[AISWorld] Call for Participation: 12th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2013), Berlin/Germany

[Key Pousttchi]

Dear colleagues,

after ECIS, the next conference highlight is just around the corner: Next
week will see ICMB in Berlin. The final program is now available on:
www.mbusiness2013.org . ICMB is an AIS-affiliated conference.

We expect not only fantastic weather in Berlin but also a high-quality
conference program and great networking opportunities around mobile business
- including a welcome reception high above Potsdamer Platz, a spectacular
science-meets-industry evening and a panel discussion on m-business
researchers' role in IS research, including participants for JAIS, MISQ,
MISQE, Telecommunications Policy and BI-SE (the major German IS journal).

ICMB is dedicated to all topics around mobile business and to an open and
pluralistic view on research methodology.

The conference will be followed by a special issue of IJEC, the best papers
of the conference will be complemented by an open call for papers with a
submission deadline in December.

Hope to see many of you next week in Berlin,
Key Pousttchi,
Jan Ondrus,
Kalle Lyytinen.


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE BUSINESS (ICMB 2013)

Berlin, 10-13 June 2013
www.mbusiness2013.org


CONFERENCE

Mobile business changed a lot in the last twelve years, rising from a niche
topic - all the way along the Gartner hype cycle - to one of the most
relevant issues for many of today's businesses and researchers. Mobility
changes users' daily lives in its private as well as in its professional
part. Mobile business created own ecosystems, constantly changes them and
even begins to change existing ecosystems in the real world, redistributing
market power in consumer-oriented industries and revolutionizing business
processes in all industries that include mobility aspects or mobile workers.
In the future, we will see mobility as the invisible norm.
Founded in 2002 in Athens, ICMB developed to the major international
research conference on mobility and mobile business. It included scenes such
as New York, Sydney and Dalian. The 2013 edition will take place in Berlin,
Germany, from 10-13 June 2013 and will be hosted by the wi-mobile Research
Group of the University of Augsburg, together with the SIG Mobility and
Mobile IS of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference is aimed at
addressing a key theme on „Mobility — the invisible norm“.
The core of ICMB 2013 is a two-day academic conference program. Acceptance
of submitted papers will be based on quality, relevance and originality.
Further ICMB 2013 events will include a workshop program, a doctoral
consortium with renowned scholars and industry visits in Berlin. ICMB 2013
will be co-located with MMS 2013, the national conference on Mobility and
Mobile IS of the German Informatics Society. 

Since this year, ICMB 2013 is an AIS-affiliated conference. Proceedings of
ICMB 2013 will be made available on AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). There
will be a journal special issue for outstanding papers, negotiations are
underway. 


COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR
Key Pousttchi, University of Augsburg, Germany

PROGRAM CHAIR
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Jan Ondrus, ESSEC Business School, France

RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS
Stuart Barnes, Norwich Business School, UK 
George Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece 
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
Saonee Sarker, Washington State University, USA 
Detlef Schoder, University of Cologne, Germany 
Eusebio Scornavacca, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Ravi Sharma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Chuan-Hoo Tan, City University Hongkong, China 
Frédéric Thiesse, University of Würzburg, Germany 
David Tilson, University of Rochester, USA 
Samuel Fosso Wamba, University of Wollongong, Australia

PHD CONSORTIUM CHAIR
Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Berlin, Germany

ORGANIZING CHAIR
Laura Becker, University of Augsburg, Germany
Yvonne Hufenbach, University of Augsburg, Germany