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VI Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS

 Flyer and call for paper 

Toward Fusion in the Interconnected World:

Exploring the connection between organizations and technology

 

 

Costa Smeralda (Italy), October 2-3, 2009

 

 

 

 

Dates

 

Deadline for paper submission

May 25th 2009

Notification of paper acceptance

June 30th 2009

Full paper or poster submission

July 30th 2009

Conference

October 2 - 3, 2009

 

Registration Fees (on-line at: http://www.unitn.it/events/mcis07/reg/index.php)

 

 

 

 

Onsite

Academic AIS member

Academic non-AIS member

Student AIS member

Student non-AIS member

 

Submission guidelines

 

Submissions to the conference will be evaluated through a standard double-blind review process. Track chairs will select reviewers and ensure anonymity of the double-blind process.

Authors are highly encouraged to seek guidance from Track Chairs prior to submission of the paper. We highly encourage authors to formalize this process by sending an abstract to the Track Chairs to receive feedback and guidance.

Formal submission must specify the track that they are intended for. The page limit for contributions submitted in English is equal to 8 pages (maximum). Formatting rules will be available on conference website (www.itais2009.org). Accepted papers will need to show both relevance to the outstanding body of literature and sufficient methodological rigor. The best English contributions will be published in book with ISBN, edited by Springer. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (CD-ROM). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference and present the work. Submission must specify the track that they are intended for.

 

For submissions and/or questions please send an e-mail to: itais2009@UniSS.it

 

Each submission must specify one of the following tracks:

 

-   E-Services in Public and Private Sectors Chair: M. De Marco (U.Cattolica, Milano), J. vom Brocke (U. of Liechtenstein)

E-service is defined as the provision of services (information, interaction, transaction, etc.) via electronic networks and is a promising reference model for businesses and public service organizations. The study of e-services overlaps several disciplines including computer science and engineering which are concerned with the development and provision of these services. It also extends to economics and organization science with regard to service quality and value research. Such converging (or diverging) elements are relevant, for example, when considering the pros and cons of addressing public sector e-services with a private sector perspective. Defining an integrated framework for the study of e-services in both the public and the private sectors underscores the need for new business models, as well as increases the value of e-services integration via the enhanced collaboration between service providers and users / customers / citizens. Technical issues of infrastructure integration, service-oriented architectures and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) overlap with new revenue generating models, in addition to expanding opportunities for service improvement and building better customer/citizen relationships. The Track encourages contributions from multiple perspectives. Theoretical issues and empirical evidence developed in specific service areas (e.g. health care, tourism, government, banking), in processes (e.g. procurement, invoicing, payments), and in public or private environments constitute an ample research background to draw upon and to investigate. Topics include (but are not limited to):

·          Private and public e-service approaches

·          Integration of different organizations, stakeholders, and actors in e-services design and implementation

·          E-services case studies

·          Security and privacy issues

·          Interoperability standards and frameworks

·          E-service evaluation models

·          Building e-services for e-government

·          E-government and the digital divide

·          Electronic invoicing in B2G and B2B contexts

·          User trust and e-services

·          Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture for public and private sector e-services.

 

-   Organizational change and Impact of IT Chair: F. Pennarola (U. Bocconi, Milano), M. Sorrentino (U. Statale Milano)

In the modern corporate world, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent a dominant share of a firm’s total capital investments. Organizations expect to use the new ICT to run new processes, innovate products and services, gain higher responsiveness, and implement new corporate environments aimed at transforming their internal structures into better achieving organizations. To date, both practice and literature have widely shown that the effective implementation of new ICT is one of the most challenging tasks faced by managers, since it requires people to understand, absorb and adapt to the new requirements. It is often said that people love progress but hate change. Thus, the ultimate impact of ICT is mediated by a number of factors many of which require an in-depth understanding of the organizational context and human behavior. Despite the many change strategies and tactics applied so far and the fact that many research findings have associated successful tactics with organizational contexts, it is proving difficult to develop a comprehensive theory of change management and change implementation. Empirical investigation must be conducted hand-in-hand with theory building if we want to better interpret today’s corporate environments.

The Track encourages the interplay of theory and empirical research and is open to contributions from any perspective. Topics include (but are not limited to): Change management successes or failures; Enablers of and/or inhibitors of IT-related change success; Relationships between ICT and business strategy; Applied change management theories and methodologies; Analysis of change management tools and techniques also from an interorganizational viewpoint; Analysis of the interaction of individual, group, and information technology during change processes; Bottom-up and top-down change processes; Change processes in technology development, adoption, deployment in multi-cultural environments; Theories and tools to interpret IT-related changes.

 

-   Information and Knowledge Management Chair: V. De Antonellis (U. Brescia), K. Passerini (NJIT)

Modern organizations, in the era of internet and web-based scenarios, have started to experience networked collaboration by information and knowledge sharing in order to improve business process, to extend business knowledge and to collaborate with all potential partners, to share and access the huge number of available resources over the network. New requirements for Information and Knowledge Management Systems must be considered in such distributed collaboration scenario. Specifically, advanced methods and tools for semantic interoperability, integration support and dynamic collaboration are strongly required. This track aims at presenting the latest research on information and knowledge management and collaboration in modern organizations. The track serves as a forum for researchers, practitioners, and users to exchange new ideas and experiences on the ways new  technologies (e.g., semantic web, semantic web services, service oriented architectures, P2P networks, OLAP systems, tools for data and service integration, information wrapping and extraction, data mining, process mining) may contribute to extract, represent and organize knowledge as well as to provide effective support for collaboration, communication and sharing of information and knowledge.

 

Keywords: Knowledge Representation and Integration, Knowledge Discovery, Data Warehousing, Semantic Web and Services

 

-   E-justice and Ethics of Information Systems Chair: F. Contini (U. Bologna), A. Marturano (UCSC-Roma)

Since Norbert Wiener's studies, the legal and ethical aspect of informationand communication technologies (ICTs) has been matter of controversy. Theconsequences of IS extend across societies, into organisational, collectiveand private aspects of our existence. According to technological enthusiasts these technologies lend themselves to liberation and emancipation, fostering learning, education and inclusion; according to technological catastrophists they, perhaps inevitably, bound up with forces that will disempower individuals and groups homogenising them, strengthening traditional relationships of dominance and hegemony, as well as having undesirable and potentially catastrophic social and environmental global impacts. This context necessarily involves the IS community in a consideration of and engagement with legal and ethical issues. In particular, ICT has been widely used with the objective of increasing efficiency, transparency and accessibility of courts and other justice organizations. Even though the achievement of these goals has been just occasionally verified, ICT has nevertheless become pervasive in also in this sector. One of the peculiarities of the justice sector, is the high degree of formalization and regulation that makes the interplay between technology and the normative installed base particularly complex. Tensions between the requirements and the logics of law and technology makes ICT/IS development problematic and reveals embedded conflicts and dilemmas. This is because the lawfulness of technology does not grant its functioning, while a working technology is not necessarily lawful. This tension magnifies ICT/IS development problems such as the need of mediations between the existing institutional order and the features and logic of the new systems, the liaison between system development and legal changes, the questions of the legitimacy of technology and of the accountability of ICT enabled institutions.   This track aims to highlight these issues, by bringing different communities of researchers together with the aim of furthering our understanding of how continuing and renewed concern with legal and ethical issues against the background of rigour and relevance does and should impact upon IS research. Suggested topics: Ethics and the environmental impacts of IT; IT and the workplace; Access to information; Data- bio- banks and privacy; Military use of IT; Ethical impacts of It in the third world; Ethical concerns of IT design; Security and surveillance; Software and intellectual property rights; Computer crime and legislation; Internet governance; The digital divide and social justice; Social responsibility and codes of conduct for ICT professionals; Hacking and social engineering; Ethics, agency, and structure; The design, implementation and functioning of technologies in justice organizations, models of outsourcing of ICT/IS development in highly regulated environments, inscription of legal codes into technological systems.

 

-   The Strategic role of Information Systems Chair: G. Cioccarelli (U. Pavia), E. Giudici (U. Cagliari)

The strategic role of Information Systems (IS) refers to the way in which they can contribute to the creation and appropriation of value. Strategic Information Systems (SIS) enable organizations to create and sustain competitive advantage and to improve their competitive positioning. More recently the literature on SIS has begun to explore the role of capabilities and agility, and therefore the way in which competitive advantage is continuously developed and renewed through the development of IT dynamic capabilities as well as the capacity to streamline and quicken the reaction time to competitive changes. The emphasis is on the incorporation of IT into organizations' strategic thinking, strategy alignment, management of change issues, exploration/exploitation of organizational resources and competencies.

This track invites papers that test and extend our current understanding of the issues in this area. We particularly welcome controversial pieces that will challenge our thinking regarding  taken-for-granted assumptions, models, and research practices.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-   The influence of IS competencies on process innovation; Capability development and dynamic IT capabilities; IS as an enabler of competitive advantage

-   IS governance mechanisms within unconventional organization models; organizational implications of IT; IS as an enabler of change; the use of SIS to manage change

-   IS to coordinate and manage distributed resources and competencies (both IT/IS and non IT/IS); Inter-organizational IS within clusters and networks; The impact, significance, and evaluation of emerging Web based technologies (e.g. “Web 2.0”);

-   Applications of IS in functional management areas.

 

Keywords: IT/IS resources, competencies, and capabilities; organizational change; IOS.

 

-   IS Quality, Metrics and Impact Chair: C. Francalanci (Politecnico Milano), A. Ravarini (LIUC Castellanza)

The objective of the track is to seek original research contributions on measurable impacts of information systems within organizations. While it is widely recognized that information technology impacts on companies along multiple organizational dimensions, the assessment of the actual costs and benefits of information systems raises a number of research questions that are still largely unanswered. What are the real costs of key IS projects? How can I assess these costs ahead of time? What are the tangible benefits delivered by ITs and what evidence exists on the measurable impacts of these benefits, both at an organizational and at an industry level? The track welcomes research that can provide a systematic view of the state of the art on these questions and provide insights on the methodologies and techniques that can be applied to assess the quality of modern information systems.

 

Keywords: IT costs, IT benefits, IS quality, IT assessment, IS performance management

 

-   Information Systems Development and Design Methodologies Chair: B. Pernici (Politecnico Milano), A. Carugati Aarhus School of Business-DK)

The track aim at presenting research in the wide area of information systems development and design methodology, with a special focus on designing information systems in complex organizations, virtual enterprises and interconnected organizations. Model based design methods and tools and empirical work on design experiences are both interesting in the track. In addition, papers discussing the relationship between technological and organizational points of view and constraints during the design are also of interest for the call.

 

-   Human-computer Interaction Chair: M.F. Costabile (U. Bari)

Human-computer interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary research and practice field that deals with the design, evaluation, and use of interactive technologies. The field has gained increasing attention in the last decades due to the pervasiveness of Information Technology in our lives. Traditional HCI topics, such as user-centred system design, usability engineering, accessibility, and information visualization are important to Management Information Systems (MIS) as they influence technology usage in business, managerial, organisational, and cultural contexts. As the user base of business interactive systems is expanding from IT experts to consumers of different types, including elderly, young and special needs people, who access services and information via Web, new and exciting HCI research topics have emerged dealing with broader aspects of the interaction, such as designing for improving the overall user experience, favouring social connections and supporting collaboration.
The Track builds on the success of a similar track of last year conference program; it welcomes researchers and practitioners of HCI and related disciplines to discuss theories, practices, methodologies, techniques and applications about the interaction among humans, information and technology. Submissions of research papers, experience reports, as well as research in progress articles are encouraged. Authors may contact track's co-chairs to check whether or not the nature of their submission is appropriate for this track.

 

 

 

-   Emerging Issues in a Globalized and Interconnected World Chair: C. Rossignoli (U. Verona), D. Baglieri (U. Messina)

Due to the rapidly increasing speed of technological changes, world is becoming more and more globalized and interconnected. Under these circumstances, firms can no longer rely upon internal technology development but they need to widen their approach in order to exploit technological and business opportunities coming up from the globalized and interconnected  world. Chesbrough (2003) coined the term 'open innovation' to indicate how large companies combine externally and internally developed technologies in a flexible way to develop new businesses.

Therefore, a systematic scanning of the available technologies and ideas inside the company as well as in the environment (e.g. technology and market scouting, consultants, customers, exhibitions, universities, patent inspection) is becoming a strategically important activity, because of the increasing technological

complexity of products and the business opportunities related to emerging technologies.

Another stream of product innovation literature emphasizes the role of lead users in developing technology (Von Hippel, 2005). In this vein, it would be worth gaining a deeper understanding about  the role of emerging communities of users which can be identified as lead users or as user innovators involved in the design process and the development of toolkits to open the design, innovation and production processes to users capabilities.

In this track, we aim to attract papers that stimulate the ongoing debate on the multiple interconnections between organizations and technology in developing innovation. Submissions are invited from both practitioners and researchers and they may be purely theoretical or based on empirical research.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

·        How do external sources of innovation enter the firm?

·        How is cooperation with universities, research institutes, competitors, and/or consumers organized?

·        How do intellectual property rights (IPRs) affect IS?

·        Potentials of IS in a world-wide inter-organizational networks for open innovation

·        Innovation through social networks

·        Different ways of organizing the user involvement

·        Coopetition mechanisms between consumers and producers especially in B2B

·        Case studies involving community based users and mass market

·        User involvement and dominant design

·        Tools to involve users and designing tools to make the user involved

·        User involvement and IPR (Intellectual Property Rights)

·        New capabilities requested to SME in a competitive globalized word

·        How exchange knowledge and generate innovative projects in a globalized and interconnected word?

 

Keywords: Open Innovation, emerging communities, coopetition, dynamic capabilities, source of innovation

 

-   IS Theory and Research Methodologies Chair: A. Cordella (LSE, UK), L. Mola (U. Verona)

Information Systems and Information and Communication Technology are becoming increasingly pervasive in human affairs, reshaping all domains of work, business and daily life. The encounter of ICT and human practices is a complex phenomenon which takes place at different levels, both at the technical-instrumental and at the cognitive-ontological level. However our current theories and research methodologies lag behind the complexities of the interactions between ICT and the domains of practice. This track is intended to be an "agorà" for the presentation and discussion of novel and interesting ideas on how to conceive and study ICT and IS in the contemporary world. We invite both sound theoretical contributions and empirical studies and we will privilege papers which have a clear focus on a problem, issue, or object of inquiry. Topics include (but are not limited to): IS and ICT research methodologies;

-   gaps between theories;

-   methods and practices;

-   qualitative versus quantitative approaches;

-   actor-network theory; systems theory; transaction costs; interpretive methods; 

-   epistemology of practice;

-   core theories of IS.

 

-   Accounting Management and Information Systems Chair: L. Marchi (U. Pisa), R.P. Dameri (U. Genova)

 

-   Innovation Transfer of IT Research Projects Chair: D. Saccà (U. Calabria), M. Missikof (IASI-CNR, Roma)

Nowadays, the current global economic crisis  calls  for a profound reorganization in all productive sectors. To face this crisis, ICT firms must introduce more innovations within their technologies, products and business processes; therefore, the  cooperation with public and private partners for the development of research activities or system integration, for  the implementation of  their innovation capabilities and technology knowledge transfer, become a key factor.

In ICT fields, a great opportunity is given by co-operative projects focused on research and development technologies and innovation transfer,  provided that technology-based innovation processes be adapted to deep changes in organisational contexts.

On the other hand, conventional models, methods and tools used to support technology transfer and diffusion in IT domain are becoming obsolete. Advanced ICT tools offer a set of new possibilities to facilitate the use of open cooperative and decentralised models where different entities asynchronously cooperate by adapting transfer/diffusion processes and roles to

specific cases, situations, countries and cultures. In this context, the track focuses on the new open co-operative technology transfer and diffusion models needed to handle ICT based innovation and addresses new theories and tools and best practices in cooperative and network-based ICT transfer and diffusion. Relevant topics include:

·        Cooperative IT transfer and innovation theory and practice;

·        Public-private partnerships for ICT transfer and diffusion;

·        Public procurement of IT services and other demand-side policies as catalysts or open innovation;

·        Open innovation models for networked organizations;

·        Technological and Scientific Districts;

·        IT tools to support cooperative technology transfer and diffusion in the context of Web 2.0 and future 3.0;

·        Case studies and best practices for specific technologies, geographical contexts, or organizations related to ICT or ICT-supported fields.

·        Best practices and experiences of innovations transfer of ICT research projects.

 

Chairs

 

Gabriele Piccoli After eight years on the faculty of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University Gabriele Piccoli is now Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Sassari (Italy). His research and teaching expertise is in strategic information systems and the use of Internet technology to support customer service. His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, Harvard Business Review, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences Journal, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, as well as other academic and applied journals.

Richard T. Watson is the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy and Interim Head of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles, written books on electronic commerce and data management, and given invited presentations in more than 30 countries. His most recent research focuses on IS leadership and the role of IS in creating ecologically sustainable practices. He is a consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons, a former President of the Association for Information Systems, a visiting professor at the University of Agder in Norway, and co-leads the Global Text Project.

Alessandro D'Atri is professor of Business Organisation at the LUISS University of Rome where he is the Director of CeRSI (www.cersi.it) and teaches Management Information Systems. He is Vice-President of ItAIS, the Italian Chapter of AIS, and  member of ECIS Standing Committee. He serves in the editorial board of the Journals: IS and e-Business Management; Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, and Advanced Technology for Learning. Main research interests include: IS, virtual enterprises, telemedicine, databases, computational complexity, and graph theory. In these fields he has more than 100 articles published in journals and books including: Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and Systems Science, Information Systems, and Intelligent Information Systems.

 

 

 

 

Tracks Chairs

 

Marco De Marco is professor of Organization at the Catholic University of Milan where he teaches Digital Management of Corporate Data. He is Vice President of ItAIS, the Italian Chapter of AIS, and serves as Officer at ECIS. He is in the editorial boards of the “Information Systems Journal”, the “International Journal of Digital Accounting Research”, “Information Systems and e-business Management”. His major interests are systems development e-government, program evaluation and banking information systems. His latest works were published in the European Journal of Information Systems and in the Journal of Information Technology. Marco is the representative of Region 2 (Europe, Middle East, Africa) for the Association for Information Systems.

Jan vom Brocke is professor of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. He holds the Endowed Chair of Business Process Management funded by the Hilti Corporation and is Head of the Institute of Information Systems. Jan has research and teaching experience from the University of Münster in Germany, the University of Warwick in the UK, the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, the University College Dublin in Ireland, the University of Tartu in Estonia, the Saarland University in Germany and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. He is member of two EU-Networks of Excellence, and was been elected member of the FP 7 program committee for ICT research in the EU. Since 2009 he is President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association of Information Systems (LCAIS).

Ferdinando Pennarola is Associate Professor of Organization Theory and Management Information Systems at Bocconi University. He is Delegate Rector for E-Learning initiatives at Bocconi University. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ISBM (International schools of Business Management) the international consortium of b-schools that has been managing the ITP (International Teachers Programme) since 1971.

Maddalena Sorrentino is a researches in organization theory and organisational change, and teaches e-government at the University of Milan. She is the author and editor of seven books and more than 140 articles, essays, and research reports. Maddalena is member of the editorial boards of the “Government Information Quarterly” and the “Information Systems and e-Business Management”.

 

Valeria De Antonellis is a Full Professor of Information Systems at University of Brescia. Chair of the Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Engineering and chair of the PhD Curriculum in Computer Engineering and Automation at University of Brescia. Chair of the University Competence Centre for EUCIP (European Certification of Informatics Professionals) at University of Brescia. Co-founder and executive committee member of the Italian Pole of Scientific and technological Reserch on Interoperability "Interop-Vlab.IT". Over 100 papers published in international journal and conference proceedings, and co-author of two research books.  Has been working within several national and international research projects and collaborations, coordinating parts of or whole projects. Led the DATAID research project originating the DATAID-1 methodology for database design (cited in People Behind Informatics: The history of Conceptual Modeling). She promoted the conceptual modeling of both data and processes in the methodology anticipating issues of the object-oriented methodologies. In the area of semantic integration research, she proposed novel affinity and clustering techniques for automatic schema matching supported by the ARTEMIS tool, chosen by the Microsoft Database

 

Katia Passerini is an Associate Professor and the Hurlburt Chair of Management Information Systems at the School of Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where she teaches courses in MIS, Knowledge Management and IT Strategy. She has published in refereed journals and proceedings (Communications of the ACM, Communications of AIS, Society and Business Review, Journal of Knowledge Management, Computers & Education, Journal of Educational Hypermedia and Multimedia, IEEE Internet Computing) and professional journals (Project Management Network, Cutter IT Journal, Cutter Benchmark Review), particularly in the area of computer-mediated learning, IT productivity and knowledge management. Her professional background includes multi-industry projects at Booz Allen Hamilton and the World Bank where she worked on information technology projects in Europe, North America and the South Pacific.

 

Francesco Contini is a researcher at IRSIG (Research Institute on Judicial Systems) of the  Italian National Research Council. His research work is on ICT-based organizational and institutional innovation in the Italian and European judiciaries, and in the analysis of judicial reforms and judicial policies. He edited with Marco Fabri the volumes "Justice and Technology in Europe" (Kluwer Law International, 2001) and "Judicial Electronic Data Interchange in Europe" (Lo Scarabeo, 2003) and, and with Giovan Francesco Lanzara "ICT and innovation in the public sector" (Palgrave 2009).

 

Antonio Marturano is an adjunct professor of Business Ethics at the Sacred Heart catholic University of Rome and Visiting Lecturer in Leadership and Communication at the LUISS University of Rome. Previously Dr. Marturano has worked at the Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond (first semester 2007) and at the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter (2003-2007). Dr. Marturano has published extensively on leadership, leadership ethics, and ethics of IS. He is co-author of many international conference proceedings, editor of many special issues on international journals, the book "Media Ethics. Regulating the Information Society", Milan Franco Angeli, 2000 and co-editor of Leadership: the Key Concepts, Routledge, 2008. He published in many journals such as Bioethics, Ethics and Information Technology, Philosophy of Management, Business Ethics: An European Review, Business Ethics Forum and ICES. He is on the advisory board of ICES and IRIE. He is chair-elected of the ILA Education Interest Group and one of founders of INSEIT.

 

Gabriele Cioccarelli is Full Professor of Organization Theory and Design and coordinator of the Ph.D. course in Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia. He taught previously Management of IS at the Bocconi University of Milan (1976-2000). He was in charge of the Organization and IS area within the master in “Banking and Finance” for Eastern Europe countries organized by the “Giordano Dell'Amore Foundation” (1995-2002) and director of the Master in Business Organization and IT (2002-2005) at the University of Pavia.

 

Ernestina Giudici is professor of Management and Communication at the University of Cagliari. She is Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Management and Business that is a member of the European Doctoral Programme Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA). She is also the head of the Technological Competence Centre on Materials and Production Process at the University of Cagliari. She is in the board of directors of the European Community Studies Association. She has published several books (2 in a team with his head up), chapters in team books (e.g. in 2005, Organization today, Palgrave Macmillan), and now is engaged in chapter – on Motivation – in an international book project “Management through Collaboration”. Her research interests include innovation, relationship between organization and its environment, identity, motivation, creativity, sustainable development.

 

Chiara Francalanci is an associate professor of Information Systems at Politecnico di Milano. She has a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where she has also completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science. As part of her post doctoral studies, she has worked for two years at the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Researcher. She has authored articles on the economics of information technology and on feasibility analyses of IT projects, consulted in the financial industry, both in Europe and the U.S., and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology

 

Aurelio Ravarini is a Senior Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering at Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy, where he is also Head of CETIC, Research Center on Information Systems. His research expertise is in strategic information systems, knowledge management systems and information systems development, the latter focused on the context of small and medium size companies. He serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and other international journals as well member of the program committee of several international conferences in the IS field.

 

Barbara Pernici is full professor at Politecnico di Milano since 1993. Her research interests are in process design, service oriented design, adaptive service-based systems. She has edited the Springer book “Mobile adaptive information systems”.

 

Andrea Carugati is Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Business (Aarhus, Denmark). His research focuses on management of development projects and the alternative, deviating uses of technology in organizations. His work has been published in the European Journal of Information Systems, Database for Advances in Information Systems, Electronic Markets, ICIS and ECIS.

 

 

 

Maria Francesca Costabile is full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari, Italy, where she teaches human-computer interaction and other courses for the computer science curriculum. She is also the coordinator of the Interaction, Visualization and Usability lab. Formerly, she worked as assistant professor at the University of Calabria, Italy from 1981 to 1988, and as associate professor at the University of Bari from 1989 to 1999. She has been visiting scientist in several foreign universities, primarily in USA and Germany. Her current research interests are in human-computer interaction, interaction design, mobile systems, usability engineering, information visualization, visual analytics, end-user development. She has published over one hundred fifty papers in scientific journals, books and proceedings of international conferences, and edited seven books, published by ACM Press and Springer. Prof. Costabile is regularly in program committees of international conferences and workshops. She is in the Steering Committee of the Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI), organized every two years in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. She is in the Steering Committee of Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing Conference, organized every year in cooperation with IEEE. She has been Program Co-Chair of CHI 2008, the most important international conference on HCI, Program Co-Chair of Interact 2005 and Program Chair of AVI 2004. She is senior member of IEEE and member of ACM; she is a founding member of the Italian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, and served as Chair from 1996 to 2000

 

Cecilia Rossignoli is professor of Organization Science at the University of Verona and teaches Information Systems in the master course where she is also responsible of the master program of Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. She is active member of Aidea, the Italian Society of academics of business management and administration. She is author of several books and papers. She participated at several European projects. One of her latest publications is on the Journal of Electronic Commerce  Research. Her major  research interests are related to the organizational impact of ICT, with an emphasis on the management of ICT on organizational design.

 

Daniela Baglieri is Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Messina (Italy) and holds an appointment at University of Catania (Italy) since 1999. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Catania (Italy). Visiting scholar at Texas A&M University, she organized the  3td Workshop on Coopetition Strategy, sponsored by EURAM, held in Madrid’s Carlos III University on 7-8 February 2008. Her current research interests include technology entrepreneurship, the management of intellectual property rights, and coopetitive strategies for knowledge creation and rent appropriation.

 

Andrea Cordella is lecture at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is visiting professor in various European Universities and advisor of the UN on the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society guidelines. He is member of IFIP 8.2 and serves as Officer at ECIS. His latest publications are, among other journals, on the Scandinavia Journal of Information systems, the Journal of Information Technology and the European Journal of Information Systems.

 

Lapo Mola is assistant professor in Organization Science at the University of Verona and teaches Information Systems in the undergraduate course. He is member of the scientific committee of the master program of Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management of the University of Verona. He used to work in consultancy industry, leading several ERP implementation projects form 1997 to 2002.  He is coauthor of several papers presented in international conferences (ECIS, Academy of Management, e-Global Conference etc.) and journals (Sinergie, Electronic Commerce etc). His major research interests are related to the organizational impact of ICT, with an emphasis on the management of ICT on organizational design.

 

Domenico Saccà (http://sacca.deis.unical.it) is full professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria. He is also Director of the CNR (the Italian National Research Council) Research Institute ICAR (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking), located in Rende (CS) and branches in Naples and Palermo. In the past he was visiting scientist at IBM Laboratory of San Jose, at MCC in Austin, at the Computer Science Department of UCLA and at the ICSI Institute of Berkeley. His current research interests focus on advanced issues on databases and knowledge discovery such as: scheme integration in data warehousing, compressed representation of datacubes, workflow and process mining, logic-based database query languages.

 

Michele Missikof

 

 


 

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