[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS - ECIS 2024 - Track: IS Strategy, Governance and Sourcing in the Digital Age

[Thomas Huber]

CALL FOR PAPERS - ECIS 2024 - Track: IS Strategy, Governance and Sourcing
in the Digital Age

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission Deadline: 17 November 2023, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
* Notification: 28 February 202

TRACK DESCRIPTION
In the digital age, new technologies and changes in ecosystems allow
organizations to fundamentally change how they perform and organize work,
collaborate across organizational boundaries, and generate value with
digital technology (Fitzgerald et al., 2014). At the same time, as digital
technologies penetrate into more and more aspects of professional and
private life, there is a need for information systems (IS) management to
not only help harness the new opportunities of the digital age but also to
set up structures to ensure that these new opportunities are capitalized to
improve the human condition.
These fundamental changes require organizations to rethink in multiple ways
their approaches to IS governance, strategy, and sourcing. As more and more
digital technologies are developed and assembled through platform
ecosystems, IS management extends beyond corporate strategy, corporate
governance, and the management of dyadic sourcing relationships to include
platform strategies, platform governance (Hurni et al., 2019), and the
management of multilateral sourcing relationships (Oshri et al., 2019).
Cloud technologies, low-code platforms, and IT consumerization empower
employees to source and design their own digital solutions, challenging
existing notions of formal governance and control (Krancher et al. 2018,
Wiener et al., 2019). The surge of artificial intelligence (AI) has made
data an even more important organizational resource, requiring
practitioners and researchers to understand solutions and challenges to
data governance, data strategy, and data sourcing (Markus, 2017; Newell &
Marabelli, 2015, Tarafdar et al., 2017). Moreover, while new technologies
and competitive environments require organizations to rapidly develop and
reconfigure digital solutions, they also need to ensure the stability of
increasingly integrated digital infrastructures, calling for an
understanding of how organizations can ensure both agility and stability
(Tallon et al, 2019). Last but not least, new technical developments and
legal requirements also call for IS managers to set up structures that
regulate unwanted consequences of the use of digital technologies such as
algorithmic discrimination and the enormous carbon footprints associated
with AI and other technologies.
This track welcomes papers that improve our understanding of these and
other challenges related to IS governance, strategy and sourcing in the
digital age. We welcome all types of research, including empirical,
conceptual, design, and simulation research.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Digital strategizing and strategy implementation
- Strategic impact of emerging digital technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain,
AR & VR) on business models and governance structures
- Sourcing of emerging digital technologies
- Sourcing configurations and sourcing arrangements for the digital age
(multi-sourcing, plural sourcing, crowdsourcing, cloud sourcing, etc.)
- Sourcing as a driver of digital transformation processes
- Impact of IS strategy, governance, and sourcing on agility and stability
- Critical perspectives on IS strategy, governance, and sourcing
- Algorithmic governance, management of algorithmic learning processes,
management of autonomous agents
- Technology-driven changes in strategy, governance, and sourcing practices
- Sustainability aspects of IS strategy, governance, and sourcing
- Platform governance and platform strategy
- Data governance, strategy, and data sourcing