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11.0pt">Call For Minitrack Proposals:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">"<b><u>Global, International and Cultural Issues in IS</u></b>" Track, at AMCIS 2013</span></span></p>
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<span style="orphans:2;widows:2;
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<b><u>Global, International and Cultural Issues in IS</u></b> track, at</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;color:black"> </span></span>the19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013), which will be
 held on August 15-17, 2013 in Chicago.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;color:black"> </span></span>The AMCIS 2013 theme is<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;
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 World: Anything Anywhere Anytime</span></strong>.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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This track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global information systems, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. Examples include multi-country studies, cross-national and cross cultural studies, research
 on global virtual teams, and issues relating to national and global policies affecting information systems adoption and use.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">For a detailed
 track description, please see<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=58" target="_blan ">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=58</a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><br>
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</span>Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2013;<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;color:black">  </span></span>b) soliciting and assigning
 reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2013 website.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><br>
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</span><span style="color:#222222">To submit a minitrack proposal,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;
color:#222222"> </span></b></span><span style="color:#222222">you must submit a) minitrack chairs (names,
 emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2013 website (up to 150 words); d) call for papers for your minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:<br>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222"><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/" target="_blank">http://aisel.aisnet.org/</a><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/" target="_blank"><wbr>amcis2013_minitracks/</a></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60" target="_blan ">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60" target="_blan "><wbr>index.php?option=com_content&</a><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60" target="_blan "><wbr>view=article&id=84&Itemid=60</a></span></p>
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Important Dates:<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"></span>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222">To view the full schedule of activities for minitrack chairs, visit:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#222222"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57" target="_blan ">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57" target="_blan "><wbr>index.php?option=com_content&</a><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57" target="_blan "><wbr>view=article&id=53&Itemid=57</a></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black">October 1, 2012: Submit minitrack proposals to Bepress (new submission system for AMCIS)<br>
October 18, 2012: Minitrack proposals due<br>
November 19, 2012: Revised Minitrack proposal due<br>
January 4, 2013: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2013 begin<br>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Track Chairs, AMCIS 2013 Global, International and Cultural Issues in IS Track:</span></p>
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<strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Monideepa Tarafdar, College of Business and Innovation, University of Toledo, USA,
</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:black"></span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:monideepa.tarafdar@utoledo.edu" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">monideepa.tarafdar@utoledo.edu</span></strong></a></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Edward Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at</span></strong></a></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Pnina Fichman, Indiana University Bloomington, USA</span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
color:black"><a href="mailto:fichman@indiana.edu" target="_blank">fichman@indiana.edu</a></span></p>
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