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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","sans-serif"">ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Minitrack: Inter-Organizational Collaborative Dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"">and Role of Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">June 15, 2014 Submission full manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">August 15, 2014 Acceptance Notifications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">September 15, 2014 Submission camera-ready paper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">October 1, 2014 Early Registration fee deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">More info:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:blue">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Within the 48th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), we organize a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">minitrack on
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Inter-organizational Collaborative Dynamics and the Role of Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Technology</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">. The 48th HICSS, one of the
most prominent Conferences on Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">and Sciences worldwide, will be held on January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:blue">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Breakthrough innovation increasingly requires intense interaction that involves external parties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">jointly solving problems or exploring new opportunities. In healthcare, care coordination and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">transitions of care require coordination of patient care among multiple and often independent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">care settings that are often completely different systems of care, both professionally and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">institutionally. Multiparty cloud solutions and infrastructure management services require close<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">collaboration by multiple vendors and the client particularly during times of transition. The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">aftermath of catastrophic events often involves impromptu groups of individuals from different<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">organizations and backgrounds that collaborate to provide disaster relief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">This track explores inter-organizational collaboration particularly in terms of multi-level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">dynamics and the role of information and communication technology in such dynamics. We<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">welcome papers that theoretically or empirically advance our understanding. We will solicit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">excellent papers that will develop and expand this area. The papers can use any acceptable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">methodology and theory. We welcome papers at any level of analysis and encourage papers that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">take a cross level perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Minitrack Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Sirkka Jarvenpaa (Primary Contact), McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Austin,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:blue">Sirkka.jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Holly Lanham, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center San<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Antonio,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:blue">lanham@uthscsa.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">is the James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Regents Chair in Business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Administration at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin where she is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">the director of the center for Business, Technology, and Law. During 2008-2012, she held the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Finnish Distinguished Professorship at Aalto University School of Science and Technology. She<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">has held visiting professorships in leading business schools in the U.S. and Asia. She is the coeditor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">in chief of the
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"">Journal of Strategic Information Systems</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">. She has served as the editor-inchief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">of the
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"">Journal of Association for Information Systems
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">and as the senior editor of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"">Organization Science</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">,
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"">Information Systems Research</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">, and
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif"">MIS Quarterly</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">. She is a recipient of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">three honorary doctoral degrees. She is a frequent contributor in academic and industry forums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">on new industry architectures for digitizing industries (information, entertainment, financial etc),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">inter-organizational innovation, and globally dispersed virtual collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">02.27.14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif"">Holly J. Lanham
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas Health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Science Center San Antonio, an Investigator at the Veterans Evidence Based Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">Dissemination and Implementation Center at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information, Risk and Operations Management at the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">topics at the intersection of information technology and human behavior in professional<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">organizations, with a special emphasis on health care organizations. Holly’s work draws on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif"">complexity theory as a framework for understanding information technology use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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