500  words, excluding references, tables, and
figures) must be made electronically through Manuscript Central. Papers
will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.



*Important Dates: *

*January 2018:*                 System opens for Completed and ERF paper
submissions

*February 28, 2018:*           System closes for Completed and ERF paper
submissions

*April 17, 2018:*                   Notification of initial decisions on
Completed and ERF paper submissions


*Minitrack Chair*:

Joseph Taylor, PhD, Assistant Professor
California State University, Sacramento
College of Business Administration
joseph.taylor at csus.edu<mailto:joseph.taylor at csus.edu>

More information is available at http://amcis2018.aisnet.org/ or by
contacting the minitrack chair (contact details above).