ECIS 2018 - *Call for tracks* "Beyond Digitization - Facets of  Socio-Technical Change"

Submission Deadline: March 31st 2017


The 2018 European Conference on Information Systems, to be held in
Portsmouth, UK, will be hosted by the University of Portsmouth on June 23rd
– 28th, 2018.  The theme of the conference: *"Beyond Digitization - Facets
of Socio-Technical Change" *reflects that information systems (IS) consist
of both human and technical aspects.  The development of the IS discipline
since the 1960's has been characterised by efforts to achieve a forward
trajectory from a software-centred focus towards a human-centred focus.
This is reflected in the agendas of many of the original socio-technical
movements, and underpins the recent resurgence in interest in
socio-technical ideas. The socio-technical theme provides a base to make
sense of IS within the digitized world.



In addition to the conference theme, ECIS hope to attract a range of
traditional track themes that have been at the heart of the IS community in
Europe over the last quarter century, as well as tracks covering new
emergent themes. The aim of the ECIS 2018 will be to form a meeting place
for people in the IS field to discuss fundamental and innovative issues
related to Information Systems.

*Topics for Track Proposals*


We welcome both established and emerging topics that draw significant
attention within IS research. A conference theme track "*Beyond
Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change*" has already been set up.


*Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):*


•       Business Process Modelling and Management

•       Culture and IS

•       Data Science, Business Analytics and Decision Support

•       Digital society

•       Digital workplace

•       E-Business and Competitive Strategy

•       Economics and IS

•       Enterprise Systems and Enterprise Modelling

•       European and Cultural Issues in IS

•       Green and Sustainable IS

•       Healthcare Information Systems

•       Human Aspects of IS and Cyber-Security

•       Human-Computer Interaction and IS Interface Design

•       Information and Enterprise Content Management

•       Inter-Organizational Systems

•       IS Artefacts and IS Artefact Design

•       IS Development and Evaluation

•       IS Diversity and Diversity in IS

•       IS Management and IS Governance

•       IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion

•       Practice Theories and IS

•       Project Management in IS

•       Research Methods and Philosophy

•       Security and Privacy of Information and IS

•       Service Engineering and Service Management

•       Social Media

•       Socio-Technical Approaches and IS

•       Sustainable Organizational Systems and IS

•       Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems


*Track Chair Responsibilities*



We cordially invite fellow researchers to propose tracks on their
particular field of interest. Your responsibilities as a track chair will
be to:



1.       Liaise with the program chairs on all matters that concern ECIS 2018;

2.       Promote the track and take sufficient measures to ensure an adequate number of submissions;

3.       Organise a peer review cycle for the papers submitted to your track, assisted by a set of associate editors (AEs). Track chairs will nominate associate editors for the reviewing process, and they will assure that each paper will receive three high quality reviews;

4.       Propose to the program committee the papers that will eventually be accepted for inclusion into the conference program; nominate papers for the award for best paper;

5.       Create an attractive track program;

6.       At least one of the track co-chairs should attend ECIS 2018 and serve as session chair in your track.



*Structure of Track proposals*

*Track proposals should include:*

1.       A title for the track.

2.       Names, e-mail and mailing addresses, affiliations, phone numbers,
urls of website of each of the three track co-chairs. Please designate one
of the co-chairs as the primary contact person.

3.       A short description of the track and its focus (maximum length:
500 words and about 10 to 15 potential suggested topics): define the
proposed area of research; discuss the topics the track will address and
how these align with the ECIS 2018 conference theme.

4.       A discussion on how these topics have recently been covered in
other conferences and publications, substantiating that ECIS 2018 will be
an appropriate and timely forum for the topics.

5.       A tentative list of associate editors for the proposed track
(between 10 and 15).  Please provide names and affiliations, and indicate
if they may already have committed themselves to serve as AEs for your
track.

6.       Short bios of each co-track chair including your track record (if
any) in organising tracks, or in other academic services in the IS
community.



Track chairs are encouraged to make fast track or special issue
arrangements with leading journals that fit the topic of the track.



*Evaluation*

Each proposal will be evaluated by the conference chairs in cooperation
with the program chairs. Decisions will be based on (a) the overall merit
of the proposal, (b) the significance of the subject covered, (c) the
profile and diversity of the track team, and the (d) fit with the
conference theme.



The conference chairs will select tracks with the objective being to (a)
balance the more traditional IS topics with emerging topics, and (b) to
support diversity of chairs and AEs in gender, experience, and geographical
background. If needed, track proposals might be merged in order to obtain
the best possible coverage of topics and the best mix of track chairs.



Evaluations will be carried out by the conference chairs in cooperation with program chairs.



*Program Chairs*

Carl Adams, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK

Sven Carlsson, Informatics, Lund University, Sweden

Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University, USA & University of Lund, Sweden

*Submissions*

Track proposals should be e-mailed to [email protected] as soon
as possible but *no later than March 31st, 2017, 12pm CET*. Notifications
of acceptance or rejection of proposed tracks will be sent out by June 1st,
2017.


Please once again note that in order to ensure interesting and a
sufficiently extensive range of tracks, the ECIS 2018 Conference Chairs
might approach you with a suggestion to modify your track proposal. In case
there are proposals for identical or similar topics, the committee might
ask you to consider joining forces with another group. Track proposals that
do not meet the criteria can be directly rejected by the organizers.


*On behalf of the ECIS 2018 team,*

Peter Bednar, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK

Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Karlheinz Kautz, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University,
Australia