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Call For Minitrack Proposals – AMCIS 2015 in Puerto Rico<br>
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Track:<br>
*** Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
(SIGCCRIS) ***<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-minitrack-proposals">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-minitrack-proposals</a><br>
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2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)<br>
Theme: Blue Ocean Research<br>
August 13-15, 2015 Puerto Rico<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org</a><br>
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Minitrack chairs will be responsible for<br>
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to
AMCIS;<br>
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to
the minitrack; and<br>
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript
submitted to the minitrack.<br>
Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the
AMCIS 2015 website.<br>
<br>
To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit<br>
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);<br>
b) minitrack title;<br>
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2015 website (up to
150 words);<br>
d) call for papers for your minitrack; and<br>
e) a short rationale as to why your minitrack should be included in
the track to which you are submitting it<br>
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To submit a minitrack proposal to the SIGCCRIS track, send an email
to <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Edward.Bernroider@wu.ac.at">Edward.Bernroider@wu.ac.at</a> (track co-chair) and <br>
cc your email with its attached submission to <a
href="mailto:amcis2015.program@gmail.com">amcis2015.program@gmail.com</a>.<br>
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Important Dates:<br>
September 29, 2014: All Minitrack proposals due<br>
October 13, 2014: Minitrack decisions from track co-chairs due<br>
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin<br>
February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors<br>
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Track Co-Chairs:<br>
Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business
(WU Vienna), Austria<br>
Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Bloomington, USA<br>
Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University, UK<br>
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Track Description (short version):<br>
The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global
IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or
cross-cultural context.<br>
The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
* Research that considers the impacts of cultural values <br>
* Research on global IT sourcing strategies<br>
* Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use
and development<br>
* Effects of global social computing on organizational work
organization and practices<br>
* Issues relating to globally distributed teams<br>
* Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level <br>
* Issues relating to global knowledge management <br>
* Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation<br>
* Issues relating to global information governance <br>
* Issues relating to security in information systems that span
multiple countries<br>
* Single country studies showing implications for other locations or
results different from other contexts<br>
* Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development <br>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Edward, Pnina, Monideepa<br>
<br>
Track Co-Chairs<br>
AMCIS 2015 - Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
(SIGCCRIS)<br>
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