ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Competition

Tridas Mukhopadhyay & Chris Sauer

Index

Call for Nominations

Eligibility

Submission Process

Acknowledgment

Reviewing Process

Announcement of Winners

Tridas Mukhopadhyay (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Chris Sauer (Oxford University, UK)

Call for Nominations

The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) invites nominations for the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition 2005. We look for outstanding doctoral dissertations around the globe in the field of information systems that have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005. The competition is sponsored by SIGMIS, the ACM Special Interest Group on MIS.

Nominations should be submitted no earlier than midnight, US EDT, July 16, 2005, and no later than 4:00pm US EDT, July 30, 2005. Each department chair or Ph.D. advisor may nominate only ONE dissertation from their institution. For information on submissions, see below.

The ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Competition 2005 is chaired by Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Carnegie Mellon University, and Chris Sauer, Oxford University. The judges include participating faculty from the ICIS 2004 doctoral consortium and faculty members from the discipline.

Questions about this competition may be addressed to: Tridas Mukhopadhyay (tridas@cmu.edu) or Chris Sauer (Chris.Sauer@templeton.ox.ac.uk)

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Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2004-2005 competition, dissertations must have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005. Authors must have successfully defended their dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation document by the June 30, 2005 date. The authors need not be majoring in information systems per se as long as, in the opinion of the judges, the dissertation is related to an important issue in the information systems field.

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Submission Process

All papers and supporting documents must be received by 4:00 pm on July 30, 2005. Any documents received after that date and/or submissions without all of the appropriate documentation will not be reviewed.

ICIS encourages submissions from all countries. However, all manuscripts and accompanying information must be submitted in English. The following information and documentation is required:

1. A CD-ROM copy of the complete dissertation. The CD-ROM should be mailed to the following address, together with a hardcopy of the paper (see 2 below) and the nomination letter (see 3 below):
   
   Dr. Trevor T. Moores,
   Dept. of MIS,
   College of Business,
   University of Nevada Las Vegas,
   4505 S Maryland Parkway,
   Las Vegas, NV 89154-3104,
   USA.
   
   Tel: 1 702 895 4965
   
   The above package should arrive at Dr. Moores’ office before 4:00 pm July 30, 2005, US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Late arrivals will not be considered.
   
   

2. An electronic copy of a paper derived from the dissertation should be sent to Dr. Trevor T. Moores using the email address trevor.moores@ccmail.nevada.edu. The paper should be:
   
   

   • Single-authored (i.e., the paper must be written by the student);

   • Absolutely no more than 4,000 words in length, excluding the title page, tables, graphs, references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words in length;

   • Formatted according to the MIS Quarterly manuscript guidelines;

   • Written in English; and,

   • Include a cover page that lists the student’s name, institution, and email address.

     
     

The paper should be sent to the above email account before 4:00 pm July 30, 2005, US EDT. Late arrivals will not be considered. If you are having problems sending the file, please contact Dr. Trevor T. Moores using the same email address.




3. A short letter from the student's dissertation advisor or chairman of the doctoral program, attesting that: the paper is based on the student's dissertation; the dissertation has met all requirements for graduation with a doctoral degree and has been successfully completed during the time period: July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005; the paper and dissertation are regarded by the dissertation committee as being representative of the best level of their department's doctoral work; the paper derived from the dissertation meets the following criteria: the paper is the work of the student under the guidance of the thesis supervisor (name); it represents high research standards, in terms of theory and method; it makes an original and substantive contribution to the understanding, development, or use of information systems.

Works under consideration for publication may be submitted if they otherwise meet the criteria for selection. Authors will retain full copyright of the submitted papers and dissertations.

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Acknowledgment

Receipt of the package of hardcopy materials via regular or expedited post will NOT be acknowledged unless you include an email address to acknowledge receipt.

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Reviewing Process

A panel of IS faculty members will review each submitted paper. Their evaluations will be used to select those papers that merit more detailed assessment as final candidates for the award. The dissertations of the finalist candidates will be reviewed by the Dissertation Award Selection Committee, which will make the final choice. As this is an award competition, no reviews will be provided.

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Announcement of Winners

The winner of the dissertation award competition will be announced in December 2005 at ICIS in Las Vegas. There will be no individual notification of the status of any competitor until the official announcement in December in Las Vegas.

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