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<b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#003366;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">*** Call for Papers ***</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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">
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Main Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology (SUIT)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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/" target="_blank" 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>. ***</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Mini-Track Description
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<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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">How IT-enabled strategies lead to firm performance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">How IT strategy and firm strategy interact to result in value creation for firms.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Role of IT to manage, augment, or shape innovation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Role of IT in new product development and process innovation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Please <a href="http://abhishekkathuria.com/etc/call-for-papers/" target="_blank" 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.</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Minitrack Co-Chairs:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Abhishek Kathuria, Assistant Professor, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Terence Saldanha, Assistant Professor, Carson College of Business, Washington State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#444444">Jiban Khuntia, Assistant Professor, Business School, University of Colorado Denver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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