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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><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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<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" target="_blank"><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"> )</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Minitrack Title: Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for IS Research   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<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 such complex dynamics</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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<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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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SUGGESTED TOPICS BUT NOT LIMITED TO:</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">We 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>
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<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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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><u><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">INSTRCUTIONS FOR AUTHORS:</span></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submission:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</span></a> <br>
For more information visit:  <a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>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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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Minitrack Co-Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">YoungKi Park</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<a href="mailto:ypark1@uakron.edu" target="_blank"><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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">University of Akron </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Nilesh Saraf</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<a href="mailto:nsaraf@sfu.ca" target="_blank"><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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Simon Fraser University</span></p></div>