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Special Issue of the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Journal of
Management Information Systems</I> *<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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Information Technology and Organizational Governance: Symbiosis and Dynamics
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Tiwana, University of Georgia<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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Complete information available in printable PDF @
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technology (IT) has spawned previously unfeasible forms of organizational
governance, and these new logics have simultaneously amplified the need for
effective IT governance. For example, contemporary platform-centric ecosystems
(such as Apple’s iOS community and Android’s developer network), open source
development (e.g., Ubuntu Linux), knowledge creation platforms (e.g., Starbucks’
idea-generation wiki), knowledge aggregation platforms (e.g., Wikipedia),
self-organizing digital networks (e.g., peer-to-peer systems such as Folding @
Home and SETI that facilitate massively-distributed collaboration), and similar
mass-collaboration-oriented organizational arrangements were previously
unfeasible. These emergent governance arrangements have altered the conventional
notions of organizational boundaries and have ushered in network-forms different
from those found in traditional industry configurations. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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organizations govern their IT activities has similarly evolved into an intricate
mosaic of dispersed decision rights spanning organizations, entities, and
institutions—often involving a multiplicity of stakeholders. Such IT governance
arrangements defy the conventional characterization of centralization--
decentralization or insourcing—outsourcing of IT activities pervasive in the
extant IT governance literature. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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goal of this special issue is to foster groundbreaking theory development and
empirical research at the interface of information technology and organizational
governance. The scope of this call is intentionally broad, with an emphasis on
the symbiotic and dynamic relationship between IT and organizational governance.
We particularly encourage research on two broad themes: (a) IT-enabled
governance of new organizing logics, forms, and configurations and (b)
governance of IT activities and artifacts. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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ISSUE EDITORIAL BOARD<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Andrew Burton-Jones, University of British Columbia<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Ashley Bush, Florida State University<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Samer Faraj, McGill University<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Eric van Heck, Erasmus University<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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JJ Hsieh, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Arvind Malhotra, University of North Carolina at Chapel
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T. Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Gautam Ray, University of Minnesota<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Mani Subramani, University of Minnesota<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Huseyin Tanriverdi, University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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broad illustrative sets of research problems that the special issue is
particularly interested in—but not limited to—include the following.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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IT-enabled governance of innovative organizational forms and
arrangements:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Realization and governance of massively-distributed IT-enabled organizational
form<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Platform-centric ecosystems (such as iOS, Android, Linux) where software “cores”
enable coordination and integration of the autonomous work of thousands of
volunteer collaborators<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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IT-enabled repartitioning of decision rights, especially as the strategic
assumption of information scarcity gets replaced by information abundance (e.g.,
via sense making based on massive amounts of real-time data using business
analytics)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Configurations of control mechanisms in such massively-distributed
organizational arrangements such as global expertise networks,
mass-collaboration networks, and product co-creation
communities<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Dynamics of control evolution, particularly where control is observed in the
absence of conventional principal-agent relationships<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Evolutionary dynamics, survival, and mortality of such organizational
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The role of IT architecture as a coordination device, especially in
massively-distributed organizational arrangements where conventional
coordination devices such as hierarchical authority do not readily
scale.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Governance of information technology activities and
artifacts:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Co-evolution of organizational governance and IT
governance<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Nuanced conceptualizations of IT governance as partitioning of different classes
of decision rights among multiple stakeholders within and across conventional
firm boundaries<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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The dynamics of IT governance evolution, particularly its temporal oscillation
between extremes of centralization and decentralization<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Consequences of misfits between IT governance arrangements and environmental
dynamics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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The role of IT governance in creating ambidextrous, resilient, or
self-organizing organizations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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The interplay between IT governance and national borders<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Alignment of IT governance and IT architecture at the firm, interfirm, or
network level<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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The interplay of modularity in IT architecture, organizational configurations,
and processes<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Plural forms of IT governance that simultaneously exploit the advantages of
vertical integration and outsourcing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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GUIDELINES: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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papers must make a significant and novel contribution to theory, complemented by
the appropriate evidence. All research methodologies are welcomed. Strong
preference will be given to papers that contribute distinctive, non-trivial
IS-centric insights to theoretical perspectives in IS or the reference
disciplines, rather than to applications of existing theories to an IS context.
Some potentially promising theoretical perspectives where an IS lens might
contribute distinctive, original insights include Transaction Cost Economics,
Evolutionary Selection, Real Options, Modular Systems Theory, and Agency
Theory.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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for required extended abstract submissions – September 30,
2011<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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