[AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 - Call for Minitracks - Organizational Transformation & Information Systems (SIG-OSRA)

[Paul Drews]

*AMCIS 2019 / Track "Organizational Transformation & Information 
Systems" (SIG-OSRA)**
**Call for Mini-Tracks*

*Track Co-Chairs*

  *  Frank Ulbrich, University of the Fraser Valley, frank.ulbrich at ufv.ca
  *  Paul Drews, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, paul.drews at leuphana.de
  *  Lauri Wessel, University of Bremen, lauwes at uni-bremen.de

*AMCIS 2019 "New Frontiers in Digital Convergence"*
We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to AMCIS 2019, which 
will be held on August 15-17, 2019 in Cancún, Mexico. The conference 
provides many opportunities for participation, collaboration, and 
dialogue related to the conference theme, New Frontiers in Digital 
Convergence. Digital convergence is what enables individuals interact, 
communicate, collaborate and share information in many new and different 
ways.  Yet, it has tended to focus on the ability to combine technical 
components and features such as voice, texts, video, pictures, 
broadcasts, presentation, streaming media, global connectivity and 
personalized services. Its new frontier—yet to be fully imagined—the 
capacity to blur socio-technical boundaries, such as those between the 
real and online world, producers and consumers, humans and machines, 
inter- and intra-firms, as well as between develop and emerging 
economies.  This conference theme reflects the desire to strengthen and 
build consensus in existing research streams, while also taking on 
theoretical and methodological challenges while exploring emerging 
convergence opportunities.

*SIG-OSRA track **"Organizational Transformation & Information Systems"*
The SIG-OSRA track focuses on advancing research and application of 
information and communication technologies in the end-user environment 
to support work processes, foster innovation, improve employee 
performance, and enhance overall organizational effectiveness in direct 
support of goals and strategies.

By adopting, adapting, or developing Information Systems (IS), 
organizations and their IS continually undergo a considerable 
transformation often referred to as "digital transformation". As a 
result, information systems, business models, business processes, and 
end-user workplaces are perpetually analyzed, rethought, and changed. 
Nowadays, many systems in organizations are already interconnected to 
form inter-organizational IS, contributing to a complex IS landscape in 
current organizations. This renews the importance of analyzing the 
interplay between IS and organizations from socio-technical and end-user 
perspectives and the implications of changing IS for end-users and 
customers, who are increasingly technologically savvy and immersed in 
this digital transformation.

*Call for minitracks*

We invite minitracks on topics related to organizational transformation 
and IS, business process management, changing workplaces and IS 
integration, knowledge management and training, end-user computing, and 
IT consulting and inter-organizational information systems. Potential 
topics of mini-tracks could relate to (not exhaustive):

  * Organizational Transformation & Information Systems (General track)
  * Business Process Management & Change
  * New Perspectives on End-User Computing: Consumerization, BYOD and 
Shadow IT
  * Knowledge Management & Knowledge Workers
  * Business Ecosystems and Inter-organizational Information Systems
  * End-user Development & Open Innovation
  * Crowdsourcing and End-User Engagement
  * End-user Analytics & Data-driven Organizational Transformation
  * Organizational Implications of Service Innovation, Analytics, and 
End User Engagement
  * Implications of the “coding for everyone” and “data literacy” trends
  * The Role of IT-Consulting in Organizational Transformation
  * Applying and Adopting Socio-technical Approaches to Current 
Challenges of IT-driven organizational transformation
  * Changing end-user competencies and the use of information systems
  * Challenging and Extending (Design) Theory to effectively capitalize 
on Digital Disruption

*Opportunities/Fast Tracking in Journals*
High quality and relevant papers from the minitracks will be selected 
for fast-tracked development towards Internet Research 
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/intr). Selected papers will need to 
expand in content and length in line with the requirements for standard 
research articles published in the journal. Although the track co-chairs 
are committed to guiding the selected papers towards final publication, 
further reviews may be needed before final publication decision can be made.
Internet Research (IntR) is an international and refereed journal that 
is indexed and abstracted in major databases (e.g., SSCI, SCI, 
ABI/INFORM Global). The topics published in IntR are broad and 
interdisciplinary in nature. The 2015 impact factor of the journal is 3.017.

*Minitrack Submissions*
Minitrack proposals need to be submitted online via AMCIS's submission 
system until October 19, 2018. A submission guide has been posted here: 
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-minitrack-proposals/

*AMCIS 2019 Tentative Timeline*
September 20, 2018: PCS opens for minitrack proposals
October 19, 2018: Minitrack proposals due
October 30, 2018: Minitrack decisions are due
November 5, 2018: Minitrack revisions are due
January 7, 2019: System opens for general paper submissions


Best regards,

Paul Drews

-- 
Prof. Dr. Paul Drews
Institute of Information Systems
Research Center for Digital Transformation
School of Business and Economics
Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Universitätsallee 1
Building 4, Room 304
D-21335 Lüneburg
Germany

Tel:  +49 (4131) 677-1993
Fax:  +49 (4131) 677-1749

Mail: paul.drews at leuphana.de
Web:  www.leuphana.de/iis