Call for papers
First Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems
- in conjunction with IRIS33
http://www.scandinavian-iris.org/2010
Time has come for the IRIS research community to launch its own – full-fledged – conference. This first Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems will be held in 20th – 22ndAugust 2010 in Northern Jutland, Denmark, in conjunction with the traditional IRIS seminar. The conference will have a format which is known from other conferences such as the IFIP working conference series. The submitted papers and panels will be selected through a rigorous and double blind review process performed by a program committee consisting of senior Scandinavian and international researchers in our field. The selected manuscripts will be presented in formal papers sessions and be discussed by appointed discussants.
The conference will be followed directly by IRIS in its traditional format with working groups and workshop on 22nd and 24th August, 2010.
The theme of the conference is “Engaged Scandinavian IS research”.
Scandinavian IS research has for several decades been concerned with its relevance to practitioners of the field, to users, to industry, and to society at large. This concern for the usefulness outside the realms of research has shaped Scandinavian IS researchers awareness, attention, research conduct, and most importantly who we interact with on which issues, why we do this, and for whom we do it.
In his book Engaged Scholarship which was published in 2007 Van de Ven offered an enlightening view on organizational and social research that is highly relevant for Scandinavian IS research. He suggests an interactional view in which professional and research practices contribute to each other through different types of activity. Embracing qualitative as well as quantitative methods and promoting process studies as well as variance studies, engaged scholarship offers opportunities to transcend the traditional dichotomies of rigor versus relevance, and positivist versus interpretive. Van de Ven defines engaged scholarship as “a participative form of research for obtaining the different perspectives of key stakeholders (researchers, users, clients, sponsors, and practitioners) in studying complex problems”. Much of the Scandinavian IS research has already followed this line as can be seen in an retrospective analysis which was presented in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2. The conference will address and further promote a view on Scandinavian IS research with a particular focus on how ‘engaged’ unfolds in different studies.
The conference will favour research papers and panels addressing the research theme, but will not be limited exclusively to this subject. Within the theme priority will be given to research contributing with prototypical and exemplary engaged Scandinavian IS research with a good explanation of the research approach rather than expositions and theoretical studies of research methods. Examples of topics covered by the conference are:
- Case studies with different stakeholders’ perspectives
- Examples of action research with a particular focus on how practitioners and researchers have engaged in action
- Examples of design science research with a particular view on stakeholders’ evaluation of the artefact
We are soliciting full research papers for the Scandinavian Conference of IS and they should be submitted through the conference web site before 24th November, 2009. Research-in-progress should in stead be submitted to the traditional IRIS before its deadline on 1st April, 2010.
Web site: http://www.scandinavian-iris.org/2010
Paper submission: check the web site for instructions on size, format and online submission.
Important dates:
- 24th November, 2009: Paper submission for SCIS
- 15th January, 2010: Panel submission for SCIS
- 1st March, 2010: Notification of acceptance for SCIS
- 1st April, 2010: Paper submission for IRIS
- 20th-22ndAugust 2010: Conference, North Jutland, Denmark
- 22nd-24th August 2010: IRIS, North Jutland, Denmark
Program chairs:
- Karlheinz Kautz, Denmark
- Peter Axel Nielsen, Denmark
Program committee:
- Kim Normann Andersen, Denmark
- Karin Axelsson, Sweden
- Jørgen Bansler, Denmark
- Tone Bratteteig, Norway
- Keld Bødker, Denmark
- Susanne Bødker, Denmark
- Jan Damsgaard, Denmark
- Ole Hanseth, Norway
- Liisa von Hellens, Australia
- Ola Henfridsson, Sweden
- Jonny Holmström, Sweden
- Pertti Järvinen, Finland
- Rikard Lindgren, Sweden
- Kalle Lyytinen, USA
- Lars Mathiassen, USA
- Eric Monteiro, Norway
- Bjørn Erik Munkvold, Norway
- Markku Nurminen, Finland
- Helena Holmström Olsson, Sweden
- Samuli Pekkola, Finland
- Matti Rossi, Finland
- Maung K. Sein, Norway
- Jesper Simonsen, Denmark
- Erik Stolterman, USA
- Reima Suomi, Finland
- Carsten Sørensen, UK
- Virpi Tuunainen, Finland
- Margunn Aaenestad, Norway
- Pär Ågerfalk, Sweden