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<strong><span style="color: black;">Junior Faculty Professional Development Consortium</span></strong>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">The 6th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (</span></strong><span style="color: black;">MCIS2011)</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Cyprus, September 3, 2011</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Assistant professors and lecturers early in their academic careers will get a unique opportunity to discuss their research and receive publishing advice from the Editors-in-Chief, and current and former senior editors of the leading journals in our field, including MISQ, ISR, JAIS, AIS Transactions, and EJIS.</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Faculty advisors are Ritu Agarwal, Detmar Straub, Gabriele Piccoli, Jos Vanhillegersberg, Redouane Elamrani, Gal Oestreicher-Zinger, Robert Winter, and Izak Benbasat and Dov Te'eni (co-chairs).</span>
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<span style="color: black;">Due to several requests, we have deferred the submission deadline till after ECIS to be June 20<sup>th</sup>.</span>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Application:</span></strong>
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<span style="color: black;">Selection is competitive and is based on merit. To apply, junior faculty should submit a position statement that describes their research interest. Abstracts and position statements should be 3 to 7 pages long all inclusive. Submissions should include, but not be limited to, the following: research motivation and goals, brief theoretical background, research method and approach, expected or preliminary results, and research contribution. Please format the abstracts and position statements using the template provided and submit it ahead of the deadline via the conference electronic submission system (EasyChair)</span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2011">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2011</a></span><span style="color: black;">.</span>
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<span> Inquiries or clarifications may be addressed to the consortium chairs (please indicate in email subject ‘MCIS’):</span>
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<span>Izak Benbasat (izak.benbasat@sauder.ubc.ca)</span>
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<span>Dov Te’eni (teeni@tau.ac.il)</span>
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