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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>AMCIS 2012 <br>Seattle, Washington <br>August 9-12, 2012<br><br>Track: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Management of IT Outsourcing Projects in a Global Economy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mini-track: IT Project Management <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>While academics and practitioners alike suggest that relationship management is a crucial factor in the overall success or failure of an IT outsourcing project, managing outsourcing relationship becomes a daunting task as the traditional IT outsourcing projects (application development, database development, etc.) has developed into a highly specialized marketplace of IT-enabled service projects such as business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), etc. over the last decade. The phenomenon of significant, sustained trend of IT project globalization, has led to the fact that researchers in many disciplines are reframing and refocusing their efforts around project management that explore whether findings in one context hold true in another. Along this line, a recent report by Gartner points out that many firms have failed to build a skills base to meet the challenge of managing their new outsourcing environment and are therefore at risk of a low return on service value. Therefore, this mini‐track invites research articles that focus on social, managerial and knowledge-related topics in IS outsourcing/offshoring project management, which we believe lead to a pathway to the success of IT project. With papers that are both conceptual and empirically based, we seek to contribute to theory building by both reapplying existing frameworks and developing new constructs that help explaining the project t management view of IT outsourcing relationship in general, and offshoring arrangements in particular.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IT projects management in IT outsourcing/offshoring, considering the relationships between organizational characteristics<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Coordination of IT projects in outsourcing/offshoring arrangement <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Conflict resolution in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Contractual management in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Knowledge flow management in IT outsourcing/offshoring projects<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Knowledge management, codification processes and their impact on the performance of outsourced IT projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Cultural issues in IS outsourcing/offshoring projects<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IT projects management in emerging outsourcing arrangements such as crowed sourcing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IT outsourcing project life cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Retained management capabilities from a social and knowledge perspective <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Project management mechanisms for the different contexts of IT outsourcing: offshoring, near shore sourcing, captive center, or domestic insourcing as well as single vendor vs. multi-vendor arrangements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IMPORTANT DATES:<br>January 2, 2012 Submission opens<br>March 1, 2012 Submission deadline <br>April 2, 2012 Notification of acceptance <br>April 20, 2012 Final camera-ready copy due</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:<br>All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at <br><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012</a>. <br>For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at <a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/</a> after January 2, 2012. <br><br>MINI-TRACK CHAIRS:<br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, <a href="mailto:jgoo@fau.edu">jgoo@fau.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Matthew Swinarski, Penn State Erie, <a href="mailto:mes35@psu.edu">mes35@psu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>