[AISWorld] Reposting CFP: ACM SIGMIS CPR 2017 Conference on Digital Transformation: The Changing Nature of Organizations, Work and Societies

[Shirish SRIVASTAVA]

Apologies for reposting, but we noticed a typo in the acceptance date and
are reposting the CFP with the correct date.

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*ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research 2017 Conference*

*Digital Transformation: The Changing Nature of Organizations, Work and
Societies*

*Location: Bengaluru, IndiaJune 21-23, 2017*

Conference website: http://sigmis.org/sigcpr2017/
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigmiscpr2017

*IMPORTANT DATES*
Submission deadline                                    January 1, 2017
Notification of acceptance                            February 15, 2017
Camera-ready version                                  March 25, 2017

For over 50 years, ACM SIGMIS CPR has engaged the academic and practitioner
communities in understanding issues pertaining to the Information
Technology (IT) workforce, including supply of IT professionals, demand for
their skills and talents, and their readiness for the workplace. We are
delighted to welcome the 2017 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference to be held in
garden city of India, Bengaluru, from June 21-23, 2017. The vibrant city of
Bengaluru, known for its techno-entrepreneurial spirit and popularly
referred to as the Silicon Valley of India, provides the right environment
to deliberate on issues related to the transformational nature of IT.

As in prior years, ACM SIGMIS CPR 2017 welcomes research and practice
submissions that address issues congruent with various topics related to
computers and people research. These topics include, but are not limited to:

·    IT knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the 21st century
workplace
·    Career development practices of IT professionals
·    IT work satisfaction, commitment and staff turnover
·    IT job roles and profiles
·    Outsourcing and offshoring of IT work
·    Cross-cultural collaboration in global IT work and virtual teams
·    Impact of IT mobilization on the IT workforce and users skills
·    IT in civil right protests and movements
·    IT in educational outreach
·    The roles of culture (organizational, occupational or societal) in IT
and IT work
·    Diversity issues in the development, attraction and retention of IT
professionals
·    Impact of the global recession on new models for the recruitment and
retention of the IT labor force
·    IT staffing models and skills shortages
·    IS curriculum issues and trends
·    Ethical and security issues in IT use
·    Replications of prior SIGMIS CPR studies
·    IT in emergency/crisis management
·    IT in political/social movements
·    The impact of social media on traditional media coverage of national
events


*2017 Conference*

In addition to our traditional focus on issues pertaining to the IT
workforce, this year’s conference includes a special theme aiming to
consider how theory and research can help understand role of the changing
nature of work and societies through digital transformation.

*Digital Transformation – The Changing Nature of Organizations, Work and
Societies: *

The current rapidly changing technological landscape is providing
organizations and individuals new tools for working, communication and
collaboration. Increasingly, smartphones and mobile commerce are changing
our buying and consumer behaviors; wearable fitness trackers are making us
more health conscious; social media and social networks are shifting the
ways humans interact and collaborate together; start-ups are revamping
business models by utilizing digital connections to fuel a sharing economy;
and digital transformations are being used to address concerns of health,
education and civic engagement. IT can empower organizations, communities,
and societies to improve the world through positive connection,
interaction, and presence.  In addition, the way that we engage, understand
and communicate around major events in communities, on the national
landscape, and in the media has solidified a legitimate role for technology
for years to come. Hence, digital technologies are enabling the
transformation not only of business and organizations, but also of how
people experience work and life. It is an important issue for both research
and practice.

We invite studies examining digital transformation and the changing nature
of organizations, work and societies. Given the interdisciplinary nature of
the theme, we encourage submissions addressing multiple levels of analysis
(individual, team, organization, and social), and drawing on a variety of
perspectives (business management, information technology, systems, and
sciences, computer science, economics, sociology, psychology, etc.).
Suggested topics include:

·      Impacts of digital transformation on work and societies.
·      Influence of individuals, work and societies on digital
transformation.
·      Individual and organizational strategies for coping with the rapidly
changing digital landscape.
·      Ways in which work and personal lives are merging.
·      Emerging structures of work for organizations, individuals and
societies.

*Doctoral Consortium*

A doctoral consortium will take place on the day prior to the conference.
This doctoral consortium is targeted for students who are at an early stage
of writing their dissertation proposal (typically in the 2nd or 3rd year in
a doctoral program), and who are conducting research on a CPR-related
topic. The purpose of the consortium is two-fold: 1) provide feedback and
guidance to students on their proposal while at a stage where feedback can
be considered for future dissertation work, and 2) provide mentoring and
networking opportunities to students who wish to pursue careers as CPR
researchers.

Doctoral students must be nominated to the consortium by a faculty sponsor.
Students nominated for the consortium should submit a 10-page research
proposal (including all text, figures, and references) to be reviewed by a
panel of highly qualified senior faculty mentors. The 10-15 doctoral
students selected to participate in the doctoral consortium will receive
one round of written feedback on their proposal. At the conference, each
student will have 15-20 minutes to present their research ideas and receive
feedback in-person from experienced CPR researchers and fellow consortium
participants. The doctoral consortium will allow activities in plenary mode
and intense workshop sessions in smaller groups. The submission deadline
for doctoral consortium application is the same as the general submission
deadline.

Grants will be available to assist with travel and registration fees to
students selected for the doctoral consortium.

*Student Research Competition*

Students’ posters and demo submissions will be entered into the ACM Student
Research Competition. Qualified entrants must have current ACM student
membership, have graduate or undergraduate student status at the time of
submission (January 2017), and be the only student working on the project.
While not mandatory, entrants are encouraged to submit a letter from their
advisor describing the specific contributions made by the student.
Undergraduate and Graduate students will be treated in separate divisions
(students starting their first year of graduate school at the time of the
conference will be considered as undergraduates). The submission deadline
for student research competition is the same as the general submission
deadline.

*Poster Session*

Posters/demo sessions provide an opportunity to showcase work-in-progress
in an informal setting. We strongly encourage practitioners and industry
experts, and doctoral, masters, undergraduate, community college and high
school research student submissions. The poster / demo session will be
given wide visibility and opportunities for interaction during the
conference.

The SIGMIS CPR 2017 Poster and Demo committee will review all posters and
demo proposals (see Format of Submissions). Authors of accepted posters
must present at the conference and have a printed version of the abstract
or poster to handout to attendees. A poster is A0 paper size in portrait
mode (841 × 1189mm), to which you can affix visually appealing material
that describes your research. Alternatively, you can use the space as a
continuum. You should prepare the best material (visually appealing and
succinct) that effectively communicates your research problem, techniques,
results, and what is novel/important about the work. The submission
deadline for the posters is the same as the general submission deadline.

*Virtual Presentations*

Although the CPR 2017 conference committees plan to make attending the CPR
2017 conference in Bengaluru, India both a delightful and an enriching
experience, we also realize that traveling to India to attend this
conference can be expensive. Therefore, we will continue the tradition of
“virtual presentations” that was first started at CPR 2014 in Singapore. We
hope this “virtual” presentation will encourage participation in the
conference by SIGMIS scholars from the US and Europe, particularly by those
members of the SIGMIS community who are active and regular contributors to
the CPR conference and would like to submit and present their research at
CPR 2017 but who may not be able to travel to India next year to attend and
present at the conference. However, any conference provides not only an
outlet for presenting one’s work but also a forum for mingling and
socializing with fellow scholars in the field. Therefore, virtual
presentations will be limited for up to 6-8 accepted papers (in two
sessions) that authors can present virtually using video-conferencing
capabilities available at IIM Bangalore. The same acceptance criteria will
apply to these papers as to other papers submitted to the conference.
Reduced conference registration fees will apply for authors whose papers
are selected for virtual presentations and who are not physically attending
the conference. Please note that video-conferencing capabilities will be
available only during the virtual presentation sessions and virtual
presenters will not be able to attend any other session virtually.

*Format of Submissions*

ACM SIGMIS CPR 2017 welcomes completed research papers,
research-in-progress papers, industry case studies, or proposals for panel
discussions or tutorials. All papers must be original, unpublished
elsewhere, and submitted on the ACM SIG proceedings template available for
download from https://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
All reviewing will be double-blind.

●    Completed research papers must not exceed 5000 words including all
text, figures, and tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and
references are excluded from this page count.

●    Research-in-progress papers must not exceed 2000 words including all
text, figures, and tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and
references are excluded from this page count.

●    Panel and tutorial proposals must include the names and affiliations
of panelists who have agreed to participate and a 1-2 page summary of the
topic, including a description of how the session will be structured.

●    Industry case studies may report specific strategies being employed or
under development to address CPR issues and should be no longer than 3500
words including all text, figures, and tables. The cover page, abstract,
keywords, and references are excluded from this page count.

●    Research proposals: Students nominated for the doctoral consortium
should submit a 10-page research proposal (including all text, figures, and
references) to be reviewed by a panel of highly qualified senior faculty
mentors.

●    Posters/demo sessions must include a two-page abstract in PDF format
describing what the poster would present. The abstract should clearly
state: (a) the problem being addressed; (b) what makes this problem
interesting, important, and difficult; (c) your approach to the problem;
and (d) the key contribution. In the final version of the abstract, you
should include a URL that provides additional information about your work.

*Proceedings*

Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the refereed conference
proceedings, which will be distributed at the conference. Completed
research and case study papers will be published in their entirety.
Extended abstracts will be published for panel discussions and
research-in-progress papers. All presented papers will be considered for
the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award. The Magid
Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper and other exemplar papers will be
invited for publication in the DATA BASE for Advances in Information
Systems—the quarterly journal publication of ACM SIGMIS. Proceedings of all
previous CPR conferences are available in the ACM Digital Library at
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm.

*Conference Location*

The conference will be hosted on the iconic campus of Indian Institute of
Management Bangalore (IIMB) (http://www.iimb.ernet.in). A 100-acre oasis in
south Bengaluru, the Equis-accredited IIMB is a premier management
Institute in India with many accolades to its credit. Located in India’s
high technology capital, IIMB is in close proximity to some of the leading
corporate houses in the country, ranging from information technology to
consumer product companies, giving it the added advantage of integrating
classroom knowledge with practical experience. The conference facilities
include a world-class auditorium and state-of-the-art break-out rooms for
parallel sessions equipped with full audio-visual equipment and seamless Wi
Fi. The verdant campus with its all-stone architecture, statuesque columns,
and hidden open spaces creates a lasting impression on visitors and
residents alike.

>From a dusky town of seventies with mild weather and numerous lakes,
Bengaluru has emerged as a leading global city of the twenty first century
boasting modernity amidst tradition. The city is a unique blend of
modernity and heritage which is reflected in its architecture, cuisine, and
the way of life. Local attractions in Bengaluru include the Bengaluru
Palace and the Fort of Tipu Sultan which tell the tales of changing
thrones, deceit, wars, defeats, and victories of the Deccan Plateau. Later
additions to the city, which enrich the existing beauty, include the High
Court, St. Mary’s Basilica, Vidhana Soudha, and ISKCON Temple. Together
with the neighboring cities of Kolar (67 km), Mysore (143 km), and Hampi, a
UNESCO world heritage site (343 km), Bengaluru has retained the history and
culture of the Vijayanagara empire (1336-1565 AD), which excelled in the
Hindu temple architecture. Bengaluru does not only satisfy the appetite for
built environment lovers but is also the nest of nature housing
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary and Bannerghatta Biological Park. Driving
little further away from the hustle bustle of the main city, one can escape
into the dense vegetation of Bandipur and enjoy elephant rides into the
forest in search of big cats in the reserves of Bandipur, Mudumalai, and
Masinagudi (approx. 235 km).

*Conference Committee*

*Conference Co-Chairs*
Rajendra K. Bandi (rbandi at iimb.ernet.in)
Rajiv Kishore (rkishore at buffalo.edu)

*Program Co-Chairs*
Daniel Beimborn (d.beimborn at fs.de)
Rajeev Sharma (rajeev.sharma at uts.edu.au)
Shirish C. Srivastava (srivastava at hec.fr)

*Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs*
Benoit Aubert (benoit.aubert at vuw.ac.nz)
Genevieve Bassellier (genevieve.bassellier at mcgill.ca)
Deepa Mani (deepa_mani at isb.edu)

*Registration Co-Chairs*
Monica Adya - http://business.marquette.edu/faculty/directory/monica-adya
Sangeeta Bharadwaj - http://www.mdi.ac.in/faculty/detail/27-sangeeta-
shah-bharadwaj/


Best,

*Shirish C. SRIVASTAVA*

Associate Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management (ISOM)
Department,

HEC, Paris, Jouy en Josas Cedex, France 78351

Tel: +33-(0)1-3967-9566; Fax: +33-(0)1-3967-9415
e-mail: srivastava at hec.fr <e-mail:%20srivastava at hec.fr>; website:
http://www.hec.edu/Faculty-Research/Faculty-Directory/SRIVASTAVA-Shirish-C