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Track Chairs:

Edward Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University Bloomington,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Roya Gholami, Aston University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Track Description:

The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on systems use, adoption or development)
  • Research on global IT sourcing strategies
  • Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use and development (e.g. ERP diffusion and impacts compared between different economies)
  • Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams)
  • Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level (e.g. IT infrastructure sophistication across countries)
  • Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations)
  • Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries)
  • Issues relating to global information governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks)
  • Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of IT policies on a transition economy)
  • Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development (e.g. ERP implementations involving multiple countries)

Mini-Tracks:


Knowledge Management

Mahesh (Michael) S. Raisinghani, Texas Woman's University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In learning from the past & charting the future of global information systems, the key question is what are the best and/or next practices in building a collaborative enterprise using global information systems? While global organizations recognize that information and knowledge are vital to their operation, they do not know the best way to identify, value, cost, manage and realize the benefits of their intellectual assets. This is probably due to a knowledge gap between theory and practice. Consequently, technology, hardware and software are often seen as solutions to the problem, rather than an increased focus on the content (data, information and knowledge).
The focus of this mini-track will be on understanding the fundamental conditions of the industry and bridging the knowledge, gap in Global Information Systems.


Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data

Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University

Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note “big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production … much of modern economic activity simply couldn’t take place without it.” An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation.

This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work.


IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational, and Societal Mini-track

Indira Guzman, Trident University International, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Michelle Kaarst-Brown, Trident University International

The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and method. Our mini-track, now in its sixth year, addresses important cultural and value related aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT’s). Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track is to provide a broader forum for research that seeks to understand the values and assumptions embedded in ICT’s, and held by the human groups served by ICT’s (i.e. occupational groups, organizations, and society).


Information Governance and Resilience in Business Ecosystems

Paul Drews, University of Hamburg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Matthias Goeken, University of Hamburg
Ingrid Schirmer, University of Hamburg

Due to an increased globalized delivery and demand of (sub) services/products, enterprises typically act in evolving networks of operational and managerial independent organizations. Examples are project networks, logistics chains, partners in supply chain, private-public partnerships or enterprise alliances. Business ecosystems (as well as their member organizations) share some characteristics like dependency on mutually accepted (often cross-national) policies, processes, cultures, infrastructure, etc. They have to adapt and change quickly, confronted with information governance and standardization challenges on an increasingly large scale. Although information governance is an established subject to large scale companies, there has yet been little research directed toward how information governance is managed within business ecosystems (from loosely coupled, short-term virtual enterprises to long-term strategic alliances). Furthermore, the members of a business ecosystem need to react to the risks arising from the increasing mutual interdependencies of processes and information systems by negotiating about how to analyze and improve their own resilience as well as the resilience of the business ecosystem.


Issues in Global Systems Implementation

George Mangalaraj, University of Texas at Brownsville
Anil Singh, University of Texas at Brownsville, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Aakash Taneja, University of Texas at Brownsville

Globalization has spurred growth of trans-national and multi-national enterprises. It is imperative for these organizations to deploy systems that span multiple countries. Implementation of such systems is fraught with challenges especially when the organization is venturing into developing and emerging economies. Mainstream IS research on systems implementations have focused on single organization/country implementations. Findings from such studies may not be directly transferable to implementations where country is not just a variable but provides the implementation context. Moreover, organizations implementing systems across multiple countries have to deal with variances in the availability of skilled workforce, infrastructure, culture, laws and regulations. Hence the strategies and processes used in the implementation of systems in the home country have to be adapted. This mini-track invites research in the areas of global information systems development, implementation and usage to provide an increased understanding of the issues salient to global information systems implementations.


Cloud ERP Adoption

Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Andreas Schroeder, Aston Business School, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">

Cloud ERP is particularly suitable for SMEs as it does not require any upfront cost or specialized IT staff for maintenance and upgrading like on-premise ERP systems. For the same reason Cloud ERP is seen as a feasible solution, especially in developing countries. The research on cloud is largely concentrated on technological issues, ignoring environmental and organizational implications. Since businesses of emerging economies operate in a different setting, the enablers and barriers identified in the literature for developed countries might not be applicable in the context of developing world.

Recent news about the exposure of cloud services to governmental legislation and surveillance may create additional considerations for decision makers for using cloud ERP that crosses international border and jurisdictions. The mini-track welcomes both empirical and conceptual research on Cloud ERP adoption by SMEs in the context of developed or developing countries.