Track: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT
--------------- Collaboration

Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of corporate capital spending. With the progressing globalization, many of these investments are conducted across nations and throughout regions. Cross-system integration and collaboration technologies play crucial roles and often decide about investment success or failure. Academic literature has extensively focused on different aspects of IS/IT productivity, but not many researchers specifically examined the possible link between the international collaboration process and the payoffs from investments in IS/IT. Therefore, our intention is to specifically address this issue.

We plan to encourage both Empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) and Theoretical papers.

Topics and research areas include:
* Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration
* Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity
* Success factors of collaboration technologies
* Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity
* Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global econom y
* IS/IT investment evaluation
* IS/IT productivity studies at the country, industry, firm, or project level
* Comparative cross-country research
* Country-specific case studies
* IS/IT offshoring /outsourcing into emerging economies
* International IS/IT project management* Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity
* IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation
* Cross-border and cross-organizational Value-Chains and Value-Networks

Co-chairs:
Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (Primary Contact)
C William S. Spears School of Business
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
Oklahoma State University
700 North Greenwood Avenue Tulsa, OK 74106-0700, USA
Phone: +1-918-594-8506
Fax: +1-918-594-8281
Email: nicholas.romano@OKState.EDU

James B. Pick
School of Business
University of Redlands
1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92373-0999, USA
Phone: +1-909-748-8781
Fax: +1-909-335-5125
Email: james_pick@redlands.edu

Narcyz Roztocki
School of Business
State University of New York at New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
Phone: +1-845-257-2935
Fax: +1-845-257-2947
Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu