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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/