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Subject: ICIS 2002: Submissions now open! Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:13:59 -0500 From: Gabriele Piccoli gp45@CORNELL.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the submissions for the twenty-third annual International Conference for Information Systems (http://www.icis2002.org/) are now being accepted. As it has been standard practice now for a few years, the submission and review process for ICIS is held entirely electronically through the Temple Peer Review Manager (TPRM) accessible from the official ICIS 2002 web site (http://www.icis2002.org/)

Instructional tutorials with step by step directions are available online. - Tutorial for all Users (how to register with the system): http://www.icis2002.org/Submission/Registration.pdf - Tutorial for Authors: http://www.icis2002.org/Submission/Authors.pdf - Tutorial for Reviewers: http://www.icis2002.org/Submission/Reviewers.pdf

The key dates for this year's ICIS are: - Submission deadline: 6 May 2002 - Notification of authors: 31 July 2002 - Deadline for submission of camera ready copy: 7 September 2002

ICIS 2002 features seven tracks plus the traditional Panels track. The theme of the conference and the track descriptions are outlined below. We look forward to receiving your best work!

Lynda Applegate and Bob Galliers, Co-chairs ICIS 2002.

Conference Theme: Meeting the Challenges of a Global Networked Economy

Since it first burst on the scene in the 1950s, information technology (IT) has been viewed as a two-edged sword. It is a source of great opportunities and equally great risks. It creates uncertainty at the same time that it helps us manage it. Yet, despite many exasperating moments, we continue to embrace new technologies and embed them deeper within the way we work, the way we learn, and the way we reach out and interact with others. This conference will examine the impact of 21st century (IT) at multiple levels, from individuals, to teams, organizations, markets, countries, and society. We encourage submission of papers that fit within the following seven tracks and will be especially interested in papers that address issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Business Models, Markets and Economy: Rob Kauffman—University of Minnesota (RKauffman@csom.umn.edu)

Information technology continues to be a force that is transforming products, reshaping business processes and causing business leaders to rethink strategy within the firm. The effects of IT are also being felt at the more aggregate levels of industries and markets, as well as the global economy. Together, these forces are creating the basis for new ways of doing business, new institutions, and emerging markets, and putting pressure on traditional market structures. As a result, Information Systems research faces both opportunities and challenges. To this end, the Business Models, Markets and Economy Track encourages submissions of articles that treat these issues and the following related questions:

- How should we interpret the efficacy of Internet firm business models in the rapidly changing economy? - What theories will guide our thinking about this problem? - How are the core business processes of the firm likely to change in the presence of emerging ITs (e.g., the Internet and electronic markets, wireless telecommunication, interorganizational information systems, market-wide financial risk management systems, etc.)? - What referent disciplines are most apt to aid IS researchers' efforts to gain new insights? - What is the role of new theory-based approaches to the formulation of organizational strategy and firm business models in information and information technology-intensive environment? - What evaluative perspectives can aid senior managers, industry consultants and government regulators to gain insights that untangle the complexities of a variety of Digital Economy phenomena (e.g., information goods, e-commerce business models, interorganizational information systems and electronic markets). - What empirical evidence is now becoming available on the business value of IT in the Digital Economy? - What new methodological perspectives offer the brightest prospects for effective measurement?

Innovation, Strategy and Change: Kwok Kee Wei ­ National University of Singapore (weikk@comp.nus.edu.sg)

Innovation, strategy and change are important elements in today's hyper-competitive, fast-paced, knowledge-based economy. Strategy without innovative capabilities has no force. Mindless change without an overarching strategic framework brings chaos and confusion to the organization. Strategy should articulate the ways in which opportunities created by the firm's capabilities could be exploited. We invite submissions that address the roles of information systems in facilitating the interactions of these three forces - innovation, strategy, and change to create high performance organizations. Submissions using a combination of research methodologies are strongly encouraged. Areas of interest include but not limited to:

- How could advanced information technology based (IT-based) innovations significantly transform organizations for superior business performance? - How could theories and concepts from sociology, economics, and organizational behavior assist our understanding of IT-driven organizational transformation and change management? - How are IT-based innovations shaping the organizational strategy in key enterprise activities such as customer relationships, knowledge management, and enterprise resources management? - How do interactions between innovation, strategy and change affect the business-IT alignment paradigm?

Architecture, Systems, and Infrastructure: Rob Austin ­ Harvard Business School (raustin@hbs.edu)

Architecture, Systems, and Infrastructure describe the entirety of information and communication technologies that enables individuals and organizations to do transact business, communicate, learn, and play. Many computer users never directly interact with many layers of this functionality, but it does not follow that less visible layers are not important. Decisions about Architecture, Systems, and Infrastructure impact people and organizations, sometimes in unanticipated ways. This track will address the continuing quest for frameworks for developing and managing IT Architecture, Systems, and Infrastructure in a way that facilitates flexibility, learning, and business effectiveness. Some of the issues are:

- How do advancing technologies change the set of opportunities and possibilities for individuals and organizations? - What new demands does the shift toward global internetworking place on architecture, systems, and infrastructure, and how will those demands be met? - What will be the key design paradigms and technologies and how will they solve architectural, systems, and infrastructure problems? - How can we continue to improve development, implementation, and project management processes? - What issues must be addressed to assure secure, reliable, available, and accessible networked IT infrastructures?

Organization, Culture, Decision-Making & Knowledge: Suzie Weisband ­ University of Arizona (weisband@bpa.arizona.edu)

As we consider the challenges of working in a global networked economy, it is critical to understand the organizational, group, and cultural contexts in distributed work environments. Businesses are facing increasingly global employees, customers, suppliers, competitors, and creditors. Online communities strive to create common interests among diverse people and cultures. Distributed work groups require people from different countries, disciplines, and hierarchies to coordinate their work to solve complex problems. Being global is not just about where you work, but about how you do it. The role of information technology can have significant effects on how work is done in these culturally diverse, distributed contexts. Some of the issues are:

- How are work practices in organizations and online communities affected by people are distributed geographically? - How does the role of culture and diversity affect the way people work together? - How are theories of decision-making and knowledge management challenged by distributed work arrangements? - What is the role of leadership, power and status in distributed work contexts? - What technologies are available to address work practices, decision-making and knowledge sharing in distributed work? - What are some of the methodological challenges in studying work practices, decision-making, knowledge sharing in distributed work? - How are current theories challenged by IT developments on distributed work?

Time, Space and Mobility: Ramon O'Callaghan—Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (r.ocallaghan@kub.nl)

Mobile commerce was supposed to revolutionize e-commerce, enabling impulse purchases anywhere, at any time. The reality of m-commerce, however, has been extremely disappointing. The problem goes beyond the inherent physical limitations of mobile phones with their tiny screen and keyboard. Research shows that users want purchases on mobile devices to depend on where they are, rather than the desire to buy a particular item. "Location-based" services, mobile advertising and "context aware" applications are new attempts to address the specific needs of the mobile user. At the same time, the success of SMS relative to WAP shows that people like to use their phones to communicate with each other, rather than to buy products or download information from content providers. Thus, the key to mobile services may well be person-to-person communication in new and innovative ways. This track welcomes multi-disciplinary research on the factors enabling and inhibiting the adoption and diffusion of mobile applications. Some of the potential perspectives are:

- How should phones and hand-held devices evolve to overcome their relative disadvantage with respect to PCs, which have keyboards and large color screens? - How will the evolution of mobile standards affect the adoption of m-internet services? - Should m-commerce stick to sales of small-value mobile items (e.g. paying for parking) that people are likely to want while on the move? Which location-based, time-sensitive services are more likely to succeed? - Will the killer app for the mobile Internet turn out to be person-to-person communication? Can users be led from text messaging on to content, then to location-based services, and eventually on to m-commerce? - What are the likely business models for mobile operators? What can operators do to boost traffic and maximize transport revenues? - What are the organizational effects of mobile? What forms of ROI or cost/benefit analysis are useful in justifying mobile investments? What is the role of mobile devices in business process redesign and organizational transformation?

Society, Policy, and Regulation: Sirkka Jarvenpaa ­ Univ. of Texas at Austin (Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@bus.utexas.edu)

Like other network technologies (e.g., electricity and telephones), information technology is transforming existing organizations, industries, and societies as well as giving birth to new ones. To many politicians, regulators, and even concerned citizens, Information technology is revolutionary in its effects and is seen to require new laws, regulations, and institutions to advance, protect, monitor and control its deployment. By regulation, we mean any restriction or duty imposed by legislators or regulatory agencies on business. Some of the issues are:

- How are societal environments, policies and regulations shaping IT management, IT architectures, and IT diffusion and use? - How are variations in national context affecting IT related policy and legal developments? - How will the structures and boundaries of the firm be affected? - How are the theories of regulation and policy challenged by IT developments? - How are government and social policy initiatives affecting digital divide? What is the role of IS professionals and IT educators in shaping and influencing national and global policy?

Metaframeworks and Theory: Kalle Lyytinen ­ Case Western Reserve (kjl13@po.cwru.edu)

The deeper and global scale embedding of information technologies into all walks of social life and the greater appreciation of the social nature of information technology sets up new challenges for scientific inquiry. These challenges deal with how to theorize about the nature of information technology and its transforming capability, how to analyze relationships between technological change and organizational change, how to produce valid and generalizable knowledge amidst fast paced change where nothing is permanent, and how to serve different constituencies, and engage in multiple discourses where knowledge of IS is produced, reproduced, appropriated and transformed. This has set up new light in the old-age issues of how to theorize and legitimate knowledge in the IS field. These issues include

- How to theorize at the border of technical and social: how to separate and how to integrate? How to explain and account for technical and social change and their inner contradictions; how to justify or explain the logic of change at a global scale? - How to theorize about information and knowledge as a social, epistemological and technological accomplishment; how to develop theories that help manage, organize and explain information and knowledge related behaviors? - What makes a good theory in IS field? How is it different from or similar to theories in computer science, management or economics? What are the criteria for theory choice in Is field? - Do information systems have an unhealthy intellectual trade balance; does it only import from reference disciplines? - Methods of discovery and methods of justification: what drives good research? - What are appropriate methods for constructive, explanatory, interpretive and critical IS research?

Panels: Cynthia Beath ­ University of Texas at Austin (Cynthia.Beath@bus.utexas.edu)

For ICIS 2002 we solicit proposals for panels and debates on issues that are critical to the field. In particular, we seek proposals for panel sessions that bring together researchers with complementary perspectives on some research topic or other issues of importance to the IS field. Panels should seek to broaden the audience's knowledge on some issue. They are often an effective way to involve academics from other disciplines or practitioners in the conference. Panel proposals should make clear the points of convergence and divergence of opinion among the panelists. Each proposal should also identify the panels likely audience from among the conference participants. Innovative panel designs are encouraged, including formats that involve audience participation.

We welcome proposals for debates. Debates are formalized discussions in which a provocative proposition is presented with clarity and eloquence and then disputed with equal effectiveness. A debate has a well-defined proposition that is debatable on the basis of facts, experience or values, at least two debaters, and a predetermined time limit for each presentation. Well-reasoned difference of opinion is critical to a debate -- straw man positions, tautologies or truisms are discouraged. Debates should address controversial research or professional issues. Proposals for debates should include a statement of the thesis or proposition to be debated, any facts with which the audience should be familiar, and evidence of the credentials for the moderator, the proponent(s) and the opponent(s). The process by which the debate will be moderated (its rules ) should be stated in the proposal. Most debates include opening and closing statements by both the proponent and opponent, and they may also allow for structured rebuttals or question periods.

We are open to innovative debate formats, for example ones that use multiple participants or structured audience participation.

------------------------------------------------------- Gabriele Piccoli, Ph.D. OMIT Department, School of Hotel Administration Cornell University 348 Statler Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: (607) 255 - 8373 eFax: (707) 922-7252 Hub: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gp45/home.htm

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