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<p class="MsoNormal">REMINDER – SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE JUNE 30<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following call for submissions can also be found on the Dissertation Award tab of the CIST webpage at:
<a href="http://www.cistconf.org/">http://www.cistconf.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the 2013 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made
significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems. The winner of the 2013 Nunamaker-Chen
Dissertation Award will receive a US$1000 prize.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions about the competition can be addressed to the ISS Chair, Professor Amit Basu (Southern Methodist University,
<a href="mailto:abasu@smu.edu">abasu@smu.edu</a>) or to the general NCDA email address:
<a href="mailto:ncda2013@easychair.org">ncda2013@easychair.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ELIGIBILITY<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To be eligible for the 2013 competition, dissertations must be in the field of information systems and must have been completed in the period from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013. Candidates must have successfully defended their dissertations
and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation documents by May 31, 2013. Dissertations that do not meet these criteria will not be considered eligible for the award.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All applications materials must be received no later than 5:00 PM US EDT on June 30, 2013. Any documents received after that date, and submissions without all of the appropriate documentation, will not be reviewed. INFORMS ISS encourages
submissions from any country; however, all submitted materials must be in English.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Materials should be submitted to the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award EasyChair website at:
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncda2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncda2013</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following three documents are required. Each of these files must be in either the PDF or MS Word (.doc, or .docx) format, and all three files must be submitted as a single ZIP file on the NCDA EasyChair website. Submissions that do
not meet these requirements will not be reviewed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. An extended abstract of the dissertation that highlights the significance of the problem, the methodological approach, and the key results and their potential applications. The extended abstract should be no more than 10 pages (1” margins,
single-spaced, 12 point normal font, not including references, tables, or figures).
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. A copy of the entrant’s current curriculum vitae.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. A letter of recommendation from the entrant's dissertation advisor that describes the significance of the research and comments on the originality of the work.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Optional: If there are working papers or publications based on the dissertation, these can be cited in the extended abstract, and submitted as additional materials. All additional files should be in PDF or MS Word format and should be
included in the same ZIP file that contains the three required documents. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note that in addition to uploading your zip file on the EasyChair submission page, you will be required to provide contact information (in fields for Author 1), the title of the dissertation, a short abstract, and keywords.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">REVIEWING PROCESS AND WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A panel of judges composed of senior faculty members from top IS academic departments will review the submissions. Dissertations will be evaluated based on the following criteria: creativity and novelty, scope and magnitude of contribution
to IS research, relevance to practice, technical quality, and richness of methodological approach.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finalists will be notified by August 15, 2013 and the winner will be announced during the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) in Minneapolis, October 5-6, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jesse Bockstedt, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Management Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eller College of Management<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:bockstedt@email.arizona.edu">bockstedt@email.arizona.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jbockstedt.asp">http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jbockstedt.asp</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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