Doctoral Consortium
Twenty-Fifth Annual International
Conference on
Information Systems
December 9-12, 2004
The International Conference on Information Systems
invites nominations for the Doctoral Consortium to be held at Charlottesville,
Virginia.
To nominate a student for the doctoral consortium,
click here. Nomination
deadline: June 4, 2004 (midnight)
The
Consortium will take place at the Darden School of Business at the University
of Virginia which is two hours drive south of Washington DC. The Consortium
will begin in the late afternoon of Thursday December 9th, and end at noon on
Sunday December 12th. The Consortium provides doctoral students working on
their dissertation research with an opportunity to share and develop their
research ideas, to explore issues related to academic and research careers in
the Information Systems field, and to build relationships with other IS PhD
students from around the world.
The ICIS 2004 conference in Washington DC immediately
follows the Consortium.
Participation
is by invitation only. Each university can nominate only one candidate. Each
student selected for the Consortium is expected to attend all Consortium
meetings and activities, from the opening on Thursday evening to the close at
noon on Sunday. Candidates who are not able to make this commitment to the
Consortium (for example, a desire to present or attend at one of the ICIS
pre-conference workshops), no matter how impressive the candidates may be,
should not apply.
Ph.D.
students currently working on Information Systems dissertations are eligible
for nomination. Candidates should have successfully defended their dissertation/thesis
proposal before December 2004, although they need not have defended their
proposal before the nomination deadline. Students who will have completed their
dissertations by December will not be accepted because such students would
benefit less from the Consortium compared with those who will still be actively
working on their dissertations in December. Nominated candidates should intend
to pursue an academic career in Information Systems following the completion of
their Ph.D.
Prospective
candidates should also note that the Consortium is designed as an intensive
personal development experience and therefore participants may not bring guests
to the Consortium.
o
Students cannot apply directly but can only be nominated
by an IS faculty member/academic.
o
There can only be one nominee per school, university,
or institution.
o
The nomination should be in the form of a nomination
letter from the nominating faculty member and should certify
1. that
the candidate is the sole nominee from the university/institution;
2. that
the candidate meets the eligibility criteria mentioned above; and
3. whether
the nominating institution will provide travel funds to the nominee in the
event that she or he is admitted to the consortium.
o
Ideally, the nominating faculty member should be the
director of the IS doctoral program or the IS department’s chairperson. If
these individuals are not available, the student may be nominated by the
candidate’s thesis/dissertation advisor.
o
In the case that more than one nomination is received
from a university, and if we do not have enough information to resolve the
issue, both nominations are likely to be rejected.
To nominate a student for the doctoral consortium,
click here. Nominations arriving after midnight on June
4 2004 will not be considered. All nominations will be acknowledged.
o Selection
to the ICIS Doctoral Consortium is very competitive: 80 nominations each year
are typical. Participants will be selected based on the apparent quality of the
proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the IS
discipline, the potential contribution the student is expected to make to the
Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's
research and professional development. This assessment will be based upon a
review of the Proposal Paper prepared by the doctoral student.
o Previous
attendance by other students from the nominating school will NOT be considered
in selecting Consortium participants.
o The
Consortium will include a balance of students representing diverse research
topics, methods, schools, and cultures.
o Participation
is limited to 40 students. The language for the Consortium is English, and all
submitted materials must be in English. Students must have sufficient
proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and
other activities.
o Students
must also have access to the Internet prior to their arrival at the Consortium.
o As
stated earlier, students must commit to being involved in the Consortium for
its entire duration from 5pm on Thursday Dec 9 to noon on Sunday Dec 12.
Because of the logistical arrangements involved in transporting participants to
Charlottesville, it will most likely be necessary to arrive in Washington DC by
noon on 9 December at the latest.
The paper outlining
the candidate's research should be in the form of a short paper summarizing the
student’s dissertation/thesis proposal. This paper should provide the research
question, a justification for why and to whom the research is important, a
brief literature review, a presentation of the theoretical basis for the work,
a research model and hypotheses (if applicable), and a description of the
research design. This part of the paper may not exceed 12 double-spaced pages.
Formatting for this part of the paper must be as follows:
o
Times New Roman or equivalent font
o
11- or 12-point font
o
Double-spaced (not 1.5)
o
8.5 x 11 inch paper (or A4)
o
1 inch margins all around
o
Pages must be numbered
This 12
page limit does NOT include tables or figures or references. Tables and figures
should not be embedded in the text but must be included separately, to
immediately follow the text. References should appear last.
Two
appendices of no more than two pages each may be attached, at the discretion of
the student and the person nominating him or her.(These appendices must follow
the formatting guidelines outlined above.)The first appendix would be a summary
of any findings the student may have as of June 6. The second appendix would be
an estimation of what still needs to be done to complete the dissertation as of
June 4.
Instructions on how to prepare presentations for the
Consortium will be provided to those students who are selected to participate.
The
language of the conference and for all submissions is English. Submissions must
be prepared in Word (version 97 or higher).Nomination packages consisting of
the three items described above should be attached to a single email sent by
the nominating academic/faculty to Tridas Mukhopadhyay (tridas@andrew.cmu.edu) and copied to
Chris Sauer (Chris.Sauer@templeton.ox.ac.uk)
to arrive no later than midnight (Greenwich Mean Time), June 4 2004.
Incomplete nomination packages will not be reviewed.
In case of problems or for further clarifications
about the submission process, please contact
Consortium Co-Chairs:
Tridas Mukhopadhyay (tridas@andrew.cmu.edu
Deloitte Consulting Professor of e-Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Sauer (Chris.Sauer@templeton.ox.ac.uk)
Fellow in Information Management
Templeton College
Oxford University
If you have questions about matters other than the
submission process, please do not hesitate to contact one of us.