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ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Advances in Design Science for Information Systems
The purpose of this minitrack is to provide a venue where design science researchers pursuing the development of design theories for information systems can share their work and interact with likeminded researchers. The concept of an information system design theory was first articulated almost two decades ago (Walls, et al 1992). Since that time many researchers have built on the concept to develop a variety of design theories (Walls, et al 2004). Research reported at the annual Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) conference proceedings since 2006 shows that work continues in this area (Gurzick and Lutters, 2009). Design theory papers have also been published in the ICIS Proceedings during the last few years (e.g., Sarnikar and Deokar, 2009). At HICSS-44 there were also several papers that followed this approach, for example (Zhang, et al, 2011) was in the knowledge management track. Finally, a JAIS paper by Jones and Gregor (2007) provided a perspective on IS design theory different from that of Walls, et al (1992).
We solicit excellent papers that will develop and expand on this research.
Joseph Walls is a University of Michigan faculty member. He previously taught at Southern Cal and CSU-Sacramento. Full time industry experience includes seven years with Unisys and four years with Eaton. Current research interests include IS design theory and IT project management. His research has been published in ISR, Omega, JITTA, IEEE Transactions, and various conference proceedings.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Joseph Walls
University of Michigan
Email:
George Widmeyer
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Email: widmeyer@njit.edu
Omar El Sawy
University of Southern California
Email: elsawy@marshall.usc.edu
Business Analytics/Business Intelligence
and Data Warehousing Ð Theories, Methods/Models and Applications
This minitrack will accept papers with a managerial, an
economic, a methodological or a technical perspective on the above topics.
Contributions from the fields of theory building, design research (methods and
models), action research as well as analyses of existing or innovative
applications are welcome. Excellent papers will also be considered for
publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Business
Intelligence Research or encouraged to be submitted to the Journal of Business
Intelligence.
Robert Winter is tenured chair of information management at the
University of St. Gallen (HSG), director of HSG's research institute of
information management (IWI-HSG) and academic director of HSG's Executive Master
of BusinessEngineering programme (EMBE HSG). He is department editor of Business
& Information Systems Engineering (BISE, formerly Wirtschaftsinformatik) as well
as associate editor of European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS),
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) and Enterprise Modelling
and Information Systems Architectures (EMISA).
Olivera Marjanovic is Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney. Her research seeks to link business processes and IT in business, government and non-profit organisations and to assist them in effectively managing IT-enabled organisational process innovations. She is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research.
Barbara H. Wixom is an Associate Professor of Commerce at
the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, and she received her
Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Georgia. Dr. Wixom was made a Fellow of The
Data Warehousing Institute for her research in data warehousing, and she has
published in journals that include Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly,
Journal of Data Warehousing, and Journal of MIS. She has presented her work at
national and international conferences.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Robert Winter
University of St. Gallen
Business and Enterprise Architecture: Processes, Approaches and Challenges
We propose this minitrack to solicit paper submissions that: advance our knowledge of EA; help us learn about effective processes and approaches to effectively manage the EA and the EA development process; and begin to identify ways to measure the organizational benefits derived from EA. Papers will be solicited in several areas, including, but not limited to the following: -
Frank Armour is a senior IT consultant and a faculty member at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University.. Dr. Armour has extensive experience in both the practical and academic aspects of applying advanced information technology. His work and research includes enterprise information technology architectures, requirements analysis, System Development Cycle Development (SDLC), object-oriented development. Dr Armour is currently consulting to both government and private organizations on the effective application of enterprise architecture and object oriented system requirements and design approaches. In a previous position, at a major IT consulting firm, he had a joint appointment as the lead Object Methodologist and as the Assistant Director of the Object Technology Lab. In this position he provided guidance and in-depth mentoring to object projects on object concepts, architecture, project management, methods and tools. He is the coauthor of the book, Advanced Use Case Modeling, Addison Wesley, 2001.
Stephen Kaisler is currently a Senior Scientist with i_SW Corporation, a firm specializing in science, engineering, and technology research, development and integration. Prior to joining i_SW, he was a Senior Scientist with Logos Technologies and SET Corporation, where he worked at DARPA as a SETA/Deputy Program Manager. Prior to that, he was Technical Advisor to the Sergeant At Arms and to the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Senate, where he was responsible for systems architecture, modernization and strategic planning for the U.S. Senate. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Engineering since 1979 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at George Washington University. Recently, he has also taught enterprise architecture and information security in the GWU Business School. He earned a D.Sc. (Computer Science) from George Washington University, and an M.S. (Computer Science) and B.S. (Physics) from the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written four books and published over 30 technical papers
J. Edwin Huizinga is an independent EA and IT Governance consultant in the greater Baltimore area. Previously he was the lead consultant for the EA Strategy program at the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Chief Enterprise Architect for the Architect of the Capitol, a legislative branch agency on Capitol Hill. Until 2006, Dr. Huizinga was the Enterprise Architect and Deputy CIO at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, responsible for science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope. He holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Frank Armour (Primary Contact)
George Mason University
Email:
Steve Kaisler
SW Corporation, Inc.
Email: skaisler1@comcast.net
Edwin Huizinga
Business Process Management (BPM)
Business Process Management has emerged as an important field in systems science, and in particular in information systems. With its roots in a number of well known approaches such as workflow management, business process reengineering, total quality management, BPM to date stands for an integrated management approach. As such BPM seeks to develop organizational capabilities facilitating excellence and innovation in business addressing a wide range of applications.
The latest research has elicited a wide range of capability areas relevant for BPM, in particular business-related areas, such as strategic alignment and governance as well as the human-related areas such as people and culture. Not limited to well-defined and structured processes, BPM can contribute to a number of contemporary challenges in traditional and creative business environments as well as in different types of organizations including commercial, Cooperatives, non-for-profit and virtual organizations.
The BPM Minitrack at HICSS aims to promote and further establish BPM as an integrated management discipline. While early academic research on BPM was skewed towards the technological and formal aspects of BPM, we particularly encourage papers that deal with the business challenges and opportunities of BPM over its entire life cycle from consideration and adoption to implementation, and on-going improvement at all levels (strategic, operational, tactical).
We invite rigorous and relevant contributions from a wide variety of research methods addressing topics such as those mentioned below. Selected papers will be recommended for fast track to prestigious BPM-related journals.
With 2012 being declared as the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations, this Minitrack aims to open a brand new research direction focusing on BPM-related issues in these important organisations, that up to now have been virtually unexplored by the international BPM community.
Topics might include:
Olivera Marjanovic is Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney Business School. Her BPM-related research seeks to assist business, government, non-profit, and since recently cooperative organizations, to effectively manage, improve and innovate their IT-enabled organizational process. Olivera has over 20 years of experience, gained both in industry and academia. In addition to her academic qualifications, Olivera holds an industry-based qualification of a Certified Business Process Manager (Designate). Olivera is a co-founder of the BPM research group and a member of the multidisciplinary Co-Op research group at the University of Sydney Business School. In 2007, Olivera founded the inaugural BPM Minitrack at HICSS, that continues to attract the attention of, and inform the international BPM community.
Jan vom Brocke
holds the Hilti Chair in Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein. He is Director of the Institute of Information Systems and President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS. Jan has more than ten years of experience in BPM projects and has published more than 170 refereed papers in the proceedings of internationally perceived conferences and established IS journals, including the Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS) and Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ). He is author and co-editor of 15 books, including Springer’s International Handbook on Business Process Management. He is an invited speaker on BPM at a number of universities, such as the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the LUISS University in Rome and the University of Turku in Finland.SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Olivera Marjanovic (Primary Contact)
The University of Sydney
Email: olivera.marjanovic@sydney.edu.au
Jan vom Brocke
University of Liechtenstein
Email: jan.vom.brocke@uni.li
Communication and Social Networks
Communication networks stems from the study of social networks, which is a branch of systems sciences and complex systems. Communication networks can be defined as the patterns of contact that are created by the flow of messages among entities through time and space. Communication network analysis identifies the communication structure shaped by the flows of information or other material/nonmaterial resources. Such flows are being increasingly mediated by information technology, and one of the outcomes of mediated communication networks is social networking, which represents a parallel but unique area of research focusing on the utilization ones communication network. As such, the current minitrack focuses on the structures and patterns of association that emerges from the flow of information, broadly defined, and is particularly well suited for dynamic network data. Units of analysis and form of flow are scaleable, and this track welcomes a wide range of communication network conceptualizations.
Devan Rosen (Ph.D., Cornell University) is currently Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has published on topics including social network analysis, self-organizing systems, and computer-mediated communication. Professor RosenÕs research focuses on decentralized communication networks, communication technology, and culture.
George A. Barnett (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is
Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of
California - Davis. Currently, he is a Board Member and a past President of the
International Network of Social Network Analysts. Professor Barnett's research
concerns structural models of the role of communication in social and cultural
processes.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Devan Rosen (Primary Contact)
University of Hawaii
Email:
Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS
This minitrack covers issues, ideas, and solutions at the crossroads of competitive strategy, economics, and e-commerce, integrated by a fundamental reliance upon information and technology. We encourage authors to share perspectives on topics of interest to the academic and practitioner communities, and to build upon the past work that has appeared in this mini-track. We welcome early-stage work-in-progress that develops new theory, and case studies of emerging technologies, leading-edge organizations, and market and industry changes.
We also welcome joint work and panel discussions with 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 therefore encourage research submissions that feature authors from both academia and industry. This minitrack will encourage research contributions that employ current research methods (e.g., models, econometrics, experiments, simulations, cases, frameworks) to gain insights in the relevant fields.
Topics in this area include:
Eric K. Clemons is a professor at the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, with degrees from MIT and Cornell. He serves on the boards of JMIS
and IJEC, with. research interests in IT and business strategy, financial
markets, and strategic IT ventures. He chaired mini-tracks at HICSS since 1988.
Robert J. Kauffman has served on the faculty at NYU, Rochester, Minnesota and Arizona State. His degrees are from Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Colorado. His research emphasizes strategy and IT, e-commerce, financial valuation and economic analysis. He will be chairing the ICIS Doctoral Consortium in Shanghai, China in 2011.
Thomas A. Weber is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, with research interests in optimal control of nonlinear systems, economics of information and uncertainty, analysis of complex systems and corporate strategy and public policy. He holds degrees from MIT and Wharton.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Eric K. Clemons (primary contact)
University of Pennsylvania
Email:
Robert J. Kauffman
Tempe, AZ
Email: rob7585@gmail.com
Thomas A. Weber
Stanford University
Email: webert@stanford.edu
End user computing is a long-established research stream in information systems. It flared in the 1980s, grew quiet afterward, and appears to be reemerging as compliance regulations are forcing organizations to examine how they actually perform business processes. This research is showing that end EUC is the dark matter of information systems in terms of its absolute size and presence in compliance-critical applications and also is the dark energy of IS because of its ability to energize nearly all aspects of business. Unfortunately, EUC research has been scattered across many conferences, although it has a home journal (The Journal of Organizational and End User Computing).
This minitrack will attempt to bring together research and researchers on current hot EUC topics, such as spreadsheet applications and database applications, as well as less active issues, such as end user computing training. The ultimate goal is to make this minitrack a starting point for enhancing communication among EUS researchers.
Proposed Topics include: End user computing has a traditional list of topics, including end user application development, end training, end user policies, and specific end user computing methods and tools, including spreadsheet error and database problem.
SUBMIT INQUIREIS TO:
Prof. Raymond R. Panko (Primary Contact)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Email: Panko@hawaii.edu
http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu
Enterprise System Integration: Issues and Answers
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 Integration through technologies
such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and more recently Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA). This mini-track seeks to explore issues, both
academic and organizational, surrounding the integration of Enterprise Systems
and linking ERP systems to other systems via EAI or SOA.
Topics of special interest include the following:
Marinos Themistocleous is assistant professor and an active researcher in the area of Enterprise Systems Integration at the Department of Digital Systems at University of Piraeus (Greece). He was formally a senior lecturer and researcher at Brunel University (UK). He has worked for the last fifteen years as a researcher and consultant in a leading European research group on Electronic Commerce (EC). He also retains close links with industry and he has served as an external consultant of the Greek Ministry of Finance (on EC issues), ELOT (the Greek Standardisation body), ORACLE UK. Marinos retains close links with Greek leading dot com companies and has worked for several years as consultant on electronic commerce area. He is also consultant of the European Commission and he evaluates research proposals that are submitted as part of the research framework. He has written three books on (a) electronic commerce, (b) distance learning and (c) tele-working. Marinos has also served as the managing editor of the European journal of Information Systems. Moreover, he has written numerous refereed journal and conference papers and he has been a mini-track co-chair to international conferences like HICSS and AMCIS.
Professor Emeritus Gail Corbitt, a 1988 PhD in Management
Information Systems from the University of Colorado, taught in the California
State University system for 22 years and recently retired. During the last 17
years at Chico State, she has taught courses in Systems Analysis, Systems
Design, Client Server computing and most recently ERP systems. In addition to
teaching Gail has 25 plus years of Information Systems work experience including
software development, systems analysis, data center management, and most
recently internships at Chevron working with the Enterprise portal and SAP
security and testing and at HP working on Knowledge Management as support for
ERP. She has published numerous articles on uses of electronic meeting software,
group processes, Joint Application Development, Business Process Re-Design and
software development methods and processes. Consulting clients include the U.S.
Navy, BASF, Intel, Hewlett Packard, National Liberty Corp., California Prison
Industry Authority, and Simpson Paper Company. She is currently the Program
Director for the SAP University Alliances Program, Western USA and Canada.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Gail Corbitt (primary contact)
California State University, Chico
Email:
IMPLEMENTATION AND USAGE OF RFID
Topics. The following areas are suggestive of the range of topics that are considered suitable:
Accepted papers that are of high quality may be invited to submit their revised manuscripts for possible fast-track status in the International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications.
Fred Riggins (primary contact)
Arizona State University
Email:
Eric W.T. Ngai
Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design
This minitrack seeks state-of-art empirical, theoretical, experimental, and simulation research along with rigorous case studies exploring the increasing complex roles that information systems now play in the design of successful operations at many supply chain and service systems. We are also soliciting comprehensive reviews of relevant research, and applications highlighting the use of new technologies, methods, and techniques. In particular, we want to systematically explore the complex interplay between business process designs, technology, organizational architectures, and information sharing. There is a growing body of research within the economics, marketing, operations management, information systems, and healthcare communities which are starting to address those issues.
We expect to see applications analyzing enterprise resource allocation, call center management, capacity planning, revenue management, scheduling, inventory management, and global coordination of supply chains, logistical operations, dynamic pricing, contingent contracting, and the impact of information asymmetry across market agents. Selected papers from the minitrack will be fast tracked to the special issue of DSS.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Abraham Seidmann (primary contact)
University of Rochester
Email:
Yabing Jiang
Forhdam University
Email: yajiang@fordham.edu
Jie Zhang
University of Texas at Arlington
Email: jiezhang@uta.edu
Information Technology for Development
Information Technology for Development (ITD) research focuses on the use of information technology infrastructures to bring about economic, social, and human development. In essence, the ITD research provides insight for policy makers to facilitate the achievement of socio-economic development goals by increasing financial investments and stimulating business activities in their regions. Contributions of research in ITD over twenty years have been to the management of economies through the implementation of information technology (IT) infrastructures to stimulate national development. Examples include the use of indicators such as gross domestic product and human development indices to assess the effect of IT technologies and infrastructures on national development. IT access and use issues by individuals and/or businesses in under privileged regions are other research topics under this domain. also In addition, ITD research provides guidelines for businesses looking to implement and use IT infrastructures to support their business strategies. This minitrack aims to address these issues and make a contribution to how IT can be used to bring about economic, social, and human development.
Submissions are invited that are theoretically and empirically sound. Topics include but are not limited to:
Mehruz Kamal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Brockport. Her research interests include investigating IT adoption issues in small businesses and their impact on socio-economic development. Her research work has been presented at leading Information Systems conferences such as AMCIS and HICSS and have been published in journals including
International Journal of E-Business Research, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Journal of Information System Security.Sajda Qureshi is Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department at the Faculty of Information Systems and Information Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Infrastructure and Policy and Communications of the ACM, books published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag, Chapman and Hall and North-Holland. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology for Development. Her research interests include the effects of ICTs on Development. She is also conduct research on the effects of IT adoption by micro-enterprises on Development and is currently running a project using cloud computing facilities for conducting IT interventions in micro-enterprises.
Narcyz Roztocki is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His research interests include IS/IT investment evaluation, IS/IT productivity, IS/IT investments in emerging economies, technology project management, and e-commerce. He has published in numerous journals and conferences including: the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Computer Information Systems, the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, International Journal of Service Technology and Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Information Science & Technology, and proceedings of the AMCIS, DSI, ECIS, ECITE and HICSS.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Mehruz Kamal (Primary Contact)
State University of New York
Sajda Qureshi
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Narcyz Roztocki
State University of New York at New Paltz
IT GOVERNANCE AND ITS MECHANISMS
In many organizations, information technology has become crucial in the support, sustainability and growth of their businesses. The pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance or Enterprise Governance of IT. Enterprise Governance of IT (EGIT) is an integral part of enterprise governance exercised by the Board overseeing the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanism in the organization enabling both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT-enabled business investments. ÒThe minitrack ÒIT governance and its mechanismsÓ is soliciting papers on theories, models and practices in the IT governance domain and aims to contribute to the understanding of IT governance and its structures, processes and relational mechanisms.
Wim Van Grembergen is professor at the Information Systems Department of the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA) and executive professor at the Antwerp Management School (AMS). His research focuses on IT governance and IT performance management through the balanced scorecard. Within his recently established IT Alignment and Governance Research Institute (
www.uams.be/itag), professor Van Grembergen conducts research on the relationship between IT best practices and business outcome. He has been involved in the development of ISACA's frameworks COBIT and VAL IT and currently in the development of the new COBIT 5. His most recent publication on IT Governance is "Enterprise Governance of IT. Achieving strategic alignment and value" (Springer, New York, 2009).SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Wim Van Grembergen
University of Antwerp
E-mail: wim.vangrembergen@ua.ac.be
IT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Papers are invited for the Minitrack on Project Management, providing a forum for exchanging new findings, and to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge, on a wide range of management issues involved in the application of modern IT to project management. The following is a sample of topics that would fit the intended focus of this Minitrack on Project Management:
Sue Newell is currently Cammarata Professor of Management at Bentley University near Boston, USA. She is also a Professor of Information Management at Warwick University, UK. She graduated in psychology from University College Cardiff, where she stayed on to complete her PhD. She has also worked at Birmingham University, Nottingham Trent University and Aston University (all in the UK). She has worked on many government-funded research projects in the area of knowledge, innovation and organizational networks. Currently, she is working on a project studying translational research projects. While at Warwick University she was a joint founder of ikon Ð the innovation, knowledge and organizational networking research unit. For further details, please go the ikon website - (http://users.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/ikon/). Sue has published widely in a variety of journals including the Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information and Organization, Human Relations, Organization Studies and the International Journal of Project Management. She has been involved on organizing committees of numerous conferences and conference tracks and serves as a reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences.
Jacky Swan is Professor is Organizational Behavior at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. She completed her doctorate in Psychology at the University of Wales, before working for a period in Canada as a teaching fellow. She returned to the UK to Aston and then Warwick Universities. She is founding member of ikon: research centre in Innovation Knowledge and Organizational Networks; and conducts her research in related areas (for details see http://users.wbs.warick.ac.uk/ikon/). Her interests are in linking innovation and networking to processes of managing knowledge and information and she is currently working on studies of managing knowledge in project-based environments and of cultural change in construction. She has been responsible for a number of UK Research Council projects and advises funding bodies on commissioning research. She has published widely, including articles in Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations. She is co-author of the recent book, "Managing Knowledge Work" (Palgrave, 2002) and has guest edited several journal special issues (e.g. Journal of Information Technology). As well as acting as reviewer and committee member for various conferences and journals, she has organized 3 major conferences in the UK and launched the international conference series on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities.
Joe Weiss is Professor of Management at Bentley University and a research fellow at Bentley Center for Business Ethics. He teaches leadership & change management, organizations and environments, and business ethics. He is a Fulbright Senior Program Specialist who has taught in Russia, the Middle East, and Spain. He has successfully helped organize and lead several HICSS project management minitrack sessions and was previously chair of the Academy of Management's Consulting Division where he also served as Program Chair. His books include 5-Phase Project Management (Basic Books), Organizational Behavior & Change (South-Western, Thomson Learning), and Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach (South-Western, Thomson Learning). He has also published in CAIS, Engineering Management Journal, Business Horizons. He has consulted with Fortune 500 and 1000 firms on project and change management, and currently works with business executives to assess and align leadership teams.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Joseph Weiss (primary contact)
Bentley College
Email: jweiss@bentley.edu
Sue Newell
Bentley College
Email: snewell@bentley.edu
Jacky Swan
Warwick University
Email: jacky.swan@wbs.ac.uk
ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Social issues related to information technology represents one of the most often discussed underpinnings in information systems research throughout the tenure of the IS field. Social issues are those research topics most aligned with the human factor in terms of information systems planning, development and utilization.
This minitrack includes all aspects of social issues that are impacted by information technology affecting organizations and inter-organizational structures. This would include the conceptualization of specific social issues and their associated constructs, proposed designs and infrastructures, empirical validation of social models, and case studies illustrating socialization success and failures. Some key topics may include: (1) ethics, (2) culture, (3) relationships, (4) human interaction, (5) security, (6) design, (7) building relationships, and (8) diversity in the IT workforce.
Authors are invited to submit papers that address social issues affecting organizations, but not necessarily limited to the following:
Types of social constructs would include, but would not be limited to, the following:
- Confidence - Commitment - Judgment - Flexibility
- Certainty - Satisfaction - Utilization - Stability
- Influence - Presence - Change - Support
- Collaboration - Cohesiveness - Participation - Consent
- Creativity - Understanding - Trust - Synergy
- Perspective - Accountability - Excitement - Power
Types of studies could include, but would not be limited to, the following:
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Dr. Michael B Knight
(Primary Contact)
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Email:
Dr. B. Dawn Medlin
Theories are generally considered to be the bedrock of academic research. We believe many
theories used in IS research are relatively unknown to, or not well understood by, IS researchers. For example, there are very few frameworks to organize theories used in IS research. There has not been extensive work on the categorization of the conceptual variables used in IS research, nor work that establishes theoretical ties between IS research and research in other disciplines. We believe that it is possible to advance the IS field by studying the theories it has developed and uses.This minitrack seeks to thoroughly examine, discuss, and extend theoretical approaches used in IS research. We will be looking specifically for papers on:
Scott L. Schneberger is professor and Dean of Academics at Principia College, Elsah, IL. He previously taught at Appalachian State University, Georgia State University, the University of Western Ontario, Erasmus University, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is co-editor of the AISWorldNet Theories Used In IS Research website, the winner of the AISWorldNet Challenge Award, 2005.
Michael R. Wade is professor of Innovation and Strategic Information Management at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. His research has appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, and the Communications of the ACM. He is also co-author of three IS and e-commerce textbooks, and two edited books on IS theory. His current research focuses on the strategic use of information systems for sustainable competitive advantage. He is co-editor of the AISWorldNet Theories Used In IS Research website, the winner of the AISWorldNet Challenge Award, 2005.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Scott Schneberger (Primary Contact)
Principia College
Email:
Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology
This minitrack is especially set up to provide a forum for papers in the Organizational Systems and Technology track that do not "fit" exactly in a specific other minitrack. We are proud to often serve as an incubator for new ideas. Over the years we have actively solicited non-traditional, imaginative, and thought-provoking research in any IT area. We are particularly interested in papers that break new ground in new areas, or those that apply existing research to new industry groups or fields.
The papers that we accept generally have the following characteristics:
1. They are cross-disciplinary/can be disciplines other than MIS
2. They address current topics that are important to today's managers
3. They have a practitioner "flavor".
4. Case studies are welcomed, particularly if they propose
questions that will stimulate
discussion among session attendees.
Submit Papers to:
Mark Frolick (primary contact)
Xavier University
Email:
Thilini Ariyachandra
Xavier University
Email: ariyachandrat@xavier.edu
Jim Ryan
Troy University
Email: jeryan@troy.edu