The goal of the Strategy, Structure, and the Organizational Impacts of IT track is to advance our knowledge of the fusion between IT strategy and business strategy. The emphasis is on the incorporation of new information technology into organizations’ strategic thinking, strategy alignment, and organizational arrangements.

In an era when information technologies are fundamentally transforming business strategies, business processes, products and services, and interorganizational relationships in extended ecosystems, we argue that it is increasingly necessary to rethink the role of IT strategy. We seek papers that offer deep theoretical insights about the role of information technology in the strategic behavior of organizations. We also welcome empirical papers that examine IT strategy at all levels of analysis. The track is open to papers employing various research methods.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The strategic use of information technology in firms, industries, and value networks
• The effects of information technology on the competitive behavior of firms
• New strategies for service innovation through new information systems
• Strategic outsourcing, open sourcing, cloudsourcing and crowdsourcing
• The co-evolution of business strategy and information technology within and across firms
• Emerging business strategies enabled by business analytics
• The impact of digital platform ecosystems on digital business strategy
• Developing capabilities for enterprise digital leadership
• Digital business models and their evolution
• Transformation of structures, processes, knowlege base, human resources, and other organizaitonal arrangements to suuport new strategies