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<h1 style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Call for Papers<br>
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)-48<br>
January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA</span><span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Mini-track: Ethical
Issues in Organizational Information Systems </span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">(Track: Organizational Systems and Technology)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>This is a call for papers that
conceptually and/or empirically investigate/analyze ethical issues related to
Information Systems (IS) within the context of organizations. The aim of this
mini-track is not only to create a forum solely to discuss the philosophical
aspects of IS ethics, but also to present ethical takes/analyses on multitude
of IS issues that have important implications for our organizations as
sociopolitical systems. Papers covering both normative and descriptive
perspectives of ethics are welcome. Both empirical and theoretical/conceptual
papers are called for. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
challenges in the design, development, and implementation of organizational
IT.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Application
of Aristotle’s virtue theory to organizations, especially in understanding
how IT can develop organizational virtues.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
analysis of organizational IS issues from classical (e.g. deontological
and consequentialist perspectives) and contemporary ethical perspectives
(e.g. postmodern perspectives; discourse ethics).</li><li class="MsoNormal">Unethical
use of IS.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
perspectives in IT-enabled knowledge management.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
challenges/issues in business analytics and intelligence, including in
areas such as data warehousing, big data, and social networking.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
considerations in IT-enabled organizational communication.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
characteristics/beliefs/practices of IS practitioners/leaders.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
issues related to IS Strategy, especially understanding how ethics can
foster organizational innovation and performance, and the role IT plays in
this regard.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical
organizational processes in IS development.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Ethical/unethical
implications of new technologies (stress, information overload, etc.) in
the workplace.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Developing
IT Security from ethical viewpoints (e.g. based upon the works of
philosophers such as Kant, Mill, and Aristotle)</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span>Mini-track
Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><br><b><span></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span>Sutirtha
Chatterjee </span></b><span>(primary
contact)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Department of MET</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Lee Business School</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>University of Nevada, Las Vegas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>4505 S. Maryland Parkway</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span>Las Vegas, Nevada 89154</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Email: <a href="mailto:Sutirtha.Chatterjee@unlv.edu" target="_blank"><span>sutirtha.chatterjee@unlv.edu</span></a>
; <a href="mailto:Sutirtha.Chatterjee@unlv.edu" target="_blank"><span>suti.chatterjee@gmail.com<br>
</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Important
Dates:</span></b><span></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b>June
15:</b> Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. </li><li class="MsoNormal"><b>Aug
15</b>: Review System emails Acceptance/Rejection Notices to authors.</li></ul>
<font><b><span>For more
information, please visit the HICSS-48 website:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</a></span></b></font></div>
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