[AISWorld] CFP SIGLEAD Pre-ICIS 2015 Workshop

[Jim Denford]

CALL FOR PAPERS
2015 Pre-ICIS SIGLEAD Workshop
Leadership and the IS Profession: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Human Capital

You are invited to submit a paper for presentation and discussion at the 2015 pre-ICIS Special Interest Group (SIG) SIGLEAD workshop, to be held 1 pm to 5 pm on 13 December 2015, in Fort Worth, Texas. The mission of the AIS Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIGLead) is to:

·        Encourage and promote the study of IS leadership.

·        Create a forum for the discussion, exchange, and dissemination of information on IS Leadership.

As such, this pre-ICIS workshop is dedicated to open discussions about the most important issues today, theoretical streams and different possible ways forward. The focus of the workshop is informed discussion.

Workshop Objective

This workshop tackles new development on IS leadership and the IS profession, bringing together academic and practitioner perspectives on this critical area. Topics solicited for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

·        Educating and developing IS leaders

·        Creating sustainable IS leadership

·        IS leadership research

·        IS leadership readiness assessment

·        Attributes of effective IS leaders

·        IS technological leadership

·        Impact of IS leadership on firm performance

·        Types of IS leadership

·        Emerging issues to leaders and professionals (i.e. impact of cloud or big data on the profession)

Submission

We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be max 5000 words. Discussion papers may be short, just a few pages, but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to IS leadership and IS profession research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. The workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the SIGLEAD executive, who are the co-chairs for this activity.

Authors will have the option to have their submission published in the e-proceeding should they wish, however are under no obligation do to so. Upon confirmation of acceptance, authors will be asked whether they elect to include their paper in the e-proceedings.

Important Information

Submissions due: October 12, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: October 27, 2015
Program Publication: November 2, 2015
File Format: Word
Please submit your papers to: icis2015.siglead at gmail.com<mailto:icis2015.siglead at gmail.com>
Program will be available at on the SIGLEAD AIS website: http://aisnet.org/members/group.aspx?id=89774

Contacts

Workshop Co-Chairs/SIGLEAD Officers:

·        President – Mike Eom, University of Portland, eom at up.edu<mailto:eom at up.edu>

·        Past President – Greg Dawson, Arizona State University, gregdawson1 at gmail.com<mailto:gregorysdawson at gmail.com>

·        Treasurer – Jennifer Gerow, Virginia Military Institute, gerowje at vmi.edu<mailto:gerowje at vmi.edu>

·        Secretary – Jim Denford, Royal Military College of Canada, jim.denford at rmc.ca<mailto:jim.denford at rmc.ca>