-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] INFORMS ISS 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 02:56:21 -0400 From: Subodha Kumar tuh48280@temple.edu Reply-To: subodha@temple.edu Organization: Temple To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
INFORMS ISS 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
Call for Submission
The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jnunamaker.asp and Hsinchun Chen http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/hchen.asp , who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems. The winner of the 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award will receive a US$1000 prize. Questions about the competition can be addressed to the ISS President, Prof. Ramnath K. Chellappa mailto:ramnath.chellappa@emory.edu (Emory University, ramnath.chellappa@emory.edu mailto:ramnath.chellappa@emory.edu ) or to the general NCDA email address: ncda2019@easychair.org mailto:ncda2019@easychair.org .
Eligibility
To be eligible for the 2019 competition, dissertations must be in the field of information systems and must have been completed in the period from June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019. Candidates must have successfully defended their dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation documents by May 31, 2019. Dissertations that do not meet these criteria will not be considered eligible for the award.
Submission Instructions
All applications materials must be received no later than 11:59 PM US EDT on Aug 16, 2019. Any documents received after that date, and submissions without all of the appropriate documentation, will not be reviewed. INFORMS ISS encourages submissions from any country; however, all submitted materials must be in English. Materials should be submitted to the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award EasyChair website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncda2019 The following three documents are required. All three files must be submitted as a single pdf file on the NCDA EasyChair website. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will not be reviewed. 1. An extended abstract of the dissertation that highlights the significance of the problem, the methodological approach, and the key results and their potential applications. The extended abstract should be no more than 10 pages (1" margins, single-spaced, 12 point normal font, not including references, tables, or figures). 2. A copy of the entrant's current curriculum vitae. 3. A letter of recommendation from the entrant's dissertation advisor that describes the significance of the research and comments on the originality of the work. Optional: If there are working papers or publications based on the dissertation, these can be cited in the extended abstract, and submitted as additional materials. All additional materials should be included in the same pdf file that contains the three required documents. Please note that in addition to uploading your pdf file on the EasyChair submission page, you will be required to provide contact information (in fields for Author 1), the title of the dissertation, a short abstract, and keywords.
Reviewing Process and Winner Announcement
A panel of judges composed of senior faculty members from top IS academic departments will review the submissions. Dissertations will be evaluated based on the following criteria: creativity and novelty, scope and magnitude of contribution to IS research, relevance to practice, technical quality, and richness of methodological approach. Finalists will be notified by September 20, 2019 and the winner will be announced during the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) in Seattle, Washington on October 19-20, 2019. Best regards, Subodha Vice-President, ISS ___________________________________________ Subodha Kumar, Ph.D. | Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Professor Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management (Joint appointments in Information Systems and Statistical Science) Director, Center for Data Analytics Ph.D. Concentration Advisor, Operations and Supply Chain Management Deputy Editor and Department Editor, Production and Operations Management Journal Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Management and Business Review Associate Executive Director of POMS Information Technology Services Fox School of Business, Temple University 1801 Liacouras Walk, Alter Hall 530, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Ph: 215-204-5919, Fax: 215-204-6237 mailto:subodha@temple.edu subodha@temple.edu | https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/ https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/