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Announcements from Elaine Mauldin, President

As you prepare for your fall classes and activities, I would like to call your attention to four announcements with submission deadlines:

1.      2009 Midyear Meeting.

2.      Best Paper Awards for the 2009 Midyear Meeting.

3.      Workshop on IT Governance and Assurance in cooperation with ISACA at the Midyear Meeting.

4.      Call for proposals for fall 2010 JIS special section, “Reviews of Information Systems Research.”

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1. 2009 Midyear Meeting
The 2009 Information Systems Section Midyear Meeting will be held January 7-10, 2009 at the Doubletree in Charleston, S.C.  Just prior to the conference there will be a full day Doctoral/New Scholar Consortium (program TBA) and a full day Semantic Modeling of Accounting Phenomenon (SMAP) CPE session, both on January 8.

Research paper submissions should be emailed to Faye Borthick (borthick@gsu.edu), Education paper submissions should be emailed to Ronny Daigle (daigle@shsu.edu), and JIS Research Development Workshop submissions should be emailed to Pat Wheeler (wheelerp@missouri.edu) no later than September 15, 2008 (note the change from September 1 for the research and education papers). SMAP submissions should be emailed to Julie Smith David. (julie.smith.david@asu.edu) no later than December 1, 2008.

Please consider volunteering to participate as a reviewer, discussant, and/or moderator by contacting the Mid-Year meeting chair, Marianne Bradford at marianne_bradford@ncsu.edu.  Please indicate your research interests when volunteering. 

Submission Guidelines for 2009 IS Section Midyear Meeting:

Research papers should follow the style and submission guidelines of the Journal of Information Systems, including the requirement to submit separate electronic files containing the cover page and the paper itself. Instructional cases should be in a format similar to that used in Issues in Accounting Education.

Submissions are not eligible for consideration if they:
1) have been published or accepted for publication, or
2) were presented at the 2008 AAA Annual Meeting, or at more than one AAA regional meeting or other academic conference unless the author(s) indicate the paper is substantially different due to further development. Papers presented at the Research Forum of the AAA Annual Meeting are eligible for consideration. It should be noted that papers accepted for presentation at the 2009 Midyear IS Section Conference may not also be submitted for presentation at the AAA Annual Meeting scheduled for August 2009 unless the paper is substantially different due to further development.

Submitted versions of the accepted papers will be posted to the Section website. Notification of acceptance to the conference will be made by November 1, 2008.

2. Best Paper Awards for the 2009 Midyear Meeting.
This year we are excited to have three best paper awards. The Research and Publications Committee and the Education Committee will select the Best Academic Paper, Best Education Paper, and Best AIS Case Award winners in a blind review process. Award winners will be recognized during the conference. Winner of the Best Academic Paper award will be extended an invitation to publish in JIS. Winner of the Best Education Paper Award will receive a $500 cash prize thanks to the Institute of Management Accountants, and the winner of the Best AIS Case Award will receive a $500 cash prize and be fast-tracked for the IMA’s new Educational Case Journal (www.imanet.org/IECJ).

3. New Workshop on IT Governance and Assurance (WITGA) in cooperation with ISACA at the IS Midyear Meeting.

For the first time, the Section is hosting a half day WITGA on January 8th, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The workshop will provide a forum for faculty interested in researching and teaching IT governance, controls and assurance. The section is cooperating with ISACA (www.isaca.org) and the IT Governance Institute (www.itgi.org) to run the workshop. The workshop will include presentations by faculty and ISACA/ITGI thought leaders. ISACA/ITGI leaders will provide an update on recent developments in IT Governance, including COBIT, VALIT, IT Control Objectives for SOX and the forthcoming COBIT/Risk framework as set out in the ITGI document “Enterprise Risk: Identify, Govern and Manage IT Related Risk” forthcoming in late 2008. This aspect of WITGA will include guidance on embedding the various teaching and learning resources from ISACA into the AIS and auditing curricula. Faculty are encouraged to contribute teaching innovations, curriculum designs, case studies, class exercises, research ideas, research papers and work in progress. We are interested in hearing how faculty are going about teaching or researching IT Governance and Assurance from a variety of perspectives through panel discussion or short presentations (each 15-20 minutes). Interested presenters should submit a short proposal summarizing their contribution, via email, to Roger Debreceny (roger@debreceny.com) or Elaine Mauldin (mauldin@missouri.edu) no later than November 1, 2008.

4. Call for proposals for fall 2010 JIS special section, “Reviews of Information Systems Research.”

This special section will include papers that review a stream of research in Information Systems. Papers in the section will: (1) review the relevant IS literature (e.g., decision aids, user acceptance, GDSS, data and information quality, value of IT, IT governance, ontology, etc.), (2) integrate the relevant Accounting Information Systems (AIS) literature and (3) map future research directions in AIS and IS.

Paper proposals are being accepted until November 30, 2008. The paper proposal should be no more than four pages in length. It should address the following questions:

• What strand of IS research will the paper review?
• What are the dimensions of the strand?
• What are some of the papers that constitute this strand? What are the major themes in this strand?
• Why is this strand of research important for AIS? How has the AIS literature contributed to the strand?
• What are the potential contributions of research in this strand to the practice of AIS? Where is research within this strand headed?

Submit the paper proposals using the guidelines for regular journal submissions at www.jisonline.org. The review of paper proposals is intended to ensure that the special section covers those dimensions of the IS literature most relevant to AIS and should eliminate overlap between competing papers.

Full papers based on accepted paper proposals should be submitted by June 30, 2009. Full papers are subject to the normal double blind review process of the Journal and accepted paper proposals do not guarantee publication of the final paper. Payment of the submission fee must accompany the full paper.

The editor of the special section is Roger Debreceny, Shidler College Distinguished Professor of Accounting, School of Accountancy, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Email: rogersd@hawaii.edu or roger@debreceny.com. Do not hesitate to email Roger for feedback at any point in the process.