The main idea of this track is to present recent developments regarding the globalization and internationalization of services, service infrastructures and their organizational embedding, e.g., in globally distributed organizations and teams. The track aims at discussing service-orientation in global settings from a human, an organizational as well as from the technology perspective in selected settings, such as in global software development, but also in other domains.
The track shall discuss state-of-the-art solutions for information systems, IS development as well as methodological aspects encouraging the discourse on this emerging field of research. The track will bring together methodological, technological as well as human aspects to the topic. It will discuss innovative solutions for globally distributed, services-oriented systems and contribute towards advancements for research and practice.
Topics of Interest
We appreciate full research papers and research in progress from all areas contributing to the development and application of global service-oriented systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Global settings for service-oriented solutions including cloud computing, SaaS, IaaS, and related approaches
- Adoption and acceptance of distributed service infrastructures
- Quality of services
- Support services for organizations, teams and individuals
- Architectures and integration methods
- Methodologies for systems development in global settings
- Collaboration services for globally distributed teams
- Social software for international collaborations
- Cultural influence factors in global settings
- Awareness and trust for global teams
- Knowledge & Competencies for the globally distributed worker
- Applications and Cases for globally distributed work
The track will lead to comprehensive insights into all phases of systems development in global settings.
Contact and Organisation
The track chairs represent a broad community and geographic coverage as well as a variety of experiences in the organization of workshops and conferences. The team has covered a variety of conference track organizations and program committees in the core IS field as well as in domain-specific conferences such as ICIS, ECIS, HICCS, IFIP WCC, Business Information Systems, IEEE Portable, Edmedia, International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, etc.
Track Chairs (in alphabetical order)
Dr. Markus Bick
Professor Business Information Systems
ESCP Europe Campus Berlin
Heubnerweg 6
D-14059 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49(0)3032007182
Web: http://www.escpeurope.de/wi
Erran Carmel, Ph.D.
Professor of Information Technology and International Business Research Professor
Kogod School of Business, American University,
Washington D.C. 20016-8044
USA.
Tel: +1.202.885.1928
Mail: carmel@american.edu
Web: http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/carmel.cfm
Dr. Ole Hanseth
Professor
Department of Informatics
University of Oslo
PO Box 1080 Blindern
N-0316 Oslo
Norway
Phone: (+47) 22 85 24 10
Mail: oleha@ifi.uio.no
Web: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oleha/
Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski (Correspondance for the workshop)
Professor Digital Media – Global Information Systems
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
PL 35
40014 Jyväskylä
Finland
Phone: +358(0)142602596
Mail: jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi
Web: http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow
Dr. KBC Saxena
Professor of Information Management
Management Development Institute
Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali
GURGAON-122001
India
Phone: (0)0124-4560507
Web : http://www.mdi.ac.in
The track will be organized by four track co-chairs which will also serve as associate editors to manage the track. After a positive evaluation of this proposal we will also identify additional associate editors supporting this team.
Järvenpää, S.L., Shaw, T.R., Staples, S.D. (2004): Toward Contextualized Theories of Trust: The Role of Trust in Global Virtual Teams, Information Systems Research 15 (3), 250-267.
Ågerfalk, P.J. & Fitzgerald, B. (2008): Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as an Offshore Sourcing Strategy, MIS Quarterly, 32(2), 385–409.