MISQE Workshop at AMCIS 2009 – Jun 22 due date
The editors of MIS Quarterly Executive will offer a pre-AMCIS afternoon workshop at the San Francisco Marriott on Thursday, August 6, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm, to help authors develop papers that are targeted for practitioner audiences. The workshop should be particularly valuable for IS academics who wish to submit their work to MISQE and similar practitioner-focused journals. Workshop attendance is open only to authors of accepted abstracts or papers Authors will work in small groups with MISQE editors to develop their ideas and papers. The language of the workshop is English.
This year’s workshop leaders will include:
Carol V. Brown, MISQE Editor in Chief, Stevens Institute of Tech.
Jeanne Ross, former MISQE Editor in Chief, MIT
Janis L. Gogan, Bentley University
Deadline for submission: Monday June 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Thursday July 1, 2009
Email your submission to Janis Gogan (jgogan@bentley.edu).
Co-authored abstracts and papers are welcome; only one co-author typically attends the workshop.
Papers already under review elsewhere should NOT be submitted.
SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT: If your ideas for presenting your research findings to a practitioner audience are not yet well-developed, you are encouraged to submit a short summary of your ideas. This abstract should cover the following points in one page, single spaced; one or two key exhibits can be provided on an additional page.
- the important problem(s) this paper addresses that would be of interest to a senior IS manager reader
- the contribution this paper will make towards resolving this problem
- the kernel of your new idea or insight (expressed perhaps as a framework, model, or other graphic)
- the key intellectual roots of your idea (brief summary of key findings from prior research)
- empirical evidence (such as from surveys, interviews, company documents) to support or illustrate your ideas
- guidelines or lessons learned that the interested reader could use to address the practical problem(s) addressed
SUBMITTING A SHORT PAPER: We seek papers of about 5000 words with the following characteristics:
• The target audience is a senior IS manager (who might also share the paper with other senior executives or managers).
• The paper has the potential to offer significant, actionable insights to improve IS management practice.
• The paper’s ideas are supported by field data that was acquired using high quality research methods.
• The paper will benefit from development at the workshop.
Papers prepared for purely academic outlets are likely not to be accepted for the workshop.
BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT OR PAPER: We strongly recommend that you read several articles in practitioner oriented journals (such as MISQE, Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review). AIS members have access to .pdf versions of all articles published in MISQE at www.misqe.org. MISQE executive overviews are available to the public at the same site
BEFORE AND DURING WORKSHOP: If your abstract or paper is accepted, you will be assigned to a small working group. This group may include an MISQE Senior Editor, one or more MISQE Editorial Board Members, and other authors of accepted papers or abstracts. Before the workshop you will be asked to read all of your group’s submissions, and you may be asked to provide written feedback to the author(s) of one short paper. During the workshop itself, most of the available time will be devoted to discussing and developing the paper and abstract submissions with your group.
AMCIS conference rules require that workshop participants must also be registered for the conference. http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/
Questions? Feel free to contact Janis Gogan at jgogan@bentley.edu or Carol Brown at carol.brown@stevens.edu.
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