Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and
Cross-Border IS/IT
Part of the
Collaboration Systems and Technology Track
CALL FOR PAPERS
Thirty-ninth Annual
January 4 - 7, 2006
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Nicholas C. Romano, Jr.
James B. Pick
Narcyz Roztocki
SUNY at New Paltz
IMPORTANT NOTE: The best papers from the "Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT" minitrack will be invited to submit revised versions for review and possible fast-track publication in a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology Theory & Application (JITTA - http://www.jitta.org/ ISSN: 1532-4516 (online) 1552-6496 (print).) to be co-guest edited by the minitrack co-chairs.
Description
Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of many firm’s corporate capital spending. As globalization progresses, many such investments are being deployed across nations and world regions. Cross-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for Global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multi-national collaboration processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.
Despite the intensive investigation for two decades of different aspects of IS/IT collaboration, defined in the context of this minitrack as the integration of people, systems, processes and infrastructure across organizations, borders, nations and world regions to enable productive teamwork toward accomplishing mutual goals, many findings are based solely on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the Global economy.
IS/IT collaboration in the Global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures may vary significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a very high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region. For IS/IT projects to be successful and productive in the Global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues.
In summary, few studies have investigated the linkages between Global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT investment. To address these issues and others in terms of the Global economy, this minitrack focuses on Global collaboration processes and projects and their potential impact on IS/IT productivity and success.
Call for Paper
Topics:
Possible contributions regarding the collaboration in Global economy may include, but are not limited to the following:
Area 1: Global
Collaboration:
Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the Global economy
Success factors of Global collaboration technologies
Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration
IS/IT investment evaluation in a Global economic context
IS/IT off-shoring /outsourcing into emerging economies
Area 2: IS/IT
Productivity in a Global Context:
IS/IT productivity studies at the country, industry, firm, or project level
Effects of Global collaboration on IS/IT productivity
Inter-organizational and Multi-national collaboration and IS/IT productivity
IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation relevant to Global scope
Area 3: Global IS/IT
Projects
Global IS/IT project management
Goal Alignment across Global IS/IT projects
Success Criteria Alignment among Stakeholders in Global IS/IT projects
Track Co-Chair
Information:
Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (Contact
Person)
(nicholas.romano@okstate.edu)
College of Business Administration
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
Oklahoma State University
700 North Greenwood Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74106-0700 USA
Phone: (918) 594-8506
Fax: (918) 574-8281
James B. Pick
(James_Pick@Redlands.edu)
School of Business
University of Redlands
1200 East Colton Avenue
Redlands, CA 92373-0999
Phone (909) 748-6261
Fax (909) 335-5125
Narcyz Roztocki
(roztockn@newpaltz.edu)
School of Business
SUNY at New Paltz
75 S. Manheim Blvd.
New Paltz, NY 12561-2443
Phone: (845) 257-2935
Fax: (845) 257-2947
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August 15 -
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HICSS-39
CONFERENCE TRACKS
Collaboration
Systems and Technology
Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs
bbriggs@GroupSystems;
Co-chair:
Jay Nunamaker
nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
Decision
Technologies for Management
Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk@nps.edu
Digital Media:
Content and Communication
Chair:
Michael Shepherd
shepherd@cs.cal.ca
E-Government
Chair:
H. Jochen Scholl
jscholl@u.washington.edu
Chair:
William Chismar chismar@hawaii.edu
Internet &
the Digital Economy
Co-chair:
David King david.king@jda.com; Co-chair: Alan
Dennis ardennis@indiana.edu
Knowledge Management
Systems
Co-chair:
Murray Jennex murphjen@aol.com;
Dave Croasdell davec@unr.edu
Organizational
Systems & Technology
Chair:
Hugh Watson hwatson@terry.uga.edu
Software
Technology
Chair:
Gul Agha agha@cs.uiuc.edu
HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and
system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical,
conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those
selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously
published.
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