[AISWorld] Reminder: AMCIS 2011 - ES Adoption and Business Models

[narcyz roztocki]

Reminder: Complete papers are due: February 28, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 
Detroit, Michigan
August 4 - 7, 2011
Detroit Marriott Hotel
http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/


Mini-track title: Enterprise Systems Adoption and Business 
Models

Track: Enterprise Systems and Organizational Issues

Complete Papers Due: February 28, 2011


Enterprise systems (ES), extremely complicated software 
packages designed for integrating data flow across an 
entire company, emerged as a result of evolution from MRP, 
MRP II and ERP systems. Stepwise, the evolving systems 
covered more and more areas of the company’s operation and 
presently they extend over the organizational boundaries 
and support inter-organizational activities. Currently, ES 
are expected to effectively support modern organizations 
that operate in a dynamic and turbulent business 
environment, experience the consequences of globalization, 
face mergers and takeovers, and may take part in various 
business alliances.

Frequently, the adoption of an ES is an enormous challenge 
for an organization which stems from the system 
complexity, organizational context and people involved in 
the implementation project. Usually, ES adoption is a long 
and multi-stage process during which various problems and 
complications may occur. Moreover, the ES adoption 
projects typically involve a great number of stakeholders 
who represent different company departments, various 
organizational hierarchies, and often external companies 
operating in various industries. These stakeholders may 
have conflicting interests and their own definition of 
project success. Overall, ES implementation projects tend 
to be very unique and challenging endeavors.

Providers of enterprise systems for a long time relied on 
strong revenues from maintenance fees besides their 
revenues from licenses. Nowadays, shorter product life 
cycles, rising consulting revenues, Open Source Software 
and SaaS are impacting their business models. ES providers 
have to face the challenge of delivering systems which are 
highly customizable software products able to fit the 
needs of a variety of adopting companies. This might be 
important since, as prior research suggests, the issue of 
alignment between ES and adopting organizations is one of 
the determinants of successful enterprise system 
implementation.

This mini-track invites papers that examine various 
aspects related to the determinants of ES success and 
business models. Both empirical and theoretical papers are 
invited. The general research questions addressed in this 
mini-track can be formulated as follows: What are the 
mechanisms determining successful ES adoption? What are 
the underlying business models of companies delivering 
successfully adaptable ES? What kind of business models 
exist?

Suggested topics of interest include but are not limited 
to:
- motivation and justification for ES adoption,
- alignment between ES and adopting organization,
- barriers and impediments to ES adoption success,
- risk factors in ES adoption,
- critical failure factors for ES adoption,
- critical success factors for ES adoption,
- understanding of ES adoption success,
- evaluation and benchmarking of ES projects,
- multi-cultural and multi-national issues,
- multiple stakeholder perspective in ES adoption and use,
- business model frameworks,
- impact of new trends within the software industry on 
business models,
- business model innovation for standard software 
companies,
- implications of shorter product life cycles on business 
models,
- SaaS related business models,
- open source software related business models.


Co-chairs:

Piotr Soja
Cracow University of Economics
eisoja at cyf-kr.edu.pl

Katja Andresen
Technical University of Applied Science Berlin
andresen at tfh-berlin.de

Carsten Brockmann
University of Potsdam
Carsten.brockmann at wi.uni-potsdam.de

Roztocki, Narcyz
State University of New York at New Paltz
roztockn at newpaltz.edu


Important Dates

2/28/2011       Submission deadline
4/4/2011        Authors notified of paper acceptance 
decision
4/25/2011       Camera-Ready Papers due

Paper Submission

Paper can be submitted using the online submission system 
at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011.

Additional information regarding the submission process 
will be made available on the AMCIS 2011 primary website:
http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/