Call for Papers

Information Systems Practice:
Realities and Challenges

Today, new practices of the IS suggest significant changes both in terms of design but also regarding their management. The 14th AIM Conference proposes to make a critical assessment of the scientific output in recent years while analysing the contributions of the IS in business and society. The conference aims to provide a critical look at the practices, the role of the IS in business, and to highlight (r)evolution for the years to come.

Questioning the knowledge which has be generated and experiences has become a necessity in order to consolidate a newly emerged discipline and thus respond to questions raised by the change and the development to which the IS are confronted. It is also related to a need for improving theoretical approaches, tools and methods to be used in the future.

The 14th AIM Conference must be considered as a privileged place for exchange on issues related to the IS and on matters which would confront disciplinary, theoretical, and applied work, and then to open up new opportunities for thought and action.

The 14th AIM Conference invites and encourages researchers in IS to submit original contributions which would fall within the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

IS Governance

• - The role of the IS function in business and IT strategy alignment
• - IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms
• - Relationship of the CIO with top management
• - IT organization models (e.g. centralized versus decentralized and matrix structures)
• - Maturity models for IT governance and IT processes
• - Strategic alignment and IS perferomance
• - Business/IT alignment through the balanced scorecard
• - IT and business process outsourcing and offshoring strategies
• - Competence centers support and IT management
  
  

IT strategy and architectural approach (SOA, EAI, ESB, etc.)

• - Enterprise architecture implementation practices
• - CEO/CIO partnership and enterprise architecture development
• - SOA in business models and IT
• - Best practices Business modeling in SOA
• - Strategic Issues in the use of Web 2.0
• - Current business models and patterns of Web 2.0
• - Impact of Web 2.0 on organizational strategies
• - Offshoring, nearshoring, insourcing and outsourcing comparative studies
• - IS/IT offshoring /outsourcing into emerging economies
• - Business value measurement and the strategic impacts of IT
  
  

Integration and collaborative IS

• - IS for inter-organizational business processes
• - E-collaboration
• - Organizational and operational impact of ES
• - Business process integration, collaborative business in SMEs and large enterprise
• - IS Interoperability :Integration of ERP with SCM, SRM, CRM and BI modules
• - Management of ES implementation: challenges, success and failure
• - Challenges of business and operational integration
• - Web services and its impact on electronic commerce
• - Technical, organizational and implementation issues pertinent to DSS
• - Emerging trends in Data Warehousingand Business Intelligence applications
  
  

Organisational Change and Cross-Functionality

• - Cross-border and cross-organizational IS/IT project management
• - Organisational impacts of IS projects
• - New and emerging organisational models
• - Strategies for Business Process Design
• - Business Process Management Governance and Maturity
• - Management of embedded processes (e.g. in ERP, CRM systems)
• - KM implementation issues
• - Collaborative innovation networks, communities of practice
• - Social and Behavioral issues of knowledge; knowledge sharing, electronic communities of practice, knowledge networks, leadership, and lessons learned portability
• - E-learning
  
  

IS security

• - Economic, social, legal and ethical aspects of IS security
• - IS security management
• - Development of IS security policies
• - IS risk analysis, assessment and management
• - Use of information security management standards in organisations
• - Behavioral issues in IS security
• - Data and information quality
• - Behavioral issues in the use of systems with information quality problems
• - Organizational and managerial issues related to IS security
  
  

Innovation and Open source

• - Open source software versus proprietary strategies
• - OSS in Entreprise Systems (OS ERP, OS CRM, etc.)
• - OS Software marketing and communication
• - OS Software new economic model
• - Social, legal and security aspects of OS software
• - Processes of collaboration in virtual work groups
  
  

IS practices by Industry

• - Tourism, Culture and IS
• - Telecommunication Services and IS
• - IS health strategies
• - Financial Services and IS
• - Public Sector IS: The development and implementation of e-Government
• - E-government
  
  

Theoretical and methodological approaches

• - IS Research diversity and identity
• - IS Research rigour and relevance
• - IS Research Methodologies : quantitative vs. qualitative methods, multi-methodological approaches (methodological triangulation)
• - Positivist, interpretivist and critical approaches to IS research
• - Core theories of IS
• - New and alternative approaches to IS research
• - Examples of experimental research designs in IS, together with an analysis of limitations and opportunities
  

This list is just to suggest possible topics. The AIM Conference 2009 is open to any submission related to the study of Information Systems.

A selection of the best papers would be published in a special issue of “Système d’Information et Management”, an international academic journal in IS studies.