MCIS and CAPSI 2024 Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium 2024

The Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium will (DJFC) occur on October 2, 2024 in Porto, Portugal, hosted by Porto Business School (PBS).
The MCIS an Association for Information Systems (AIS) affiliated conference and CAPSI DJFC aims to support doctoral students and researchers at the early stage of their careers in the fields of Business, Management, and Information Systems in order to develop effective career plans based on their personal and professional goals. More specifically, the DJFC has three primary objectives:

•    To provide students and early-stage researchers with networking opportunities with peers and faculty members.
•    To support students and early-stage researchers in strategizing their research, dissertations, teaching, and career plans.
•    To reflect on academic career aspirations and dynamics.


The program includes two keynote speakers:

Izak Benbasat, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Bionote: Izak Benbasat (PhD University of Minnesota, 1974; Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université de Montréal, 2009) is Professor Emeritus at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He was formerly CANFOR Professor of Information Systems (1990-2000), and Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management (2001-2014). He is a member of the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in IS from the Association for Information Systems, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the INFORMS Information Systems Society.  He served as the editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, Editor of the IS&DSS Department of Management Science, Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly and Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of MIS. He was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 1985-86, Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University in 1996 and 2003, Cycle and Carriage Visiting Professor (1995) and Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore in 2000, and the Otto Monsted Guest Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in 2015. To date, he is the author with the highest number of total publications in the top four information systems journals: MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Bionote: Nancy Pouloudi is a Professor of Information Systems Management in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She has served as Department Chair twice, in the academic years 2014-2016 and 2020-2022.She is the President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for the academic year 2023-2024. She had previously served as Region 2 Representative on AIS Council (2010-2013) and regularly serves on the AIS Region 2 Board and the Executive Committee of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS). She is Senior Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Information & Management, IT for Development, Health Policy & Technology, and the International Journal of Society, Information, Communication & Ethics. She holds a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on organizational and social issues in IS adoption and implementation. Her recent work studies user post-adoption behavior and the impact of cloud computing and the pandemic in the work and personal contexts of IS use. She has worked in a number of European Union funded projects on e-business, e-government, digital health and e-society, and is currently studying children’s digital maturity (digymatex.eu) and gender equality in business schools (targeted-mpi.eu). Her service has been recognized by the 2016 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award and the 2020 AIS Technology Challenge Award.

Students and early-stage researchers will be split into small groups based on their research focus and career stage to promote collaboration. Each panel will involve multiple faculty members and students with the goal of having a 1:1 ratio of faculty mentors to junior faculty and doctoral students.

DJFC Faculty Mentors

Henrique O'Neill, ISCTE, Portugal
Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia, Canada
Tawfiq Alashoor, IESE Business School
Christian Meske, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Alvaro Arenas, IE Business School, Spain
Mirjana Kljajić Borštnar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Illias Pappas, Norwegian Univesity of Science and Technology, Norway
Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Programme

• 09:00-09:30 Registration
• 09:30-10:00 Opening session
• 10:00-11:00 Keynote speaker 1
• 11:00-11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30-13:00 PhD Students' and Junior Faculty Presentations and Coaching Roundtable with the Faculty (PART 1)
• 13:00-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-15:00 Keynote speaker 2
• 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
• 15:30-17:00 PhD Students' and Junior Faculty Presentations and Coaching Roundtable with the Faculty (PART 2)
• Lessons learned and concluding remarks

 

Fee

The DJFC is free of charge for all doctoral students  and junior faculty (within 5 years of PhD completion) registered for the MCIS and CAPSI 2024 Conference. Doctoral students and junior faculty not registered for the Conference will be allowed to participate in the DJFC (including panels and plenary workshops) by paying a fee of 70 €. This fee is for the DJFC only and does not include participation in the MCIS and CAPSI 2024 conference sessions and coffee breaks.

Application Criteria

Doctoral students wishing to participate in the MCIS and CAPSI 2024 DJFC should be involved in dissertation projects investigating topics related to business, management, and/or information systems.
Junior faculty wishing to participate in the MCIS and CAPSI 2024 DJFC should be at the early stage of their career (within 5 years of PhD completion) in the fields of Business, Management, and Information Systems.
The consortium chairs will review each application (see application requirements below). The review process will emphasize applicants’ accomplishments and potential. Multiple students applying from the same doctoral school are allowed.

Outline of the Paper (no more than 12 pages)
•    Abstract
•    Introduction
•    Problem Definition
•    Methodology
•    Literature Review
•    Expected Findings/Implications
•    Future Work

Application Process

Please complete the form by August 29,  2024 (extended deadline) , including the required documents, via the link:
https://forms.office.com/e/WPWG6QKaHH?origin=lprLink

send the files to the email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please note that student’s application has to include student’s CV and has to be supported with a letter from supervisor. Each student (or junior faculty) is required to read in advance the contribution(s) of the other student(s) (or junior faculty) participating in his/her presentation in order to provide feedback. Faculty members will be responsible for stimulating and managing the discussions. Details on the organization of each panel will be provided in a timely manner prior to the workshop.

Each student and junior faculty should also be prepared to deliver a short presentation (15-20 minutes) summarizing the key points of his/her research. An additional 20/30 minutes will be dedicated to each participant's discussion with the faculty members.

The number of Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium participants is limited to create effective participation and discussion opportunities.

Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance to attend the Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium by September 5th, 2024

IMPORTANT DATES 

Applications Submission Deadline: August 29, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: September 5th,, 2024
Final Submission: September 16, 2024
DC Date: October 2, 2024
Conference Date: October 3rd to 5th, 2024