[AISWorld] Important note about the AMCIS 2020: Mini-track: Problems in Financial Information Technology (PFIT 2020)

[Templeton, Gary]

If you are planning on submitting to the PFIT minitrack (see below for the full description), you must do so in the Accounting Information Systems track. It was previously advertised as part of the Decision Sciences and Analytics (SIGDSA) track.

Gary

Track: [see correction above]
26th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug. 12-16, 2020
Salt Lake City, Utah

This mini-track solicits papers using methods to critically examine issues hampering the emergence and understanding of financial information technology (FIT) in research and practice. Authors are encouraged to identify and investigate three specific problem areas in finance that affect modern organizations: technology (“FinTech”), analytics and messy data. What are the problems and solutions in these areas? What can researchers do to move beyond the current state of research and practice concerning these IS-relevant issues? In what ways do specified problems impact important IS theories and streams, such as the productivity paradox, IT business value, and information economics? What are the pros and cons and comparative performance of any proposed solutions? These are the types of questions that may be explored in this mini-track.

We are particularly interested in completed or emerging research addressing the conference theme, New Frontiers in Digital Convergence. Therefore, we hold at a premium papers advancing our understanding of organizations engaged in digital convergence for value creation. In particular, we are interested in information technology firms since they engage in digital convergence out of competitive necessity.

We encourage thought provoking papers utilizing the wealth of archival data (e.g., Compustat and CRSP) accessible by many in the IS research community. We especially value thought provoking papers pushing known boundaries of the three mentioned FIT themes (FinTech, analytics and messy data) in order to improve IS practice. For these reasons, we are interested in high quality papers that illuminates and addresses the effects of the following issues (among others) on modern organizations:

FinTech
    Finance-Technology alignment
    Resistance to change
    Barriers to innovation
    Systems scalability
    FinTech success
    Outsourcing FinTech
    Issues specific to FinTech firms
    Compliance management
    FinTech application frontiers
    Blockchain and cryptography

Financial Analytics
    Workflows
    Queries
    Data storage
    Analytical efficiency and economics
    Analytical skills
    Data security and privacy
    User-friendliness of big data
    Artificial intelligence and machine learning
    Big data analytics
    Analytical procedures

Messy Financial Data
    Non-normality
    Missing data
    Imputation
    Inflated frequencies
    Variables with low levels (i.e. binary)
    Outliers
    Negative denominators
    Measurement bias
    Illogical values

Mini-Track co-chairs
Gary Templeton, Mississippi State University     gft4 at msstate.edu
Brian Blank, Mississippi State University     dblank at business.msstate.edu
Andrew Miller, Mississippi State University     asm357 at msstate.edu
Martin Kang, Mississippi State University     mkang at business.msstate.edu
Ted Lee, University of Memphis     elee at memphis.edu

Submission Instructions: https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

Important Dates:
January 6, 2020: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2020 begin
February 28, 2020: Manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST
March 5, 2020: All papers have assigned reviewers
April 24, 2020: Revised, camera-ready papers are due