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2008 AAA IS Section Business Meeting Minutes |
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, Anaheim, CA
Introductory Remarks – President Bruce Dehning There will be a special Issue of JIS in Fall 2010 titled “Reviews of Information Systems Research”. Paper Proposal for the issue should be 4 pages and should be submitted to Roger Debreceny, by November 30, 2008 The section has been working to enhance partnerships with ISACA and the IMA. ISACA will be sponsoring a pre-conference workshop at the Mid-Year Meeting and IMA is providing an award for the best Educational Paper. Next year’s midyear meeting will feature an entire day devoted to AIS Education. Members of the IS Section have been leaders in developing the AAA Commons. The section will be the first with a web page on the AAA Commons. JIS was not accepted for inclusion in the Social Sciences Citation Index, but we received feedback that will help us apply again in the future. The section is sponsoring some excellent panel sessions at the Annual Meeting. Please attend these to show appreciation for the speakers who have travelled to present. Annual Meeting Report – Sandra Richtermeyer The section has nine concurrent sessions at the Annual Meeting and one panel session. Six papers were accepted for the forum. 32 papers were submitted; 4 were redirect to another section, and 22 papers were accepted. 65 volunteers provided reviews and 21 people are acting as discussants. By-Laws Committee Report – There are no proposed changes Treasurer’s Report – Mary Curtis Both section membership and cash balances are growing. A significant element of cash growth is the $25,000 per year donation for the next three made by KPMG. The total amount was paid up front. Mid-year Meeting Coordinator’s Report (2008) – Bruce Dehning on Behalf of Marcus Odom The meeting was a great success. Mid-year meeting attendance was down slightly in 2008. Based on feedback received, this may have been due to timing and the west-cost location. Mid-year Meeting Coordinator’s Report (2009) – Bruce Dehning on Behalf of Marianne Bradford There will be a new, pre-conference session on IT Governance sponsored by ISACA There will be a separate program for IS Educators. There will be 3 major awards – 2 $500 awards sponsored by the IMA, and a Best Academic Paper award that will carry an automatic acceptance to JIS if the authors desire. The deadline for submissions is September 1 TAR Editor Report – Jim Hunton Steve Kachelmeier is the new editor of TAR. Steve is very receptive to submissions from different areas of accounting research and will be striving for diversity in the types of research published. In order to publish more AIS work in TAR, submissions must increase. The paper review process will be slightly changed. Steve will receive all manuscripts and assign them to the relevant senior editor. Authors should state the appropriate area for their papers. Steve will make initial assignments of reviewers, with recommendations for changes made by the senior editor in that area. All decisions are made by the senior editor. TAR will move from 4 issues to 6, publishing 60 papers per year. There are five possible responses for paper – conditional acceptance, revise and resubmit, uncertain (needs contribution clarified), reject due to marginal contribution, reject to validity of results JIS Editor’s Report – Paul Steinbart The JIS competitive manuscript award is also an area where diverse nominations are desired. The Deadline for nominations will be in early January. To be nominated, the author must have received their Ph.D. in the last 5 years. JIS Submissions have increased in the last year. Regarding our consideration for inclusion in Social Sciences Citation Index, we did not apply, but Thompson Publishing chose us for review. Reasons for rejection included the number authors who live outside of the US (too few), and insufficient citations to articles in JIS. Please submit papers addressing a variety of divergent issues. Announcements - Roger Debreceny The JIS Special issue described earlier by Bruce will focus on papers that review the IS literature and emphasize applicability to AIS. These papers will likely be heavily cited. Brief descriptions of idea will first be reviewed for relevance and interest. Then authors will have time to complete the paper, after which it will go through a normal review process. ISACA will be sponsoring a Workshop on IT Governance for one-half day prior to the Mid-Year Meeting. A portion of the time will be devoted to presentations of materials issued by the IT Governance Institute by Institute staff. The other portion will be devoted to classroom applications. The Artificial and Emerging Technologies section of the AAA is officially changing its name to the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section. AAA Commons Update – Julie Smith David The commons is an online, social networking collaboration space. Your workspace on the Commons remains in the same location, even if you move from one institution to another. You create a profile of research and teaching interests. Everything on the commons is fully searchable. There is even a place to store all letters, copies of papers and other correspondence between co-authors. The Sections and Regions Areas will be the next aspect to roll-out. Our section needs to provide leadership about the appropriate section-level content. Guest members can access only select aspects of the Commons, such as the co-author workspace. Awards – Bruce Dehning JIS Best Reviewer Award – Greg Gerard Outstanding Dissertation – Won-Gyun No, University of Waterloo, Dissertation Chair Efrim Boritz Distinguished Service Awards Delwyn DeVries – Membership Services Marcia Watson – Newsletter Editor Sandra Richtermeyer – Annual Meeting Chair Two awards were presented for papers at the Mid-Year Meeting Best Educational Paper - Guido Geerts and Kinsun Tam, “KaDo: An Advanced Enterprise Modeling, Database Design, Database Implementation, and Information Retrieval Case for the Accounting Information Systems Class.” Best Research Paper - Efrim Boritz and Jee-Hae Lim of the University of Waterloo, “IT Control Weaknesses, IT Governance and Firm Performance.” Incoming President – Elaine Mauldin Bruce Dehning was presented with a distinguished service award for his work as President. There are over 50 officers and section committees volunteers for the coming year. There were more than 80 volunteers at the annual meeting, midyear meeting and journal. Thanks to all of these volunteers. For others, please get involved – your efforts will pay back great dividends.
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