[AISWorld] AMCIS 2023 CFP Track: Strategic & Competitive Uses of Information and Digital Technologies (SCUIDT)

[Lazar Rusu]

AMCIS 2023 CFP Track: Strategic & Competitive Uses of Information and Digital Technologies (SCUIDT)
 
https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-30
 
AMCIS 2023
 Panama City, Panama
 August 10-12, 2023
 https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/
 
Important Dates:
 
· January 6, 2023: Manuscript submissions begin
 
· March 1, 2023: Completed research and ERF submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST
 
. May 9, 2023: TREOs, PDS and Workshops, and Panels submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST
 

 
 
 

The detailed instructions and templates for submitting the research papers are available at the following link: https://amcis2023.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/
   

 
 Track Description: 
Several AMCIS tracks focus on the uses of digital and information technologies in decision making. This track returns to the fundamentally important Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information and Digital Technologies (SCUIDT). The Information Age ushered in the use of information and digital technologies for generating business value and gaining competitive advantage. Indeed, for many businesses today, their very critical success depends upon both tactical and strategic uses of every aspect of their information and digital technologies. The need for speed, efficiency, agility, and mobility continues to place information and digital technologies into the forefront of organizational strategies and tactics. Furthermore, the timely use of big data methodologies and analytics is sparking demand for data scientists in all fields. Submissions to the Strategic & Competitive Uses of Information and Digital Technologies track may include complete papers and research-in-progress (ERF). Papers may be conceptual, theoretical, or empirical research, or case studies. Any research that focuses on the strategic and competitive use of information and digital technologies (SCUIDT) will find a home in this track.
 
Track Chairs   
 
 

Jack Becker, University of North Texas, Jack.Becker at unt.edu
 Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, lrusu at dsv.su.se
  
Minitracks:
 
Digitization and Strategic IT-enabled capabilities 
 While IT and digitization are relevant factors in firm success, firms’ ability to synthesize information and knowledge is becoming of greater salience in shaping firm performance and innovation. In the present era of breakthroughs in computing capabilities of IT systems, firms must explore avenues for gaining strategic advantage through improved information management. Digitization, manifested through different IT-enabled capabilities such as IT-enabled Information Management Capability (IMC), enables firms to respond to rapidly changing market needs, provides resourceful information for better decision making, facilitates flexibility to fulfil more customers’ needs, and enables digital innovation. The recent pandemic did not only test the existing business models but also acted as a catalyst for innovative applications of IT in businesses. The challenges and IT enabled solutions during these times have the potential to change the way businesses utilize IT enabled capabilities.
 
Bidyut Hazarika, Western Michigan University, bidyut.hazarika at wmich.edu
 Mariana Andrade, The University of Georgia, andrade at uga.edu
 Utkarsh Shrivastava, Western Michigan University, utkarsh.shrivastava at wmich.edu
 
IT and Data Governance in the Era of Digital Transformation 
 Information Technology (IT) plays today a key role in digital successful companies. This role calls for a specific focus on IT and data governance in order to achieve business value from digital investments. On the other hand, business-IT alignment continues to be essential for organizations due to the strategic benefits brought to organizations and the contribution to the improvement of their performance. Today’s organizations are very committed to engaging in a digital transformation journey in order to create business value. Therefore, this requires from organization’s management to focus on having effective IT and data governance mechanisms in their organization that as a result will enable business-IT alignment and data-based decision-making. In the era of digital transformation, we noticed that the research in IT and data governance has continued to grow in importance; therefore, is still a need to explore new insights into the theories and practices in this research topic.
 
Edimara Luciano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, eluciano at pucrs.br
 Parisa Aasi, Stockholm University, parisa at dsv.su.se
 Gianluigi Viscusi, Imperial College London, g.viscusi at imperial.ac.uk
 
Strategic Impact of Digitized Products 
 The digital transformation of the business environment has been keeping companies and economies in a constant challenge over the last years. In this rapid internal and external transformational process, digitized products and services are becoming increasingly important to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. The combination of physical and digital components, their interdependencies, and the resulting potentials on an organizational and environmental level enable companies to innovate their products, processes, and even whole business models. Additionally, it is important for companies to understand how they can achieve and maximize the impact of digitized products and services. Due to the topicality of these issues, relevant and future-oriented research in digitized products and services is of tremendous significance. Consequently, there is a strong need for additional insights into the strategic impact of digitized products and services on businesses processes and business models.
 
Christian Leyh, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) - University of Applied Sciences, christian.leyh at w.thm.de
 Katja Bley, TU Dresden, katja.bley at tu-dresden.de
 Raoul Hentschel, Chair of Business Informatics, esp. IS in Manufacturing and Commerce, raoul.hentschel at tu-dresden.de
 
The Strategic Implications of Digitalization in Organizations
 Recent research suggests that strategic digital innovation outcomes in organizations depend on the varied roles that users and designers of digital technologies play. Traditionally, technology affordance research has been focused on how different goal-oriented actors (i.e., individuals, organizations, or ecosystems) interact with digital technologies to address their needs. Research has now diversified towards investigating how digital technologies and platforms drive the development of strategic product, service, social, and environmental innovations by looking at the architecture of digital market offerings by designers and governance of platforms by owners. Contrastingly, technology constraints highlight how actors can be held back from addressing their needs when interacting with a certain technology. Recent research from emerging and developing economies shows that constraints-driven digital technologies and platforms can be used to create simultaneous economic, social, and environmental value. This mini-track calls for similar research considering diverse perspectives on the strategic implications of digitalization.
 
Arman Sadreddin, Concordia University, arman.sadreddin at concordia.ca
 Suchit Ahuja, Concordia University, suchit.ahuja at concordia.ca
 
Impact of IT on Strategic Innovation & Competitive Advantage 
 Strategic innovation is essential for competitive advantage. Information and digital technologies (IT) are vital elements in facilitating innovations in strategy, business models, and management practice. Thus, IT and digital capabilities, and associated IT-enabled capabilities and strategies have emerged as a business imperative to foster strategic innovation and realize resultant performance gains in recent times. There is a growing stream of literature that mirrors developments in practice regarding the role of IT in enabling several forms of innovation and innovative business strategies. This mini-track seeks to add to this discourse and solicits studies that examine nuances associated with leveraging IT for a variety of forms of innovation, competitive advantage, and performance. Papers in this mini-track would explore how IT enables any or several innovative strategies for firm performance. Although the focus is on studies at the firm level, studies at the individual, team, group, or industry levels are also welcome.
 
Jiban Khuntia, University of Colorado Denver, jiban.khuntia at ucdenver.edu
 Terence Saldanha, University of Georgia, terence.saldanha at uga.edu
 Abhishek Kathuria, Indian School of Business, abhishek_kathuria at isb.edu