[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on 'Digital Business Transformation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DBTIE)' - Information and Management (I&M) ***Extension of Submission Deadline to Friday | September 7, 2018***

[Chee-Wee Tan]

Special Issue Call for Papers (CFP) at Information and Management (I&M): Digital Business Transformation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DBTIE)
Link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-management/call-for-papers/digital-business-transformation-in-innovation

<Guest Editors>
Darshana Sedera [darshana.sedera at monash.edu] – Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Chee-Wee Tan [ct.digi at cbs.dk] – Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark Dongming Xu [d.xu at business.uq.edu.au] – University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

<Important Dates>
Extended abstract due: 1st August 2018
Submission deadline: 7th September 2018
First round review decision to authors: 1st November 2018 Revised manuscript due: 1st February 2019 Second round review decision to authors: 1st May 2019 Final revised manuscript due: 1st June 2019 Final author notification of acceptance: 1st July 2019
Publication: Accepted papers will appear online as ‘Articles in Press’ as soon as it has been processed

<Introduction>
Innovation and entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts. As stated by Drucker (1998), “Innovation is the specific tool of Entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as opportunity of a different [new] business or a different [new] service… Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovations, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation”. The modern IT like social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) and emerging aspects like bigdata and internet-of-things is changing the way innovation and entrepreneurship are conceived, initiated and executed and managed. The rise and growth of firms such as Uber, Airbnb and Alibaba.com are strongly attributed to the advancements in digital technologies (Tan et al. 2016). Such examples epitome characteristics of digital technologies and platforms like accessibility, availability, ease-of-use and ease-of-deployment which purport to transform the very nature of how companies innovate using modern digital technologies and how entrepreneurship is facilitated.

Herein, digital technologies have provided the firms with low capital intensity, an opportunity to innovate in a similar fashion as their resourceful counterparts (Tan et al. 2016), challenging the traditional equation of IT sophistication and resource availability (Dobbs et al. 2015; Nylén and Holmström 2015). Moreover, the innovation potential of firms is said to have been augmented by the substantial growth in consumerization of IT, through which technologies have become accessible to average citizens as a commodity (Harris et al. 2012; Weiß and Leimeister 2012).

Overall, the opportunities for digital business transformation through digital technologies for innovation and entrepreneurship purport to provide unique opportunities to organizations of all sizes, regardless of their resources, geographical constraints and organizational maturity.

However, despite the proliferation, availability, accessibility, scalability and affordability of digital technologies over the past several years, firms are still struggling to reap the full innovation and entrepreneurial potential, where new ideas still do not reach the customer due to lack of organizational readiness and lack of knowledge of the organizational strategy (Snyder-Halpern 2001; Williams 2011).

As such, more research is necessary to disentangle the intricate relationship between IT with innovation and entrepreneurship in order to comprehend how new businesses may emerge alongside technological innovations. This special issue provides an opportunity for deliberation on a broad range of topics associated with recent trends in IT innovation and entrepreneurship. Over the last decade, there is a growing research stream on IT entrepreneurship in the information systems community. IT entrepreneurship adds a further dimension to IT innovation in that it deals with how original ideas can be converted into software and hardware products and services.

Accordingly, this special issue serves as a forum for focused discussion and exchange on IT innovation and entrepreneurship. We endeavor to address crucial fundamental question of the role of digital technologies in innovation and entrepreneurship in the dynamic economic realities. The special issue is open to all methodological approaches. We especially welcome papers that identify and address knowledge gaps in (but not limited to):

- Challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging IT-driven innovation activities and processes for entrepreneurship
- Effects of culture on IT innovation and entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial attitudes toward and motives for IT innovation
- Impact of IT entrepreneurship on for individuals, businesses, and society
- Inter-firm collaboration in IT innovation and entrepreneurship
- Novel business models anchored on IT innovation, relationship between emerging technologies (e.g., big data analytics, blockchain, sharing economy, social media) and entrepreneurship
- Value creation and capturing through IT innovation
- Any other topic that touch on matters related to the intersection between IT innovation and entrepreneurship.

<Extended Abstract>
Before submitting a completed manuscript, authors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended abstract detailing the research objectives to be achieved, the methodological approach(es) being adopted (if applicable), the core findings, as well as contributions to theory and practice. The extended abstract should be no more than 800 words and is due on Wednesday [August 1st, 2018]. Based on the extended abstract, the guest editors will provide authors with feedback on whether their papers would be a match with the theme of the special issue.

<Paper Development Workshop>
We expect authors of manuscripts, which have gone through the first round of review, to attend a paper development workshop at ICIS 2018 to be held in San Francisco, California, United States of America.

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Venlig hilsen | Kind regards,

Chee-Wee, Tan (陈致玮)

Professor
Department of Digitalization
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60, 4.18 | DK - 2000 Frederiksberg | Denmark
T: +45 4185-2149 | E: ct.digi at cbs.dk<mailto:ct.digi at cbs.dk> | W: www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ctadigi<http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ctadigi>