Doctoral Consortium

Dale Goodhue & Rudy Hirschheim

Index

Call for Nominations

Eligibility

Nomination Letter Requirements

Selection Process

Proposal Submission Format

Submission Process

Dale Goodhue (University of Georgia, USA)
Rudy Hirschheim (Louisiana State University, USA)

Call for Nominations

The International Conference on Information Systems invites nominations for the Doctoral Consortium to be held at Las Vegas, NV prior to ICIS2005. In case of problems or for further clarifications about the submission process, please contact one of the consortium co-chairs.

Nomination Information Sheet: To get the Nomination Information Sheet for nominating a student for the doctoral consortium, click here. Nomination deadline: midnight (Eastern Daylight Time), June 6, 2005. All nominations will be acknowledged. Incomplete or late nomination packages will not be reviewed. No exceptions.

The Consortium will take place at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa in Las Vegas. The Consortium will begin at 5pm on Thursday December 8th, and end at noon on Sunday December 11th. The Consortium provides doctoral students working on their dissertation research with an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas, to explore issues related to academic and research careers in the Information Systems field, and to build relationships with other IS PhD students from around the world.

Please note, all accepted students to the Doctoral Consortium will be required to pay $300 to help defray part of the cost of their attendance at the Consortium. As the costs for the Consortium continue to escalate, the Las Vegas Conference Committee has felt compelled to require attendees to pay a small portion of the costs of running the Consortium.

The ICIS 2005 conference in Las Vegas immediately follows the Consortium.

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Eligibility

Participation is by invitation only. Each university can nominate only one candidate. Each student selected for the Consortium is expected to attend all Consortium meetings and activities, from the opening on Thursday evening to the close at noon on Sunday. Candidates who are not able to make this commitment to the Consortium (for example, a desire to present or attend at one of the ICIS pre-conference workshops), no matter how impressive the candidates may be, should not apply.

Ph.D. students currently working on Information Systems dissertations are eligible for nomination. Candidates should have successfully defended their dissertation/thesis proposal before December 2005, although they need not have defended their proposal before the nomination deadline. Students who will have completed their dissertations by December will not be accepted because such students would benefit less from the Consortium compared with those who will still be actively working on their dissertations in December. Nominated candidates should intend to pursue an academic career in Information Systems following the completion of their Ph.D.

Prospective candidates should also note that the Consortium is designed as an intensive personal development experience and therefore participants may not bring guests to the Consortium.

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Nomination Letter Requirements

• Students cannot apply directly but can only be nominated by an IS faculty member/academic.

• There can only be one nominee per school, university, or institution.

• The nomination should be in the form of a nomination letter from the nominating faculty member and should certify:

  • that the candidate is the sole nominee from the university/institution;

  • that the candidate meets the eligibility criteria mentioned above; and

  • whether the nominating institution will provide travel funds to the nominee in the event that she or he is admitted to the consortium.

• Ideally, the nominating faculty member should be the director of the IS doctoral program or the IS department’s chairperson. If these individuals are not available, the student may be nominated by the candidate’s thesis/dissertation advisor.

• In the case that more than one nomination is received from a university, and if we do not have enough information to resolve the issue, both nominations will likely be rejected.

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Selection Process

Selection to the ICIS Doctoral Consortium is very competitive: 80 nominations each year are typical. Participants will be selected based on the apparent quality of the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the IS discipline, the potential contribution the student is expected to make to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's research and professional development. This assessment will be based upon a review of the Proposal Paper prepared by the doctoral student. Previous attendance by other students from the nominating school is not a criterion for selecting Consortium participants.

The Consortium will include a balance of students representing diverse research topics, methods, schools, and cultures. Participation is limited to 40 students. The language for the Consortium is English, and all submitted materials must be in English. Students must have sufficient proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and other activities. Students must also have access to the Internet prior to their arrival at the Consortium.

As stated earlier, students must commit to being involved in the Consortium for its entire duration from 5pm on Thursday December 8th to noon on Sunday December 11th.

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Proposal Submission Format

The paper outlining the candidate's research should be in the form of a short paper summarizing the student’s dissertation/thesis proposal. This paper should provide the research question, a justification for why and to whom the research is important, a brief literature review, a presentation of the theoretical basis for the work, a research model and hypotheses (if applicable), and a description of the research design. This part of the paper may not exceed 12 double-spaced pages. Formatting for this part of the paper must be as follows:

• Times New Roman or equivalent font

• 11- or 12-point font

• Double-spaced (not 1.5)

• 1 inch margins all around

• 8.5 x 11 inch paper (or A4)

• Pages must be numbered

This 12 page limit does NOT include tables or figures or references. Tables and figures should not be embedded in the text but must be included separately, to immediately follow the text. References should appear last.

Two appendices of no more than two pages each may be attached, at the discretion of the student and the person nominating him or her. (These appendices must follow the formatting guidelines outlined above.) The first appendix would be a summary of any findings the student may have as of June 6. The second appendix would be an estimation of what still needs to be done to complete the dissertation as of June 6.

Instructions on how to prepare presentations for the Consortium will be provided to those students who are selected to participate.

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Submission Process

The language of the conference and for all submissions is English. Submissions must be prepared in Word (version 97 or higher) or .pdf. Nomination packages consisting of the three items described above (i.e., Nomination Information Sheet, Nomination Letter, and Proposal) should be attached to a single email sent by the nominating academic/faculty to Dale Goodhue and copied to Rudy Hirschheim to arrive no later than midnight (Eastern Daylight Time), June 6, 2005. All nominations will be acknowledged. Incomplete or late nomination packages will not be reviewed. No exceptions.

In case of problems or for further clarifications about the submission process, please contact one of the consortium co-chairs.

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