Chair: Hugh Watson
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Phone 706-542-3744 Fax: 706-583-0037
hwatson@uga.edu

Because organizations are increasingly turning to technology to support their strategic positions and solve their performance problems, creativity has become a critical consideration for information systems. Not only have new ways to interact and communicate enhanced an organization’s capacity to generate and process ideas, but novel approaches are also needed to manage complexity and integration concerns. This Minitrack offers a forum to discuss ways organizations and systems can enhance creative performance. All research techniques including theoretical reviews, experiments, field studies, surveys, and case analyses are desired. Topics of particular interest are categorized below, and additional topics relevant to creativity in information systems are welcomed. Electronic submissions are preferred in DOC or RTF format (please do not sent PDF files as they hamper the blind review process).

• Technology’s ability to enhance an individual’s creativity including fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
• Characteristics of IS personnel that affect their creative performance including curiosity, humor, tolerance for ambiguity, and spontaneity.
• Descriptions and evaluations of training programs to enhance creativity in IS personnel and end-users.
• Critical evaluation of the theories concerning how creativity occurs.
• Descriptions and evaluations of popular techniques to support creative performance including brainstorming, pattern switching, and frame breaking.
• Descriptions and critiques of evaluation methods used to determine the "creativity" of outputs including ideas, products, and services.
• Theoretical discussions and/or case studies of how creative outputs become strategic innovations.
• Characteristics of the IS environment that enhance creativity.
• Environmental rewards and constraints that enhance and/or hinder creativity.
• Culture and norms of IS personnel and end-users concerning creativity and innovation.

Brenda L. Massetti (primary contact)
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
Tel: 718-390-4408 work
Fax: 718-990-1868 Fax:
Tel: 212-645-8266 home
massettb@stjohns.edu

Eric L. Santanen
Department of Management
Bucknell University
206 Taylor Hall
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Tel: 570-577-3652 office
esantane@bucknell.edu

Data Warehousing

Data warehousing has become one of the most important developments in the information systems field. For the past few years, surveys of CIOs have found data warehousing to be at the top of their strategic initiatives. This Minitrack includes all aspects of data warehousing, whether it be extracting, cleaning, and aggregating data from source systems; maintaining the data on appropriate data stores (e.g., relational, multi-dimensional databases); and accessing the data through various applications. It also includes managerial and technical issues associated with data warehousing. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that investigate current trends in applying data warehousing, such as mobile computing, knowledge portals, and customer relationship management as well as results on more conventional applications, such as OLAP and executive information systems.

 
Barbara H. Wixom (primary contact)
McIntire School of Commerce
Monroe Hall
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 434-924-8981
Fax: 434-924-7074
bwixom@mindspring.com

Hugh J. Watson
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6256
Tel: 706-542-3744
hwatson@uga.edu

Paul Gray
Programs in Information Science
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel: (909) 621-8209
paul.gray@cgu.edu

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are becoming mature infrastructure in many organizations. Many firms are looking beyond the internal business processes of their company and extending their information systems to include systems in other organizations. Linking these systems together is the objective of the emerging field of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). This mini-track seeks to explore issues, both academic and organizational, surrounding ERP Systems and linking ERP systems to other systems via EAI. Topics of special interest include the following

• Implementation issues and concerns
• Costs and Benefits of ERP systems in organizations
• Support (on-going and initial start-up) issues
• Training and retention of qualified staff
• Upgrade and versioning issues
• Extending the ERP system beyond the organizational boundaries (ERP II)
• EAI methodologies and standards applied to ERP
• Tailoring ERP to meet diverse corporate needs.

Gail Corbitt
College of Business, AMIS Dept.
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0011
Tel: 530-898-4822
gcorbitt@csuchico.edu

We invite high-quality research papers concerned with the role of IS in global business. In previous years, the mini-track has attracted interdisciplinary research from a broad range of international scholars. Papers should have a significant international dimension. Papers should be theoretically informed, and ideally include empirical evidence of the findings. To guide authors, we propose the following themes, but papers are not limited to these areas.

• Value chain configuration on a global scale.
• Demand oriented value chain systems in various industries.
• ERP, supply chain integration, virtual organizations and electronic market projects.
• Trust, security and legal issues in international electronic commerce.
• International comparisons of e-government initiatives
  

Pieter Ribbers (primary contact)
Tilburg University
PO Box 9015
5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel: + 31.13.4662188
P.M.A.Ribbers@KUB.NL

Christopher P. Holland
Professor of Information Systems
Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
University of Manchester
Manchester M15 6PB
U.K.
Tel: . +44 (0)161 275 6460
chris.holland@mbs.ac.uk

Information Systems Outsourcing

Recently, a shift in IS managers' concerns has been observed. A few years ago their main questions were around the question "Should we outsource?" Now, they are asking more and more "What should we outsource?" and "How should we outsource?" Different organizational forms are taking place and different outsourcing profiles can be observed. These new trends were the main interest of the papers presented in the Y2000 edition of the Minitrack.

The mini-track seeks to attract papers addressing various issues pertaining to outsourcing.

    * The evolution of IS outsourcing
    * Economics of outsourcing
    * Organizational forms and alliances
    * Contract management
    * Impact evaluation
    * IS skills and resourcing issues of outsourcing
    * ERP systems
    * Third wave outsourcing and the growth of the ASP industry
    * ASP business models (e.g. vertical, pure-play, enterprise, horizontal and enabler
    * ASPs
    * Pricing models for the ASP industry
    * Benefits/risks of using ASPs for SMEs
    * The strategic positioning of outsourcing vendors
    * The business process management implications of ASP
    * Business and systems integration with ASP
 

Wendy L. Currie (primary contact)
Center for Strategic Information Systems
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH,
United Kingdom
Web  http//www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/research/csis
Tel: +44 1895 203325 (direct line)
Fax: +44 1895 251686
wendy.currie@brunel.ac.uk

Benoit A. Aubert
HEC Montréal
3000 Chemin de la Cote-Ste-Catherine
Montréal, Canada, H3T 2A7
Tel: : 514-340-7307
Fax: 514-340-6132
benoit.aubert@hec.ca

Suzanne Rivard
Professor, HEC Montreal,
3000 Chemin de la Cote-Ste-Catherine
Montréal, Canada, H3T 2A7
Tel: 514-340-6493
Fax: 514-340-6132
suzanne.rivard@hec.ca

Philip Seltsikas
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH,
United Kingdom
Web : http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/research/csis
Tel: +44 1895 203363 (direct line)
Fax: +44 1895 251686
phil.seltskas@brunel.ac.uk

IT governance is the organizational capacity to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensuring the fusion of business and IT. The three crucial IT governance questions are respectively about effectiveness, efficiency and control of IT. The effectiveness question refers to the business/IT alignment processes. Submissions are invited to discuss IT governance models, processes and its mechanisms ranging from the balanced scorecard, the COBIT framework, ITIL processes, capability maturity model, and typical IT governance mechanisms such as IT steering committees. In particular, submissions on IT audit issues are solicited.

Wim Van Grembergen
University of Antwerp (UFSIA)
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
Tel: 32 (0)3 220 40 74
Fax: 32 (0)3 220 47 99
Mobile 32 (0)477 52 47 77
wim.vangrembergen@ufsia.ac.be


Measuring IT Value

This mini-track is intended to address issues related to measuring and explaining the performance impacts of IT investments. To do this, we seek papers that focus on organizational dependent variables that show the value of IT investments.

Papers in this track will not be limited to any particular research method. Rather, the goal of this track is to showcase work that focuses on construct development and validation of dependent variables that represent IT value and contributions to business, not for profit, and government organizations.

Topics Papers are encouraged that address the following topics (but do not exclude other relevant topics) in for profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations

     * Business-side dependent variables that measure IT work and performance
    * Event studies of market reaction to IT investment announcements (E-commerce, ERP, CRM)
    * The increased accountability of IT organizations for business performance
    * Studies investigating the "productivity paradox" of IT
    * Measurement of the business value of information technology using both qualitative and quantitative measures
    * Extension of existing IT dependent variables that measure the business performance of IT organizations and systems
    * The moderating effects of management practices on IT performance
    * Critical success factors for IT organizational and business success
    * Business —based balanced scorecard measures of that integrate IT contributions to the business (government, etc.)
    * Tangible measures of some of the purported benefits of IT and e-business, such as "visibility" into business processes
    * Measures of how well the IT organizations and systems are integrated into the organization at large
    * Measures of partnership between IT organizations and their internal and external customers
    * Detailed case studies of IT investments and their impact on organizational performance and industry competition 

Kay M. Nelson (primary contact)
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: 614-292-7692
Fax: 614-292-2118
nelson_k@cob.osu.edu

H. James Nelson
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
nelson_j@cob.osu.edu

Deb Armstrong
University of Arkansas
Walton College of Business
204 Business Building
Fayetteville, AR 72701
darmstrong@walton.uark.edu 

Mehdi Ghods
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 24346
Seattle, WA 98124
Tel: 425-234-8947
Mehdi.Ghods@boeing.com

Vernon J. Richardson
School of Business
University of Kansas
350B Summerfield Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
Tel: 785-864-7507
Fax: 785-864-5328
vrichardson@ku.edu

Project Management

Papers are invited for this Minitrack to provide a forum for exchanging findings and for advancing empirical and theoretical knowledge on a wide range of management issues involved in the application of modern IT to project management. The following themes provide examples of the intended Minitrack focus

• Using IT-based project management tools and techniques effectively
• Managing in multidisciplinary technology-based team environments
• Leadership issues in today’s project organizations
• Emerging tools and techniques for managing information system projects
• Internet-based project management
• Applying Development Life-Cycle (DLC) Models
• Developing state-of-the-art project organizations.
• Performance measurement issues in technology-based project environments.

Papers can be conceptual, theoretical, empirical, or situational (case-based), but should make a significant contribution to the research and/or practice of project management.

Hans J. Thamhain
Bentley College
Adamian Graduate Center 313
175 Forest Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452-4705
Tel: (781) 891-2189
Fax:   (781) 891-2896
hthamhain@bentley.edu


Research Methods and Approaches

Papers are invited that address salient research methodology issues, generate discussion and debate with respect to systems in organizations, across geographical and cultural domains and inter-organizational relationships or a combination of the above. Specific topics include, but are not limited to

   1. Methodologies for researching organizational systems such as
   2. Experiences with particular research methods and approaches informing and guiding future research into organizational systems and 
       technologies, e.g. addressing issues such as Designing, conducting, and reporting on studies within a particular research tradition.
   3. Formulating multi-disciplinary views/approaches and combining methodological approaches, tools and techniques in research into 
       organizational systems, e.g. combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation.
   4. Matching research methodologies to organizational systems that require investigation such as

 
Sajda Qureshi (primary contact)
Starting August 2002
University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Information Systems & Technology
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68182-0116
squreshi@fac.fbk.eur.nl  (automatically forwarded until 12/31/02)
 
Doug Vogel
Department of Information Systems
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2788-7534
Fax: +852-2788-8694
isdoug@is.cityu.edu.hk

Gert-Jan de Vreede
Starting August 2002
University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Information Science & Technology
Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68182-0116
gertjanv@tbm.tudelft.nl (automatically forwarded until 12/31/02)



Social Issues in Organizations

Authors are invited to submit papers that address social issues affecting organizations, but not necessarily limited to the following

1. Ethical issues
2. Cultural issues
3. Relationship issues
4. Human Interaction issues
5. Security issues
6. Design issues

TYPES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS

The types of constructs that will be studied by this Minitrack on social issues would include, but would not be limited to, the following

Donald L. Amoroso (primary contact)
San Diego State University
Information and Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-8234v
amoroso@mail.sdsu.edu

Karen Loch
Institute of International Business
Georgia State University
Atlanta, 30303 GA
Tel: +404-651-4095
Kloch@gsu.edu

Robert Davison
Dept of Information Systems
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2788-7534
Fax: +852-2788-8694
isrobert@is.cityu.edu.hk

This mini-track is intended to address issues related to strategic and competitive information systems, with a significant emphasis on interesting case study results. Our goal is to bring together the academic and practitioner communities to exchange insights and perspectives on corporate strategy with information systems and Internet technologies, and to set the agenda for future research in this area. The co-chairs will make a special effort to include senior policymakers and executives, whose firms and industries are on the leading edge of strategic and competitive systems. As a result, special consideration will be given to research submissions where there is a commitment by the author(s) to include an industry partner in the presentation. We also welcome submissions from doctoral students whose research is coauthored with faculty who participate in the conference.

Topics. The following areas are suggestive of the range of topics that are considered suitable

• Detailed case studies of individual strategic IS, and their impact on the innovator, their impact on its competitors and customers, and resulting changes in the structure of the industry
• Industry studies on the use of IS, and the relationship between use of systems and market share, profitability, or other measures of competitive advantage and firm performance
• Competitive strategy and new business models in e-commerce and e-business settings
• Economic analyses of strategic and competitive IS or topics within the economics of information and IS
• Implications of IT on the competitive structure of industries, and implications for firm strategies
• Implications of emerging ITs for organizational design and the relationships among organizations
• Managing the risk of large scale implementations, including the special risks of implementing strategic information systems, technology and systems infrastructure and managing organizational change
• Organizational perspectives on strategy for emerging and enabling technologies in e-commerce

Eric Clemons
Operations and Information Management 
The Wharton School 
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 
Tel: (215) 898-7747 
clemons@wharton.upenn.edu

Rajiv M. Dewan
Computer and Information Systems 
Simon Graduate School Business Administration 
University of Rochester 
Rochester, New York 14627 
Tel: (716) 275-3827 
dewan@simon.rochester.edu

Robert J. Kauffman
Carlson School of Management 
University of Minnesota 
Minneapolis, MN  55455 
Tel: (612) 624-8562 
rkauffman@csom.umn.edu

The mini-track focuses on the management of technology in a changing business environment the transition from value chains to value-creating networks and new organisational forms. To enable innovation in the variety of business environments different approaches of technology management may be applied. Also, different business environmentsmay need different approaches. For instance, SMEs have different needs and develop different systems for managing technology than do large organizations.

The scope of the Minitrack includes both issues of managing technology and the social and psychological factors, models, and processes of organizational change and technology implementation and management.

In order to cover the full cycle for technology management we explicitly ask for papers covering (some of) the following phases of the cycle

• Planning for the use of technology
• Implementing the use of technology and the organizational changes that are enabled or necessitated by it.
• Evaluating the use of technology, using control frameworks like CMM, ITIL or COSO or COBIT.
• Evaluation of the outcomes of technology management as a start for a new management cycle.

G. John van der Pijl (primary contact)
Erasmus University,
POB 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: . +31 (0)10 408150
Tel: +31 12 530 0151 (home)
Fax: .+31 (0)10 4089157
vanderpijl@few.eur.nl

Pieter Ribbers
Tilburg University
POB 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 12 466 2188
Fax: +31 113 466 3377
p.m.a.ribbers@kub.nl

Martin Smits
Tilburg University
POB 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 12 466 2188
Fax: +31 113 466 3377
m.t.smits@kub.nl

Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology

Since many deserving papers do not fit well into any of the Minitracks usually offered, the Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology Minitrack was created to give a proper forum for such papers. The Minitrack provides a forum for non-traditional, imaginative, and thought provoking research in any IT area.

R. Martin Richards (primary contact)
College of Business Administration - 437 BMH
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville TN 37212-3757
Tel: 615-460-6862
Fax: 615-460-6455
richardsm@mail.belmont.edu

Hugh J. Watson
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602-6256
Tel: 706-542-3744
hwatson@uga.edu

This mini-track focuses on challenges presented by geographical, temporal, and cultural distribution among individual working together in teams, organizations, and communities.

We seek papers addressing these issues from an organizational, managerial, community, or individual perspective. We are also interested in enabling technologies and their use in this environment. In addition, we are interested in papers addressing the methodological difficulties of doing research in this area.

We are interested in bringing together a wide range of topics in this area, including but not limited to

1. Research on the effects of virtuality on individuals, teams, organizations, and communities
2. Development of organizational relationships (e.g., employee-employer and coworker relationships)
3. Effective leadership models in virtual work environments
4. Career development and mentoring in virtual work environments
5. Use of information and communication technologies in virtual work environments
6. Role of organizational culture and norms in virtual work environments
7. Social environment, sense of community, and identity in virtual work environments.
8. Characteristics of virtual teams
9. Effect of Tel: ecommuting on individual performance
10. Frameworks, theories and constructs related to virtuality
11. Use of incentives and reward systems

France Belanger (primary contact)
Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
3007 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0101
Tel: 540-231-6720
Fax: 540-231-2511
belanger@vt.edu

Manju Ahuja
Kelley School of Business
Information Systems Department
Indiana University
1309 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone 812-855-2655
Fax: 812-55-4985
mahuja@indiana.edu

Mary Beth Watson-Manheim
Information & Decisions Department
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street, UH 2426
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312-996-2370
Fax: 312-413-0385
mbwm@uic.edu