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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Dear
Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>We
would like to invite you to submit a paper to the MCIS 2010 conference (<a
href="http://www.mcis2010.org">http://www.mcis2010.org</a>) and particularly to
our track on Information Economics and Business. A description of the
track is included below.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Important
dates:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Deadline
for all submissions: May 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Notification
of acceptance: July 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Camera-ready
versions: July 15, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Conference:
September 12-14, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;direction:ltr;
unicode-bidi:embed'>5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems - MCIS
2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;direction:ltr;
unicode-bidi:embed'>Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;direction:ltr;
unicode-bidi:embed'>Track proposal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;direction:ltr;
unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;direction:ltr;
unicode-bidi:embed'>Track title: <b>Information Economics and Business </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Track
description: <b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Information
is a constant challenge to economic theory and business practice. It is
ubiquitous and still hard to find on demand, over-abundant and still
insufficiently available to decision-makers, subject to private ownership while
it is, by nature, meant to be free. The increased digitization of information
and the rise of the Internet as key medium that accommodates it as both
"stocks" and "flows" account for a wide range of innovative
developments in managing information at large. The Economics of Information,
born as a stand-alone discipline in the pre-digital phase of the
post-industrial age, is now facing the challenge of shaping the underlying
rationalities applicable to dealing with information across organizations,
markets, communities and networks. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Organizational
boundaries are blurred when it comes to information systems. Technologies that
were conceived in the public domain find their way to organizational
applications. Systems that were previously well-defined products are turning
more and more into service models which are provided by external suppliers. How
do companies monetize previously non-marketable technologies or information
resources? How do decision makers evaluate such systems and resources? Are
the known business models sufficient or are new models needed to sustain the
technological and cultural changes brought about by the advent of creative
industries and the rise of the creative class? These are some of the questions
that this track wishes to address.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>We
invite submissions of papers (academic and practical, full research and
research-in-progress) </b><b>dealing with, but not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>IS
investment decisions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>IS
performance and ROI<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>New
information business models <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Information
markets<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Innovative
pricing of digital goods<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>The
value of information<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Web
2.0-based collaborative economy<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b>Proprietary
vs. Open Source Software <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MainText style='text-indent:0cm;line-height:150%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Digital
information: fee or free ?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>We
look forward to receiving your submissions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Daphne
Raban and Horatiu Dragomirescu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=RTL><span lang=HE style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=RTL><span dir=LTR><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Daphne Raban, Ph.D.</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>School
of Management and C.R.I.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University
of Haifa</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:draban@gsb.haifa.ac.il" title="mailto:draban@gsb.haifa.ac.il"><span
style='color:blue'>draban@gsb.haifa.ac.il</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~draban/home"
title="http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~draban/home"><span style='color:blue'>http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~draban/home</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://ci.haifa.ac.il"><span style='color:blue'>http://ci.haifa.ac.il</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=RTL><span dir=LTR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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