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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Call for Papers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">September 12- 14 2010 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.mcis2010.org/" target="1"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: windowtext;">http://www.mcis2010.org/</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The MCIS conference invites paper submissions for
the </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> track on Power and Politics in IS Design and
Implementation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(Track #<em>26</em> on the EasyChair system</span>:
<span style="font-size: 4pt;"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mcis2010" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(58, 46, 181);">https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mcis2010</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody0" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">OBJECTIVES
OF THE TRACK:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Power and politics (defined as influence attempts) are
prevalent in all aspects of system implementation. In fact, there is a significant
body of literature on how issues of power and politics affect the role that CIO's
play in organizations, the negotiations that take place during the process of
system design, and aspects like pre-implementation decision making, training,
maintenance, and modification of systems. The objective of this track is to
attract quality papers that focus on these topics. </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody0" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">RECOMMENDED
TOPICS:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Topics to be discussed in
this track include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Changes
in the power of the IT unit as a function of the diffusion of new
technologies<b style=""></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CIO
as a political actor in the process of design and implementation of IS</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Impact
of cultural issues on the political aspects of system design and
implementation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Impact
of gender and other demographic variables on the power and politics of
system design and implementation </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Impact
of global issues on the political aspects of system design and implementation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Political
behavior of members of the IT function vis-à-vis the organization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Political
impact of outsourcing </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Political
role of the CIO vis-à-vis the management team, including his/her
perception and acceptance by the other members of the executive team</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politics
of changes causes by implementation of new information systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politics
of design</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politics
of implementing information systems in times of recession and downsizing</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politics
of merging systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politics
of modifications and upgrades</span></li></ul>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Researchers and practitioners
are invited to submit papers for this track<span style=""> <b><i>on or before</i></b></span><i> </i>April 15, 2010.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="htmlbody0" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody0" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instructions for submission are presented in the
conference Web Site.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">High quality papers from this track will be fast-tracked
into a special issue of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) to be edited
by Arik Ragowsky. </p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)<br>Editor-in-Chief<br>International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)<br>School of Business Administration<br>Wayne State University<br>Detroit, MI, 48202, USA<br>E-mail address: <a href="mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu">ak1667@wayne.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP">www.igi-global.com/IJEP</a><br><br><br><br>