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In recent years, the diffusion of smartphones and other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>mobile devices such as tablets has rapidly increased and offers new potentials for companies’ business processes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>(Cheon-Pyo & Shim, 2006). Especially the emergence of so-called mobile apps has yielded novel possibilities in the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>use of mobile phones that can be valuable adopted by companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>The ubiquitous availability of crucial enterprise information through mobile devices leads to an increasing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>independence of employees from their stationary workplace. As a consequence, the traditional workplace begins to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>lose its importance and a growing share of work-related activities takes place outside the office, resulting in a “mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>enterprise” (Venezia & Alee, 2007). Generally “mobile enterprise” is defined as a corporation or large organization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>that supports business processes by the use of enterprise applications via wireless mobile devices such as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>smartphones or tablets (Panos & George, 2012). In this sense, “mobile enterprise” implies external utilization, with a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>strong focus on marketing and distribution activities, as well as an internal perspective where organizational issues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>are the focal point of interest. Employees are enabled to use mobile devices to interact with colleagues or customers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>to get access to all needed information, as well as to share information e.g. uploading data into enterprise information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>systems while being “on the road” (Stieglitz & Brockmann, 2012; Unhelka & Murugesan, 2010; Wajcman et al., 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>However, the rapidly emerging diffusion of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in enterprises presents new<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>challenges for CIOs and decisions makers as they respond to these technologies to achieve competitive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>organizational performance (Dery & MacCormick, 2012). Mobile technologies have a rapid innovation rate and as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>usual in IT, enterprises must be always prepared to respond to new technologies and upcoming trends like, Bring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Your Own Device (BYOD), Tablets, Long Term Evolution (LTE) or Near Field Communications (NFC). Therefore,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>corporate wide strategies are necessary to manage risks, ensure competitive organizational performance and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>consider upcoming trends. The transformation of emerging mobile technologies into organizational performance is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>currently particularly under researched. Therefore the goal of this mini-track is to provide a forum for academics and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>practitioners to identify and explore issues, opportunities, and solutions surrounding the valuable transformation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>process towards a mobile enterprise. Empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) as well as theoretical work is very<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>SUGGESTED TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>In this mini-track we are inviting papers from the following fields (however, it is not limited to these areas of research):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Theories related to mobile enterprises and competitive organizational performance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>IT-business value creation throughout mobile services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Organizational strategies for enabling a mobile enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Enterprise related discussion of upcoming technologies (e.g. NFC, LTE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Bring Your Own Device (adoption, security, policies, laws)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Business vs. enterprise applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Mobile Device Management (MDM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Mobile Knowledge Worker / Mobile Employee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Mobile Work – challenges for Work-Life Integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Utilization of mobile applications in organizations (best practices and implications for research)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Change management strategies for mobile applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Distance Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>M-collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Utilization of mobile application in organizations (best practices and implications for research)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Changing role for the CIO in a mobile enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>SUBMISSION PROCEDURE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Submit your manuscript using the Bepress system at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://amcis2013.aisnet.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>January 4, 2013: Paper submissions officially begins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>February 22, 2013: Paper Submission Deadline 11:59 PM CST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>April 22, 2013: Program Chairs Notify Authors of Paper Acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>May 9, 2013: Camera-ready Copy of Accepted Papers Due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Updated information at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://amcis2013.aisnet.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>MINI-TRACK CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Stefan Stieglitz<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>University of Mόnster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Department of Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>stefan.stieglitz@uni-muenster.de<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Kristine Dery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Business School<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>kristine.dery@sydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Tobias Brockmann<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>University of Mόnster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Department of Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif";color:black'>tobias.brockmann@uni-muenster.de<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>