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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
21<font size="-1"><sup>st</sup></font> Americas Conference on Information Systems (<span class="highlight" id="0.19773406660011955" name="searchHitInReadingPane"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">AMCIS</font></span>)<br>
Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015<br>
<a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">http://<span class="highlight" id="0.050134608707296524" name="searchHitInReadingPane"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">amcis</font></span>2015.aisnet.org/</a><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Deadline for paper submissions: February 25, 2015</div>
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<strong>Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)</strong><br>
<strong>Mini-track: Issues in Global Systems Implementation</strong></div>
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<strong>Description</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Globalization has spurred growth of trans-national and multi-national enterprises. For these enterprises, integration of various information systems across different countries is imperative for their success.
Implementing systems that seamless allow the flow of data as well as control beyond the boundaries of the home country is fraught with challenges. Technologies and implementation strategies used in the home country may not be readily transferable to overseas
operations. Organizations have to necessarily adapt these to suit the local conditions. Implementation of global systems may be impacted by various environmental variables such as local rules and regulations, tariffs and currency differences. Perceptions and
culture could also influence implementation strategies. Owing to this, the research in this area is requires some level of trans-disciplinary perspective.
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Mainstream IS research on systems implementations have focused on many occasions on single organization and single country implementations. Findings from such studies cannot be generalized to systems implementations
where the country is just not a variable but provides the context of implementation. There are both challenges and opportunities to consider in global systems implementations. Some of the challenges posed by the global implementation of systems include availability
of trained manpower, technology limitations, local laws and regulations. Moreover, lack of internationalization and localization may also contribute in the implementation of global systems.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Scholarly research in this area will help academicians by providing an increased understanding of the issues salient to global information systems implementations. It will help practitioners better understand
and proactively plan for implementation challenges. This mini-track invites research in the areas of global information systems development, implementation and usage. In echoing the conference theme, we also invite manuscripts that take trans-disciplinary
perspective in studying the implementation of global systems. Moreover research that uses innovative research methods and theory are encouraged.
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<li>Theoretical underpinnings of failures and successes in global systems implementations.</li><li>Critical success factors of enterprise systems implementation spanning multiple countries.</li><li>Global enterprise systems and architectures. </li><li>Impact of newer IT provisioning methods (e.g., cloud computing) on global information system implementations.</li><li>Cultural, power equations, and demographic issues influencing global information systems implementation, adoption and usage.</li><li>Reconciling disparate accounting reporting systems (IFRS and GAAP), compliance requirements (SOX, COBIT, COSO) the use of technologies such as XBRL and XML in global systems.</li><li>Project management practices during the rollout of global IT systems.</li><li>Standardization of business process and technologies across multiple countries.</li><li>Project failures due to lack of internationalization and localization.</li><li>Differences in perceptions of e-commerce usage</li><li>Cross border supply chain implementations in Maquiladoras, NAFTA, EU, ASEAN, etc.</li><li>Globally distributed teams in global systems implementations, such as the use of social media by cross-national virtual teams.</li><li>Global systems implementation governance and risks, such as issues related to strategic alignment, and roles and responsibilities.</li></ul>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Important Dates for <span class="highlight" id="0.751895473160882" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
<font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">AMCIS</font></span> 2015:</strong><br>
Monday, January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for <span class="highlight" id="0.23679152828266026" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
<font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">AMCIS</font></span> 2015 begin<br>
Wednesday, February 25, 2015: <span class="highlight" id="0.9889137971467583" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
<font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">AMCIS</font></span> manuscript submission website closes for authors
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the decision.<br>
Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Authors submit camera-ready revision of their papers.<br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Instructions for authors: <a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines" target="_blank">
http://<span class="highlight" id="0.947850482059365" name="searchHitInReadingPane"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">amcis</font></span>2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines</a></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Track / Mini-track Details: <a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/34-global-international-and-cross-cultural-issues-in-is-sigccris-track" target="_blank">
</a><a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/34-global-international-and-cross-cultural-issues-in-is-sigccris-track" target="_blank">http://<span class="highlight" id="0.7640703590661075" name="searchHitInReadingPane"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">amcis</font></span>2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/34-global-international-and-cross-cultural-issues-in-is-sigccris-track</a></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Mini-track chairs</strong></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Aakash Taneja <br>
<a href="mailto:aakash.taneja@stockton.edu" target="_blank">aakash.taneja@stockton.edu</a></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Anil Singh<br>
<a href="mailto:anil.singh@utb.edu" target="_blank">anil.singh@utb.edu</a></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">University of Texas at Brownsville</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">George Mangalaraj <br>
<a href="mailto:G-Mangalaraj@wiu.edu" target="_blank">G-Mangalaraj@wiu.edu</a></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Western Illinois University</div>
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