Co-chairs:

? Gabriele Piccoli, University of Sassari (co-chair)
? Erica Wagner, Cornell University (co-chair)

The ECIS 2009 Doctoral Committee invites each university to nominate one candidate for the Doctoral Consortium.


Eligibility

The objective of the ECIS Doctoral Consortium is to create a collegial and fun atmosphere where Ph.D. students currently working on Information Systems dissertations can share their work and receive valuable feedback. Thus, the optimal candidates for nomination are those who have successfully been upgraded to a Ph.D. candidate by defending their thesis proposals before June 2009. Students who will have completed their dissertations by June 2009 will not be accepted.
Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled in a University within AIS Area 2 (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). Each University can only nominate one candidate and must guarantee funding for the student to attend the Doctoral Consortium, if selected. Room and board at the DC is provided courtesy of ECIS and the conference sponsors.


Doctoral Consortium Faculty

Doctoral Consortium Faculty:
- Robert Austin - Copenhagen Business School and Harvard Business School
- Walter Fernandez - Australian National University
- John Mooney - Pepperdine University
- Eric Monteiro - University of Oslo
- Carol Saunders - University of Central Florida
- Sandra Sieber - IESE Business School
- Niels Bjorn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
- Hugo Lotriet - University of Pretoria, South Africa

Keynote Faculty
- Bob Galliers - Bentley University
- Sirkka Jarvenpaa - University of Texas Austin


Doctoral Consortium Facilities and Location

The Doctoral Consortium will take place in the beautiful resort town of Canazei at the base of the world famous Dolomites mountains. We will be hosting the event at the University of Verona?s summer school and the dates are from Friday June 5^th to Sunday June 7^th 2009.

Figure 1: Torre del Vajolet                              Figure 2: University of Verona Summer School Site

Deadline

January 31^st 2009


Submission Procedure

Submission materials, as specified on the below, must be sent via email to .

Upon receipt you will receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive such confirmation within a day, please inquire.


Nomination Requirements

-	Students cannot apply directly, but must have been nominated by an IS faculty member/academic.
-	There cannot be more than one nominee per school, university, or institution.
-	The nomination should be written by the director of the IS doctoral programme, the Dean of the College or Faculty, or the IS department's chairperson. If such individuals are not available, the student?s supervisor or doctoral committee chair can submit the nomination letter.
-	The nomination should follow the provided template and the nominating faculty should attest that the student is the only nominee of the school.

Nomination Process

The nominating faculty must provided the information in the following nomination package in the form of three separate Word or PDF files:

01.	A Nomination Letter
02.	A Nominee Information Sheet and dissertation abstract
03.	A Dissertation Proposal Paper prepared by the doctoral student summarising the dissertation research. The proposal should address the following issues and not exceed 3,000 words:

	-	research question or topic;
	-	justification for the importance of the research;
	-	presentation of the theoretical basis or framework underlying the research;
	-	description of research design and methodology;
	-	progress report in the appendix indicating the estimated completion date and the work that remains to be done as of the date of the proposal?s submission

All three items were submitted no later than midnight Greenwich Standard Time of January 31^st 2009.

Incomplete nomination packages and nomination packages arriving after the deadline will not be accepted.


Submission Format and Instructions to Authors

The paper outlining the candidate's research must be in the form of an abbreviated dissertation proposal. Proposals must have a cover page with the following information:

-	Title of the proposal
-	Contact information for the candidate, including name, university, email address, mailing address, phone number, and fax number.

The propsal should provide the research question or topic, a justification for the importance of the research, a presentation of the theoretical basis or framework underlying the research, and a description of research approach and methodology. Also, the proposal should include a progress report as an appendix, indicating the estimated completion date and the work that remains to be done as of the date of submission of proposal. The proposal may not exceed 3,000 words.


Selection Process

Selection to the ECIS Doctoral Consortium is competitive. Participants will be selected based on the quality of the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the IS discipline, the potential contribution the student is likely to make to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's research.

The review is for selection purposes only and it is not intended to provide feedback for improvement to those candidates not selected to the consortium.

Participation is limited to 20 students and the Doctoral Consortium committee will seek to include the best proposals as well as to balance the background and interests of the candidates.

The language for the Consortium is English, and all submitted materials must be in English. Students must have had sufficient proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and other activities.

Submitting a candidacy to the Doctoral Consortium is an implicit assurance that the student has the funding to travel to the Doctoral Consortium location and that he or she will be able to stay for the duration of the event.

Notifications of the results of the selection process will be sent via e-mail to all applicants by the end of March 2009.


  nomination form (.doc)

  nomination letter (.doc)