<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">D</div>ear EiCs, Colleagues and Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>ICIS and its Senior Scholars will be presenting their "Best IS Publications of the Year Awards" to five journal papers published in 2013. The official award notifications will be made at a ceremony at ICIS '14 in Auckland, New Zealand. The five best papers will not be ranked.</div>
<div><br></div><div><strong>Seeking nominations</strong></div><div>Editors-in-chief (EiCs) may nominate one IS paper from their journal published during 2013 by sending a PDF to either Ming-Hui Huang (<a href="mailto:huangmh@ntu.edu.tw">huangmh@ntu.edu.tw</a>), Claudia Loebbecke (<a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a>), or Joey George (<a href="mailto:jfgeorge@iastate.edu">jfgeorge@iastate.edu</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>EiCs may not nominate papers for which they also serve as author.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Nomination deadline is June 15, 2014.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<strong>Award criteria</strong></div><div>Papers must contribute to the IS field rather than simply refer to computing.</div><div><br></div><div>The award will reflect the paper's contribution to theory in the IS field, its contribution to practice in the IS field, the uniqueness/originality of its ideas, and the quality of its arguments.</div>
<div><br></div><div><strong>Procedure</strong></div><div>Members of the Best IS Publications of the Year Awards committee will select the five best papers (single blind). None of them currently serves as the editor-in-chief of an IS journal eligible for best paper submissions. The three administrators signing the mail will not make any selections themselves.</div>
<div><br></div><div><strong>Summary</strong></div><div>We herewith invite EiCs to nominate one IS paper from their journal published<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
in </div>201<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">3</div> for the "Best IS Publications of the Year Awards". Please send the paper <strong>as <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div>PDF </strong>to either Ming-Hui Huang (<a href="mailto:huangmh@ntu.edu.tw">huangmh@ntu.edu.tw</a>), Claudia Loebbecke (<a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a>), or Joey George (<a href="mailto:jfgeorge@iastate.edu">jfgeorge@iastate.edu</a>) <strong>until June 15, 2014</strong>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to drowning in nominations, we remain with kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
Claudia</div>, <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> Joey</div>, and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Ming-Hui</div>
</div></div><div> </div><div>--</div><div>Ming-Hui Huang, PhD</div><div>Distinguished Professor of E-Commerce</div><div>Department of Information Management</div><div>National Taiwan University</div></div>