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Join us in Maui in January!
HICSS-46 Call for Papers for the New Minitrack on:
"IT and Entrepreneurship"
Part of the Organizational Systems and Technology Track
Of the Forty-Sixth Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Maui, HI - January 7 - 10, 2013
The IT and Entrepreneurship Minitrack provides a forum for exchanging new findings and to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge on a wide range of issues involved in the application of modern IT to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in the IT field. The technology sector accounts for more than 50% of new business start-ups with start-ups in the social networking continually increasing this percentage. Many entrepreneurial endeavors that are not classified as “technology” make intense use of IT such as Internet based businesses. Social entrepreneurship in the IT area is beginning to bloom with IT start-ups and groups such as “CIOs Without Borders”. The IT entrepreneurship community is highly networked providing a global society of people interested in, researching in, and practicing IT entrepreneurship. This Mintrack will represent a wide range of ideas and global perspectives. The following is a sample of topics that would fit the intended focus of this Minitrack:
- Empirical studies on the use of IT in start-up businesses
- Empirical studies of technology start-up organizations
- Empirical studies on social networking start-up businesses
- Theoretical papers on the future of IT entrepreneurship
- Theoretical models presenting new forms of technology and entrepreneurship interaction
- Emerging IT tools and techniques for entrepreneurs
- How IT is used in Social Entrepreneurship
- The study of organizations such as “CIOs Without Borders” that deal with global technology social entrepreneurship and environmental issues (technology trash)
- Case studies of successful and failed IT entrepreneurship endeavors
- Lessons learned from University Entrepreneurship Centers regarding IT
- Lessons learned from practice centers and foundations on IT and entrepreneurship
- Studies of University IT Entrepreneurship Collaborations
- Additional related topics
IT AND Entrepreneurship Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Dr. Kay M. Nelson Professor – Primary Contact
Biography: Dr. Kay Nelson is an NSF CAREER Scholar who researches and teaches in both MIS and Entrepreneurship. Pre-PhD she started-up, ran and sold a successful software company and currently specializes in social IT entrepreneurship research. She is also an active venture capitalist. Dr. Nelson has won both ICIS and WITS best paper awards.
Dr. H, James Nelson, Associate Professor
Biography: Dr. Jim Nelson has extensive experience working in start-up technology companies in California pre-PhD. He specializes in research on conceptual modeling and works with several non-profit IT organizations in the Columbus Ohio area as well as corporate research groups such as Boeing Phantom Works. He is an active venture capitalist to technology start-ups.
HICSS
The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.
Instructions for submitting papers:
1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site- http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ , make sure that the authors' names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review. 2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 3. Provide the required information to the review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es). 4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max) 300-word abstract.
DEADLINES:
June 15: Final date for submission 15 June by 12 o’clock midnight Hawaii time. (This is 3 hours behind/earlier than Pacific time/PST, and 6 hours earlier than New York/EST (GMT/UTC - 10)). This manuscript must be submitted in PDF format for review. If you do not have PDF converter, please visit http://www.freepdfconvert.com to get your source file converted online at no cost. (LaTex submissions are strongly discouraged for HICSS, but if necessary for initial submission email hicss@hawaii.edu and a "community" of latex users will be set up to facilitate your submission.) August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors
September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded; author(s) must register by this time.
Send all correspondence related to this Minitrack to:
Cheers!
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Kay M. Nelson, NSF CAREER Scholar, Professor Management/MIS/Entrepreneurship
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Dept. of Mgmt 212A Rehn Hall
Carbondale IL 62901
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