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CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS'2015</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)</font><font size=3>
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Mini-Track "Workarounds: the dark or the bright side of IT-enabled
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August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico (</font><a href=http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>http://amcis2015.aisnet.org</u></font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">)</font><font size=3>
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Deadline for paper submissions: February 25, 2015</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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TRACK DESCRIPTION</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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? <br>
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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 as well as design-oriented
research and seeks both emergent research paper (research-in-progress)
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TOPICS OF INTEREST</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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: <br>
• antecedents and consequences of workarounds</font><font size=3>
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• strategies for handling workarounds</font><font size=3>
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• deviations in the use of IT (e.g., shadow
IT, non-compliance, security violations, rule-breaking, bootlegging, fraud,
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• workaround motives</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
• temporality and institutionalization of workarounds</font><font size=3>
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• workarounds as source of innovation</font><font size=3>
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• perception of workarounds (employee and management)</font><font size=3>
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• design of workaround-aware information systems</font><font size=3>
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• case studies on workarounds</font><font size=3>
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IMPORTANT DATES</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin</font><font size=3>
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February 25, 2015: Deadline for AMCIS manuscript submissions</font><font size=3>
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Deadline for camera-ready revisions</font><font size=3>
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May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made</font><font size=3>
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MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Michael Schermann, Technische Universität München, michael.schermann@in.tum.de</font><font size=3>
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Manuel Wiesche, Technische Universität München, wiesche@in.tum.de</font><font size=3>
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Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München, krcmar@in.tum.de</font><font size=3>
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Apologies for cross-posting</font><font size=3>!</font>