[IRIS] [ECIS 2026] Call for Papers - Digital Transformation Track

[Markus Philipp Zimmer]

+++ Call for Papers: Digital Transformation Track at ECIS2026 +++

We invite you to submit your work to the digital transformation track at ECIS 2026 in Milan.

Submission deadline: Nov, 17, 2025
Author notification: Feb 28, 2026

Submission info and link: https://ecis2026.it/call-for-submissions/

Brief track description:
Digital transformation is accelerating across industries (Vial, 2019; Carroll et al., 2023) as companies adopt digital technologies to reshape existing business models or create new ones, with wide-ranging effects on organizations and society. In the Information Systems field, scholars have shown how digital transformation alters organizational structures, processes, value creation, and work practices (Vial, 2019; Wessel et al., 2021; Baiyere et al., 2020), with strategy playing a key role in guiding these shifts (Chanias et al., 2019; Matt et al., 2015). Beyond a processual perspective on digital transformation, outcomes such as firm performance, resilience, and responsible transformation remain central, with recent work highlighting the importance of sustaining digital transformation and aligning it with societal needs (Carroll et al., 2023; Pappas et al., 2023; Zimmer et al., 2023).

Having been part of ECIS since 2014, this track will examine how the design, development, implementation and use of digital technologies transform organizations and their associated stakeholders. In line with the conference theme “Re-imagining Digital Technology for Business, Management, and Society”, we invite contributions that investigate how societal and/or organizational digital transformations lead to responsible digital futures that take an ecosystem or multi-stakeholder perspective within and across organisations on the process and outcome of digital transformation. The track welcomes submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives (i.e. qualitative, quantitative, design-oriented, conceptual).

(FULL DESCRIPTION on https://ecis2026.it/track-descriptions/digital-transformation/)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Management of digital transformation processes from a holistic perspective
  *   Management of organizational ambidexterity in digital transformation (e.g. digital innovation units)
  *   Development and implementation of digital transformation strategies
  *   Digital technologies as enablers of new business models
  *   Measuring digital transformation success and outcomes
  *   People-centered, and worker-centered digital transformation initiatives
  *   Phases of and transition between digital transformation initiatives
  *   Development of digital competencies and capabilitites within companies
  *   Business architecture planning for digital transformation
  *   Effects of digital transformation on organizational structure
  *   The impact of digital technologies on the relationship between firms and their stakeholders
  *   The digital transformation of work and workplaces
  *   Digital transformation of digital infrastructures for work
  *   Digital transformation and responsibility

We are looking forward to receiving many interesting manuscripts!

On behalf of all track chairs:

Markus P. Zimmer, University of Agder
Maren Gierlich-Joas, Copenhagen Business School
Christian Matt, University of Bern
Lisa Seymour, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Dr. Markus P. Zimmer
Associate Professor

University of Agder
Information Systems
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