[AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2021 Mini-Track: Emerging IT Resources and Strategies for Digital Agility (Deadline: Mar. 1, 2021)

[Daniel Lee]

CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS 2021
27th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 
Mini-Track "Emerging IT Resources and Strategies for Digital Agility” 
August 9 - 13, 2021 (https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/) 

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TRACK DESCRIPTION 
The rapid advancement of information technologies (IT) and the emerging trends of digital transformation have changed the way today’s businesses operate. These pressing needs have driven businesses to transform their business practices and strategies by adopting and implementing emerging digital initiatives, such as artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, edge computing, and internet of things (IoT), to enhance their speed and capability to respond to the market. As the variety of available information technologies for digital transformation grows, businesses face challenges of effectively leveraging these new IT resources and strategies to sense and respond to market competition, changing demands, and unexpected social and business crises (like the current pandemic). Such new challenges have continued to evolve due to the growing uncertainties in today’s business environments and market competition.   

This mini-track seeks studies that focus on the investigation of the impact of cutting-edge information technologies and corresponding organizational digital transformations for organizational agility. Some fundamental questions in this area include:
   - What are the emerging IT resources and strategies to enhance organizational agility for today’s highly digitalized market competition?
   - How should a business implement and utilize these emerging IT resources and leverage their benefits?  
   - How can the emerging IT strategies and practices help transform a business into an agile organization?  

All studies including conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative research investigating the relationship between emerging information technologies and organizational agility are welcome. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 
Topics for this mini-track include but are not limited to the following: 
   - Digital transformation and organizational agility
   - Digital innovations and organizational agility
   - Data analytics capabilities and organizational agility 
   - Big data technologies and organizational agility 
   - Artificial intelligence and organizational agility
   - Organizational data infrastructure for agility
   - Agile IT infrastructure and data analytics
   - Internet of Things (IoT) and organizational agility
   - Cloud computing and organizational agility 
   - Edge computing and organizational agility
   - Emerging data-driven technologies and organizational agility 
   - Emerging IT management practices and organizational agility 

IMPORTANT DATES 
   - Jan. 6, 2021: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2020 begin 
   - Mar. 1, 2021: Deadline for AMCIS 2020 manuscript submissions 
   - Apr. 16, 2021: Notification of Track Chair recommendation
   - Apr. 23, 2021: Deadline for camera-ready submissions

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 
https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/submissions/submission-instructions/
 
MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS 
Peng Xu, University of Massachusetts Boston, Email: peng.xu at umb.edu  
One-Ki Daniel Lee, University of Massachusetts Boston, Email: daniel.lee at umb.edu   

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