WI2023 – Track: IT Strategy, Governance & Management
Track description
Digital technologies and IT systems are now an elementary part of many products, services, processes, structures, and business models. Organisational competitiveness and digital responsibility are therefore inextricably linked to the successful management of IT and digital innovations. IT is increasingly strategically required to actively shape the organisational value creation. To do this, the IT function not only needs to understand the requirements of customers, employees and partners but also develop, evaluate, and introduce digital innovations and is mindful of organisational transformations. For example, a key challenge lies in integrating business and IT in terms of control, structure, and processes. The ecosystem of innovation partners and IT service providers must therefore be involved in strategy development and implementation. And, last but not least, digital skills and competencies must be developed and promoted across the ecosystem.
Across these topics, there are many important questions about the social, economic, organisational, and technical aspects of strategic IT management and organisational change. We invite researchers to submit their work results on and solution approaches to these questions in the “IT Strategy, Management & Governance” track. The track is open to different research methods.
Track Topics
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Development, alignment, and implementation of IT strategies
- Governance of IS/IT (e.g., changing C-level roles and challenges (CIO, CDO etc.), portfolio management)
- IS/IT management (e.g. agile, projects, software development, structures, processes, algorithms for matching and control)
- Management and transformation of enterprise architectures
- Organizational development and IS/IT (e.g., Scaled-Agile, (Biz)DevOps, Bimodal-IT, organization of the use of AI, blockchain, analytics, platforms for the organization)
- IS/IT ecosystem management (e.g., supplier management, IT outsourcing, cloud computing, hybrid work alignment, gig and freelancer integration)
- Management of skills and competences in IS/IT
Track Chairs
Prof. Dr. Daniel Beimborn
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Daniel Beimborn holds the Chair of Information Systems Management at the University of Bamberg. His current research activities include organizational success factors of digital innovation & transformation, the management of outsourcing relationships, as well as IT governance and business/IT alignment. He has published numerous articles in renowned IS journals (MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of IT, etc.) and he is Senior Editor of the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and Associate Editor of the Journal of the AIS and of Business & Information Systems Engineering.
Prof. Dr. Marina Fiedler
Universität Passau
Marina Fiedler holds the Chair for Management, People and Information at the University of Passau. Her research focuses on the interface of three central topics of digitization and work: (1) the role of AI in organizations and IT platforms; (2) governance and management of sustainable behavior; and (3) changes in designing work. Her research on ways to successfully promote sustainable employee behavior has been funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). She is Associate Editor of the Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR). Her work has been published in journals, includingGames and Economic Behavior (GEB), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of Business Research (JBR), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO), MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQE), Organization, Organization Studies and Research Policy.
Prof. Dr. Oliver Krancher
IT University of Copenhagen
Oliver Krancher is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Digital Innovation (ISDI) research group at the IT University in Copenhagen. His research focuses on learning processes in the development, use and management of information systems. His current research topics include agile software development, IT multisourcing and AI management. He has published research articles in relevant journals such as the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS).
Dr. Anne-Sophie Mayer
KIN Center for Digital Innovation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anne-Sophie Mayer is a postdoctoral researcher at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in business administration from the University of Passau and a master’s degree in international culture and business studies with a major in human resource management. Her research focuses on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence change the way organizations and employees work. Her work thereby focuses on a diverse set of research topics, including AI and identity, AI ethics, digital transformation, and digital learning. Her work has been published in relevant journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), MISQ Executive (MISQE) and the Journal of Cultural Economics.
Associate Editors
- Dr. Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington
- Prof. Dr. Arne Buchwald, Vlerick Business School
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Fürstenau, Copenhagen Business School
- Prof. Dr. Franz Lehner, Universität Passau
- Prof. Dr. Heinz-Theo Wagner, HS Neu-Ulm
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar, TU München
- Prof. Dr. Kazem Haki, Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG Genève)
- Prof. Dr. Markus Westner, OTH Regensburg
- Prof. Dr. Nico Wunderlich, IT University of Copenhagen
- Prof. Dr. Paul Drews, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Alt, Universität Leipzig
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schütte, Universität Duisburg Essen
- Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Zarnekow, TU Berlin
- Dr. Stephan Kühnel, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Prof. Dr. Till Winkler, Fernuni Hagen
- Dr. Thomas Hurni, Universität Bern
- Dr. Bettina Horlach, Universität Hamburg
- Phil Hennel, Universität zu Köln
- Dr. Katharina Cepa, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit
- Dr. Andreas Ihl, Research Associate, Universität Krems