[Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2015: Call for Minitrack Proposals - Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)

[Fichman, Pnina]

Call For Minitrack Proposals – AMCIS 2015 in Puerto Rico

Track:
*** Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) ***
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-minitrack-proposals

2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Theme: Blue Ocean Research
August 13-15, 2015 Puerto Rico
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org<http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/>

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS;
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.
Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2015 website.

To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
b) minitrack title;
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2015 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your minitrack; and
e) a short rationale as to why your minitrack should be included in the track to which you are submitting it

To submit a minitrack proposal to the SIGCCRIS track, send an email to
Edward.Bernroider at wu.ac.at<mailto:Edward.Bernroider at wu.ac.at> (track co-chair) and
cc your email with its attached submission to  amcis2015.program at gmail.com<mailto:amcis2015.program at gmail.com>.

Important Dates:
September 29, 2014: All Minitrack proposals due
October 13, 2014: Minitrack decisions from track co-chairs due
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin
February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors

Track Co-Chairs:
Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria
Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University, UK

Track Description (short version):
The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context.
The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Research that considers the impacts of cultural values
* Research on global IT sourcing strategies
* Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use and development
* Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices
* Issues relating to globally distributed teams
* Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level
* Issues relating to global knowledge management
* Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation
* Issues relating to global information governance
* Issues relating to security in information systems that span multiple countries
* Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts
* Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development

Sincerely,

Edward, Pnina, Monideepa

Track Co-Chairs
AMCIS 2015 - Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)
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Pnina Fichman
Chair, Department of Information and Library Science
Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
Director, Master of Library Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Pnina Fichman
Chair, Department of Information and Library Science
Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
Director, Master of Library Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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