<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Track: <a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/tracks-and-minitracks/66"><font color="#000000">Strategic Use of Information Technology</font></a></span></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">CFP for Mini-Track: <a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/tracks-and-minitracks/148-suoit-scistec"><font color="#000000">Strategic and Competitive Information Systems through e-Collaboration</font></a></span></b></p>

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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">The ways of collaboration is changing!<span style>  </span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">As the advancement of information and communication technologies, there have been massive changes in the manners, approaches, and methods that people are collaborating. This mini-track seeks to make a broad inter-disciplinary contribution to the literature in the area of e-Collaboration. </span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">We are interested in original research papers on a broad range of topics related to e-Collaboration. Selected high quality papers will be possibly invited for a fast-track publication in a special issue on e-Collaboration of the Information Systems Frontiers journal (a tentative plan).<span style>  </span></span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Suggested topics include, but are limited to those on this list:</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Concepts and theoretical foundations of e-Collaboration</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">E-Collaboration technologies in Individual, group, and organizational level</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Adoption and use of e-Collaboration technology</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">E-Collaboration processes</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Knowledge management and e-Collaboration</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Social computing and e-Collaboration</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Leaning through e-Collaboration </span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Trust, security, and privacy issues on e-Collaboration</span></p>

<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt 31.5pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol;COLOR:windowtext;FONT-SIZE:12pt"><span style>·<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'">       </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Measurement and evaluation issues on e-Collaboration</span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Mini-track Co-Chairs:</span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Dan J. Kim, Ph.D. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Information Technology & Decision Sciences</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">College of Business </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">University of North Texas</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="mailto:Dan.Kim@unt.edu">Dan.Kim@unt.edu</a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ph.D.<span style>  </span></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">College of Information Science & Technology </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Institute for Collaboration Science </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">University of Nebraska at Omaha </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="mailto:gdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu"><font color="#000000">gdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Important Dates:</span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">1.<span style>      </span>January 3, 2012: Manuscript Central start accepting paper submissions</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">2.<span style>      </span>March 1, 2012 (11:59 PM PST): Deadline for paper submissions</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">3.<span style>      </span>April 6, 2012: Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">4.<span style>   </span><span style>   </span>April 25, 2012: For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">Submission process:</span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">All conference submissions must be submitted electronically through the AMCIS Manuscript Central submission system, at <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012"><font color="#000000">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012</font></a></span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif'">For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at: <a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/</a></span></p>

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