Track IT Entrepreneurship and Innovation Track Chair Dr. E. Coşkun Call for Papers Digital transformation is changing our individual lives, businesses, goverments, and society day by day and opportunities for new products, services, occupations and businesses are arising. Along with this transformation, new digital technologies, 3rd platform and its applications, big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, virtual reality, etc. are creating new possibilities for innovation and entrepreneurship in private businesses, govermental organizations, non-profit or social establishments. Finance, health, education, banking, production, entartainment are just a few industries which we see significant IT related innovations and entrepreneurial activities. Regardless of trigger, the joint impact of digital technology and innovation, entrepreneurship and transformation is clearly evident. This track invites theory or applied research papers or case studies in IT and IS related innovation, all kind of entrepreneurship (startup, family business, corporate, social), transformation and their impacts on businesses, individuals, government, and society in general. Multidisciplinary studies from fields of IS, IT, entrepreneurship, innovation, management and organization, management science and industrial engineering are welcomed. Dr. Erman Coşkun, Sakarya University Biography of the Chair Dr. Erman Coşkun is a full professor of Management Information Systems and Operations Research. He is chair of MIS department at Sakarya University and founding chair of Information Technology at Muhammed Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship. He has an academic career of over 17 years, having held positions in the United States, Turkey, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia. His research is focused on Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, IT Entrepreneurship, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Disaster and Crisis Management. His research has been published in journals including Government Information Quarterly, Systems and Software, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and top conferences in MIS area such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Key Topics We welcome papers related to the following topics (but not limited to):
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