Following a very successful conference in Vienna, we invite you to submit and attend Conf-IRM 2013 in sunny Natal, Brazil!

 

International Conference on Information Resources Management 2013 (Conf-IRM)

 

Conference Theme: Managing IT in a Consumerized IT world

 

(Conference website: www.conf-irm2013.org  - Facebook: www.facebook.com/conf-irm2013  - Conf-IRM website: www.conf-irm.org)

 

Imirá Hotel, Natal, Brazil

May 22-24, 2013

 

Call for Papers

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 10, 2012

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 4, 2013

Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 4, 2013

 

Many industry and academic reports are describing the combination of the availability of ready-to-use and easy-to-implement information technology (IT) solutions, many times in the form of cloud-computing services and applications, and the presence of a tech-savvy new workforce who is able and willing to acquire and use these services as a new trend called “consumerization of IT”. In this perspective, business executives will seek the IT solutions they need in the marketplace and rapidly put them to work, with or without the assistance and accordance of IT departments.

 

Is this a revival of the decentralization of IT decisions that happened when mini and microcomputers were first introduced in organizations, or is it something entirely new? Is this new workforce, full of Millennials and their gadgets, entirely different from the previous ones?  These are examples of questions that are surfacing, as this concept is fast developing and widening in scope. For instance, consumerization of IT could also be used to represent the fact that today in most organizations, it is consumers who represent the larger part of IT services´ users. Related to this, new questions may arise, like what are the challenges, risks and opportunities posed by this trend to IT strategy and IT management? How might These trends affect the competitive use of IT in companies?

 

The organizing committee invites you to submit to Conf-IRM 2013 your research work, teaching cases, and proposals for panels and tutorials, dealing with the main topic of the conference or related to one of the several topics covered by the 15 tracks, listed below. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs.

 

Submission Types and Guidelines:

 

- Full Length Submissions

Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscripts for review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety upon payment of registration fees.  Papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be included in the AIS e-Library.  Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suit ability, the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper Award" during the conference.

 

- Research-in-Progress Submissions

Submissions of no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables:  All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers.

 

- Teaching Cases

We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives.  Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be accompanied by instructor teaching notes (not included in the 5000 words).  The teaching notes will not be published.

 

- Panel and Tutorial Submissions

Submissions of not more than 1000 words: Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial presenters must register for the conference).

 

Important Announcements:

·       The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions.

·       Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register AND attend the conference.

·       Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadline.

·       All submissions must be written in English (except for the ICT and Latin American Track, which accepts also papers in Spanish and Portuguese)

·       Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon.

 

 

Tracks and Chairs

1 IT Control, Evaluation, and Decision Making

Edward Bernroider, WU Wien, Austria: edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at

Konradin Maier, WU Wien, Austria: konradin.maier@wu.ac.at

2 IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering

Yong Jin Kim, Sogang University, South Korea: yongjkim@sogang.ac.kr

Rob Benyon, Rhodes Univ., South Africa: r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za

3 Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies

Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria: roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at

Alemayehu Molla, RMIT Univ., Australia: alemayehu.molla@rmit.edu.au 

Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK: r.gholami@aston.ac.uk

4 Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence

Annette Mills, UC, New Zealand: annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz

Pramila Gupta, CQU, Australia: p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au

Carlos Quandt, PUCPR, Brazil: carlos.quandt@pucpr.br

5 ICT for Development

Antonio Díaz Andrade,  AUT University, New Zealand: antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz

Leiser Silva, University of Houston: lsilva@uh.edu

Marlei Pozzebon, HEC, Canada: marlei.pozzebon@hec.ca

6 ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean (including submissions in Spanish and Portuguese)

Renata Araújo, UNIRIO, Brazil: renata.araujo@uniriotec.br

Carlo Bellini, UFPB, Brazil: bellini@ccsa.ufpb.br

Ariel La Paz, Universidad de Chile: lapaz@fen.uchile.cl

Alexander García Dávalos, Univ. Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia: agdavalos@uao.edu.co

7 Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management

Gurpreet Dhillon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA: gdhillon@vcu.edu

Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada: shaobo_ji@carleton.ca

Matthew N. Kreeger, Univ of London & Thales IT Security: matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com

Brian Cusack, AUT University, New Zealand: brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz

8 ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare

Andy Igonor, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada: andyi@nait.ca

Marie Anne Macadar, PUCRS, Brazil: marie.macadar@pucrs.br

9 Electronic Business and Corporate Strategy

Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China: zhangche@fudan.edu.cn

Maria Madlberger, Webster Univ., Austria: madlberger@webster.ac.at

Eusebio Scornavacca, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand: eusebio.scornavacca@vuw.ac.nz

10 Cloud Computing and Virtualization

Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany: daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de

Rui Manuel Dinis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal: rds@dsi.uminho.pt

Jairo Simião Dornelas, UFPE, Brazil: jairo@ufpe.br

11 Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society

Jyoti Choudrie, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK, jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com

Peijian Song, Nanjing University, China: songpeijian@nju.edu.cn

Eduardo Henrique Diniz, EAESP/FGV, Brazil: eduardo.diniz@fgv.br

12 Strategic IT Management, Governance and Consumerization of IT

Tim McLaren, Ryerson University, Canada: tmclaren@ryerson.ca

Antonio Carlos G. Maçada, UFRGS, Brazil: acgmacada@ea.ufrgs.br

Guillermo Rodríguez Abitia, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico: grdrz@unam.mx

13 Design Thinking in Information Systems Development

Marko Forsell, Centria University of Applied Sciences, Finland: marko.forsell@centria.fi

Geoffery Seaver, NDU, USA: seaverg@ndu.edu

14 Web 2.0 and Social Networks

Amarolinda Zanella Saccol, UNISINOS, Brazil: azsaccol@gmail.com

Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia: mohini.singh@rmit.edu.au

15 IS Research Methods

Frantisek Sudzina, Aarhus University, Denmark: fransu@asb.dk

PT Panels and Tutorials

Anatália Saraiva Ramos, UFRN, Brazil, anataliaramos@gmail.com

Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand: lech@auckland.ac.nz  

 

Organizing Committee

 

Conference Co-Chairs

Manoel Veras, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil: manoel.veras@uol.com.br

Cesar Alexandre de Souza, University of São Paulo, Brazil: calesou@usp.br

Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada: gerald_grant@carleton.ca

 

Program Co-Chairs

Maria Alexandra Cunha, Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil: alexandra.cunha@pucpr.br

Jairo Gutierrez, AUT University, New Zealand: jairo.gutierrez@aut.ac.nz

 

Local Organizing Co-Chairs

Luiz Mendes Filho, UNI-RN, Brazil: luiz.mendesfilho@gmail.com

Claudio Mendonça, Potiguar University, Brazil: cmarcio@gmail.com

 

Publications and Proceedings Chair

Lech Janczewski , University of Auckland, New Zealand: lech@auckland.ac.nz  

 

International Co-Chairs

Felix B Tan, AUT University, New Zealand: felix.tan@aut.ac.nz

Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt: skamel@aucegypt.edu

G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway University of London, UK: G.Harindranath@rhul.ac.uk

 

We look forward to seeing you in sunny Natal, Brazil, in May 2013!!

 

 

 

Gerald Grant, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director

Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP)

Sprott School of Business

Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6

www.sprott.carleton.ca