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Submission Deadline Extended: 7 January 2008

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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
April 9-11, 2008 – ALGARVE,
PORTUGAL
(http://www.is-
conf.org/)

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* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jean-Charles Chebat, HEC Montrιal, Canada
Professor Robert D Galliers, Provost & Vice President for Academic
Affairs, Bentley College, USA

* Conference background and goals
A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the
business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are
moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge
and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and
sharing. In this emerging paradigm, terms like information,
communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical
relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary
business. This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that "we
are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic
resource… is knowledge".

In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden avalanche of a
new kind of vocabulary. Corporations, which so far had been economic
entities, are being described as `information-based
organizations', `learning organizations', `knowledge-creating
companies' or knowledge intensive organisations. Instead of product-
market strategies, the fashionable business discourse invokes core
competencies, intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities,
intellectual capital, knowledge management etc. Consequently, in
this 21st century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital,
knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become
part of the corporate landscape.

However, none of this apparent revolution would be possible without
the underlying technological support provided by IS. The IADIS
Information Systems Conference (IS 2008) aims to provide a forum for
the discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It
aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of
IS in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well
as to discuss IS professional practice, research and teaching.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS
International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are
subject to a blind refereeing process.

* A set of key issues has been identified (see below). However, these
do not aim at being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative
contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be
considered. Areas and Topics of the conference will focus on:
IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational
Processes
• Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues
• New Organisational Forms
• Dilution of Organisational Boundaries
• The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational Processes
• IS Management
• Information Management
• Knowledge Management
• IS and SMEs
• Innovation and IS
• Innovation and Knowledge Management
• IS and Change Management
• IS and Organisation Development
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Business Process Change
IS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies
• Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks
• Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
• Agile Methodologies
• IS Design and Development as a Component-Based Process
• IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation Process
• IS D Design and Development as a Global and Distributed
Process
• Outsourcing in IS
• Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
• IS Project Management
• IS Quality Management and Assurance
• IS Standards and Compliance Issues
• Risk Management in IS
• Risk Management in IS Design and Development
IS Professional Issues
• Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-
society
• The role of information in the information society
• Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
• Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links
• Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic
Research
• Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
• Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards
• IS consultancy as a profession
• Organisational IS Roles
• Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing
IS Research
• Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research
• Ontological Assumptions in IS Research
• IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities
• IS vs Computer Science Research
• IS vs Business Studies
• Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to IS
Research
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
• Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
• Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS Research
• Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial in IS
• Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches
• New and alternative approaches to IS research
• Examples of experimental research designs in IS
IS Learning and Teaching
• Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision
• Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula
• Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
• E-Learning in IS
• Instructional Design for IS
• National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
• Multiculturality ad Diversity Issues in IS Learning and
Teaching
* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline extended: 7 January 2008
- Notification to Authors: 1 February 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 22
February 2008
- Late Registration: After 22 February 2008
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 9 to 11 April 2008

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@... Web site: http://www.is-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference Chair
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK

Program Co-Chairs
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Pedro Isaνas, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:
for the full Committee Members list please access http://www.is-
conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Mobile Learning 2008 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 11-13 April
2008
Applied Computing 2008 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 10-13 April
2008
e-Society 2008 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 9-12 April 2008

* Registered participants in the Information Systems' conference may
attend Mobile Learning, Applied Computing, and e-Society conferences'
sessions free of charge.