Special Issue on Information Technology and Innovation - MIS Quarterly

MIS Quarterly Call for Papers: Special Issue on Information Technology and Innovation
Submission deadline: September 30, 2014

Guest Editors:
Satish Nambisan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (nambisan@uwm.edu) Kalle
Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University (kjl13@case.edu) Ann Majchrzak,
University of Southern California (majchrzak@usc.edu) Michael Song,
University of Missouri-Kansas City (songmi@umkc.edu)

The objective of this special issue is to provide a forum for IS and other
business scholars to engage in this important dialogue on IT and innovation
and to contribute to the development of cumulative knowledge in this pivotal
area. We welcome research that focuses on

1. Applying existing/emergent IS theoretical perspectives to inform on how
the infusion of IT reshapes innovation ecosystems, processes, models,
platforms/architectures, and outcomes 2. Proposing conceptual frameworks
that integrate IS concepts and other business concepts to develop a
fine-grained understanding of product–service innovation 3. Empirically
establishing the role and value of IT in product–service innovation,
business model innovation, and management innovation—as an operand resource
(i.e., as an enabler) as well as an operant resource (i.e., as a trigger) 4.
Theories and models that better integrate the simultaneous use of IT as an
operand and operant resource 5. Temporal and spatial analyses of innovation
processes where IT radically transforms either or both of these dimensions

Possible topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the
following:

• The nature and extent of business value created by IT in diverse
innovation contexts • IT and (product–service and business model) innovation
performance • The impact of IT on new product design and development • The
adoption, implementation, and use of IT-based product development tools and
applications in innovation processes (e.g., PLM) • IT and open innovation
models • The role of online communities and other social media in supporting
diverse collaborative innovation models (including crowdsourcing) • The role
and impact of digital components on innovation platforms, innovation
architecture, and innovation processes • New digital architectures for
innovation platforms • Issues at the intersection of IT, organizational
design, and innovation—in particular, the ways by which new IT tools drive
innovative organizational arrangements and processes in product–service
innovation • Digital infrastructure and its impact on the structure,
governance, and processes in innovation ecosystems • The role of IT in
facilitating customer co-creation and co-innovation • Incremental and
radical innovation processes and their dynamics in digital innovation
contexts • The role of IT in (product–service and business model) innovation
in emerging economics

The full call for papers is available on the MIS Quarterly's web site at
http://www.misq.org/