<font size=2 face="Arial">AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: Enterprise System
Adoption and Business Models </font>
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Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013 <br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Deadline for submissions: 22nd of February
2013</font>
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Enterprise systems (ES) are extremely complex software packages designed
for integrating data flow across an entire company, emerged from earlier
MRP, MRP II and ERP systems. Over time, ES have expanded to include more
and more areas of an organization’s operations, and have extended organizational
boundaries and support interorganizational activities. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Frequently, the adoption of an ES is an enormous
challenge for an organization, due to system complexity, organizational
context and the people involved in the implementation project. Usually,
ES adoption is a long and multi-stage process during which various problems
and complications may occur. Moreover, ES adoption projects typically involve
a large number of stakeholders representing different departments, various
organizational hierarchies, and often external companies operating in various
industries. These stakeholders may have conflicting interests, and their
own definitions of project success. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Providers of enterprise systems have traditionally
relied on strong revenues from maintenance fees, in addition to license
revenue. Nowadays, shorter product lifecycles, rising consulting revenues,
Open Source Software and SaaS are impacting their business models. ES providers
have the challenge of delivering systems which are highly customizable
software products, able to fit the needs of a variety of adopters. This
might be important since, as prior research suggests, the issue of alignment
between ES and adopting organizations is one of the determinants of successful
enterprise system implementation.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">This mini-track invites papers that examine
various aspects related to the determinants of ES success and business
models. Both empirical and theoretical papers are invited. The general
research questions addressed in this mini-track can be formulated as follows:
What are the mechanisms determining successful ES adoption? What are the
underlying business models of companies delivering successfully adaptable
ES? What kind of business models exist?</font>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font>
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<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Motivation and justification for ES adoption,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Alignment between ES and adopting organization,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Barriers and impediments to ES adoption success,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Risk factors in ES adoption,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Critical failure factors for ES adoption,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Critical success factors for ES adoption,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Understanding of ES adoption success,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Multi-cultural and multi-national issues,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Multiple stakeholder perspective in ES adoption
and use,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Business model frameworks for ES providers,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Impact of new trends within the software
industry on business models,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Business model innovation for standard software
companies,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Implications of shorter product lifecycles
on business models,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">SaaS related business models,</font>
<li><font size=2 face="Arial">Open source software related business models.<br>
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Important dates:</b> <br>
February 22, 2013 Deadline
for paper submissions <br>
April 22, 2013
Notification of acceptance <br>
May 9, 2013
Final copy due <br>
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Instructions for authors:</b> <br>
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all materials
and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions
will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online
submission system at </font><a href=http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013><font size=2 face="Arial">http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013</font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference,
visit the AMCIS 2013 website at </font><a href=http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">.<br>
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Mini-Track Co-Chairs</u><br>
Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam, cbrockmann@wi.uni-potsdam.de<br>
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">JP Allen, University of San Francisco, JP
Allen, jpallen@usfca.edu</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Katja Andresen, Beuth University of Applied
Sciences, andresen@beuth-hochschule.de</font>