[AISWorld] Call for Nominations - Doctoral Consortium of PACIS 2011

[Jae-Nam Lee]

Dear Colleagues,

 

Nominations are invited for the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information
Systems (PACIS) 2011 Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on 7-8
July 2011, immediately prior to the PACIS 2011 Conference, in Brisbane,
Queensland.

 

 

Important Dates:

Ÿ   Nomination Deadline: April 4, 2011

Ÿ   Notification of Acceptance: April 29, 2011

Ÿ   Camera Ready Copy Due: May 19, 2011

 

Call for Nominations:

Universities are invited to nominate candidates for the consortium. Eligible
candidates are Ph.D. students in Information Systems (IS), who have
developed a plan for pursuing their dissertation, and would benefit from
constructive feedback from senior faculty in the field. The consortium aims
to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to share their research
ideas and network with peers and experienced scholars serving as faculty
advisors. Participating students will receive high quality feedback from
faculty advisors, who are eminent researchers in the field, associated with
leading institutions around the globe, serving in senior editorial positions
in the field’s top journals. This consortium will be a significant event for
emerging IS researchers in the Asia Pacific region. 

 

Nomination Eligibility:

·         Ph.D. students who are currently working on a doctoral
dissertation in Information Systems, and whose research has progressed to
the point where a clear plan of investigation has been laid out, but there
is sufficient scope for changes to this plan based on feedback from the
consortium. 

·         The ideal consortium candidate should have chosen a theoretical
approach and initiated planning or implementation of empirical work, but
should have at least six months of work remaining at the time of the
consortium. 

·         The nominated candidates must be sufficiently proficient in
English to participate in the consortium, since the language of the
consortium will be English. 

·         Participation is not restricted to students from the Asia-Pacific
region. We invite nominations internationally from any university that has a
Ph.D. program in IS. 

 

Nomination Process:

Ÿ In the interests of diversity and equity, more than one nomination is
allowed from any single institution, but we require that the nominees be
ranked. Note that the first-ranked nominees will have equal chance against
other top ranked or sole nominees. The 2nd ranked nominees would only be
considered after all 1st ranked/sole nominees.

Ÿ Students must be nominated by an IS faculty member. The nomination should
follow the guidelines below: 

n  A submitted proposal should outline the research topic, research
question(s), theoretical foundations, proposed methodology, current stage of
the research, and plans for completion. 

n  The proposal should meet the requirements of research-in-progress (RIP)
submissions for PACIS, since accepted proposals will be published in the
conference proceedings as RIP papers. 

n  The proposal must not exceed 7 single-spaced pages and must conform to
the RIP  <http://mlaa.com.au/pacis2011/PACIS2011_Word_template.dot> word
template (click here to download). The 7 pages must include all text,
figures, tables, and appendices, but exclude the cover page, abstract,
keywords, and references. Please note that the length restriction is strict;
proposals that do not follow the requirements will not be considered.

n  A cover page should show the candidate’s full name, affiliation
(university and school/department), and all contact details including name,
mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. The candidate
should also indicate the name(s) of his or her principal faculty
supervisors. 

n  A nomination letter from either the director of the IS doctoral program,
the IS department’s chairperson, or the candidate’s thesis/dissertation
advisor should certify that that the candidate is the nominee from the
university/institution, and that the candidate meets the eligibility
criteria mentioned above. 

n  A completed Nomination Information sheet (click here to download.)  

 

Selection Process:

A group of PACIS Consortium faculty will assess the submitted nominations on
the basis of the rigor, relevance, the potential contribution that the
student can make to the consortium, and the potential benefit the consortium
can have from the student’s research. 

 

Consortium Schedule:

Consortium activities will commerce with Registration and Introductions in
the afternoon on Thursday, 7th July, followed by a welcome dinner. Formal
events are scheduled all day on the 8th July, which will focus on providing
constructive feedback to students on their research. 

 

The Consortium will include a balanced mix of students representing diverse
research topics, methods, schools and cultures. The number of attendees will
be limited to 24, organized into 4 streams of 6 students. Each student will
present his or her research in a designated stream led by three faculty
advisors, who will have carefully reviewed the student submissions.
Participants are required to have carefully reviewed all proposals in their
stream prior to the Consortium so that they are prepared to contribute to
the discussion on each student’s research.

 

Registration and Cost:

·         Accepted consortium students are asked to register for the main
conference by the early-bird date, and receive further feedback on their
research at a poster session. 

·         There is no charge for the consortium, but home institutions are
encouraged to provide financial assistance to successful nominees in the
form of travel and accommodation aid. Low-cost accommodation is available at
the University of Queensland for the duration of the consortium. More
detailed information will be provided on acceptance.

 

Submission Contact Information:

·         Please contact Jae-Nam Lee (isjnlee at korea.ac.kr) if you have any
question about the consortium.

·         You can submit your proposals through EasyChair. When submitting
your proposal, you must select the consortium as a track. 

 

PACIS 2010 Doctoral Consortium Faculty Advisors:

Ÿ Cynthia Beath (University of Texas Austin)

Ÿ Detmar Straub (Georgia State University)

Ÿ Hock-Hai Teo (National University of Singapore)

Ÿ Jae-Kyu Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Ÿ James Jiang (Australian National University)

Ÿ James Thong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Ÿ Joey George (Florida State University)

Ÿ Ming-Hui Huang (National Taiwan University)

Ÿ TP Liang (City University of Hong Kong; National Sun Yat-sen University)

Ÿ Tung Bui (University of Hawaii)

Ÿ Viswanath Venkatesh (University of Arkansas)

Ÿ Youngjin Yoo (Temple University)

 

PACIS 2010 Doctoral Consortium Local Organization Chair:

Ÿ Dr. Marta Indulska (Business School, University of Queensland)

 

PACIS 2010 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:

Professor Jae-Nam Lee

Korea University Business School

isjnlee at korea.ac.kr

 

Professor Ji-Ye Mao

Renmin University of China

 <mailto:jymao at ruc.edu.cn> jymao at ruc.edu.cn 

 

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