[AISWorld] Call for Papers: JIT Special Issue on "The Future of Information Systems in the Enterprise”

[Winter, Robert]

The use of IS in the enterprise is the backbone of digital transformation and digital business, acting as the binding force between technological, managerial, and organizational innovations. The future of IS in the enterprise is complex. IS practice must adapt to technological, managerial, and organizational innovations while IS research may need to integrate insights from work on enterprise systems, enterprise architecture, as well as IS governance, digital transformation, IS sourcing, and digital platforms. 

The JIT Special Issue on "The Future of Information Systems in the Enterprise” aims to address these challenges by inviting disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions that provide important insights on the direction and future of information systems in the enterprise. Topics of interest include, but certainly are not limited to:
- Alternatives to traditional enterprise information systems such as digital platforms, shadow IT, no-code/low-code, and how the challenges they bring for coherent management, and our understanding of enterprise-level systems
- Designing future information systems in the enterprise with concerns for both business and societal values
- Exploring how technological or organizational innovations in the enterprise / enterprise-level context challenge and extend existing knowledge and theory
- Extending and adapting the body of knowledge to encompass specific contexts, such as strategies, industries, ecosystems, or specific organizational configurations
- Horizontal (cross-unit) and vertical (technology-to-business) integration through information systems in the enterprise
- Specific integration challenges of technology, organization, and humans in the enterprise / enterprise-level context
- Intersection of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in information systems in the enterprise
- Intersection/relation of enterprise and platform/ecosystem-level systems and technologies, and the corresponding challenges such as for organizational strategy
- Understanding and harnessing the complexity of enterprise computing

Contributing to this special issue is an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise information systems and influence industry practices and academic understanding. We welcome research from all genres on the above and related topics, including conceptual, qualitative, quantitative and design-oriented work.

The full call for papers is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h0PF7LF9l_foddU5t6QcXMOYm8foN3wQ/view?usp=drive_link and will also be available on the JIT web site soon. 

The special issue is edited by 
- Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (corresponding, robert.winter at unisg.ch)
- Karlheinz Kautz, RMIT University, Australia
- Rajiv Sabherval, University of Arkansas, USA
- Leona Chandra Kruse, University of Agder, Norway

The special issues's editorial board is comprised of
- Pär Ågerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Vanessa Cooper, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
- Rob Gleasure, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Kazem Haki, HES Geneva, Switzerland
- Taha Havakhor, McGill University, Canada
- Hartmut Hoehle, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Sherah Kurnia, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Carmen Leong, UNSW, Australia
- Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität, Germany
- Annette Mills, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Ralf Plattfault, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland
- Helana Scheepers, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Priya Seetharaman, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
- Pankaj Setia, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
- Matthias Söllner, University of Kassel, Germany
- Zach Steelman, University of Arkansas, USA
- Tuure Tuunanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Based on the selected abstracts submitted by November 1, we editors we will invite up to 20 authors to the Paper Development Workshop in conjunction to ICIS 2024, discuss papers with authors, and then select promising projects and narrow down the special issues's scope accordingly. The PDW is scheduled for December 15 (see https://icis2024.aisconferences.org/events/ancillary-meetings-and-call-for-papers/). For further deadlines, refer to the call for paper document.

On behalf of the entire SI editorial team,
Robert Winter
Full Professor of Information Management
Institute of Information Systems and Digital Business
University of St. Gallen
robert.winter at unisg.ch
www.iwi.unisg.ch