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

Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of many firms’ corporate capital spending. As globalization progresses, many such investments are being deployed across nations and world regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for Global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multi-national collaboration processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.

Despite the intensive investigation for two decades of different aspects of IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based solely on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the entire global economy.

IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures vary significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and differing definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally-distributed teams requires a very high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region.

In summary, for IS/IT projects to be beneficial and productive in the global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues. To address these issues and others, this minitrack focuses on global collaboration processes and projects and their potential linkages with IS/IT investments, productivity, and success.

Particular interest is on the linkages between global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT. Possible contributions regarding the collaboration in global economy may include, but are not limited to the following:

• 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 economy

• 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

 

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (Primary Contact)
Spears School of Business
Oklahoma State University
344 North Hall, 700 N. Greenwood Ave.
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106-0700
Phone: 918-594-8506
Fax: 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
Phone: 909-748-8781
Fax: 909-335-5125
Email: james_pick@redlands.edu
 

Narcyz Roztocki
School of Business
SUNY New Paltz
75 South Manheim Boulevard
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: 845-257-2935
Fax: 845-257-2947
Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu