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<b><font color="#000000">Minitrack: IT-Enabled Agility and Firm Innovation</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center">
<font color="#000000">Savannah, Georgia</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font color="#000000">August 7-10, 2014</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><font color="#000000">Minitrack co-chairs:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center">
<i><font color="#000000">Prasanna Karhade, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong</font></i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><i><font color="#000000">John Qi Dong, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</font></i></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Contemporary firms need to respond and adapt to the turbulent environment through various innovations, such as new products, new business processes, and new forms of organization. Agility has long been recognized as vital to creating these innovations. It is particularly important for firms operating in the industries with high clockspeed to cope with the environmental dynamism with these innovations. As today’s firms increasingly rely on information technology (IT) to develop agility and innovation, this minitrack explores the area on IT, agility, and firm innovation.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">How does IT enable different dynamic capabilities and organizational agility in innovation activity? What innovation outcomes are derived from IT-enabled agility? How do firms benefit from these innovation outcomes? What are the costs or risks associated with IT-enabled agility building and innovation development? How does environmental characteristics influence the innovation performance of IT-enabled agility?</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All studies including conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative research investigating IT, agility and innovation are welcome. Topics for this minitack include but are not limited to the following:</span><br>
</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 1. IT and dynamic capabilities</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 2. IT-enabled agility and new product development</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 3. IT and business process reengineering</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 4. IT, organizational flexibility and business model</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 5. Digital options and entrepreneurial actions</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 6. Virtual organization and open innovation</font></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 7. IT, boundary spanning and co-innovation with partners</font></p><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">· 8. Social media and crowdsourcing</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">· 9. Environmental impact on IT-enabled agility and innovation</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"></font></font></p></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:10pt;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All submissions are to be made via the AMCIS 2014 submission system at </span><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ScholarOne’s ManuscriptCentral</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:10pt;line-height:19px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19px">When submitting online, select 1. track "IT Enabled Organizational Agility" and then 2. minitrack "IT-Enabled Agility and Firm Innovation", as well as a paper type (completed research paper, research-in-progress paper, or panel proposal).</span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">The submission deadline is </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">March 1, 2014</strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">. </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">No submissions will be accepted after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March 1, 2014.</strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">Authors will be notified as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected by </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">April 4, 2014</strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:21.760000228881836px">.</span></font></div>
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