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AMCIS 2014 CFP Mini-Track: Enterprise System Adoption and Business
Models<br>
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Track: Enterprise Systems (SIGEntSys)<br>
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Savannah, Georgia, USA, August 7-10, 2014<br>
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Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2014<br>
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Enterprise systems (ES) are extremely complex software packages
designed for integrating data flow across an entire company, emerged
from earlier MRP, MRP II and ERP systems. Over time, ES have
expanded to include more and more areas of an organization’s
operations, and have extended organizational boundaries and support
interorganizational activities. Today’s enterprise systems are
expected to support modern organizations that operate in dynamic and
turbulent business environments, compete in global markets, face
mergers and takeovers, and participate in business alliances and
joint ventures.<br>
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Frequently, the adoption of an ES is an enormous challenge for an
organization, due to system complexity, organizational context and
the people involved in the implementation project. Usually, ES
adoption is a long and multi-stage process during which various
problems and complications may occur. Moreover, ES adoption projects
typically involve a large number of stakeholders representing
different departments, various organizational hierarchies, and often
external companies operating in various industries. These
stakeholders may have conflicting interests, and their own
definitions of project success. Overall, ES implementation projects
tend to be very unique and challenging endeavors.<br>
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Providers of enterprise systems have traditionally relied on strong
revenues from maintenance fees, in addition to license revenue.
Nowadays, shorter product lifecycles, rising consulting revenues,
Open Source Software and SaaS are impacting their business models.
ES providers have the challenge of delivering systems which are
highly customizable software products, able to fit the needs of a
variety of adopters. This might be important since, as prior
research suggests, the issue of alignment between ES and adopting
organizations is one of the determinants of successful enterprise
system implementation.<br>
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This mini-track invites papers that examine various aspects related
to the determinants of ES success and business models. Both
empirical and theoretical papers are invited. The general research
questions addressed in this mini-track can be formulated as follows:
What are the mechanisms determining successful ES adoption? What are
the underlying business models of companies delivering successfully
adaptable ES? What kind of business models exist?<br>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
• motivation and justification for ES adoption,<br>
• alignment between ES and adopting organization,<br>
• barriers and impediments to ES adoption success,<br>
• risk factors in ES adoption,<br>
• critical failure factors for ES adoption,<br>
• critical success factors for ES adoption,<br>
• understanding of ES adoption success,<br>
• evaluation and benchmarking of ES projects,<br>
• multi-cultural and multi-national issues,<br>
• multiple stakeholder perspective in ES adoption and use,<br>
• business model frameworks for ES providers,<br>
• impact of new trends within the software industry on business
models,<br>
• business model innovation for standard software companies,<br>
• implications of shorter product lifecycles on business models,<br>
• SaaS related business models,<br>
• open source software related business models.<br>
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<b>I</b><b>mportant dates:</b><br>
March 1, 2014 Deadline for paper submissions<br>
April 4, 2014 Authors notification date<br>
April 18, 2014 Authors revision due date<br>
April 25, 2014 Authors final, camera-ready date<br>
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<b>Instructions for authors:</b><br>
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all
materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All
conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must
be submitted using the online submission system at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a>. For complete instructions
for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS
2014 website at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</a>.<br>
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<b>Mini-Track Co-Chairs:</b><br>
Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam, carsten.brockmann
@wi.uni-potsdam.de<br>
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl">eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl</a><br>
Katja Andresen, Beuth University of Applied Sciences,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andresen@beuth-hochschule.de">andresen@beuth-hochschule.de</a><br>
J.P. Allen, University of San Francisco, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jpallen@usfca.edu">jpallen@usfca.edu</a><br>
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