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<div><font color="#1F497D"><b>AM</b><font color="red"><b>C</b></font><b>IS</b></font></div>
<div><font color="red"><b>C</b><font color="#1F497D"><b>HI</b></font><b>C</b><font color="#1F497D"><b>AGO</b></font><font color="#4F81BD"><b> </b></font><b>2013</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Call for Papers</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013) </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Chicago, IL, August 15–17, 2013</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><i>End-User Information Systems, Innovation, and Organizational Change</i></b><b><i> (SIGOSRA)</i></b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Track Description</b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">This track focuses on advancing research and application of information and communication technologies in the end-user environment to support work processes, improve
employee performance, and enhance overall organizational effectiveness in direct support of goals and strategies.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">We invite research papers on topics related to integrating information and communication technologies in the workplace including end-user innovation, business process
redesign/management, project management, technology training and support, industry specific applications, work group technologies, knowledge management as an end-user technology, and technology adoption, assimilation and use. Papers related to curriculum issues,
service learning, and other pedagogical topics—including teaching cases—are also invited.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The track is open to all types of research. Best papers from the minitracks will be considered for submission to the <i>Information Technology, Learning, and Performance
Journal (ITLPJ)</i>.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=58"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><u>Website
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Minitracks</b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>Applications of Web 2.0 and Social Media in Business and Education</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:lkeane@mailbox.sc.edu"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Keane Lynn</u></i></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">This mini-track will focus on the applications of Web 2.0 and virtual technologies in the workplace and teaching. Web 2.0 has many definitions, but often refers to the
next generation of web sites and applications that harness the power of the web for interactivity, collaboration, and data sharing. Examples include mashups, social networking sites, wikis, blogs, and user-customizable web sites, among many others. Many businesses
and nonprofit organizations are recognizing the benefits of these and related technologies to improve operations and reach new clients or customers. Educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels are teaching these technologies or using them to enhance
existing coursework. This mini-track solicits papers, demos, or workshops on Web 2.0 in business and education.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>Consumerization of IT</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:RNick@sfsu.edu"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Rob Nickerson</u></i></font></a><font face="Calibri"><i>, Iris Junglas,
Erik Krogh, and Thierry Jean Ruch</i></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Organizations are facing an expanding challenge in managing enterprise information technology: the consumerization of IT. The arrival of consumer-oriented devices and
applications into the workplace (also called BYOD) is re-defining how corporate IT is adopted, delivered, and consumed. End-users have mastered new digital technologies enough to begin to assert their independence from the constraints that the IT department
has previously put in place to ensure the compliance, security, and stability of the corporate IT platform. While there is little academic research on the consumerization of IT, numerous industry-oriented articles have appeared. This dearth of research publications
highlights the need for theoretical and empirical investigation into this topic. The purpose of this minitrack is to provide a forum for presenting research in this new and important area.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>End-User Involvement in IT Innovation and Organizational Change</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:earegan@mailbox.sc.edu"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Elizabeth Regan</u></i></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Business leaders expect better business processes, more productivity, and lower costs from technology. Helping the business grow is still the No.1 driver behind implementation
of new technologies. Achieving these goals takes more than technology, however; it requires innovation and major changes to established ways of doing business. The challenges are evident across many industries and perhaps most notably in the current focus on
transforming the U.S. healthcare system. Achieving improvement goals requires user involvement and buyin at all levels because it requires changing individual and work group behavior. Moreover, innovation is generally an iterative process that evolves over
time as users gain insight into the potential of new technologies. This mini-track invites theoretical, empirical and descriptive (case studies) papers related to the role of end-users in achieving technology enabled innovation and business process transformation.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>End-User Training, Support, and Knowledge Management</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:earegan@mailbox.sc.edu"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Elizabeth Regan</u></i></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">This mini-track will focus on user training, support, and knowledge management within and across organizations and cultures. Today’s anywhere, anytime work environment
is made possible by a wide-range of increasingly sophisticated communications and knowledge management technologies. Knowledge management, along with a growing array of collaborative tools and social media, have become increasingly mainstream for managing today’s
global enterprises. Moreover, the concept of managing end-user knowledge and expertise as an enterprise asset has proven both appealing and elusive. Now with the growth of big data and data mining, the concept of information or knowledge as a corporate asset
has been gaining increasing credibility. Managing knowledge assets across a diverse workforce requires technical know-how along with sensitivity to an organization’s culture, group dynamics, and individual work styles. Exploratory, theoretical, empirical and
descriptive (case studies) papers related to end-user information technology, knowledge management, and knowledge as an asset are invited.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>New Frontiers in Business Process Management</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>Thomas Kohlborn, </i><a href="mailto:jepo@uni-bremen.de"><font color="#1F497D"><i><u>Jens Poeppelbuss</u></i></font></a><i>, Oliver Mueller, and Maximilian Roeglinger</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Business processes management (BPM) is a management approach that has its roots in a range of practices, such as Kaizen, TQM, and BPR. It makes use of methods and tools
dedicated to the identification, documentation, improvement, implementation, and execution of organizational processes. Although BPM has been a popular topic for decades, the field is still evolving. Current technological developments and environmental pressures
extend the reach and richness of BPM beyond its traditional frontiers. Considering the reach of BPM, the growing importance of alliances and networks requires end-to-end business processes to be managed across multiple organizations. The roles of employees
and customers also change, evolving to more active initiators and participants of process improvement endeavors. Organizations that previously refrained from adopting a systematic approach to manage their operations finally turn to BPM methods and technologies
as well. Regarding the richness of BPM, new methods and tools are proposed that help organizations with the successful adoption of BPM. Current web-based technologies may increase the involvement of internal and external stakeholders and reduce organizational
inertia. Improved analysis functionality like process mining can leverage organizational learning. This mini-track intends to serve as a platform for research on these current trends in BPM.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>Transformation of Work: Working Smart with ICT</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:jlee@yonsei.ac.kr"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Jungwoo Lee</u></i></font></a><font face="Calibri"><i>, Sehl Mellouli,
Elizabeth Regan, and J. Ramon Gil-Garcia</i></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">ICT is fundamentally changing the way we work and live. Historically, many people predicted that ICT may lead people to work at home reducing traffic time (telecommuting,
telework, home office), to work at flexible hours increasing quality of life (flextime), and to work while moving accommodating personal needs (mobile work, mobile office), etc. However, most of these efforts were partially successful, at best, till now. With
the ubiquitous networking capability and distributed intelligence provided by the advance of the Internet, efforts are now concerted to realize these ideal scenarios in practice. Smart work will directly affect individual workers and organizations as progresses
are further being made into knowledge-based aging society. In the past, ICT have been speeding up the automation in industrialized processes. Today, ICT is re-defining the way organizations are delivering their services. Business processes are automated and
ICT is supporting the way people are working. In coming knowledge-based society, work will be not only automated but transformed into something that we may not be able to imagine now. As we progress into new paradigm of work, novel performance assessment schemes
need to be developed, different from what we have developed in the industrial age. In this regard, it is critical to review and identify changes we are experiencing, and further research into what will be happening in the future of work.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><i>Understanding and Managing IS Innovation in Collaborative Networks</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:jporto@icmc.usp.br"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><i><u>Joao Porto de Albuquerque</u></i></font></a><font face="Calibri"><i>
and Paul Drews</i></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">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). 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). 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.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Important Dates</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">January 4, 2013 Paper submission begins</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">February 22, 2013 Paper submission deadline<font face="MS Gothic">
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">April 19, 2013 Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">May 9, 2013 Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:frank.ulbrich@northumbria.ac.uk"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><u>Frank Ulbrich</u></font></a><font face="Calibri">, Northumbria University</font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="mailto:earegan@mailbox.sc.edu"><font face="Calibri" color="#1F497D"><u>Elizabeth Regan</u></font></a><font face="Calibri">, University of South Carolina</font></span></font></div>
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