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<span class="plain0020textchar"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">CFP HICSS minitrack Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Track: Internet and the Digital Economy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/"><span style="color: rgb(3, 55, 161); ">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/</span></a></span><span class="plain0020textchar"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Papers Due: June 15, 2014 </span></b>via the HICSS conference system <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 55, 161); "><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">This minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international,
and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no
different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population
to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural
context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. </span></span><span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">worker
motivation, and human error diversity<span class="plain0020textcharchar">)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">*Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations)</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">*Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy)</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="plain0020textcharchar"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">* Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Minitrack Organizers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Pnina Fichman</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; <a href="mailto:fichman@indiana.edu">fichman@indiana.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Edward W.N. Bernroider</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for
Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; <a href="mailto:edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at">edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Erran Carmel, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; <a href="mailto:carmel@american.edu">carmel@american.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">About HICSS conferences:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers
in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include:</p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables
research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Three days of research paper presentations and discussions
in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials.
See Program Components for additional detail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">A truly international experience with participants
usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE
Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Paper presentations and discussions which frequently
lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">A keynote address and distinguished lecture which
explore particularly relevant topics and concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm">Best
Paper Awards</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in each track which recognize superior research performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations
as recorded by Google Scholar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences,
and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Important deadlines for authors:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">June 15:</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "> Submit
full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Aug 15</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">:
Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Oct 1</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">:
Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase<br>
on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) <b>Early Registration fee: $625</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Oct 2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "> General
Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Oct 15</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">:
Papers without at least one registered author will<br>
be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; ">Dec 2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black; "> Late
Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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