<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><b style="">Call for Papers:
ACM SIG-MIS Computers and People Research (CPR) 2012</b><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Fifty Golden Years
of CPR: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Doubletree Hotel, Milwaukee, WI</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">May 31st-June 2nd, 2012</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">IMPORTANT DATES</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Paper submission<span style=""> </span>16th
October, 2011 </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Notification of acceptance<span style=""> </span>23rd January, 2012</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Camera-ready papers<span style=""> </span>4th
April, 2012</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Conference Theme:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For the past 50 years, ACM SIGMIS CPR has engaged the
academic and practitioner communities in understanding issues pertaining to
supply of information technology (IT) professionals, demand for their skills
and talents, and their readiness for the workplace. Many issues have evolved
and matured with changes in technology, organizational valuation of IT,
globalization, and economic downturns and upswings. The past 50 years of CPR
has witnessed several generations of IT professionals who underwent this cycle
of preparation, recruitment, and retention. As baby boomers retire, a new
generation of IT professionals presents yet another set of opportunities and
challenges for continued research. What have we learned in the past 50 years?
What do we envision as emerging issues for the next 50? On its 50th
anniversary, SIG-MIS CPR aims to reflect upon these contributions to theory and
research and identify new and emergent issues. </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Exciting Changes
to CPR</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Renamed Computers and People Research to reflect
changes that have broadened the definition of IT professionals. </p>
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</span></span></span>Expanded to include more sessions aimed at
engaging practitioners in working themes such as diversity, social inclusion,
recruiting and retention, skills, etc. Practitioner panels and round-tables
will offer ideas for research to be delivered in the following year’s conference,
creating a cycle of responsive and applied research.<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">List of Relevant
Topics:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">ACM SIG-MIS CPR 2012 welcomes research and practice
submissions that address issues congruent with the conference theme and
traditional topics related to the IT workforce.<span style="">
</span>These topics include, but are not limited to:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Career development practices of IT professionals</p>
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</span></span></span>Professional or occupational commitment in IT</p>
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</span></span></span>Motivations of computer personnel</p>
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</span></span></span>Knowledge, skills, and abilities required for
the coming decade</p>
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</span></span></span>Role profiles; job profiles</p>
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</span></span></span>Work satisfaction and staff turnover in IT</p>
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</span></span></span>Offshore supplementation impact</p>
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</span></span></span>Impact of IT consumerization and mobilization
workforce and user skills</p>
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</span></span></span>The roles of culture (organizational,
occupational or societal) in IT and IT work</p>
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</span></span></span>Diversity and cultural issues in the
development, attraction and retention of IT professionals</p>
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</span></span></span>Increasing IT enrolments, especially regarding
gender and minorities</p>
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</span></span></span>IS curriculum issues and trends</p>
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</span></span></span>Ethical and security issues</p>
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</span></span></span>Staffing models</p>
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</span></span></span>Mainframe skills shortage</p>
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</span></span></span>Baby boomer retirement and transition</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Doctoral
Consortium:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A doctoral consortium will take place on the day prior to
the conference. The consortium is targeted at students in early stages of
dissertation proposal-writing on topics pertaining to CPR to: 1) provide
feedback and guidance on proposals in stages where feedback can be beneficial
for future dissertation work and 2) provide mentoring and networking
opportunities to students.<span style=""> </span>Doctoral
students must be nominated to the consortium by a PhD advisor. Nominated
students should submit a 10-page research proposal (including all text, figures,
and references) to be reviewed by a panel of highly qualified senior faculty
mentors. The 3-5 students selected to participate in the doctoral consortium
will receive two rounds of written feedback on their proposal.<span style=""> </span>Each student will have 40-60 minutes to
present their research ideas and receive feedback in-person from six-to-eight
experienced CPR researchers. Due date for consortium submissions is same as for
papers. A limited number of travel grants are available, requests for which
must be submitted to Dr. Michael Gallivan (MGallivan@gsu.edu). Non-presenting
doctoral students are highly encouraged to participate. </p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Format of
Submissions:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">ACM SIGMIS 2012 welcomes completed research papers,
research-in-progress papers, industry case studies, and proposals for panel
discussions or tutorials. All papers must be original, unpublished elsewhere,
and in the style of MIS Quarterly.<span style=""> </span>All
submissions will be blind reviewed.<span style=""> </span></p>
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</span></span></span>Completed research papers must not exceed 5000
words or 28 double-spaced pages including all text, figures, and tables. The
cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page
count.</p>
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</span></span></span>Research-in-progress papers must not exceed 2000
words or 14 double-spaced pages including all text, figures, and tables. The
cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page
count.</p>
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</span></span></span>Panel and tutorial proposals must include the
names and affiliations of panelists who have agreed to participate and a 1-2
page summary of the topic, including a description of how the session will be
structured. </p>
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</span></span></span>Industry case studies may report specific
strategies being employed or under development to address CPR issues and should
be no longer than 3500 words. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Details on types of submissions, and the submission and
review processes can be found at: http://www.sigmis.org.<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Papers should be
submitted at:<span style=""> </span>https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=acmsigmiscpr2012</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Proceedings:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the refereed
conference proceedings which will be distributed at the conference. Full papers
will be published in their entirety. Extended abstracts will be published for
panel discussions and research-in-progress papers. All presented papers will be
considered for the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year
Award. Exemplar papers may also be invited for publication in the DATA BASE for
Advances in Information Systems – the quarterly journal publication of ACM
SIG-MIS.<span style=""> </span>Proceedings of all previous CPR
conferences are available in the ACM Digital Library at
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="">Conference
Committee</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Conference Chairs: </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Monica Adya, Marquette University
(monica.adya@marquette.edu) </p>
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</span></span></span>Bob Horton, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
(hortonb@uww.edu) </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Program Chairs</p>
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</span></span></span>Haiyan Huang, Michigan Technological University
(haiyan.huang@gmail.com) </p>
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</span></span></span>Jeria Quesenberry, Carnegie Mellon University
(jquesenberry@cmu.edu) </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Local Arrangements Chairs</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Kate M. Kaiser, Marquette University
(kate.kaiser@mu.edu)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Stephen Hawk, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
(hawks@uwp.edu) </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Treasurer</p>
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</span></span></span>Indira Guzman de Galvez, TUI University,
California (iguzman@tuiu.edu) </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Publicity<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Nita Brooks, Middle Tennessee State University
(jgbrooks@mtsu.edu)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Doctoral Consortium Chairs</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Andreas Eckhardt, Goethe University Frankfurt
(eckhardt@is-frankfurt.de) </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=""><span style="">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Michael Gallivan, Georgia State University
(MGallivan@gsu.edu) </p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Further
details may be found at the conference Web site:
http://www.sigmis.org/sigcpr2012/cpr2012.html</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></b></div></div></body></html>