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<b>AMCIS Mini-track: <span style="" lang="EN-GB">ICT Collaboration in Cross-Organizational, International, and Global Settings</span></b>
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Track: <span style="" lang="EN-GB">ICTs in Global Development (SIGGlobDev)</span><b>
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20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savannah, GA, August  7-10, 2014<br>
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Conference website: <a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a><br>
Manuscript submission website: <span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"></span><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">January 5, 2014 - Manuscript submissions open</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">March 1, 2014 - Final day for manuscript submissions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">April 4, 2014 – Author notification</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">August 7-10, 2014 - AMCIS conference<br>
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<b>DESCRIPTION:</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">With growing integration of corporations, public authorities, non-profit organizations, project teams, and individuals in cross-organizational, international and global settings, ICT collaboration is getting
 increasingly relevant. Cross-organizational and particularly international and global collaboration is much more complex than within one single organization. Critical success factors or challenges of ICT collaboration in such settings are for example physical
 locations of collaborating partners, varying levels of ICT infrastructure, cultural similarity or differences, legal regulations or the economic environment. The role of ICT in cross-organizational, international, and global collaboration is twofold: ICT can
 be a collaboration enabler, but also a collaboration purpose and goal. This mini-track focuses on conceptual and empirical research that contributes to a clearer understanding of ICT collaboration processes, their challenges, success factors, and benefits
 in cross-organizational, international, or global settings. All methodological approaches, including case studies, surveys, literature reviews, design science etc. are welcome.<span style=""> 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">SUGGESTED TOPICS:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
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Processes of ICT collaboration in global development</span></p>
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Success factors of collaboration technologies</span></p>
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Inter-organizational, international, or global collaboration and ICT productivity</span></p>
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Conceptual frameworks of ICT collaboration in global development</span></p>
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Multinational teams and ICT productivity</span></p>
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Cross-organizational, international, or global value-chains and value-networks</span></p>
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Standardization of collaborative technologies and/or processes</span></p>
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ICT productivity studies at the country, industry, firm, or project level </span>
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Comparative cross-country research on ICT collaboration</span></p>
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Country-specific case studies on cross-organizational collaboration</span></p>
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ICT offshoring/outsourcing into emerging economies</span></p>
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International or global ICT project management</span></p>
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Antecedents of cross-organizational, international, or global collaboration </span>
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Diffusion of collaborative technologies in emerging economies</span></p>
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ICT productivity instrument development and validation</span></p>
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<b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">MINI-TRACK CHAIR:<br>
</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Maria Madlberger<br>
Webster University Vienna, Austria</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<a href="mailto:madlberger@webster.ac.at" target="_blank">madlberger@webster.ac.at</a></span>
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Department of Business and Management<br>
Webster Vienna Private University<br>
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