<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA August 7-10, 2014.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Track: Research Methods (</span><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/115"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/115</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Minitrack Title: Set-Theoretic
Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for IS Research </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">DESCRIPTION
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">In
recent times, </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">i</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">nformation
and digital technologies have become tightly interconnected with organizational
and environmental elements. This ‘fusion’ has created a complex system that </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">often</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> exhibits </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">nonlinear,
</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">discontinuous change
such that a small adjustment in one element can trigger drastic changes in
other elements</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">, and e</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ventually
the whole system can change radically and stabilize at a new equilibrium. Given
<span style="background-repeat:initial initial">such complex dynamics</span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">,</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> the role of information technology can </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">be determined by other elements of the whole system</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">and thus can </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">be better understood if it is viewed as a part of the
holistic system instead of as a separate independent variable.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Although
traditional correlation-based methods have tremendously contributed to the
success of IS research, it becomes much difficult for such methods alone to
completely explain the complex digital phenomena. Recently, set-theoretic
configurational methods such as qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) get
increasing attention as an alternative </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">and/</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">or
complementary way to build a holistic configurational theory. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">QCA
developed by Charles Ragin (1987) integrates the strengths of both
case-oriented qualitative methods and variable-oriented quantitative methods
and it is well suited to investigating the holistic aspects of complex
phenomena. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SUGGESTED
TOPICS BUT NOT LIMITED TO: </span></u></p>
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encourage authors to submit both conceptual and empirical papers that discuss
how set-theoretic methods are different from and complementary to traditional
methods in building or testing IS theories; show empirical applications of QCA
to </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">IS research topics</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">;
build novel IS theories in digital settings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> - </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Empirical
studies that applies set-theoretic QCA methods</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Theory
building and/or testing with set-theoretic QCA methods</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> -</font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Methodological
comparison of QCA with traditional methods</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Benefits
of using QCA in the IS research areas</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Limitations
and challenges of set-theoretic QCA methods in applying to IS research </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Investigating
the holistic aspects of complex systems with set-theoretic methods</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Building
novel IS theories with QCA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Revealing
new aspects of extant IS theories with QCA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -</span><span style="font-size:9.090909004211426px"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">IT
impact on organizational performance – synergetic, complementary, equifinal
effects </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Multifaceted,
inconsistent roles of digital technologies such as enabling vs. inhibiting
roles </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Multiple
design solutions for new IT systems depending on organizational idiosyncratic
context </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Enterprise
architecture design with QCA </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Social
network analysis with QCA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Investigating
the complex dynamics of new IT systems development with QCA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Small,
medium, and large N case QCA studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> -<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">QCA
studies for multiple levels – individual, team/group, organization, industry,
country, population, field </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">This
minitrack will foster discussion about how QCA can help researchers build
novel, richer theories in the IS research field. We encourage authors to submit
both conceptual and empirical papers from diverse areas which apply QCA to
IT-related topics in IS, management, sociology, strategy, marketing, economics,
operations, supply chains, accounting, and finance, to name a few. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">INSTRCUTIONS FOR AUTHORS: </span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submission: </span></p>
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For more information visit:
<a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org</a></span></p>
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Important Dates:<br>
Deadline for paper submissions: March 1, 2014<br>
Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2014<br>
Revisions due: April 18, 2014<br>
Final copy due: April 25, 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Minitrack Co-Chairs: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">YoungKi Park </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="mailto:ypark1@uakron.edu"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ypark1@uakron.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">University of Akron
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Nilesh Saraf</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="mailto:nsaraf@sfu.ca"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">nsaraf@sfu.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Simon Fraser University</span></p></div>