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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Due to a number of requests for extensions, the call for papers for the EMCIS2011 has been extended until Monday 31<sup>st</sup> January, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>8TH European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2011)<br>Annual Conference & Doctoral Consortium <br>Athens, Greece, 30 – 31 May, 2011<br><a href="http://www.emcis.org">www.emcis.org</a> <br>‘Informing Responsible Management: Sustainability in Emerging Economies’<br><br><b>Keynote Speaker:<br></b><br>Prof. Feng Li, UK<br>Dr. Kyriakos Souliotis, Greece<br><br>Conference: May, 30-31, 2011<br>PhD Consortium: May 31, 2011<br>Venue: Divani Apollon Hotel, Athens, GREECE<br><a href="https://cas.brunel.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=6e27d24462c04bb19ec9fa7a92409ae7&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.emcis.org" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "cas.brunel.ac.uk" claiming to be</b></font> www.emcis.org</a><br><br>European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) a grade (B) conference, entering its 8th year is one of the premier conferences in Europe and Middle Eastern region covering technical, organisational, business and social issues in the application of Information Technology. EMCIS 2011 will host several themes across parallel tracks covering a diverse breadth of current issues. Accepted papers will be published in the online conference proceedings with an ISBN number available through the EMCIS conference website ensuring knowledge sharing across the wider research community.<br><br><b>Background<br></b><br>In the current economic downturn, managers and academics in the IS discipline continue to contemplate over the critical challenges of how to integrate technologies to transform organisational performance within emerging economies. While striving to meet such an objective, organisations need to consider responsible management in the adoption and implementation of IT. Regardless of numerous research studies offering significant empirical findings, the area of sustainability and responsible management in Information Technology and Information Systems (IT/IS) is currently at the forefront and a priority for practitioners and top managers in both private and public sectors. Stakeholders (including citizens/customers, businesses etc) anticipate private and public sector organisations to furnish IS solutions that go beyond efficiency, effectiveness and focus more on sustainability facilitated by responsible management. Globalisation, environmental disasters and social hardship caused by organisations have changed society's expectations regarding the way businesses operate. Organisations have reacted by developing a 'total responsibility approach' to management, combining the drive for financial results with the goal to live up to their social and environmental responsibility. In this context, EMCIS 2011 aims to exploit and help develop the array of different initiatives at national and international levels, promoting the concept.<br><br><br><b>Theme:</b> 'Informing Responsible Management: Sustainability in Emerging Economies’<br><br>The EMCIS conference committee takes this opportunity to extend an invitation to academics and practitioners in the field of IS and Business Management to submit your paper for its 8th annual conference held in Athens, Greece. The emphasis of the conference this year will be on high quality, theoretical and/or applied research relating IS to the different disciplines of corporate and academic services in emerging economies, highlighting the importance of sustainability adoption across the various tracks.<br><br>Selected papers will be considered for publication in:<br>- Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM)<br>- Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TG:PPP)<br>- International Journal of Value Chain Management (IJVCM)<br>- International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS)<br><br><br><b>Conference Tracks:<br></b><br>· Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Systems<br><br>· Technical Issues in Technology Management<br><br>· E-Government & IT in Public Sector<br><br>· IT in Healthcare<br><br>· Social and Cultural Issues of Information Systems<br><br>· Management and Organisational Issues in Information Systems<br><br>· E-Business, E-Commerce and Web Service<br><br>· E-Learning and Knowledge Management<br><br>· Accounting Information Systems<br><br>· Sustainable Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><br><b>Important Dates:<br></b>Submission deadline: January 31, 2011<br>Submit to: <a href="mailto:emcis@brunel.ac.uk">emcis@brunel.ac.uk</a> <br>Notification: March 14, 2011<br>Camera Ready Submission: April 4, 2011<br><br><b>Submissions Guidelines:</b><br>For more information about the submission guidelines, format and templates please visit: <a href="https://cas.brunel.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=6e27d24462c04bb19ec9fa7a92409ae7&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.emcis.org" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "cas.brunel.ac.uk" claiming to be</b></font> www.emcis.org</a><br><br><b>Communication:</b><br><a href="mailto:info@emcis.org">info@emcis.org</a> <br><br><b>Foundation Chair:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Prof. Zahir Irani, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Conference Chairs:</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim, Brunel University, UK<br>Asst. Prof. Marinos Themistocleous, Piraeus University, Greece<br><br><b>Program Chairs:</b><br>Dr. Maged Ali, UK<br><br><b>Publications Chair:</b><br>Dr. Dimitrios Koufopoulos, UK<br><br><b>Conference Executive Committee:</b><br>Dr. Sarmad AlShawi, UK - (Arrangements Chair)<br>Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli, UK - (Public Relations Chair)<br>Dr. Muhammad Kamal, UK - (Website Coordinator)<br>Dr. Evripidis Loukis, Greece (Local Organising Committee)<br><br><b>International Committee:</b><br>Prof. Peter E.D. Love, Curtin University of Technology, Australia<br>Prof. Vincenzo Morabito, Bocconi University, Italy<br>Dr. Mohamed Ali Akour, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dr. Inas Ezz, Sadat University, GUC, Egypt<br>Dr. Paulo Rupino Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>Mr. Ahmed Mouradi, Academy of Healthcare Sciences, Egypt<br><br><b>Doctoral Consortium:</b><br>Dr. Tony Elliman, Brunel University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kindest regards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ahmad <br> <br>Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim<br>Lecturer of eBusiness and Information Systems<br>Brunel Business School<br>Brunel University<br>Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH<br>United Kingdom<br>Tel: +44 (01895) 265 176<br>Fax: +44 (01895) 269 775 <br><br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:Ahmad.Ghoneim@brunel.ac.uk">Ahmad.Ghoneim@brunel.ac.uk</a> <br>URL: <a href="http://www.iseing.org/">http://www.iseing.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.iseing.org/emcis/EMCISWebsite/EMCISMainPage.html"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=68 height=19 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CBB0E0.DFAC3940" alt="http://www.iseing.org/emcis/EMCIS2010/images/EMCIS-Logo-Small.gif"></span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black'>2011,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.iseing.org/emcis/EMCIS2010/default.htm">30, 31 May 2011,</a></span><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.iseing.org/emcis/EMCIS2010/default.htm">Athens,</a> Greece</span></u><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>