[AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2020 Minitrack: Disruptive Start-ups and Traditional Companies

[Wagner, Heinz-Theo]

CALL FOR PAPERS

AMCIS 2020, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, August 12-16

MINI-TRACK: Disruptive Start-ups and Traditional Companies
TRACK: Organizational Transformation @ Information Systems (SIG OSRA)

DESCRIPTION

The opportunities provided by digital technology and lower entry barriers to markets, e.g., enabled by regulation, combined with the availability of vast amounts of venture capital gave rise to large numbers and diversity of start-ups that confront incumbent firms with fast changing competitive landscape and the disruption of their traditional businesses.
Especially in areas of the traditional services industries like Financial Services, Legal Services and Health Services new competitors referred to as Fintechs, Legaltechs and Healthtechs start to mix up competition. This trend continues and stretches far beyond the mentioned industries.
Incumbent companies struggle to compete with these new entities due to the differences in business logics entailing, e.g., speed, agility, and customer-centricity. Also, these start-ups specifically target weak spots in the value chain of the traditional businesses. This makes them both a pain and a gain for the traditional companies. A pain as they take business away, a gain as successful collaboration or integration can elevate the competitive position of the traditional business.
Topics of interest for this mintrack include
*       New business logic and advanced business models
*       Value co-creation and value appropriation
*       New forms of digital collaboration and co-opetition
*       Forms and mechanisms of collaboration
*       Development and governance of digital ecosystem
*       New forms of organizing such as network organization
*       Lessons learned from integrating start-ups into incumbent firms
*       Knowledge integration and re-combination across firm boundaries
*       Case studies from Fintech, Legaltech, Healthtech and other startup industries
*       International aspects of start-ups and their interaction with traditional businesses

SUBMISSION TYPES

Full papers must not exceed 10 pages (approx. 5,000 words)
Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers must not exceed 5 pages (approx. 2,500 words)

All submissions must conform to the AMCIS 2020 submission template<https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/> and will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system.

IMPORTANT DATES

January 6, 2020: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2020 begin
February 28, 2020: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes at 5:00pm MST
April 13, 2020: Track Chair recommendations due
April 22, 2020: Camera-ready papers are due at 5:00 pm MST

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Prof. Dr. Heiko Gewald
heiko.gewald at hs-neu-ulm.de
Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Heinz-Theo Wagner
Heinz-theo.wagner at ggs.de
German Graduate School of Management and Law

Ass. Prof. Dr. Daniel Gozman
daniel.gozman at sydney.edu.au
The University of Sydney Business School

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