-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP-Conf-IRM May 22-24, 2013 Natal, Brazil Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:27:17 -0400 From: Gerald Grant gerald_grant@carleton.ca To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

/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 http://www.conf-irm2013.org_- Facebook: www.facebook.com/conf-irm2013 http://www.facebook.com/conf-irm2013 - Conf-IRM website: www.conf-irm.org http://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:*

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*- 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.

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*- 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 mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at

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

2 _IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering_

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

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

3 _Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies_

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

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

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

4 _Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence_

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

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

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

5 _ICT for Development _

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

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

Marlei Pozzebon, HEC, Canada: marlei.pozzebon@hec.ca mailto: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 mailto:renata.araujo@uniriotec.br

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

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

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

7 _Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management_

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

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

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

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

8 _ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare_

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

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

9 _Electronic Business and Corporate Strategy_

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

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

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

10 _Cloud Computing and Virtualization_

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

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

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

11 _Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society_

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

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

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

12 _Strategic IT Management, Governance and Consumerization of IT_

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

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

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

13 _Design Thinking in Information Systems Development_

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

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

14 _Web 2.0 and Social Networks_

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

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

15 _IS Research Methods_

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

PT _Panels and Tutorials_

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

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

*Organizing Committee*

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_Conference Co-Chairs_

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

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

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

_Program Co-Chairs_

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

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

_Local Organizing Co-Chairs_

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

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

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_Publications and Proceedings__Chair _

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

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_International Co-Chairs _

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

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

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

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*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 http://www.sprott.carleton.ca/