Dear members of the SIG Sourcing,
We are delighted to bring you the latest news and updates from the SIG Sourcing community.
Top1: SIG Annual Meeting at ICIS in Copenhagen
The SIG Advances in Sourcing Annual meeting was a pre-ICIS workshop held in Copenhagen on Saturday, Dec 10th, 2022. We were thrilled to have two insightful input talks from industry practitioners, Heiner Himmelreich, Partner and Director Technology & Digital Advantage, Boston Consulting Group, who shared "A BCG view on Recent Trends in Sourcing," and Marius Hartmann, Danish Business Authority, who presented "Sourcing Machine Learning specialists: Good Practices from the Danish Business Authority." The talks were followed by a panel discussion on recent trends and opportunities in the area of sourcing. It was a great opportunity to learn from industry experts and network with fellow SIG members.
Top2: SIG Sourcing Awards
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first edition of the SIG Sourcing awards. Congratulations to Jens Dibbern, University of Bern, who received the AIS SIG Sourcing Outstanding Leadership Award fordemonstrating exceptional leadership in the last 15 years both in terms of excellent academic publications and in terms of contributions to the academic community and practice of IS sourcing, and to Oliver Krancher, IT University of Copenhagen, who was recognised with the AIS SIG Sourcing Early and Mid Career Award for his excellent contributions to the IS community by demonstrating highly regarded publications that inspire future IS Sourcing research. We also extend our congratulations to Carol Hsu and co-authors for winning the AIS SIG Sourcing Best Paper Award for their paper Hsu, C., Lee, J. N., Fang, Y., Straub, D. W., Su, N., & Ryu, H. S. (2022). The role of vendor legitimacy in IT outsourcing performance: theory and evidence. Information Systems Research, 33(1), 337-361.
Top 3: Global Sourcing Workshop
We were thrilled to welcome 25 participants to the 15th Global Sourcing Workshop which was held as a pre-ICIS event. We have had 16 paper presentations on topics ranging from crowdsourcing to traditional governance themes in outsourcing. We wish to thank newcomers to the global sourcing workshop and hope to support their career and publications through the various activities organised by SIG Sourcing.
Top4: Track at ECIS 2023
We are excited to announce that we are organizing a track with sourcing topics for ECIS 2023, to be held from June 11-16 in Kristiansand, Norway. The track has received a large number of submissions and will feature a couple of papers on exciting contemporary sourcing topics such as crowdsourcing and sourcing of new digital technologies such as AI. We are looking forward to this event and hope to see many of you there.
Thank you for your continued support and engagement in the SIG Sourcing community. We look forward to bringing you more updates and news in the coming months.
Best regards,
The SIG SOURCING Leadership Team