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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please consider submitting your
paper to <b style>Culture and Global IT/IS
Management</b> track at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS
2013) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white"><span class="apple-converted-space"></span></span><a href="http://www.pacis2013.org/main/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1155cc;background:white">http://www.pacis2013.org</span></a> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">scheduled to be held at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white">Jeju Island, Korea,
June 18th to 22nd,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="il"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:#ffffcc">2013</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track
Co-Chairs </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Shirish C. Srivastava, HEC Paris, </span><a href="mailto:srivastava@hec.fr"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">srivastava@hec.fr</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
Chee Wei Phang, Fudan University, </span><a href="mailto:phangcw@fudan.edu.cn"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">phangcw@fudan.edu.cn</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<a href="mailto:phangcw@fudan.edu.cn"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track
Description </span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The issue of culture has become increasingly
pertinent due to the needs for global market expansion and tapping into global
talent pool in response to the dynamic opportunities as well as uncertainties
today. Even large organizations such as McDonalds, Disney, and Starbucks etc.
had to grapple with multifarious 'cultural bottlenecks' before expanding their
operations in international markets. IT/IS, as indispensable leverages for such
endeavors, need to be planned, implemented, exploited, and managed with
sensitivity to cultural elements entailing the values, beliefs, norms and
world-views held by employees, customers and other stakeholders. While
important advances have been made in research on culture within the IS
community, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of the nature,
precursors, and consequences of the relationship between culture and IT/IS
management.<br>
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We invite research articles that provide insights into all aspects of global
IT/IS management with attention paid to the issue of culture at different
levels (e.g., national, organizational, sub-organizational, occupational,
consumer group). Articles of conceptual, analytical, or empirical nature, which
develop or extend theory and practice, are welcome. Topics of interest include,
but not limited to: </span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual collaboration and national culture</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Culture and global IT outsourcing relationships</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cultural barriers to IT implementation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cultural leadership and IT strategies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Social media and culture</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IT/IS and cultural attributes of organizations in the
Asia-Pacific region</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizational identity and global IS strategy</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Subcultures and strategic IS</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Methods for studying cultural impacts of IS/IT</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Professional cultures and global software development
teams</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IT project management and cross-cultural issues</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Culture and control in IS development</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Corporate culture and knowledge sharing</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cultural issues in MNC subsidiary units</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Consumer response to commercial communication across
cultures</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cultural influences on emerging IT applications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">High quality and relevant papers from PACIS
2013 will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue of several journals, including <b><i>Information
and Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Electronic Commerce
Research and Applications, Information Systems Frontiers</i></b>, and <b><i>Asia
Pacific Journal of Information Systems</i></b>.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Paper Submission
Deadline: February 16, 2013</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Doctoral Consortium
Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2013;</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Paper Decision: April
1, 2013;</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Doctoral Consortium Decision:
April 15, 2013;</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submission Deadline of
Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222"><br>
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