[AISWorld] Reminder: HICSS-53 Minitrack INTEGRATION TO DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES

[Rossi Matti]

Call for Papers



HICSS-53 Minitrack



INTEGRATION TO DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES



(in Organizational Systems and Technology track)



The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is a premier international forum for presenting computer systems research in the area of information science. As part of the Organizational Systems and Technology track, we seek new research describing different issues and solutions in integrating to digital platforms. The submissions can be research papers, case studies, novel designs, or practitioner reports on topics including:



- Strategic choices in joining platforms and infrastructures

- Technology choices in joining platforms and infrastructures

- Methods for assessing platforms and infrastructures when planning either to join or to leave them

- Risks of being too dependent of a closed platform or infrastructure

- Risks of open platforms and infrastructures

- Risks of declining or dying platforms and infrastructures

- Empirical studies and experiences on benefits, risks, challenges or practices in joining or being connected to platforms and infrastructures

- Systems and software development and development practices when joining platforms and infrastructures

- IT management practices in the context of digital platforms and infrastructures

- Organizational consequences of using external platforms and infrastructures



Evolving digital platforms, or infrastructures, (such as the smart grid, Google services, cloud platforms, Amazon, Facebook, e-health, Internet of Things platforms, etc.) are deeply intertwined to the everyday life of businesses and citizens. We claim that in the future the success of businesses and public sector organizations is dependent on their ability to harness both new technology and its social capacities. These digital capabilities are afforded by the platforms. The platforms are often global, remote, and nearly invisible, and thus they cannot be controlled by people utilizing them. In addition, digital platforms and infrastructures may change or evolve, and include unknown security risks and strategic threats. Managing these changes, risks and opportunities is challenging for any local developer or user of different kinds of digital products and services. At the same time readily available global platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google apps, Facebook APIs to name a few) offer enormous power for even the smallest developer and user organizations.



The minitrack focuses on actors that do not own or are not able to establish their own infrastructures or platforms. They are often referred to as non-focal actors (Selander et al. 2013). A non-focal actor is at the periphery of a digital platform. The objective is to understand and demonstrate how these local actors can benefit from the strategic use of existing and coming digital platforms and infrastructures. The platform is not dependent on a single non-focal actor and, in principle, a non-focal actor may choose to which platforms it connects. However, to survive and succeed in their business, non-focal actors need to integrate to platforms owned and managed by others. Often there are no alternatives, as global platforms have a tendency to form monopolies because of the winner-takes-it-all economics. From the non-focal perspective, the process of development and integration is mostly reactive, when much of the development is done to adapt to the changes in the capabilities of the infrastructure, or to provide a match between the platform and the business need (Henfridsson & Bygstad 2013).



Minitrack chairs:



Kari Smolander, LUT University, Finland

Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland

Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University, Finland



Important dates:

April 15, 2019: Beginning of Submission Period

June 15, 2019:  Paper Submission Deadline (11:59 pm HST)

August 17, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

September 22, 2019: Deadline for Final Manuscript

October 1, 2019: Deadline for at least one author to register

January 8-10, 2020: Paper Presentations



More information:

http://hicss.hawaii.edu/



References

Henfridsson, Ola, & Bygstad, Bendik. (2013). The generative mechanisms of digital infrastructure evolution. MIS quarterly, 37(3), 907-931.

Selander, Lisen, Henfridsson, Ola, & Svahn, Fredrik. (2013). Capability search and redeem across digital ecosystems. Journal of Information Technology, 28(3), 183-197.


Matti Rossi
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business
Department of Information and Service Management
P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Visiting address Ekonominaukio 1 Room V209, Espoo
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email: matti.rossi at aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi at aalto.fi>
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