Steve Elliot

University of Sydney, Australia

Daniel Veit

Augsburg University, Germany

Jane Webster

Queen’s University, Canada

Description

This track welcomes theoretical and empirical perspectives on societal impacts of information systems (IS). These impacts can be actual or potential, intended or unintended, and positive, negative or diverse in effect. The relationship of these impacts to the longer term sustainability of society itself is integral to IS research and concern.

The consequences of IS, whether they revolve around environmental, social, or ethical issues, can translate into degradation or betterment of the natural environment, better or worse quality of life and work, social inclusion/exclusion, (non)discrimination, and (un)employment. For example, IS can contribute to climate change through increasing carbon footprints, but can also provide a means for managing that carbon footprint.

The IS community is uniquely positioned to address these issues of sustainability and societal impacts, given its encompassing knowledge of both technical and social dimensions, along with its solution-oriented focus that has been developed over four decades.

We invite innovative, rigorous and relevant IS studies addressing these issues and employing a wide variety of methods. Empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual papers on theory development will be considered. Due to the broad and inclusive nature of the topic, we encourage the submission of studies that address a variety of different units of analysis, including individual, group, process, organization, government, and society at large. The research questions may be derived from a broad spectrum of disciplines including information systems and business, engineering, management, operations management, applied computer science, environmental science, marketing, economics, psychology, sociology, etc.

Topics of Interests

• Green IS
• Sustainable design in IS
• Sustainable business practices and processes
• IS for greener supply chains
• Energy informatics
• Environmental and societal IS planning and governance
• Societal consequences of emerging technologies
• Theoretical perspectives on (un)intended consequences of IS
• Changing nature of work and life in information society
• Side effects of IS, such as work stress, addiction, victimization, surveillance, etc.
• IS-related unemployment and deskilling, especially in knowledge work
• The role of IS in social protest and economic or educational (in)equality
• Responsible societal innovations using IS
• Ethical approaches to IT system investment and IT system design
• Ethical computing
• The role of IS in supporting and empowering marginalized groups in society
• Bottom-of the-pyramid issues relating to IS
• Sharing Economy
• Methods for assessing social, ethical, and environmental impacts of IS
• Societal issues related to the ICIS 2016 theme, Digital Innovation at the Crossroads

Associate Editors

• Adela Chen, Colorado State U., USA
• Vanessa Cooper, RMIT U., Australia
• Jacqueline Corbett, Laval U., Canada
• Viet Dao, Shippensburg U. of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jason Dedrick, Syracuse U., USA
• Gilbert Fridgen, U. of Bayreuth, Germany
• Uri Gal, U. of Sydney, Australia
• Henner Gimpel, U. of Augsburg, Germany
• Petri Hallikainen, The U. of Sydney, Australia
• Catherine Hardy, The U. of Sydney, Australia
• Sora Kang, Hoseo U., Korea
• Wolf Ketter, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Lutz Kolbe, U. of Göttingen, Germany
• Johann Kranz, U. of Göttingen, Germany
• Ho Geun Lee, Yonsei U., Korea
• Jungwoo Lee, Yonsei U., Korea
• Byungtae Lee, KAIST, Korea
• Seth Li, Clemson U., USA
• De Liu, U. of Minnesota, USA
• Peter Loos, Saarland U., Germany
• Rony Medaglia, Copenhagen Business School
• Nigel Melville, U. of Michigan, USA
• Alemayehu Molla, RMIT U., Australia
• Jacqueline Pike, Duquesne U., USA
• Israr Qureshi, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., Hong Kong
• Saonee Sarker, U. of Virginia, USA
• Sarah Spiekermann, Vienna U. of Economics and Business, Austria
• Manuel Trenz, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Rick Watson, U. of Georgia, USA
• Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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Sirkka Jarvenpaa

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Sri Kudaravalli

HEC Paris
France

Jae Yun Moon

Korea University
Korea

Description

This track addresses social media and digital collaboration, particularly when they intersect. Social media applications and platforms have become pervasive in many phenomena of interest to the information systems community such as social commerce, virtual teams, social networking, knowledge management, online communities, open source, open data and digital activism. This track invites research that provides fresh theoretical perspectives and novel empirical insights on ways of organizing and collaborating enabled by social media. We also invite studies that focus on the historical, cultural, political and economic contexts of social media use and digital collaboration, examining both positive and negative consequences.

We welcome research from any philosophical and theoretical standpoint.  We welcome research that uses a wide variety of methods, including qualitative methods, large-scale data analysis, surveys, digital field experiments, simulations and multi-methods. We are also open to the study of social media in a variety of contexts – the work organization, civic society, humanitarian efforts, and disaster responses, to name but a few. A diversity of disciplinary backgrounds is also encouraged, in recognition of the contributions cultural, media and communication studies, and sociology, have made to social media research. We explicitly encourage submissions to this track that situate digital collaboration and social media, and the modes by which we can study these phenomena, historically, theoretically or empirically. We are particularly interested in papers that develop new theories of digital collaboration or challenge current conceptualizations of the new social media enabled contexts.

The track does not cover topics related to the use of social media in the context of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing or the sharing economy. Authors of such papers should submit their work to the Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding and Sharing Economy Track.

Topics of Interests

• Social media and theories about digital collaboration
• Virtual teams and collaboration technologies
• Enterprise knowledge sharing and collaborative work
• Personal knowledge management and social media
• Social media-enabled business models
• Organizational networking with social media
• Use of social media for citizen and political participation
• Mobilization of temporary organizations using social media
• Policy challenges
• Effects of algorithmic culture and mediators upon collaborative practice
• Geo-spatial aspects of social media collaborations
• The development and use of social media analytics
• Digital methods for understanding social media collaboration (e.g. design science approaches, the computational turn; big data methods)
• Critical perspectives on social media (e.g. how social is social media, what are negative side effects of social media use?).

Associate Editors

• Katherine Chudoba, Utah State U., USA
• Hope Koch, Baylor U., USA
• Marco Marabelli, Bentley U., USA
• Jean-Gregoire Bernard, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand
• Tat Koon Koh, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Hui Kai Long, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Steven Johnson, U. of Virginia, USA
• Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Kai Fischbach, Universität Bamberg, Germany
• Salvatore Parise, Babson College, USA
• Joao Baptista, Warwick Business School, UK
• Leiser Silva, U. of Houston, USA
• Netta Iivari, U. of Oulu, Finland
• Nishtha Langer, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Priscilla Cristina Cabral Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Stefan Smolnik, U. of Hagen, Germany
• Boreum Choi, UNIST Graduate School of Technology Management, Korea
• Lynn Wu, U. of Pennsylvania Wharton, USA
• Jung Lee, KIMEP U., Kazakhstan
• Xitong Li, HEC Paris, France
• Maria Alexandra Cunha, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paul, Brazil
• Wenjing Duan, George Washington U., USA
• Maha Shaikh, Warwick Business School, UK
• Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State U., USA
• James Howison, U. of Texas, USA
• Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Esther Gonzalez, California State University, USA
• Raquel Benbunan-Fich, City University of New York, USA

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Kristine Dery

MIT Center for Information Systems Research, USA

Brian Donnellan

National University
of Ireland,
Maynooth

Janis Gogan

Bentley University,
Waltham MA,
USA

Description

A major mission of the information systems discipline is to produce relevant academic research that is useful to IS practice. The ICIS practice-oriented research track will contribute to this mission. The track welcomes submission of practice-oriented IS research on any topics that are highly relevant and useful to practicing IS executives.

Criteria for acceptance of submissions will be similar to those adopted by MISQ Executive. Authors are encouraged to submit in-depth research that provides rich stories, unique insights, and useful conceptual frameworks for information systems practice. The target audience is primarily practitioners, but also includes researchers and students so that we can stimulate ongoing discussions at the intersection of research and practice and contribute to the development of future industry leaders. Submitted papers will be specifically screened for relevance and usefulness to IS practice. Submissions are also expected to demonstrate a rigor that makes the findings credible to a discriminating reader.

The Editor-in-Chief of MISQ Executive offers accepted papers of this track an opportunity to go through a fast-track review, development, and publication process at MISQ Executive.

In addition to paper presentations, this track will invite IT leaders from various industries to: (1) give keynote speeches; (2) attend mixed practitioner/researcher panels; and (3) serve as discussants in research presentations to provide feedback and help define further questions for practice-oriented IS research.

Overall, this track aims to:

• Extend the reach of ICIS to IS executives
• Showcase highest quality practice-oriented IS research
• Promote practice-oriented IS research as a key source of insight and guidance for IS practice
• Provide researchers a platform to present and discuss their practice-oriented IS research findings with IS executives and academics and expose the community to current challenges in IS practice
• Help identify the most challenging managerial issues in IS practice and frame them as new questions that could guide future practice-oriented IS research

Associate Editors

• Hans Borgman, ESC Rennes, France
• Walter Brenner, U. of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Joe Peppard, ESMT, Germany
• Clemens Van Dinther, Reutlingen U.
• Markus Helfert, Dublin City U., Ireland
• Ed Curry, National U. of Ireland Galway, Ireland
• Stephanie L. Woerner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Martin Mocker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Cynthia Beath, U. of Texas at Austin, USA
• Nils Fonstad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Eric Van Heck, Erasmus U., Netherlands
• Espen Andersen, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
• Xavier Busquets, ESADE, Spain
• Alec Cram, Bentley U., USA
• Kui Du, U. of Massachusetts Boston
• Iris Junglas, Florida State U., USA
• Sandeep Purao, Bentley U., USA
• Donna Stoddard, Babson U., USA
• Leslie Wilcocks, London School of Economics, UK

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Atreyi
Kankanhalli

National University of Singapore

Chrisanthi Avgerou

London School of Economics, UK

Richard Baskerville

Georgia State University & Curtin University, USA

Description

Panels afford the opportunity to present topics and ideas that are ground-breaking and perhaps controversial to the IS community. The panel must engage the audience and the included experts in a discussion that will stimulate interaction and enhance the learning experience with a goal of moving the topic forward to greater understanding and application. Panel topics are varied, but generally pertain to controversial research questions, new research challenges, or changes to the status quo of the discipline. Panels related to the conference theme are especially welcome. We encourage proposals that challenge the traditional panel format and include innovative and inspirational elements to stimulate interaction and enhance the learning experience.  Details on the structure of panel proposals and review criteria are available on the ICIS submissions page.

Required Elements of Panel Proposals

A panel proposal should include the following seven sections:

1. Introduction: General description of the panel or issues to be discussed or debated stating the reason for the panel.
2. Issues: Issues or dilemma that will be discussed.
3. Panelists: Names and positions of those who will take varied viewpoints. For debates, identification of proponents and opponents.
4. Panel Structure: Description of timing of the session and the format of interaction among participants and with the audience.
5. Participation Statement: A statement that all participants have made a commitment to attend the conference and serve on the panel if the panel is accepted.
6. Biographies: A brief description of each participant’s background, including expertise related to the topic and views of the issues.
7. References: as appropriate.

Review Criteria

• Panel Topic: Topic is novel, leading edge and invites debate and discussion.
• Panel Format: Panel focuses on discussion and not the presentation of research results; format is innovative and involves the audience.
• Panelists: Panelists are leaders and/or well-published in the panel topic area and represent a diversity of opinions, backgrounds and geographic regions.
• Implications: The outcome of the panel has likely implications for practice or conduct of research in information systems.
• Panel Interest: The panel seems likely to draw a wide audience.

Panel Proposal Page Limit Requirements

The panel proposal must not exceed five (5) single-spaced pages and must conform to the ICIS 2016 submission template. The 5 page count must include all text, figures, tables, and appendices. Abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page count. Proposers may attach a video clip or similar to their submission to illustrate the intended format.

Associate Editors

• Michel Avital, Copenhagen Business School
• Andrew Burton-Jones, U. of Queensland
• Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Matthew Jones, Cambridge U.
• Bill Kettinger, U. of Memphis
• Jae Nam Lee, Korea U.
• Claudia Loebbecke, U. of Cologne
• Suzanne Rivard, HEC Montréal
• James Thong, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology

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Nik Hassan

University of Minnesota, USA

John Mingers

University of Kent
UK

Mary Tate

Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

Description

This track invites submissions that make a contribution to the underpinning pillars of IS research – its philosophical foundations and its research methods. We would welcome contributions to either of these areas and especially those that address their inter-relationship.

In terms of research methods, we define the domain widely to include research design, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, critical research, literature review methods, and mixed research methods. We would particularly like to expand the repertoire of approaches that are used in IS, potentially reflecting a wider range of philosophical positions or drawing on approaches from other disciplines such as information science, sociology, psychology, cultural studies or technology studies. Careful not to be overly driven by methodological considerations at the expense of creativity, imagination and insight, we are interested in papers that bring new insights to current methods perhaps by applying them in new areas, combining them with other methods, or constructively critiquing them.

In terms of philosophy, there are many deep questions that are highly relevant to information systems and technology, and the effects that it is having on the world today. They may concern metaphysical questions such as the philosophy of technology or of information, or realism and anti-realism. Or they may be related to epistemological questions such as the nature or relevance of research paradigms, different conceptions of causality and truth, or the nature of theory. Equally, ethical or moral questions concerning the impacts of information and technology on peoples’ lives, whether information or technologies themselves can be ethical subjects, or aesthetic questions about design, form and function, or emotionality, all fall within the philosophical concerns of the IS field.

In both domains, we would be particularly interested in papers that contextualise their arguments around current developments such as open innovation, big data and analytics, social media and online communities, and neuroIS, to name but a few.

Topics of Interests

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• What are the methodological and ethical considerations for big data and the creation, sharing and reuse of large datasets from data available in the public domain?
• Are there effective ways of using multiple methods to coordinate research streams?
• Can topics and problems that have historically been addressed through particular approaches such as experiments or surveys be re-envisioned using other techniques?
• What sorts of questions are left unanswered by our research methods? How does our concentration on the production and codification of research methods deflect our attention from the desired ends for IS research? How can we better build theory from data?
• What innovative research methods are needed to investigate novel uses of ICTs?
• How can IS research benefit from alternative approaches such as practice theory, power, the sociology of science and knowledge, or ethical theories?
• How can we approach multi-level research? What are the methodological implications of several levels of analysis in a study, from either a quantitative or qualitative perspective?
• What options are available to help researchers escape from the methodological straitjacket that prevents innovation in our research?
• What is the nature of theory within IS and how does it relate to philosophical questions such as truth and causality?
• Are the current epistemological categories of positivism, interpretivism and critical research constraining IS research and if so how can this be overcome?
• Can there be a philosophy or ethics of information and what implications would this have for the practice of IS design or research?

Associate Editors

• Laurence Brooks, Brunel U. London, UK
• Chiasson, Mike, U. of British Columbia, USA
• Panos Constantinides, Warick Business School, UK
• Robert M Davison, City University, Hong Kong
• Amany Elbanna, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK
• Göran Goldkuhl, University of Linköping, Sweden
• Mark Johnson,Leeds U., UK
• Karlheinz Kautz, U. of Wollongong, Australia
• Allen S Lee, Virginia Commonwealth U., USA
• Julien Malaurent, ESSEC Business School, France
• Benjamin Müller, U. of Groningen, Netherlands
• Guy Pare, HEC Montreal, Canada
• Craig Standing, Edith Cowan U., Australia
• Clay Williams, Southern Illinois U. Edwardsville, USA

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Blaize Reich

Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

Chris Sauer

Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
UK

Walter Fernandez

University of New South Wales
Australia

Description

Enabled by IS development (ISD), information systems projects and programs (ISP) are fuelling the transformation of organisations. From small-business initiatives to corporate, from the way governments deliver services to the way entire industries operate, ISP and ISD are critical to the continuous process of social and technical transformation. As the pace of change accelerates, and organisations are forced to move from being process-based to embrace projectization, we are witnessing the emergence of new processes, practices, and methods that promise improvements of effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of ISD and ISP with consequential organizational and societal benefits. However, these promises are not always fulfilled and new approaches often present new challenges hence the need for new research.

Therefore, this track is concerned with a broad spectrum of methods and practices that have emerged to assist individuals, teams, and organizations to understand these challenges and to improve performance. These include, but are not limited to, agile and lean approaches, the role of IS projects and programs in the transformation of organisations and the evolution of industries and countries.

Topics of Interests

We welcome papers in the Managing IS Projects and IS Development track that improve our understanding of the diverse and complex nature of IS projects and programs, particularly with respect to IS development. Submissions could include, but are not limited to the following topics:

• Managing issues in IS projects including estimation, risk, quality assurance, governance, and knowledge.
• IS project management capabilities, competence and maturity.
• Managing IS-enabled programs of organizational transformation, governance, coordination, politics, and complexities.
• People-related issues in IS projects, including diversity, leadership and power
• Managing distributed and virtual IS projects.
• Sourcing of IS projects, including offshoring, outsourcing, nearshoring, crowdsourcing, inner sourcing or multi-sourcing.
• Value enhancement of IS project management and benefit realization in IS programs and projects.
• IS design and development in practice, including methods and tools such as agile and lean development, component-based processes, service-orientation, and open source.
• Managing IS development and systems integration.
• Managing large scale IS projects such as the deployment and implementation of enterprise systems and other packaged software applications, in a wide range of settings.
• Issues in managing mobile apps development.
• Socio-technical issues, including managing and developing in the cloud, complexity as a risk (positive and negative), impact of size, dealing with failure, effective governance, and ambidexterity, to name a few.

Associate Editors

• David Arnott, Monash U.
• Dirk Basten, U. in Cologne
• Lan Cao, Old Dominion U.
• Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson U.
• Sharon Coyle, U. of Sydney
• Michael Cuellar, Georgia Southern U.
• Antonio Diaz Andrade, Auckland U. of Technology
• Owen Eriksson, Uppsala U.
• Andrew Gemino, Simon Fraser U.
• Robert Gregory, IESE Business School, U. of Navarra
• Riitta Hekkala, Aalto U.
• Rashina Hoda, The U. of Auckland
• Helena Holmström Olsson, Malmö U.
• Lesley Land, U. of New South Wales
• Lorraine Lee, U. of North Carolina at Wilmington
• Alanah Mitchell, Drake U.
• Maria Paasivaara, Aalto U.
• Samuli Pekkola, Tampere U. of Technology
• Sumantra Sarkar, Binghamton U.
• John Trip, Baylor U.
• John Tripp, Baylor U.
• Richard Vidgen, U. of Hull
• Radu Vlas, U. of Houston–Clear Lake
• Xiaofeng Wang, Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano
• Barbara Weber, U. of Innsbruck
• Manuel Wiesche, Technische Universität München
• Xiao Xiao, Copenhagen Business School

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Andreas Eckhardt

German Graduate School of Management and Law, Germany

Carol Hsu

National Taiwan University
Taiwan

Heshan Sun

Clemson University, Southern California
USA

Description

Information Technology (IT) implementation, adoption and use is an important research stream in the field of information systems. The rapid IT development and innovation call for research attention to the opportunities and challenges of implementation, adoption, and use of IT by individuals, organizations and societies. Given the changing nature of the IT artifact, the task to understand various behavioral, organizational, and institutional factors affecting the IT adoption and/or usage decision as well as the implementation process remains crucially valuable for insightful theoretical and practical implications.

This track seeks research that inspires theoretical, methodological, and practical insights in implementation, adoption and use of information technologies at individual, organizational, industry, societal, and global levels. The track welcomes papers grounded in a broad range of theories, perspectives, and methodologies. We particularly encourage papers that employ multiple levels of analysis and use multiple methodologies including qualitative and quantitative methodologies in field and lab environments as well as simulation and modeling.

Topics of Interests

Topics of interest include (but certainly are not limited to) the following:

• Individual, group, or organizational IT adoption decisions
• New theories, concepts, and methodologies of IT adoption and diffusion
• Usage and post-adoption behaviors, such as infusion, exploitation, and exploration
• Adoption and diffusion issues of new technologies (e.g., cloud and analytical computing, social networking technologies, and smart devices)
• Adoption or diffusion of IT supporting organizational and inter-organizational initiatives
• Adoption of IT in non-organizational contexts (e.g., residential/ household context)
• Feature-level IT adoption and use
• Global or cross-cultural studies of IT implementation, adoption, and post-adoption
• Adoption or diffusion of IT in specific industrial sectors (such as e-commerce and e-government)
• Communication types and channels on the diffusion of IT
• The impact of IT use on the daily/social/professional life of user/consumers/citizens
• The unexpected consequences and/or dark side of adoption of diffusion of IT.
• Strategies to promote IT adoption and diffusion
• The impact of consumers’ home use of IT on business models in various industries

Associate Editors

• Annette Mills, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Sven Laumer, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Tim Weitzel, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China
• Anand Jeyaraj, Wright State University, USA
• Huigang Liang, East Carolina University, USA
• Sameh Al Natour, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK
• Ryad Titah, HEC Montréal, Canada
• Ofir Turel, California State University, Fullerton, USA
• Xiaojun Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Ramakrishna Ayyagari, University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA
• Andrew Schwarz, Louisiana State University, USA
• Ning Nan, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Hillol Bala, Indiana University, USA
• Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana, HEC Montréal, Canada
• Christian Maier University of Bamberg, Germany
• Yulin Fang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Weiling Ke, Clarkson University, USA
• Tracy Ann Sykes, University of Arkansas, USA
• Weiquan Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Deborah Compeau, Washington State University, USA
• Geneviève Bassellier, McGill University, Canada
• Elizabeth White Baker, University of North Carolina Wilmington
• Jason Thatcher, Clemson University, USA
• Phil Zhou, Tongji University, China
• Quang ‘Neo’ Bui, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• XiXi Li, Tsing Hua University, China
• Hartmut Hoehle, University of Arkansas, USA
• Michelle Carter, University of Washington, USA
• Christina Serrano, University of Arkansas, USA
• Rob Fichman, Boston College, USA
• James Burleson, California Polytechnic State University, USA

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Rajiv
Kohli

Raymond A. Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary

Monideepa Tarafdar

Management School
Lancaster University
UK

Benoit
Aubert

Victoria University Wellington
New Zealand

Description

IT and IT-enabled organizational innovations continue across all industry sectors. Recent innovations around mobile, social, and cloud computing are a few examples. In the quest to create wealth for their shareholders, organizations adopt and fuse emerging information technologies into the fabric of their products, services, business processes, and relationships with customers, employees, business partners, and other stakeholders. Similarly, public sector organizations are undergoing transformation to face unprecedented challenges created by increasingly turbulent environments. This has a number of important implications.

First, business and IS strategies are converging, with implications for the organizational role of the IT unit. Second, organizations seek to source resources and capabilities, coordinate operations and buy/sell their products and services globally. Third, in doing so, they become dynamically shifting nexus of global contracts, resources, processes and transactions that all need to be coordinated and governed by IT. It creates remarkable opportunities related to the digital transformation of business and operational models, along with associated organizational change. However, as organizations rely more on IT, they also become more vulnerable to significant IT-related risks such as data security and privacy risks, technical risks, operational risks, regulatory compliance risks, and financial risks. Governments are also introducing regulations for implementing IT governance, control, and risk management practices, challenging organizations’ established routines.  Globally distributed organizations are often subject to a variety of IT-related regulations that span multiple country boundaries.

What are the challenges that this new, globally extended competitive and regulatory landscape presents to Information Systems (IS) researchers and practitioners who seek to understand the strategic implications of ever changing and ubiquitous IT, the impact of IT on global sourcing and challenges in IT governance? The IS Strategy, Governance and Sourcing Track aims to generate new knowledge and foster scholarly conversations around these questions.

Topics of Interests

We seek papers that develop new theory and theoretical approaches to understand these phenomenon as well as those that apply conceptual frameworks to primary or secondary data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The transformed role of the CIOs, IT/business executive relationships, and executive and board involvement in business strategy and innovation, IT governance, and response to regulations.
• Achieving and navigating digital transformation: understanding associated organizational change and capability management
• IT-related regulatory compliance requirements and IT governance, control, and risk management approaches to meet regulatory compliance needs of organizations.
• IT Governance: structures and processes of IT governance, accountability and responsibility for IT, including responses to hyper-competitive settings and their effects on performance.
• Strategic Alignment between IT and business, co-evolution of business and IT strategy, IT-enabled capabilities and business models to cope with competition
• Strategic Planning Methods for developing information systems strategies and IT enabled product and process innovations.
• IT and Organizational Design: Creating effective enterprise architectures, structures, processes, technologies within, between, and among organizations.
• Management of IT Business Value: Designing appropriate structures, processes and capabilities for managing the value of IT investments, within and cross organizational boundaries.
• Sourcing Decisions: Strategic decisions and outcomes of sourcing models. These include outsourcing, insourcing, sourcing in the cloud, offshoring, nearshoring, and shared services as well as a combination of these.
• Sourcing Practices: Contractual governance, relational governance, client capabilities, provider capabilities, innovation through outsourcing.
• IS strategy, sourcing or governance issues in specific sectors such as healthcare, retail, public sector organizations, etc. that break new ground in theory development.
• Novel research approaches: New theoretical perspectives and research approaches that broaden or challenge our understanding of IT strategy, sourcing and governance, in particular research approaches that can address the dynamic nature of IT.

Associate Editors

• Forough Karimi-Alaghehband, Lancaster U., UK
• Rajiv Kishore, SUNY Buffalo, USA
• Julia Kotlarsky, Aston Business School, UK
• Ilan Oshri, Loughborough U., UK
• Barbara Marcolin, U. of British Columbia, Canada
• Martin Wiener, Bentley U., USA
• Ning Su, Ivey Business School, Canada
• Jens Dibbern, U. of Bern, Switzerland
• Narayan Ramasubbu, U. of Pittsburgh, USA
• Daniel Chen, Texas Christian, USA
• Ali Tafti, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Ravi Shankar Loughborough U., UK
• Juliana Sutanto Lancaster U., UK
• Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK
• C Ranganathan, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Patrick Stacey, Lancaster U., UK
• Ronald Ramirez, U Colorado at Denver, USA
• Paul Tallon, Loyola U. USA
• Paul Drnevich, U. Alabama, USA
• Stephan Kudyba, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• Torsten-Oliver Salge, RWTH Aachen, Germany

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Tamara
Dinev

Florida Atlantic University, USA

Shih-Chieh “Jack” Hsu

National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Robert
Willison

Newcastle University,
UK

Description

In today’s era of globally connected organizations, economies, and societies, the ubiquitous growth of the Internet and significant advances in communications, networking and data gathering and storage technologies have exacerbated the vulnerability of information systems. The extent, frequency, seriousness, and diversity of external attacks to computer systems are unprecedented. Meanwhile, internal attacks and abuse of proprietary information assets account for at least half of the serious security and privacy incidents worldwide. Additionally, the personal data gathered and stored by companies is ever more frequently used for profiling and analysis, often without the knowledge or consent of the individuals or groups concerned. Mobile computing with location-aware capabilities has further exacerbated these concerns. It is, thus, imperative to better understand the laws, policies, strategies, technologies, and actions by societies, organizations, groups, and individuals that address security and privacy issues.

Accordingly, this track provides a forum for focused discussion and exchange on information security and privacy research. We seek to address important questions arising from the issues mentioned above, such as: How do online social networks or virtual worlds threaten the security and privacy of the individual participants? What are the underlying economics or societal implications of new security technologies? What are the social and ethical implications related to the uses of new security and privacy practices? How should governments get involved in the process of creating a more secure environment and in safeguarding information privacy? What are the benefits, costs, and implications of the latest security and privacy enhancing technologies? How should firms manage their businesses in view of possible security and privacy breaches? How should firms design and implement “best” security and privacy practices in their IT systems?

The track welcomes design science, empirical, economic, managerial, behavioral, and theoretical submissions across a diverse range of topics—from technical aspects to broader social and managerial issues at the individual, organizational, or societal levels. We invite theoretical perspectives from behavioral, organizational, cognitive, cultural, socio-technical, or other lenses for analysis of these issues.

Topics of Interests

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of IS security and privacy:

• Adoption, use, and continuance of information security technologies and policies
• Computer abuse and employee deviant behaviors
• Corporate governance and compliance of security and privacy
• Costs and benefits of information security and privacy
• Cross-cultural issues in IS security and privacy
• Cyberwarfare and cybersecurity
• Deception and deception intention in the context of online trust and security
• Design and development of information security and privacy enhancing technologies
• Deterrence of security policy violations
• Digital forensics
• Electronic commerce security and privacy
• Employee accountability
• Employee security policy compliance and noncompliance
• Forensic analysis of security breaches and computer crimes
• Hacking and cracking, white hat and black hat research issues
• Investigations of computer crime and security violations
• IT audit and controls
• Identity theft and risk assessment
• Individual motivators and inhibitors of employee computer crime
• Information breach management
• Insider threat behaviors and antecedents
• Intrusion detection/prevention
• Legal, societal, and ethical issues in IS security and privacy
• Mental welfare (e.g., stress) and mental capacities (e.g., remembering) with respect of security and privacy issues
• Risk analysis and management, risk and fraud assessment
• Security and privacy concerning social media and social networking
• Security and privacy metrics
• Security and privacy of mobile devices
• Security and privacy issues related to big data
• Security and privacy issues related to the Internet of things
• Security and privacy strategies
• Security, Education, Training, and Awareness (SETA) programs and campaigns
• Social and business security and privacy policies
• Socio-technical mechanisms for countering cyber threats
• Spyware / malware
• Theoretical and empirical analyses of information security behaviors
• Trust in security and privacy enhancing systems

Associate Editors

• Manish Agrawal, University of South Florida
• Jeff Babb, West Texas A&M Western University
• Burcu Bulgurcu, Boston College
• Peter Buxmann, Professor of IS, Germany
• Hasan Cavusoglu, University of British Columbia
• Rob Crossler, Mississippi State University
• John D’Arcy, University of Delaware
• Marc J. Dupuis, University of Washington Tacoma
• Alex Durcikova, University of Oklahoma
• Sigi Goode, Australian National University
• Tejaswini “Teju” Herath, Brock University
• Shuyuan “Mary” Ho, Florida State University
• Tabitha James, Virginia Tech
• Allen Johnston, University of Alabama – Birmingham
• Mark Keith, Brigham Young University
• Jongwoo “Jonathan” Kim, UMass Boston
• Hanna Krasnova, Universität Bern
• Juhee Kwon, City University of Hong Kong
• Yuzhu “Julia” Li, UMass Dartmouth
• Xin “Robert” Luo, University of New Mexico
• Seppo Pahnila, University of Oulu
• Rachida Parks, University of Arkansas – Little Rock
• Clay Posey, University of Alabama
• Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
• Tom Roberts, University of Texas at Tyler
• Benjamin Shao, Arizona State University
• Sheng-Pao Shih, Tamkang University
• Anthony Vance, Brigham Young University
• Mark Weiser, Oklahoma State University
• Yu “Andy” Wu, University of North Texas
• Wei Thoo Yue, City University of Hong Kong
• Nan Zhang, University of Jyväskylä

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Andrea Carrugati

Aarhus University, Denmark

Dirk Hovorka

University of Sydney, Australia

Erica Wagner

Portland State University, USA

Description

Information systems have become ubiquitous and intertwined in most organizational contexts, from small businesses to governments, and in most social contexts from ephemeral groups to societies at large. As such research that investigates relationships between information technologies, systems, and social organization is imperative.  This track seeks to publish a set of papers that provides a scholarly understanding of the relationship between information technologies, systems and social organization of all forms including how organizational structures, processes, and people are impacted as well as how these organizational forms influence technology design, functionality and management.  We welcome submissions that that show, either empirically, theoretically or both, how organizational processes and structures; individual and group actions and behaviors; and technology features interact to affect the creation, use, and consequences of information systems.   The IS in Organization and Society track also welcomes papers that offer critical accounts of the techo-organizational phenomenon from alternative theoretical perspective represented within the IS community.  The Track Chairs will nominate suitable papers for an expedited review process at Information and Organization, in which the journal’s editorial board will work with authors to develop the manuscript for possible publication.  Authors may expect an expedited timeline for editorial decisions.

Topics of Interests but not limited to

• Emerging technologies and their social and organizational consequences
• Implications of information technologies for organizational change
• Implications of information technologies for societal change
• Alternative organizational configuration such as virtual and networked organizations
• Practice orientations to theorizing
• Ecological approaches to theorizing
• Materiality and performativity in Information system design
• Organizational learning
• Implications of “Big Data’ for the Ethics of Information
• Organizational communication and organizational culture
• Systems Theory of Information and organizations

Associate Editors

• Shamel Addass, IESEG School of Management
• JP Allen, U. of San Francisco
• Alvaro Arenas, IE Business School
• Franca Cantoni, Catholic U. of Piacenza
• Elizabeth Davidson, U. of Hawaii
• Bob Galliers, Bentley U.
• Matt Germonprez, U. Nebraska Omaha
• Frank Goethals, IESEG School of Management
• Ella Hafermalz, U. of Sydney
• Aurelie LeClercq, IESEG School of Management
• Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth U.
• Matt Levy, U. of San Francisco
• Lucia Marchegiani, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
• Kathy McGrath, Brunel U. London
• Lapo Mola, Skema Business School
• Ramiro Montealegre, U. of Colorado Boulder
• Sune Dueholm Müller, Aarhus Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University
• Stella Pachidi, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics & Business
• Aurelio Ravarini, U. Carlo Cattane
• Jeremy Rose, University of Skövde
• Ada Scupola, Roskilde U.
• Maddalena Sorrentino, U. of Milano
• Francesco Virili, U. of Massari
• Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics

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