Conference Tracks - IS Defining & Establishng a high impact Discipline

Track Description
This track is looking to accept high-quality papers that might not fit easily into the themes of one of the other specified tracks for the conference. However, the paper must conform generally to the overall theme of the conference, that is, Information Systems: Defining and Establishing a High-Impact Discipline. This track will also be open to submissions that explore various methodological approaches – various forms of quantitative and/or qualitative approach. Furthermore, this track will encourage submissions with innovative thinking around any of the themes that do not fit easily into the other ten tracks of the conference.

Relevant Topics
Accordingly, this track might attract papers around the following example topics:

• Outsourcing/Offshoring
• Facilities management
• Project management
• Philosophical underpinnings of IS
• Data Quality
• Human-Computer Interface
• Knowledge Management
• Theory Development in IS Research
• Methodological Issues in IS Research
• ICT Investment Governance and Prioritisation
• Benefits Realisation
• Issues in IS Education

Confirmed journal special issues
Authors of selected high quality papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the related special issue in Australasian Journal of Information Systems.

Confirmed Associate Editors
Andrew Burton-Jones, University of British Columbia, Canada
Michael Davern, University of Melbourne, Australia
Daniel Moody, University of Twente, Netherlands
Graeme Shanks, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mark Toleman, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Track Chairs
Peter Green, The University of Queensland, Australia
Fiona Rohde, The University of Queensland, Australia
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Contact details
p.green@business.uq.edu.au