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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HICSS Mini-track </span><span style='font-family:ËÎÌå'>£º</span><span lang=EN-US>IT Enabled Collaboration in Developing Countries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Diffusion (adoption, implementation, and utilization) of collaboration technologies have been investigated in many countries and regions around the globe. While the majority of research initiatives have been undertaken in Western Europe and North America, they have been scarce in developing regions like East Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As the world economy become integrated, the diffusion of collaboration technologies in countries such as China, India, Brazil, and South Africa is becoming prevalent as globalization drives inter and intra-country collaboration intensity within and across organizations. Technology enhanced collaboration such as synchronous and asynchronous computer support amongst team members (co-located or virtual) is being enhanced by hand held mobile devices in communities of practice and social media environments in developing countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We would like to invite the authors to submit their research on IT enabled collaboration in developing countries from theoretical, technological, social, psychological, behavioral, and design science perspectives. Research deploying different theoretical lenses could focus on process and system design, methods, modeling, and techniques in addressing various aspects of IT enabled collaboration. The mini-track will focus on a wide range of topics including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. Case studies (education/business/government/organization) of IT enabled collaboration in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. Cross-cultural and intra and/or inter-organizational IT enabled collaboration in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. Global, virtual, distributed, blended, and face-to-face IT enabled collaboration in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. Emerging issues in collaboration technology diffusion in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5. Deployment of mobile technologies for collaboration in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>6. Group decision making, negotiation, facilitation and intelligent system and communication technologies in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>7. Factors influencing IT enabled collaboration in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mini-track Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xusen Cheng (Primary Contact)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>School of Information Technology and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>University of International Business and Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Huixing Dongjie 10, Beijing, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone: +86(0)1064495074<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>xusen.cheng@uibe.edu.cn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xusen Cheng is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the School of Information Technology and Management at the University of International Business and Economics, China. He received his PhD in informatics from Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester in the UK in 2010. His research interests include collaboration engineering and facilitation, trust in virtual teams, IS/IT design to support collaboration. His research has been presented at international conferences such as ICIS, HICSS and GDN and published in journals such as Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Technology and People, Computers in Human Behavior, and Journal of Global Information Technology Management.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xiangbin Yan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>No. 13, Fayuan Street, Nangang District, Harbin, China, 150001<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Office Phone: +86-451-86414017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Departmental phone: +86-451-86414022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Fax: +86-451-86414024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Email: xbyan@hit.edu.cn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xiangbin Yan is a Professor and head of the Department of Management Science & Engineering in the School of Management at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He received a PhD from the Department of Management Science & Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting research scholar in the AI Lab in the MIS Department at the University of Arizona from 2008 to 2009. His current research interests include electronic commerce, social media analytics, social network analysis, and business intelligence. His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Informetrics, Scientometrics, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and PhysicaA: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Deepinder Bajwa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Professor of Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Department of Decision Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>College of Business and Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Western Washington University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Bellingham, WA 98225<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Voice: +1-360-650-7309<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Fax: +1-360-650-4844<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Email:Deepinder.bajwa@wwu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Deepinder Bajwa is a Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Decision Sciences at Western Washington University. He received his PhD from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993. His research interests include: collaborative information technologies and business intelligence. Over the past 12 years, he has led research projects exploring the diffusion and impacts of collaborative information technologies in six global regions. His research has been published (or forthcoming) in several journals including: Australian Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, Group Decision and Negotiation Journal, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, Journal of Management Information Systems, amongst others. He is the recipient of the best paper award at the Midwest Business Administration Association Conference held in Chicago in 1995. His papers were also nominated for the best paper awards in the Collaboration Technology track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2003 and 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>