Conference Information
Conference Location
The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel in the scenic Riverwalk
area of San Antonio, Texas. Hotel
accommodation information & rates.
Conference Theme
Today’s competitive and dynamic information-based global society has
created a gap between the available supply of information technology
(IT) professionals and the demand for their skills and talents.
Subsequently, practitioners and researchers are challenged with
addressing this gap through the preparation, recruitment and retention
of IT professionals. From an
individual perspective, questions remain about the skill and knowledge
requirements necessary to secure employment in an evolving environment
(skills gap). From an educational
perspective, programs are attempting to increase student enrollments
despite dwindling funding and the recent economics crisis (enrollment and
funding gaps). From an IT
profession perspective, organizations continue to struggle to adequately
manage their talent, provide career development and plan for succession
as the baby boomers begin to retire (recruitment and retention gaps).
Given these many challenges, the ACM SIGMIS CPR 2011 conference
aims to consider how theory and research can help to predict events,
elucidate factors and address the gaps facing the current
information-based global society.
List of Relevant Topics
ACM SIGMIS CPR 2011 welcomes research
and practice submissions that address issues congruent with the
conference theme. ACM SIGMIS CPR 2011 also welcomes submissions on
traditional topics related to the IT workforce.
These topics include, but are not limited to:
Doctoral Consortium
A
special doctoral consortium will take place on the day prior to the
conference. This doctoral consortium is targeted at students who are at
an early stage of their dissertation proposal-writing, and who are
conducting research on a computer personnel research (CPR) topic. The
purpose of the consortium is two-fold: 1) provide feedback and guidance
to students on their proposal while at a stage where feedback can be
considered for future dissertation work and 2) provide mentoring and
networking opportunities to students who wish to pursue careers as CPR
researchers. Doctoral students
must be nominated to the consortium by a faculty sponsor. Students
nominated for the consortium should submit a 10 page research proposal
(including all text, figures, and references) to be reviewed by a panel
of highly qualified senior faculty mentors.
The 3-5 students selected to participate in the doctoral
consortium will receive two rounds of written feedback on their
proposal. In San Antonio, each
student will have 40-60 minutes to present their research ideas and
receive feedback in-person from six-to-eight experienced CPR
researchers.
Format of Submission
ACM SIGMIS 2011 welcomes completed
research papers, research-in-progress papers, industry case studies, or
proposals for panel discussions or tutorials. All papers must be
original, unpublished elsewhere, and in the style of MIS Quarterly.
All submissions will be blind reviewed.
·
Completed research papers must not exceed
5000 words or 28 double-spaced pages including all text, figures, and
tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded
from this page count.
·
Research-in-progress papers must not exceed
2000 words or 14 double-spaced pages including all text, figures, and
tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded
from this page count.
·
Panel and tutorial proposals must
include the names and affiliations of panelists who have agreed to
participate and a 1-2 page summary of the topic, including a description
of how the session will be structured.
·
Industry case studies may report specific strategies being
employed or under development to address CPR issues and should be no
longer than 3500 words.
Paper Submission
The paper submission system will be available
soon!
Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published by ACM
in the refereed conference proceedings which will be distributed at the
conference. Full papers will be published in their entirety. Extended
abstracts will be published for panel discussions and
research-in-progress papers. All presented papers will be considered for
the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award.
Exemplar papers may also be invited for publication in
the DATA BASE for Advances in
Information Systems – the quarterly journal publication of ACM
SIGMIS. Proceedings of all
previous CPR conferences are available in the ACM Digital Library at
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm.
Conference Organization
Conference
Co-Chairs:
Deborah J. Armstrong, Florida
State University (djarmstrong@cob.fsu.edu)
Cindy Riemenschneider, Baylor University (c_riemenschneider@baylor.edu)
Program Co-Chairs:
Haiyan Huang, Michigan
Technological University
(haiyan.huang@gmail.com)
Jeria Quesenberry, Carnegie
Mellon University (jquesenberry@cmu.edu)
Local Arrangements Chair:
John Warren, University of Texas San Antoinio (John.Warren.utsa.edu)
Treasurer:
Indira Guzman
de Galvez, TUI University, California (iguzman@tuiu.edu)
Publicity:
Nita Brooks, Middle Tennessee State University (jgbrooks@mtsu.edu)
Doctoral Consortium
Co-Chairs:
Pamela Carter,
North Carolina A&T State University
(pecarter@ncat.edu)
Andreas Eckhardt, Goethe University Frankfurt, (eckhardt@is-frankfurt.de)
