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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#003366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>*** Call for Papers ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>21st Americas Conference on Information Systems Puerto Rico, August 13-15,</span><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#222222'> <span style='background:white'>2015</span></span><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#003366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#003366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#003366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>***** Mini Track: Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage *****</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Main Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology (SUIT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>We invite you to submit your manuscripts to the minitrack “<a href="http://abhishekkathuria.com/call-for-papers/amcis-2015-minitrack-details/" title="AMCIS 2015 Minitrack Details"><span style='color:#B91313;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage</span></a>” (click for details) under the Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology (SUIT) track at AMCIS 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>*** Deadline for submissions is<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> February 25, 2015 </span>at<span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> 2:00 PM EST</span>. ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Mini-Track Description <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>IT is emerging as a vital element in enabling innovations in strategy, business models and management practice. Several examples affirm the importance of exploring the impact of IT on strategic innovation. For example, IT has enabled new business models for firms such as Amazon, Netflix, Uber and Airbnb. IT has facilitated service-oriented innovations in communication services, such as providing audio, video, interactive and social modes of communication through mobile Apps and other tools such as WeChat and WhatsApp. IT has enabled the emergence and sustained success of new business models based around the sharing economy and crowdsourcing (e.g., Agarwal et al. 2010; Rai and Sambamurthy 2006). IT has facilitated new innovations in digitized access and delivery of services and goods. Furthermore, IT has enabled information access and exchange in several sectors, including health care, education and travel. Likewise, IT can also facilitate new product and service development via its capabilities to enhance knowledge creation (e.g., Kleis et al. 2012). These business model innovations, IT-enabled service-oriented innovations, digitized product and process innovations and associated information capabilities are the result of strategic innovation at the firm level. Thus, IT enabled strategies have emerged as a business imperative to foster innovation and competitive strategy in recent times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Despite the developments in practice around the role of IT in enabling several forms of innovation and innovative strategies, literature examining the role of information systems in this process is sparse. This mini-track solicits studies that examine the nuances associated with leveraging information technology for strategic innovation. Although the focus is on studies at the firm level, studies at the individual, team, group, or industry levels are also welcome. The main focus of the studies would be to explore how IT enables any or several innovative strategies for firm performance. This mini-track serves as a venue for a wide range of research methodologies, including empirical, case study, conceptual and simulation research.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#444444'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>How IT-enabled strategies lead to firm performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#444444'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>How IT strategy and firm strategy interact to result in value creation for firms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#444444'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Different facets of IT-enabled innovative strategies: IT-enabled service innovation, IT-enabled business innovation, IT-enabled business model innovation, and IT-enabled co-innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#444444'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Role of IT to manage, augment, or shape innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#444444'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Role of IT in new product development and process innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Please <a href="http://abhishekkathuria.com/etc/call-for-papers/" title="Call for Papers"><span style='color:#B91313;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>click here for Call for Papers and important dates</span></a>.<b><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> We look forward to receiving your manuscripts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Minitrack Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Abhishek Kathuria, Assistant Professor, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Terence Saldanha, Assistant Professor, Carson College of Business, Washington State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#444444'>Jiban Khuntia, Assistant Professor, Business School, University of Colorado Denver<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>________________________________________________________</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>Abhishek Kathuria, Ph.D.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>Assistant Professor of Innovation & Information Management</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>School of Business, The University of Hong Kong</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'>Room 812, KK Leung Building, Pokfulam, Hong Kong</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.abhishekkathuria.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:navy'>www.abhishekkathuria.com</span></a> | </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'><a 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