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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Call for Papers: 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000066;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">August 7-10, 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Track: Global, International, and Cross Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)
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<span class="thread-subject"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini Track:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We welcome papers for the AMCIS 2014 Mini Track "</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cloud ERP Adoption”.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Description:<br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">The availability and affordability of the Internet, dramatic drop in the bandwidth costs and other technological advancements (3G, FTTH, and WiMAX) have contributed to the emergence
of Cloud Computing in general and specialized services such as Cloud ERP in particular (Grabski
<i>et al., </i>2011; Alali and Yeh, 2012). Cloud ERP is particularly suitable for SMEs as it does not require any upfront cost or specialized IT staff for maintenance and upgrading like on-premise ERP systems. For the same reason Cloud ERP is seen as a feasible
solution, especially in developing countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">In the broader area of Cloud Computing, research is largely concentrated on
<i>technological </i>issues (Beloglazov <i>et al., </i>2011), ignoring <i>environmental and organizational
</i>implications. There exists limited empirical research on organizational decision to adopt cloud services (Xin and Levina, 2008; Nuseibeh, 2011; Bin-Motalab and Shohag 2011) and particularly in the context of developing countries (Seethamraju, 2013). Since
business organizations of emerging economies operate in a different business setting, the enablers and barriers identified in the literature for developed countries might not be applicable in the context of developing countries.
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In addition, recent news (Hayden, 2013) about the exposure of cloud services to governmental legislation and surveillance may create additional considerations for decision makers for the use of cloud services or cloud ERP in particular that crosses international
border and jurisdictions. The minitrack welcomes both empirical and conceptual research on Cloud ERP adoption and use. The minitrack is
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">open to methodological approaches and perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">• Cross-country studies on ERP cloud adoption and use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">• Performance or global/international benchmarking studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Impact of governmental legislation and surveillance on decision makers for adoption and use of cloud ERP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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For more information please visit the AMCIS 2014 website: <a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mini track chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Roya Gholami and Andreas Schroeder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Operations & Information Management Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Aston Business School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Alali, F. A. and C-L. Yeh (2012). Cloud Computing: Overview and Risk Analysis. Journal of Information Systems 26 (2): 13-33.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Beloglazov, A., R. Buyya (2011). A taxonomy and survey of energy-efficient data centres and cloud computing systems. Advances in Computers 82(2): 47-111.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Bin-Motalab, M. and S. Shohag (2011). Cloud Computing and the Business Consequences of ERP Use. International Journal of Computer Applications 28: 31-37.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Grabski, S.V., and S.A. Leech (2011). A review of ERP research: A future agenda for accounting information systems. Journal of Information Systems 25(1): 37-78.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Hayden, M. (2013) What Edward Snowden did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/19/opinion/hayden-snowden-impact/<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Nuseibeh, H. (2011). Adoption of Cloud Computing in Organizations. Proceedings of the Seventeent Americas Conference on Information Systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Salim, S. A. (2013). Cloud ERP Adoption-A Process View Approach. PACIS 2013 Proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Seethamraju, R. (2013). Determinants of SaaS ERP Systems Adoption. PACIS 2013 Proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Xin, M. and N. Levina (2008). Software-as-a-service model: Elaborating client-side adoption factors. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Information Systems</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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