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Time for some changes to ICIS? Reflections on our highest-quality conference

Urquhart, Cathy LU ; Carte, Traci and Heinzl, Armin (2017) In Communications of the Association for Information Systems 41. p.179-197
Abstract

In this commentary, we reflect on the program chair experience of ICIS 2015 to pass on some useful organizational memory for the IS community at large. We also reflect on volunteer effort required for a high-quality conference and the challenges of maintaining quality over a diverse and dispersed reviewing effort. We ask whether we can count on this volunteer effort in a changing higher education context where universities value volunteer effort or service less than promotion and tenure. We make several wide-ranging recommendations to preserve organizational memory and ensure the ongoing excellence of ICIS. Finally, we elaborate on some hard questions about whether the current conference model is fit for purpose and consider alternative... (More)

In this commentary, we reflect on the program chair experience of ICIS 2015 to pass on some useful organizational memory for the IS community at large. We also reflect on volunteer effort required for a high-quality conference and the challenges of maintaining quality over a diverse and dispersed reviewing effort. We ask whether we can count on this volunteer effort in a changing higher education context where universities value volunteer effort or service less than promotion and tenure. We make several wide-ranging recommendations to preserve organizational memory and ensure the ongoing excellence of ICIS. Finally, we elaborate on some hard questions about whether the current conference model is fit for purpose and consider alternative models for our high-quality conference.

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AIS, Conference management, ICIS
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Communications of the Association for Information Systems
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41
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8
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19 pages
publisher
Association for Information Systems
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  • scopus:85031313387
ISSN
1529-3181
DOI
10.17705/1cais.04108
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2017 by the Association for Information Systems.
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  title        = {{Time for some changes to ICIS? Reflections on our highest-quality conference}},
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