AIS SIG Advances in Sourcing

Pre-ICIS Event, December 4^th 2023

The AIS SIG Advances in Sourcing is inviting you to attend our annual meeting that will be virtual and will take place as PRE-ICIS event, December 4^th 2023, 9:00am-12:00pm CET.

We prepared an exciting program for these 3 hours:

9:00am - 9:15am Annual General Meeting

- Review of SIG Sourcing activities last 12 months

- Voting for SIG leadership roles for 2024-2025

9:15am - 10:45am: Keynote speaker, Thomas Fischer, PhD: "The IS Sourcing Journey of a Swiss Bank - An Insider's Perspective"

9:45am-10:00am: Awards ceremony

10:00am – 12:00pm: paper development workshop

We invite extended abstracts that investigate topics relating to outsourcing, offshoring, crowdsourcing and platforms. In particular, the workshop will endeavor to present the views from client, supplier, platform owner, platform complementors and advisory, from strategic, operational and social perspectives. Some of the specific themes that are of interest in this workshop are:

• Sourcing decision making

• Sourcing configurations (multi-sourcing etc.)

• Supplier and client capabilities and competences

• Contractual and relational governance

• Sourcing eco-systems

• Impact sourcing

• Cloud services

• Crowdsourcing

• Digital platforms (e.g. role of platforms in sourcing)

• Captive (in-house) and shared service centres

• Backsourcing/re-shoring

• Innovation in outsourcing/offshoring

• Cultural and social aspects of sourcing practice

• Sustainability and the impact on sourcing

• ML/AI sourcing services

• Emerging topics and concepts in sourcing not covered above

We are interested in papers that are both conceptual and empirically-based.

Extended abstract should not exceed 5 pages (double spaced) excluding references

November 15th: Deadline to submit extended abstract to ilan.oshri@auckland.ac.nz with the title: SIG SOURCING SUBMISSION