Doctoral Consortium

Call for Nominations
The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) invites nominations for the Doctoral Consortium to be held at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan on July 8-9, 2010. Universities are invited to each nominate one candidate for the consortium. Eligible candidates are students who are currently enrolled as Ph.D. candidates in Information Systems, who have developed a plan for pursuing their dissertation, and would benefit from constructive feedback from expert faculty.
The PACIS Doctoral Consortium aims to provide doctoral students in the field of information systems with an opportunity to share their research ideas with other doctoral students and scholars. The consortium will provide students with opportunities to receive high quality feedback and support for their academic work. It will also enable students to network and collaborate with eminent professors and researchers from universities across the globe. Faculty participating are associated with leading institutions in the United States and the Asia-Pacific area, and serve in senior editorial positions in the field’s top journals. This Doctoral Consortium will be a significant event for emerging IS researchers in the Asia Pacific region.

Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs
Ming-Hui Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Detmar W. Straub (Georgia State University, USA)
Eric T. G. Wang (National Central University, Taiwan)

Consortium Eminent Speakers
Varun Grover (Clemson University, USA)
Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Consortium Faculty

1. Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, USA
2. Patrick Y.K. Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3. Guy G. Gable, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
4. Joey George, Florida State University, USA
5. Shirley Gregor, Australia National University, Australia
6. James Thong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
7. Jae Kyu Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
8. Byungtae Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
9. Bernard Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
10. Hock Hai Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Eligibility

• Ph.D. students who are currently working on a doctoral dissertation in Information Systems, and whose research has progressed to the point where a clear plan of investigation has been laid out, but where there is sufficient scope for changes to this plan based on feedback from the consortium.
• The ideal consortium candidate should have chosen a theoretical approach and initiated planning or implementation of any empirical or experimental work, but should have at least six months of work remaining at the time of the consortium.
• The language of the consortium is English. The nominated candidates must be sufficiently proficient in English to participate in the consortium in this language.
• Participation is not restricted to students from the Asia-Pacific region: we invite nominations from any university internationally that has a Ph.D. program in IS.

Nomination Process

1. Students must be nominated by an IS faculty member. The nomination should comprise:
• A nomination letter from either the director of the IS doctoral program, the IS department’s chairperson, or the candidate’s thesis/dissertation advisor certifying that that the candidate is the sole nominee from the university/institution, and that the candidate meets the eligibility criteria mentioned above.
• A completed Nomination Information sheet. (Download the sheet here.)
• A short paper of 2000 words, summarizing the student’s dissertation proposal. This paper should provide the research question, a justification of why and to whom the research is important, a brief literature review, the theoretical basis for the work, a research model and set of hypotheses (if applicable), and a description of the research design.
2. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2010.