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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(13,13,13)">track at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014) <a href="http://www/" target="_blank">http://www</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(13,13,13)"><a href="http://pacis2014.org/" target="_blank">http://pacis2014.org/</a> scheduled to be held at Chengdu, China, from<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">June 24</span></span>- to <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">June 28, 2014</span></span>.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"> Chulmo Koo, Kyung Hee University, South Korea <a href="mailto:helmetgu@gmail.com" target="_blank">helmetgu@</a></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(61,133,198);display:inline">
<a href="http://khu.ac.kr">khu.ac.kr</a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(13,13,13)"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(13,13,13)">Culture (e.g., national culture, organizational culture, religious culture, IT culture, etc) plays a significant role in the modern world and has widely different impacts on IT/IS. With the markets crossing boundaries and becoming global entities, individuals and organizations that adopt and implement IS/IT are bound to face a wide-variety of cultural issues. For instance, within organizations, culture (and sub-cultures) is believed to play an important role in their day-to-day operations involving IT/IS and a variety of stakeholders. The issue of culture becomes global and even more significant when the organizations interact with other organizations using IS/IT. At most times, such IT/IS need to be designed, implemented and managed with sensitivity to culture. Likewise, IT/IS has a potential to drive cultural changes in a society thereby enabling cultural integration across globe. Also, IT/IS can impact both professional and organizational cultures. While culture is one of the most widely studied topics within IS discipline, there remain several significant gaps in the literature in understanding the implications of culture on IT/IS and vice-versa. We invite conceptual, analytical, or empirical papers including case studies that develop or extend theory and practice. Topics of the interest include, but not limited to:</span></p>
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