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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-central-euro"> 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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