<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Chicago, Illinois, USA</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">August 15-17, 2013</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>MINITRACK: Understanding and Managing IS Innovation in Collaborative Networks</div>
<div>TRACK: End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change (SIGOSRA)</div><div><br></div><div>Today’s organizations are highly interconnected in manifold kinds of collaborative networks, such as virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, business ecosystems, supply chains, ad-hoc networks (e.g. in disaster scenarios). Furthermore, the widespread use of mobile devices and social media by end-users are extending the reach of collaborative networks across the usual limits of organizations. Traditional approaches for IS/IT innovation management and organizational change can hardly be applied in this context, since they are generally focused on a single organization with well-defined borders. The design, management and deployment of IS innovations within and for such collaborative networks brings about important challenges for IS research. These challenges include adapting existing IS frameworks, methodologies and approaches to deal with the socio-technical complexity of collaborative networks. Socio-technical complexity arises in these networks not only from integrating a diversity of organizations and their corresponding information and technology infrastructures, but also from their interaction with people outside the organization boundaries and with society (e. g. by mobile devices and social media).</div>
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<div>This mini-track aims at providing a forum for research on methods for analyzing and intervening into collaborative networks that consider the tremendous size, geographical dispersion, socio-technical intertwining as well as the limited possibilities to influence these networks. We encourage conceptual, theoretical, methodological as well as empirical contributions towards understanding and managing IS innovations in collaborative networks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Understanding and managing IS innovation in different types of collaborative networks (business ecosystems, virtual organizations, enterprise alliances, etc.)</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Theoretical approaches for unraveling socio-technical complexity in collaborative networks</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Suitability of traditional IS management methods and tools (e.g. Business Process Management, IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture) for collaborative networks</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Design and cultivation approaches for IS innovation and organizational change in collaborative networks</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>IS innovation management in ad-hoc collaborative networks (e.g. in disaster management)</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Inter-organizational information infrastructures for collaborative networks</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Geospatial approaches for dealing with collaborative networks</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>IS interoperability and integration issues in collaborative networks</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Collaborative and open IS/IT innovation in systems of IS/IT innovation</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>IS/IT innovation in ultra large-scale collaborative networks</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Success and failure of IS innovations in collaborative networks</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>End-User integration in inter-organizational innovation processes (e. g. by end-user mobile applications or social media)</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Methodologies for analyzing and intervening in complex collaborative networks</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Teaching cases for IS innovation in collaborative networks</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div>January 4, 2013 Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions</div>
<div>February 22, 2013 Deadline for paper submissions</div><div>April 22, 2013 Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date</div><div>May 9, 2013 For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due</div><div><br>
</div><div>SUBMISSION:</div><div><div>To submit a paper, please follow the directions below.</div><div>- Please use the AMCIS2013 Paper Template</div><div>- Submit your paper after January 4, 2013 via Bepress. The link will be available at <a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a> on January 4, 2013. Submissions will close on February 22, 2013 at 11:59 CST.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>MINITRACK CHAIRS:</div><div>João P. de Albuquerque</div><div>Department of Computer Systems</div><div>ICMC, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil</div>
<div>P.O. Box 668, 13560-970 - Sao Carlos/SP, Brazil</div><div><a href="mailto:jporto@icmc.usp.br" target="_blank">jporto@icmc.usp.br</a></div><div><a href="http://www.icmc.usp.br/~jporto/en" target="_blank">http://www.icmc.usp.br/~jporto/en</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul Drews</div><div>Department of Informatics</div><div>University of Hamburg, Germany</div><div>Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30</div><div>D-22527 Hamburg</div><div><a href="mailto:drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de" target="_blank">drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</a></div>
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