AMCIS 2007@KEYSTONE -- CONFERENCE TRACK(MINI TRACK)

Mobile Business: Managerial

Issues, Applications and

Technology

Design Science

Jan Muntermann (muntermann@m-lehrstuhl.de)
J.W.Goethe-University Frankfurt
Chair of Mobile Commerce & Multilateral Security
Graefstr.78
60054 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Phone: (49) 69 798 25307

Robert C. Nickerson (RNick@sfsu.edu)
College of Business
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone: (415) 338-7477

Henri Isaac
University of Paris Dauphine
CREPA
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France

Upkar Varshney
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Altanta, GA

SIGeBiz

Description:

In recent years, mobile applications and technologies have become valuable for many companies and their customers. This ongoing trend has affected both businesses and workaday life. In industry and public sector, wireless applications are applied in order to support and change workflows. Furthermore, mobile applications and technologies are used by individuals for new ways of communication or leisure activities such as mobile messaging, mobile gaming, and media streaming. These developments require appropriate business strategies including new business models and unique application designs. Many of those applications and systems do not merely replace wired information systems or even provide similar functionality. Instead, they address new market segments, apply novel business models, or optimize existing workflows and supply chains.

These emerging mobile applications and technologies have serious implications for both research and management. They must identify promising application domains and explore how to design and implement the mobile applications, how these applications fit with the strategic goals of organizations, and how customers and employees will use these applications. The purpose of this mini-track is to provide a forum for examining questions and issues related to mobile business where questions and issues can range from managerial to technical in nature.

The mini-track will focus on:

Design, implementation, and evaluation of novel mobile applications and systems
Case/field studies on mobile applications and systems
Evaluations of the IT business value for mobile applications and systems
Novel m-commerce business models
User/application interaction in the context of mobile systems
Industry specific applications and issues (e.g., healthcare, banking, media landscape)
Organizational and managerial issues in wireless and mobile systems
Wireless networks (e.g., WLANs, WiMax, Satellites, 3G, 4G, etc.)
Emerging technologies in wireless and mobile systems (e.g., DVB-H, DMB, RFID, etc.)
Device issues in wireless and mobile systems
Security, privacy, and trust in wireless and mobile systems
Identity management and mobile systems
Location-based and context-aware mobile applications
Disaster management and wireless infrastructures
Novel use of wireless technologies in other domain areas
Novel use of other domain knowledge to solve wireless and mobile problems
Application of established information systems theories to the mobile domain
Adoption and diffusion of wireless applications and technology
Vehicular mobile applications
Ubiquitous computing applications
Global issues in mobile applications and technology
Mobile business strategy