Nelson Granados, Pepperdine University, [email protected]
Dongwon Lee, Korea University, [email protected]
We invite submissions of high quality papers broadly related to the economics of information systems. We welcome papers that address research issues and concepts based on economic principles, incentives, choices and outcomes of economic agents in an information systems setting. Paper submissions to this track are encouraged to use a wide range of methodological perspectives, including analytical models, reduced-form models, structural models, agent-based simulation models, network analysis, time-series and spatial econometric models, event history analysis, experimental economics, and so on. Topics of interest include (but are by no means limited to):
Calvin Xu, Fudan University, [email protected]
Byounggu Choi, Kookmin University, [email protected]
Kailiang Wang, Renmin University, [email protected]
With the rapid advances in ICT, knowledge management (KM) has attracted continuous attention from both academia and industry. While KM is concerned with the whole spectrum of strategic planning, organizational practice, and individual behavior related to the discovery, storage, management and dissemination of knowledge, business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) are more focused on the analysis of data for operational and competitive advantage. In recent years, the new advances in social media, large database, and increasingly virtualized organization have prompted for new developments in knowledge management.
This track seeks to explore the strategic, social-behavioral, and technical issues related to KM and BI. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers that employ diverse methodologies and philosophical perspectives to significantly advance our knowledge in these areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Shirish C. Srivastava, HEC Paris, [email protected]
Chee Wei Phang, Fudan University, [email protected]
The issue of culture has become increasingly pertinent due to the needs for global market expansion and tapping into global talent pool in response to the dynamic opportunities as well as uncertainties today. Even large organizations such as McDonald��s, Disney, and Starbucks etc. had to grapple with multifarious 'cultural bottlenecks' before expanding their operations in international markets. IT/IS, as indispensable leverages for such endeavors, need to be planned, implemented, exploited, and managed with sensitivity to cultural elements entailing the values, beliefs, norms and world-views held by employees, customers and other stakeholders. While important advances have been made in research on culture within the IS community, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of the nature, precursors, and consequences of the relationship between culture and IT/IS management.
We invite research articles that provide insights into all aspects of global IT/IS management with attention paid to the issue of culture at different levels (e.g., national, organizational, sub-organizational, occupational, consumer group). Articles of conceptual, analytical, or empirical nature, which develop or extend theory and practice, are welcome. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
Gwanhoo Lee ([email protected]), American University
Dong-Gil Ko ([email protected]), University of Cincinnati
James Jiang ([email protected]), Australian National University
IT projects are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, outsourced, and geographically distributed. Emerging technologies such as social media and cloud computing affect both the deliverables and the management process of IT projects. Projects are required to be adaptive and agile while maintaining quality and control. IT project management approaches need to address these challenges in managing people, process, and technology. Current project management theories need to be extended to help practitioners cope with the emerging challenges. The goal of this track is to provide an engaging forum to present and discuss current research in IT project management, particularly as reflected in different cultural contexts.
Relevant topics for this track include, but are not limited to:
Jahyun Goo, Florida Atlantic University, [email protected]
Rajiv Kishore, The State University of New York at Buffalo, [email protected]
IT outsourcing and its variants including cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) have become widely accepted business practices to manage and operate a variety of IT infrastructures, gain access to latest technologies as needed, and bring about radical changes in how organizations leverage IT for delivering concrete business value. With the trends of globalization and IT as a utility available over the Internet continuing to grow unabated, various types of sourcing models have begun to emerge. As a prominent example, cloud computing and SaaS offer various sourcing arrangements through the Internet delivery of IT products and services, providing firms an opportunity to gain access to and deliver applications, infrastructures, and platforms over public or private networks. Specifically, to tap innovation and growth opportunities, firms are transitioning to an on-demand model of IT sourcing enabled by cloud computing and SaaS to create increased flexibility and enhance their ability to scale. These emerging alternatives create challenges for both service provider and recipient organizations as they have to take into account a number of new additional considerations, such as variable hardware capacity needs and multiple and varying user application preferences, to be able to successfully leverage these new sourcing alternatives and manage their new sourcing relationships with their partners. While the development of IT outsourcing, cloud computing, and SaaS happened independently, they have become intricately intertwined and should be considered as a set of viable sourcing options while formulating and executing IT sourcing strategy.
We invite papers that provide insights into all aspects of IT sourcing, cloud computing, and SaaS. In particular, we are also interested in papers that tie the developments of these sourcing models to broader IT strategy issues in firms. Papers that include empirical, analytical, and conceptual approaches that develop or extend theory are welcome. Co-authored papers with practitioners are particularly encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
IT Sourcing (including outsourcing and offshoring)
Habin Lee, Brunel University, [email protected]
Hong Joo Lee, Catholic University of Korea, [email protected]
Sean Xin Xu, Tsinghua University, [email protected]
The Internet greatly facilitates the creation and exchange of user-generated contents within and across web sites, hence making such related sites and media increasingly "social." (The phenomenon is also termed as Web 2.0.) Indeed, social media can turn traditionally fragmented user-inputs into all kinds of value co-creation. People share knowledge, interests, bookmarks, product consumption experiences, etc. on various platforms including blogs, social networking sites, virtual social worlds, collaborative projects, content communities, and virtual game worlds. By facilitating access to user-generated contents, social media have become a democratic, personalized, and do-it-yourself platform of communications as well as practical tools to extract collective intelligence. Companies can sense crowd opinion on products on social media and are devising innovative methods to attain insights from user-generated contents for developing their competitive strategy.
The fundamental objective of this track is to assimilate the best practices and insights from academic and industry research to support social media and to understand how online social media impact individual behavior and organizational performance. We expect to identify the key design features of social media, unveil psychological and behavioral factors underlying the diffusion and growth of social media, address economic and organizational impacts of social media, and explore different ways to manage fragmented user-generated knowledge for effective business analyses. Also, the track is expected to demonstrate innovative methods of handling data from social media to analyze business implications of the "wisdom of crowds." Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Thompson Teo, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Adela Chen, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected]
Chulmo Koo, Kyung Hee University, [email protected]
Green IT/IS and sustainability have increasingly become important issues for business in this era of climate change and scarce resources. Green IT can be defined as computing technologies that are energy-efficient and have minimal adverse impact on the environment. The salience of technology and systems in shaping organizations and society suggests that green IT/IS is a key component of an organization��s environmental initiatives. Furthermore, sustainability is a more important term that encompasses environmental concerns including people, processes, technology, and systems to support individual, organizational, and societal objectives. Beyond the role of reducing the environmental footprint of technologies, green information systems can be initiated, adapted, and implemented to play a key role in supporting sustainable business practices, e.g., in reducing consumption and facilitating reuse and recycle. This track focuses on the role of IT/IS in supporting sustainability initiatives and in balancing the need for profitability versus the need to address environmental concerns.
We invite contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines that have interest in green IT/IS and sustainability. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Seung-Hyun Kim, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Wei Thoo YUE, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]
In an increasingly collaborative and networked business environment, the need to address information security and privacy issues is becoming more prominent. These issues, ranging from sound practice of IT security risk management to robust implementation of technical controls, are wide-ranging yet critical to ensure secure usage of information systems. There is also a growing gap between IT objectives and IT security objectives when business decisions are made. For example, the ability to implement sound IT security weighs heavily on the success of IT outsourcing but such issues have often been overlooked. The IS Security and Privacy track provides a forum for scholars to engage in valuable discussions that will help us to address these outstanding problems. We welcome high quality studies that will expand our body of knowledge in this area.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Jae Yun Moon, Korea University, [email protected]
Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected]
George Kuk, Nottingham University, [email protected]
The goal of the IT/IS Strategy, Leadership and Governance track is to advance our knowledge of effective strategies for managing a firm��s IT resources to maximize business sustainability and performance. Recent advances in mobile ubiquitous computing, cloud services and social media (Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0) are enabling new forms of collaborative organization for value co-creation, precipitating an explosion of data along the value chain, and thus creating new challenges for IT/IS leadership and governance. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers drawing on diverse strategic, organizational and leadership theories to examine the phenomena at all levels of analysis. The track is open to papers employing a wide range of empirical methods. We particularly welcome papers that generate new insights into IT/IS strategy, leadership and governance in the era of big data and open collaboration and set an agenda for future research. Potential topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Dan J. Kim, University of North Texas, [email protected]
John Windsor, University of North Texas, [email protected]
Aaron M. French, Kyungpook National University, [email protected]
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have changed modern businesses; the changes are not only the ways of doing a business but also the manners of searching, connecting, and interacting with business partners. Especially, the usage of mobile technologies in business has been increased considerably in the past several years. As a result, mobile technologies are fast becoming de rigueur in the modern businesses.
The track is interested in original research papers on a broad range of topics related to electronic and mobile businesses. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Atreyi KANKANHALLI, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
HENG Cheng Suang, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Services have emerged as an important constituent of the global economy with an increasing percentage of the GDP in most countries. The shift of focus to services has recognized that IT not only lowers the cost of service but creates avenues to enhance revenue through services. E-services have several desirable features such as being mobile, flexible, interactive, and interchangeable. Also, e-services have much to offer in overcoming the obstacles faced by traditional service industries. Additionally IT is playing a greater role in the innovation, adoption, and maintenance of services and service systems. With this trend, understanding the economic, managerial, policy-related, and technical factors that influence IT use in services is critical for their success. IS research can contribute in this area by providing the relevant theoretical perspectives and developing techniques for the creation, adoption, and evaluation of IT-enabled services.
The topics of interest in this track include but are not limited to:
David Sundaram, University of Auckland, [email protected]
Chih-Ping Wei, National Taiwan University, [email protected]
This track invites research that utilizes and explicates the design science paradigm in IS research. We invite submissions reporting high-quality research that creates and evaluates innovative IT artifacts (constructs, models, methods, frameworks, architectures and/or instantiations) and furthers knowledge applicable to the productive application of IT for business as well as other domains. Presentation must be appropriate for the information systems (IS) audience.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Heng Xu, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected]
Xin (Robert) LUO, University of New Mexico, [email protected]
Cheng ZHANG, Fudan University, [email protected]
The interaction between the human (or groups of humans) and Information Systems (IS) is a popular and exciting area that attracts scholarly attention. This track invites submissions that challenge, extend, or refine extant literature and/or develop and test theoretical frameworks that are used to enable better understanding of this interaction between human behavior and IS. We particularly encourage authors to submit provocative pieces that challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and present counterintuitive propositions and/or findings. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative papers that apply traditional and novel methodologies. We place no restriction on the level of analysis (e.g., individual, group, organizational, or societal) and research perspective (e.g., managerial, psychological, social, or cultural).
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Susanna Ho (Shuk Ying Ho), The Australian National University, [email protected]
Frank Chan, Curtin University, [email protected]
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has advanced at a fast pace and is one of the key research areas in information systems. The HCI track focuses on issues related to the manner in which humans interact with technologies, information and tasks in organizational, managerial, cultural, and social contexts. HCI research has a common focus on improving user performance and experience. The HCI track aims at providing an open and constructive discussion forum for the latest ideas and findings in HCI research. This track welcomes both conceptual and empirical research papers that advance our understanding of HCI at the individual, work group, organization, and society levels. Papers using other approaches or methods to improve or transform HCI research and practice, including design, analysis, and evaluation are also welcome.
Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
JJ Hsieh, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, [email protected]
Cecil Chua, University of Auckland, [email protected]
The research community of Information Systems has been active in developing theories and research methodology. A mature discipline not only utilizes established research methods, but also enriches them and proposes new ones. The advancement in both theories and research methodology helps to establish new research paradigms on which a unique disciplinary identity is built.
In this track, we invite submissions that try to establish new theories or refine existing theories in IS/IT, and extensions of theories from reference disciplines that would better illuminate IS phenomena. We also invite papers that improve existing research methods and propose new ones. Possible papers include (but are not limited to) those in the following areas:
Christina Serrano, University of Arkansas, [email protected]
Tracy Ann Sykes, University of Arkansas, [email protected]
Adrian Yeow, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected]
The healthcare industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries worldwide, with growth projected to increase through 2050. Further, the healthcare industry currently faces many challenges in terms of changing institutional and regulatory pressures and expectations. Information systems (IS) and technology (IT) have been touted to be vehicles for more efficient, less costly and more effective healthcare. However, the diffusion of IS/IT in healthcare is generally low in the Asia Pacific region. Given IS/IT potential for benefit in the healthcare context, both private and public sectors have engaged in numerous efforts to promote the use of them within and across healthcare settings. Therefore, it is imperative that we gain a better understanding of the role of IS/IT in the behavioural, economic, organizational, strategic and technical issues facing the healthcare industry. This research track focuses on such issues. We invite quality submissions of manuscripts that seek to address the various aspects of IS/IT in healthcare.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Honglei Li, University of Northumbria, [email protected]
Don Sheridan, University of Auckland Business School, [email protected]
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey
IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field. As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region. These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.
The track in IS education and learning will discuss and explore various IS education and learning methods to enhance students' learning experience. The focus of this track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy, practice, and student learning experiences. We welcome high quality papers on the topics of, but not limited to, the following areas:
Xu Xin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, [email protected]
Hillol Bala, Indiana University, [email protected]
Xiaojun Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, [email protected]
Information systems (IS) implementation is a core research stream in the IS discipline. Successful implementation of IS is critical for individual, business process, and organizational performance. The IS Implementation, Adoption, and Diffusion track invites high quality theoretical and empirical papers advancing our understanding of phenomena related to various aspects of IS implementations in organizations and society. IS implementation is typically considered one of the most mature streams of research in the IS discipline because of significant theoretical and empirical advancements in recent years. Yet, there are opportunities to further advance this stream by conducting research that cuts across different levels such as individuals, groups, business units, business processes, organizations, communities, societies and countries.
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. In keeping with, we welcome theoretical papers, empirical papers (both qualitative and quantitative) as well as papers based on other methods such as simulation, agent-based modeling and other types of modeling (e.g., game theoretic modeling). We encourage paradigm-shifting, innovative research conducted in socially, culturally, and economically diverse settings, regions and across geographic and national boundaries. Topics may include (but are not limited) to the following:
Yongsuk KIM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, [email protected]
Yulin FANG, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]
Jungpil HAHN, National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Social and organizational contexts matter for the development, adoption and use of various forms of information systems (IS), yet our understanding of the dynamic and complex interplay between IS and the social and organizational contexts in which IS are embedded is far from complete. This track invites conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers that focus on the contemporary social and organizational impacts and issues of IS. We particularly welcome submissions that challenge our conventional thinking and belief and that can set the agenda for future directions in this area. In addition, research findings drawing on regional, national and international perspectives are highly welcome.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Angela Liew, University of Auckland, [email protected]
Carla Wilkin, Monash University, [email protected]
The purpose of the track is to solicit and disseminate thoughtful and good quality articles that examine the rapidly evolving relationship between accounting and information technology, and are interested in conceptual and empirical papers that draw upon theories and/or methodologies from Accounting, IS and other disciplines to intensify and extend research perspectives.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Chuan Hoo Tan, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]
Weiling Ke, Clarkson University, [email protected]
Heshan Sun, The University of Arizona, [email protected]
Operating in a highly volatile global economic situation, today's organizations have to be more innovative in managing their enterprise systems and be more cautious in streamline their business processes. Today's Enterprise Systems have grown to support a large variety of front office and inter-organizational activities such as customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). The enduring efforts devoted to design, implementation and maintenance of these large systems represent major technical and organizational challenges, requiring new ways of thinking about business processes, system development, and enterprise architecture. Have these systems grown to be "too large to manage and fail"? While a large body of knowledge related to modeling, designing, and executing business processes exists, enterprise systems and their management of business processes need to deviate from the 'classical' information systems research approach. The proposed enterprise systems and business process management track encourage the wider adoption of Information Systems research in this enduring important domain.
We welcome papers that adopt conceptual and empirical researches. Our intention is to provide a forum for bringing together researchers and educators with similar interests both to share their current work and to plan future directions for the domain. We also hope to inspire future collaboration in both research and curriculum development. Some of possible topics (but not limited to) are:
Furen Lin, National Tsing-hua University, [email protected]
Jifeng Luo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, [email protected]
Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn, AUT University, [email protected]
The general track is intended for high quality papers on topics that do not have a specific fit with other tracks. The track gives an additional degree of freedom to the conference��s theme and welcomes original and novel research using a broad range of methodologies, including papers examining important technical, economic, managerial, or behavioral issues surrounding the design, implementation, acceptance/use, management, and evaluation of information systems in organizations and society.
