[AISWorld] GITMA 2014 - Submission Deadline is midnight, January 27, 2014

Prashant Palvia pcpalvia at uncg.edu
Mon Jan 27 12:19:58 EST 2014


The GITMA submission deadline is today (January 27 midnight).  Please be
sure to submit your papers and panel/workshop proposals.

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Dear ISWorld Listserv Members:

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the upcoming 15th annual
Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) conference to
be held June 22-24, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The GITMA conference brings researchers, educators and practitioners
together from around the world and fosters an atmosphere conducive to the
supportive presentation of emerging and mature research ideas.
 Internationally based collaborations, cross-disciplinary research
alliances, doctoral student connections and international data collection
efforts always result from the GITMA conference.

Our conference encourages the exchange of research on topics related to
international IT topics.  We typically have representation of scholars from
many nations at our annual conference, and welcome you to join us this year.

The tracks for the GITMA conference include the following:

-  Information Technology in Europe:  The development, adoption, diffusion
and use of IT in Europe  (Track Chair, Pierluigi Rippa, Università di
Napoli Federico II)
-  Information Technology in Asia:  The development, adoption, diffusion
and use of IT in Asia (Track Chair, Haji Afzaal Seyal, Institute Technology
Brunei)
-  Issues in Global Information Security:  Developing and using measures to
improve information security  (Track Chair, Humayun Zafar, Kennesaw State
University)
-  IT in the International Hospitality Industry:  The development,
adoption, diffusion and deployment of IT in the hospitality industry (Track
Chairs, Naveed Baqir, University of Delaware, and Ajay Aluri, West Virginia
University)
-  IT for Social Benefit in Developing Countries:  The development and
deployment of IT to advance social causes (Track Chair, Choton Basu,
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
-  Cross Cultural Issues in International IT Deployment:  The role of
culture in implementation of IT (Track Chairs, Amy Woszczynski, Kennesaw
State University and Tim Jacks, Southern Illinois University)
-  Global E-Commerce:  The use of information technology in global business
(Track Chair, Praveen Pinjani, Delaware State University)
-  Global IT Innovation:  Acceleration of commercialization and industry
through the use of innovative IT (Track Chair, Jaideep Ghosh, George Mason
University)
-  Strategic Applications of International IT Infrastructures:  Developing
and deploying strategic applications of IT globally (Track Chairs, Jerry
Chang, UNLV, Mahesh Raisinghani, Texas Women’s University)
-  Health Information Systems IT:  Utilization of Information technology
for health (Track Chair, Raj Sharman, SUNY Buffalo School of Management)
-  Leadership in IT:  Issues that pertain to leadership of organizations in
the IT industry and/or leadership of the IT function within organizations
(Track Chairs, Kevin Lowe, University of North Carolina- Greensboro, and
Oran Alston, West Virginia University)
-  Social Media:  Issues pertaining to the value of social media in the
international context (Track Chair:  Anil Kumar, Central Michigan
University)
-  ePolitics:  The politics of using information systems (Track Chair,
Celia Romm Livermore, Wayne State University)
-  Enterprise IT Management:  This track focuses on (1) the IT Deployment
and Management, and (2) the Support of the Enterprise IT Customers (Track
Chairs, Kathy Hartzel, Duquesne University and Karen Patten, University of
South Carolina)
-  IS and Economics:  Economics of Information Technologies (Track Chair,
Virginia Kleist, West Virginia University)
-  Supply Chain Management:  Managing global information flows for
production supply chains (Track Chairs, Martin Nunlee, Delaware State
University, Ednilson Bernardes, West Virginia University)
-  Global Big Data:  Societal, legal and global issues of big data,
including privacy issues, comparative regulatory and legal structures, and
cultural differences (Track Chair:  Bill Spangler, Duquesne University)
-  Mobile IT:  Communication and networking across mobile platforms  (Track
Chair, Nanda Surendra, West Virginia University)
-  Diversity and Inclusion in IS:  Issues associated with inclusivity and
underrepresented groups in technology across cultures and nations (Track
Chairs, Lakshmi Iyer, University of North Carolina- Greensboro, Meera
Joseph, University of Johannesburg)
-  Student Research Colloquium:  Graduate student research presentations
(Track Chairs, Dolphy Abraham, Alliance University- Bangalore, Mahesh
Raisinghani, Texas Women’s University)

Our keynote speakers include Paul A. Pavlou, Ph.D., Milton F. Stauffer
Professor of Information Technology and Strategy, at the Fox School of
Business at Temple University, and the CIO of Mattel, Inc., Mr. Paul
Rasmusson.  More program information will become available on our web site:
http://worlditproject.com/2014-gitma-conference

Papers and papers/workshop proposals are to be submitted to the following
link by 12 midnight, January 27, 2014:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=gitma2014

Submissions (full papers, work in progress or extended abstracts) are
welcomed (format details here:
http://worlditproject.com/2014-gitma-conference/call-for-papers-2014 ).
Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.
 Selected papers will be considered for journal publication in JGITM,
JITCAR and JIPS.

Thank you.

Praveen Pinjani
Associate Professor, MIS
Delaware State University

Virginia Kleist, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, MIS
West Virginia University
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