[AISWorld] For international researchers at the AMCIS conference

[Prashant Palvia]

August 3, 2015

Dear IS colleagues:

If you are a researcher from outside the U.S. and are participating in the
AMCIS conference in Puerto Rico, this opportunity may be of interest to
you.  Specifically, if you would like to participate in the landmark
research called “The World IT Project”, please contact me at the conference
for further information and engagement.  Please send me an email now so
that we can arrange a meeting time at the conference. Note that I will be
there from August 12 to August 16.

The World IT Project is likely to make a major imprint on IS research for
years to come. The project is designed to examine important issues
confronting IT employees, both staff and management, in many countries of
the world.  The project requires survey data collection from different
countries, representing different cultures, levels of economic growth,
societal and religious beliefs, and political systems. In terms of scope,
the project is akin to Hofstede’s research on culture and the GLOBE
project.

Specifically, the project will examine various IT employee issues, such as
organizational IT issues, technology issues, and individual issues. Among
organizational IT issues are the roles of IT strategic planning,
IT-business alignment, business process reengineering, security and
privacy, and IT reliability and efficiency, to name a few, in the nature
and experience of IT employment.  Technology issues include how cloud
computing, social media, ERP systems, business intelligence, and big data,
again to name just a few, are perceived by IT workers to influence their
jobs.  Some of the factors concerning individuals include job satisfaction,
efficacy, and role ambiguity.  For a deeper understanding of these, the
context is important.  These contextual variables include such factors as
the organizational variables (including structure and strategy),
organizational culture, IT occupational culture, and national culture.

More information is available at:
http://www.WorldITproject.com
http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/palvia/TheWorldITProject.pdf

More than 40 countries from all parts of the globe will be targeted.  The
project was initiated in mid 2013 and already 26 countries have signed up
as shown below.

Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Canada
China
Croatia
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Hungary
India
Italy
Lithuania
Macedonia
Malaysia
Mexico
Nigeria
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey
USA
Vietnam

We are seeking additional committed researchers from other countries to
join us in this endeavor.  Typically 1-3 investigators will be assigned to
each country. While we will consider any country not listed above, we are
seeking international researchers especially from the African countries,
Argentina, Chile, Egypt, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Israel,
Japan, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Peru, and U.K.

The direct benefits to you from joining The World IT Project are the
following:

-    You get readymade instrument and procedures. Your main effort is in
data collection.
-    You have access to the best expertise.
-    You will have co-authorship in several publications (conferences,
journal articles and books). This will include co-authorship using data
from your country and co-authorship in comparative studies that include
your country.
-    You will have international colleagues to collaborate with.
-    There will be tremendous opportunities for growth

Your roles and responsibilities will include the following:

-    Commit to the project and collect quality data in a timely manner.
-    Assist in writing.
-    Be responsive to project requests and deadlines.
-    Attend an annual meeting of the group to discuss project progress and
results.

The Project’s Core Team members include: Drs. Kallol Bagchi, Jaideep Ghosh,
Tim Jacks, Paul Licker, Prashant Palvia (project leader), and Aykut Hamit
Turan.

If interested in meeting at the AMCIS conference, please contact me at
pcpalvia at uncg.edu.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Prashant Palvia, Ph.D., Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor
Bryan School of Business and Economics
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
426 Bryan Building, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
Editor in Chief, JGITM, http://www.tandfonline.com/UGIT
Associate Editor, Information & Management
The World IT Project http://www.WorldITproject.com