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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS'2015</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">21st Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mini-Track "Workarounds: the dark
or the bright side of IT-enabled agility?"</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico (</font><a href=http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Deadline for paper submissions: February
25, 2015</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">TRACK DESCRIPTION</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IT-enabled agility enables organizations
to quickly mitigate threats to existing competitive advantages and to seize
opportunities for future competitive advantages. IT-enabled agility grounds
in a flexible use of IT. Workarounds have been recognized as an important
unit of analysis to study the effect and boundaries of IT-enabled agility.
Workarounds are an interdisciplinary phenomenon and are being discussed
in a variety of contexts such as management control systems, compliance,
governance, and security. However, the relationship of workarounds and
performance implications (e.g., innovation, flexibility, loss of control,
facades of compliance) is still unclear. Important questions remains unanswered:
How do managers anticipate the performance implications of workarounds?
How do design variants of information systems prohibit or create opportunities
for workarounds? How can organizations ensure flexibility while maintaining
control? What are the short-term and long-term implications of workarounds?
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The purpose of the mini-track is to
provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers from many contexts to
share and discuss insights on workarounds. The mini-track seeks rigorous
conceptual, empirical and design-oriented research. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">TOPICS OF INTEREST</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The objective of the workshop is to
establish a state-of-the-art of the IS discipline’s understanding of workarounds.
Topics for this mini-track include but are not limited to the following:
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• antecedents
and consequences of workarounds</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• strategies
for handling workarounds</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• deviations
in the use of IT (e.g., shadow IT, non-compliance, security violations,
rule-breaking, bootlegging, fraud, resistance, BYOD)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• workaround
motives</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• temporality
and institutionalization of workarounds</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• workarounds
as source of innovation</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• perception
of workarounds (employee and management)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• design
of workaround-aware information systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">• case
studies on workarounds</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions
for AMCIS 2015 begin</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">February 25, 2015: Deadline for AMCIS
manuscript submissions</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified
about the disposition of their papers</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Deadline
for camera-ready revisions</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS
2015 program are made</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</font>
<br><a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines</font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Michael Schermann, Technische Universität
München, michael.schermann@in.tum.de</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Manuel Wiesche, Technische Universität
München, wiesche@in.tum.de</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität
München, krcmar@in.tum.de</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dr. Manuel Wiesche</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Technische Universität München</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
(I17) / Chair for Information Systems</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Boltzmannstr. 3, D 85748 Garching
bei München</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">fon +49-89-289-19539 wiesche@in.tum.de
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