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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">17th Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS 2011)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">August 4-7, 2011 (Thursday-Sunday)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Track: Economics and Value of Information
Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Minitrack: IT/IS Evaluation & Performance
Measurement</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DESCRIPTION</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Annual worldwide spending on information
technology (IT) and information systems (IS) has been increasing for many
years. For 2011, Gartner expects the total expenditure on IT to reach 2.5
trillion US dollars (Gartner 2010). Simultaneously, however, a greater
number of IS failures are still emerging. The measurement of investments
and developed systems’ success, as well as the paradox of high investments
and low productivity returns (“productivity paradox”) (Brynjolfsson 1993)
therefore remains a top concern for both practitioners and researchers.
During the last two and a half decades, research on measuring IS success
– the clarification of an important dependent variable in IS research
– has been a popular stream of research. A number of models have been
proposed in attempts to define IS success (e.g., DeLone and McLean 1992,
1993) and identify the various causes of success or failure respectively,
mostly from an individual perspective. Complementary, the research stream
on the business value of IT (e.g., Kohli and Grover 2008, Melville et al.
2004) has focused on the benefits from a broader – in most cases the organizational
– perspective. Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting
papers to this minitrack are encouraged to present their research into
strategies, methodologies, tools, and stories that relate to the evaluation
of IT/IS and IS/IT performance measurement.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SUGGESTED TOPICS</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Topics and research areas include, but
are not limited to:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Frameworks and models for assessing
IS success/effectiveness and IT business value</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Measuring IS success/IT business value
in global organizations and globally dispersed communities
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Impact of strategic, organizational,
process-related, cultural, and other issues on IS success/IT business value</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Critical discussion of existing approaches</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* IS success factors and key performance
indicators</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Qualitative and quantitative evaluation
techniques</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Benefits management/measurement</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Benchmarking initiatives comparing
IS across different organizations and industries</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Empirical studies evaluating different
topics and kinds of IS such as</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Customer Relationship Management
Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Project (Portfolio) Management
Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Knowledge Management Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Decision Support Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Collaborative Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Enterprise Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - Management topics (e.g. IS
strategies, IS governance)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> - IT service management frameworks</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Case studies of IS success and performance
evaluation</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Dec 30, 2010: AIS review system
will begin accepting submissions for AMCIS 2011</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Feb 17, 2010: Full paper submission
deadline</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Mar 24, 2011: Authors notified
of paper acceptance decision</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* April 21, 2011: Camera-ready papers
due</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">PAPER SUBMISSION</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Paper can be submitted using the online
submission system at </font><a href=http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Additional information regarding the
submission process will be made available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website:
</font><a href=http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/</font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">CHAIRS' CONTACT INFORMATION</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Nils Urbach (corresponding co-chair)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Institute of Research on Information
Systems (IRIS)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">EBS University of Business and Law</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">nils.urbach@ebs.edu</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Stefan Smolnik</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Institute of Research on Information
Systems (IRIS)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">EBS University of Business and Law</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">stefan.smolnik@ebs.edu</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Murray E. Jennex</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Information and Decision Science</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">San Diego State University</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu</font>
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