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<b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b><b><br>
</b><b>20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014)</b><br>
Savannah, Georgia, USA<br>
August 7-10, 2014<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</a><br>
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<b>Minitrack: Information Governance and Resilience in Business
Ecosystems</b><b><br>
</b><b>Track: Global, International, and Cross Cultural Issues in IS
(SIGCCRIS)</b><br>
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Due to an increased globalized delivery and demand of (sub)
services/products, enterprises typically act in evolving networks of
operational and managerial independent organizations. Examples are
project networks, logistics chains, partners in supply chain,
private-public partnerships or enterprise alliances. Business
ecosystems (as well as their member organizations) share some
characteristics like dependency on mutually accepted (often
cross-national) policies, processes, cultures, infrastructure, etc.
At the same time they have to adapt and change quickly, confronted
with information governance and standardization challenges on an
increasingly large scale.<br>
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Although information governance is an established subject to large
scale companies, there has yet been little research directed toward
how information governance is managed within business ecosystems
(from loosely coupled, short-term virtual enterprises to long-term
strategic alliances). In particular, it is little understood how
information governance tasks and values are to be managed and
distributed in a step-by-step, partly national-specific and partly
international manner.<br>
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Furthermore, the members of a business ecosystem need to react to
the risks arising from the increasing mutual interdependencies of
processes and information systems by negotiating about how to
analyze and improve the their own resilience as well as the
resilience of the business ecosystem. Processes and information
systems are often a major part of the business ecosystems backbone.
Extreme events in some parts in the world or a change in the partner
constellation may have a tremendous impact on a whole business
ecosystem. Understanding and improving the resilience of business
ecosystems and their member organizations goes beyond the challenge
of traditional risk management, as the influence on important parts
of the common infrastructure may be limited as well as the
availability of information about partners and competitors.<br>
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We are interested in how management tasks are organized within a
business ecosystem as a whole and how they are to be extended within
each member organization in order to comprise ecosystem related
topics. To support these extended management tasks, appropriate and
aligned structures/processes as well as new methods, tools, and
information systems are required.<br>
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Conceptual, empirical and design-oriented works are welcome and will
be considered for this minitrack.<br>
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<b>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to</b>:<br>
- Theories, models, approaches and concepts of information
governance and resilience in business ecosystems and other forms of
inter-organizational collaboration<br>
- Cooperation, coordination, competition and communication related
to information governance and resilience in business ecosystems<br>
- Management tasks in business ecosystems (e. g. strategy
development, large scale project governance, risk management,
standardization management, sourcing management, implementation of
control frameworks for legal and compliance aspects)<br>
- Emergent and evolving behavior in business ecosystems<br>
- Case studies or surveys on information governance, for example,
with a focus on very large scale project management or information
governance tasks in business ecosystems<br>
- Case studies on extreme events in IT in network organizations<br>
- Impact of IT and technological innovation on resilience in
business ecosystems, tension between the adoption of IT innovations
and resilience in business ecosystems<br>
- Resilience and IT governance frameworks, extension of IT
governance and resilience concepts to network organizations<br>
- Extensions to enterprise architecture management in order to
compare sites and national-dependent business-processes, large scale
IT landscapes, and resilience properties or to capture the extended
enterprise (e. g. business partners)<br>
- Alignment of management structures/processes and reporting levels
in very large scale inter-organizational projects<br>
- Modeling and visualization approaches comprising complex
management structures, distribution of responsibilities in very
large projects and during extreme events, reporting/modeling on
different levels of granularity<br>
- World-wide standardization and centralization efforts of
information governance and resilience<br>
- Interdependencies of multi-national corporate governance,
enterprise governance, information governance and IT governance<br>
- (Cross) Cultural issues of information governance and resilience
in business ecosystems<br>
- Research methods and theories suitable for guiding research on
information governance and resilience in business ecosystems<br>
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<b>Submission:</b><b><br>
</b>Please follow the instructions given at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers</a><br>
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<b>Important dates:</b><br>
March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions<br>
April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about
this date<br>
April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due<br>
April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready
copy due<br>
August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference<br>
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<b>Minitrack Chairs:</b><br>
Paul Drews, University of Hamburg, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de">drews@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</a>
(primary contact)<br>
Matthias Goeken, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:m.goeken@fs.de">m.goeken@fs.de</a><br>
Ingrid Schirmer, University of Hamburg, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:schirmer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de">schirmer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</a><br>
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