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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Apologies for cross postings</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>16th Americas Conference on Information Systems<br>
August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Call for Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Mini-track - Traveling Through the Portal: RFID Experiences
Around the Globe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>As companies expand into global marketplaces, and time to market
schedules are compressed, the ability for organizations to manage the flow of
information becomes critical. Companies have realized that technology is a key
driver to success by enabling information flows, and many recognize the
potential of radio frequency identification (RFID) to facilitate those
information flows throughout a global supply chain. In these economically
challenging times, organizations must adapt and squeeze additional efficiencies
out of their supply chain. The new economic climate opens up a whole spectrum
of possibilities for creating new RFID- based services and applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>From a diffusion of innovation perspective, RFID as an information
technology presents new challenges for understanding its initiation, adoption,
adaptation, implementation, acceptance, use, routinization, and infusion into
the supply chain. This mini-track addresses issues related to the application
of RFID within the global context. We encourage authors to share new and
interesting theoretical and methodological perspectives on topics relevant to
both academic researchers and practitioners. We invite traditional submissions
including empirical research and work in progress examining and extending
theory, as well as new paths of discovery including frameworks, case studies,
and data analytics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Topics.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> The following include suggestions for applicable topics (but not
limited to) for this mini-track:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Benefits from RFID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Challenges to RFID implementation and diffusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Changes to different industries prompted by RFID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Technical integration of RFID with other applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• RFID impact on changes to business processes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Establishing the business case(s) for RFID adoption and
diffusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• RFID impact on physical health and individual privacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• RFID impact on interorganizational collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Standards for the proliferation and use of RFID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>• Effective implementation of RFID in the global business
community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>As in previous years, the RFID mini-track is soliciting
high-quality papers. We welcome a wide variety of papers including conceptual,
empirical, analytical, qualitative analyses, and case studies on any topic that
is relevant to the RFID phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><br>
Important dates are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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January 4, 2010: Submission system begins accepting paper submissions<br>
March 1, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions (through AMCIS online submission
system)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>April 12, 2010: Notification of acceptance of papers<br>
April 26, 2010: Final camera-ready copy due<br>
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For more information, please visit <a
href="https://admin2k.fsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amcis2010.org/home/"
target="_blank">http://www.amcis2010.org/home/</a><br>
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Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Mini-track Co-Chairs<br>
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Bill Hardgrave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><a href="mailto:bhardgrave@walton.uark.edu">bhardgrave@walton.uark.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Cindy Riemenschneider<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><a href="mailto:C_riemenschneider@baylor.edu">C_riemenschneider@baylor.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Deb Armstrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><a href="mailto:djarmstrong@cob.fsu.edu">djarmstrong@cob.fsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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