<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) invites nominations for the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition 2013. We look for outstanding doctoral dissertations around the globe in the field of information systems that have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. The competition is sponsored by SIGMIS, the ACM Special Interest Group on MIS.<br><br>Nominations should be submitted no earlier than midnight US EDT, July 7, 2013, and no later than 5:00 PM US EDT, July 27, 2013. <b>The candidate’s Ph.D. advisor or department chair should submit the nomination.</b> Only <b>one</b> nomination can be made from an institution.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">The ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Competition 2013 is chaired by Sandra Sieber and Joe Valacich. The judges include the faculty who participated at the ICIS 2012 doctoral consortium and possibly other faculty members from the discipline<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">, as will be appropriate to judge the contents of submissions.</span><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><br></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Detailed information can be found at </span></span><a href="http://icis2013.aisnet.org/index.php/dissertation-competition" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://icis2013.aisnet.org/index.php/dissertation-competition</a>. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Questions about this competition may be addressed to the co-chairs. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Sandra Sieber & Joe Valacich<o:p></o:p></font></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Dissertation Competition co-chairs</font></span></span></div></div></body></html>