Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS


This mini-track at HICSS is held in a workshop format for sharing of issues, ideas and solutions at the crossroads of competitive strategy, economics, IS and electronic commerce. We encourage authors to share new and interesting perspectives on topics that are of interest to the academic and practitioner communities, as well as to bring current perspectives on the past work that has appeared in this mini-track. We especially welcome work-in-progress that develops new theory with case studies of emerging technologies, leading-edge organizations, and market and industry changes. To set an agenda for future research, the co-chairs often invite senior policymakers and executives, whose firms and industries play a defining role with respect to IT and Internet technologies in the markets they serve. We give special consideration to research submissions when the authors commit to include an industry partner in their presentation. We also welcome a range of current research methods.

The following areas are suggestive of the range of topics that are suitable:

• Detailed case studies of the application of strategic IS and their impacts on firms, markets and economies

• Economic analysis of IS and e-commerce investments, and the relationship between systems use and market share, profitability, business value or other measures of competitive advantage and firm performance

• Business strategy on the Internet, electronic markets and digital convergence, open source software strategies

• Strategic adoption and innovative uses of the Internet by organizations, markets, sectors and economies

• Property rights, incomplete contracts, transaction costs and other theories to understand interorganizational IS

• Channel development, transformation and conflict in the presence of emerging technologies

• Firm strategies for e-intermediation and new market structures, and IT-transformed org design and governance

• Product design with IT, and the bundling and pricing of physical and digital goods and services

• IT business value assessment methods and strategies to maximize business value

• Outsourcing and offshoring, risk management strategies for IT infrastructure, project and product investments
   

Minitrack Co-chairs:

Thomas A. Weber (Primary Contact)
Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-4026
Phone: 650-724-7000
Fax: 650-723-1614
Email: webert@stanford.edu

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

Robert J. Kauffman
Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology (CABIT)
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone: 480-965-2613
Email: rkauffman@asu.edu