[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/ 
<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

<mailto: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