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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">The deadline for submission of extended
abstracts has been extended until 30 September. For authors who have already submitted abstracts, thank you and we will be in touch by the 24 September.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">IFIP WG8.2 Organizations and Society
in Information Systems (OASIS) 2014 Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">11-12 December 2014, Auckland, New
Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://bis2.aut.ac.nz/ifip82-2014/" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">http://bis2.aut.ac.nz/ifip82-2014/</span></a><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Is your research concerned with the
interaction of information systems, organizations and society?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Do you need a forum to discuss some
of your current research ideas or findings that have not crystallized into a formal paper?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Would you like feedback from your
peers as you move your current research forward?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Do you want to meet internationally
respected researchers in information systems?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">If so, we invite you to present your
research-in-progress or ideas for paper development at OASIS, the IFIP Working Group 8.2 research workshop. OASIS is open to all interested scholars and professionals who are researching in the area of information systems, organizations and society. The unique
and collegial character of the IFIP Working Group 8.2 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(</span><a href="http://ifipwg82.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">http://ifipwg82.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">)
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">ensures constructive, helpful, and high-quality feedback. This is a great opportunity for you to
share your research, meet group members, and learn about their research in a relaxed and supportive setting.<sub><o:p></o:p></sub></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">This year, OASIS will be held in conjunction
with the IFIP WG8.2 Working Conference on 11-12 December 2014, immediately prior to ICIS 2014, in Auckland, New Zealand. OASIS streams will involve small group discussions in a round-table format and will run in parallel with the full paper conference streams.
The workshop and conference will be run as an integrated event, with participants registering for and participating in the full package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">We invite those interested in presenting
and discussing their research-in-progress or work still under development to submit an extended abstract via the EasyChair online submission system:
</span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifip822014"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><font color="#0563c1">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifip822014</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Abstracts should be a 500-1,200 word
(excluding references) Word document and include a title, author names and affiliations, and 3-4 keywords.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Deadline for submission of extended
abstracts: 30 September 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Notification of acceptance/rejection
decisions: 10 October 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Accepted abstracts will be made available
online prior to the conference. Authors submitting abstracts must grant IFIP WG 8.2 the right to publish them online and in printed format as part of the conference pack, but will retain all other copyrights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Further information including registration
details will be provided on the conference website: </span><a href="http://bis2.aut.ac.nz/ifip82-2014/" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">http://bis2.aut.ac.nz/ifip82-2014/</span></a><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Any questions regarding OASIS or the
Working Conference can be emailed to Bill Doolin at </span><a href="mailto:bdoolin@aut.ac.nz"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><font color="#0563c1">bdoolin@aut.ac.nz</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">We look forward to welcoming you in
Auckland,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Bill Doolin (Auckland University of
Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Nathalie Mitev (London School of Economics
and Political Science)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Eleni Lamprou (ALBA Graduate Business
School)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ">Program Chairs, IFIP 8.2 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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