[AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 CfP : **Mini-Track Title: IT-enabled Organizational Agility and Security**

[Sumantra Sarkar]

***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:**
o    January 7, 2019 - Manuscript Submissions Begin
o    March 1, 2019 - Manuscript Submissions Due
o    April 22, 2019 - 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 2019 website at https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org