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Conference Programme

 

DAY 1 – SUNDAY 15/6/2003

7:45 – 9:00

Registration: Antoniadou Lobby

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome by Programme and Organising Chairs (Korpela, Montealegre, Poulymenakou): Antoniadou Amphitheatre

9:20 – 10:45

Keynote 1
Prof. Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago):
Digital formations: electronic markets and activist networks

Chair: R. Montealegre

Antoniadou Amphitheatre

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break: Antoniadou Lobby

11:15 – 12:55

Session 1: Room A24

Session 2: Room A25

Session Chair: N. Russo

Session Chair: D. Avison

 

 

 

11:15 – 11:45

Work Practices and their Transformation (I)

Organizations, Corporations and Institutions (I)

FP – ICTs Supporting Targetmania: How the UK Health Sector is Trying to Modernise (Kathy McGrath)

FP – Have you Got Anything to Declare? Neo-Colonialism, Information Systems, and the Imposition of Customs and Duties in a Third World Country (Mariyam Adam and Michael Myers)

11:45 – 12:05

IPP – Data Quality Issues in Community Health Information Systems in Developing Countries (Lucy Firth, Jenny Pang, Jennifer Sampson and Graeme Shanks)

IPP – Reconceptualizing Information Systems as Social Institutions: Dynamic Institutional Theory (Bongsug Chae)

12:05 – 12:35

FP – Counter Networks, Communication and Health Information Systems: A Case Study from Mozambique (Emilio Mosse and Sundeep Sahay)

FP – Innovation Theories in Retrospect: The Case of Electronic Commerce Adoption in Small Business in New Zealand (Nabeel A. Al-Qirim)

12:35 – 12:55

IPP – A multifaceted approach to distributed communities of learning and practice (Helen Hasan and Kathryn Crawford)

IPP – Information systems in networks of small firms: challenges in a globalized world (Renata Lèbre La Rovere)

12:55 – 14:00

Lunch: Antoniadou Lobby

 

 

 

 

14:00 – 15:40

Session 3: Room A24

Session 4: Room A25

Session Chair: R. Baskerville

Session Chair: G. Fitzgerald

 

 

 

14:00 – 14:30

ICT Industries and Systems Development (I)

Societal Dynamics (I)

FP – The Process of Offshore Software Development: Preliminary Studies of UK Companies in Malaysia (Aini Aman and Brian Nicholson)

FP – Social Exclusion and Information Systems in Community Healthcare (Tony Cornford and Ela Klecun-Dabrowska)

14:30 – 14:50

IPP – Implementing Global Strategies in a Local Context: Software outsourcing in the Caribbean (Pamela Y. Abbott)

IPP – Health Information Systems for Primary Health Care: Thinking About Participation (Elaine Byrne and Sundeep Sahay)

14:50 – 15:20

FP – China Telecommunications Transformation in Globalization Context: A Structuration Perspective (Ping Gao and Kalle Lyytinen)

FP – Knowledge, NGOs and Networks: Applying Epistemology to the Work of Development (Justine Johnstone)

15:20 – 15:40

IPP – ICT for development: sustainable systems for local needs (Anja Mursu, Abimbola Soriyan and Mikko Korpela)

IPP – Studying the Developmental Impact of E-Governance Initiatives: An exploratory framework (Shirin Madon)

 

 

 

15:40 – 16:10

Coffee Break: Antoniadou Lobby

16:10 – 17:20

Session 5: Room A24

Session 6: Room A25

Session Chair: D. Truex

Session Chair: M. Myers

 

 

 

16:10 – 16:40

Cultural, Philosophical and Policy Issues (I)

Organizations, Corporations and Institutions (II)

FP – The Link Between ICT and Economic Growth in the Discourse of Development (Chrisanthi Avgerou)

FP – Organizational and National Issues of an ERP Implementation in a Portuguese Company (Jose Esteves, Joan Pastor and Joao Carvalho)

16:40 – 17:00

IPP – ICTs in Developing Countries and the Role of the Nation State: Building a Software Industry and Bridging a Digital Divide? The Case of Jordan (Saheer Al Jaghoub and Christopher Westrup)

IPP – IT Acquisition: The need for a systemic IT strategy Examples from Nepal and Venezuela (Carmen Joham and Junilee Pradhan

17:00 – 17:20

IPP – Digital Divide and the future of the ‘Information Society’: Is the Digital Divide the biggest socio-economic problem for the future of the Information Society? (Dimitrios A. Brachos, Konstantinos C. Kostopoulos and Klas Eric Soderquist)

 

IPP – An Interpretive Approach to Examine the Impact of IOS on Organisational Flexibility (Evangelia Kopanaki and Steve Smithson)

 

 

 

17:30 – 18:45

Panel 1: Antoniadou Amphitheatre

Session Chair: Robert Davison

 

Professional Societies in Information Systems: A Force for Globalisation or Good?

(Robert Davison, Ernest Jordan, Carol Hsu and Chrisanthi Avgerou)

 

 

18:45 – 20:00

Welcome  Reception – Antoniadou Lobby

 

 

DAY 2 – MONDAY 16/6/2003

8:00 – 9:00

Registration: Antoniadou Lobby

9:00 – 10:40

Session 7: Room A24

Session 8: Room A25

Session Chair: J. Kendall

Session Chair: R. Lamb

 

 

 

9:00 – 9:30

Work Practices and their Transformation (II)

ICT Industries and Systems Development (II)

FP – Coordinating Work with Groupware: The Challenge of Integrating Protocol and Artefact  (Jens Pors and Jesper Simonsen)

FP – Factors Influencing Ireland’s Software Industry: Lessons for Economic Development through IT (Ciara Heavin, Brian Fitzerald, and Eileen Trauth)

9:30 – 9:50

IPP – Debriefing knowledge management interventions: The role of technological design and organisational fit (Kostas Samiotis and Angeliki Poulymenakou)

IPP – An Investigation of the Use of Methods within Information Systems Development Projects (Gaye Kiely and Brian Fitzgerald)

9:50 – 10:20

FP – CRM in Call Centres: The Logic of Practice                          

(Helen Richardson)

FP – Russian High-Speed Software Development: Overcoming the Challenges of Globalization (Jan Pries-Heje, Richard Baskerville and Galina Hansen)

10:20 – 10:40

IPP – Context-Aware Framework of Knowledge Management: Cultural and Infrastructural Considerations (Adekunle Okunoye)

 

IPP – “Thinking Local, Acting Global”: Issues of Identity and Related Tensions in Global Software Organizations in India (Marisa D’ Mello)

10:40 – 11:10

Coffee Break: Antoniadou Lobby

11:10 – 12:50

Session 9: Room A24

Session 10: Room A25

Session Chair: D. Roode

Session Chair: C. Ciborra

 

 

 

11:10 – 11:40

Societal Dynamics (II)

Cultural, Philosophical and Policy Issues (II)

FP – Less Cyber, More Café: Design Implications for Easing the Digital Divide with Locally Social Cyber Cafes (Tony Salvador, John Sherry and Alvaro Urrutia)

FP – Good Governance and Development Aid: Risks and Challenges of E-Government in Jordan (Claudio Ciborra and Diego Navarra)

11:40 – 12:00

IPP – ICT in developing countries: A cross-sectoral snapshot (Alexander Osterwalder)

IPP – Bounded Rationality and Sectoral Differences in Diffusion of National IT Policies (Peter Meso, Ricardo M. Checchi, Galen R. Sevcik, Karen D. Loch and Detmar W. Straub)

12:00 – 12:30

FP – The Footprint of Regulation: How Information Systems are Affecting the Sources of Control in a Global Economy (Prodoromos Tsiavos, Ian Hosein and Edgar Whitley)

FP – The ‘Ear’ and ‘Eye’ Digital Divide (Mike Metcalfe and Carmen Joham)

12:30 – 12:50

IPP – Adopting technological solutions in an alliance setting: The case of Global eManagement MBA (Elpida Prasopoulou and Athanasia Pouloudi)

IPP – Towards a Mature Understanding of “Culture” in Information Systems Security Research: Insights from Research (Jill Slay, Kathy Darzanos, Gerald Quirchmayr and Andy Koronios)

12:50 – 14:00

Lunch: Antoniadou Lobby

14:00 – 15:40

Session 11: Room A24

Session 12: Room A25

Session Chair: T. Conford

Session Chair: E. Whitley

 

 

 

14:00 – 14:30

Organizations, Corporations and Institutions (III)

ICT Industries and Systems Development (III)

FP – ICTs and Organizational Control Across Cultures: The Case of a UK Multinational Operating in China (Wei Liu and Chris Westrup)

FP – Institutional Structures and Participation: Comparative Case Studies from India (S.K. Puri and Sundeep Sahay)

14:30 – 14:50

IPP – Vertical or Integrated Health Programmes? The consequences for the laboratory information system in Mozambique (Baltazar Chilundo and Margunn Aanestad)

IPP – Structuring Coordination and communication in global Software work: a case study (Rajeev Sharma and S. Krishna)

14:50 – 15:20

FP – On the Implementation of an Information System in the Mozambican Context: The EDM Case (Esselina Macome)

Cultural, Philosophical and Policy Issues (III)

FP – Cross-Cultural IS Adoption in Multinational Corporations: A Study of Rationality (Gamila Shoib and Joe Nandhakumar)

15:20 – 15:40

IPP – The Cuban National Healthcare System: A Qualitative Case Analysis of Virtual Infrastructures (Ann C. Séror)

IPP – Offshore Software Sourcing by Small Firms: An Analysis of Risk, Trust and Control (Brian Nicholson and Erran Carmel)

15:40 – 16:10

Coffee Break: Antoniadou Lobby

16:10 – 17:30

Session 13: Room A24

Session 14: Room A25

Session Chair: H. Klein

Session Chair: C. Urquhart

 

 

 

16:10 – 16:40

Cultural, Philosophical and Policy Issues (IV)

Societal Dynamics (III)

FP – The Emergence of ICTs for Developing Countries: Using Dramatistic Analysis to Identify the Heroes and Villains (Kenneth Kendall, Julie Kendall and Muhammadou Kah)

FP – Can E-Marketplaces Bridge the Digital Divide? (Craig Standing, Ian Sims, Rosemary Stockdale, and Arjen Wassenaar)

16:40 – 17:10

Organizations, Corporations and Institutions (IV)

Work Practices and their Transformation (III)

FP – Implementing Global Information Technology Product in a Localized Context: An Exploratory Study of ERP System Implementation in China (Garry Pan, Shan Pan, Xin-Xin Chen, and Donal Flyn)

FP – Back to Basics: Sharing Goals and Developing Trust in Global Virtual Teams (Robert Tucker and Niki Panteli)

17:10 – 17:30

IPP – Second Wave ERP: Local Implementation Challenges (Andrew Stein, Paul Hawking and Susan Foster)

IPP – Organizational Infrastructure Framework for Information Technology Innovation: An Economic Development Example (Dawn Jutla, Peter Bodorik and Steven Feindel)

 

 

 

17:40 – 19:00

Panel 2: Antoniadou Amphitheatre

Session Chair: Joseph Feller

 

Open Source and Free Software: Organizational and Societal Implications

(Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Jan Ljunberg, and Magnus Berquist)

20.30

Conference Dinner, MNISIKLEOYS Tavern, Lisiou & Mnisikleoys 22, Plaka, Athens (Tel: 210 32 25 558 & 210 32 25 337)

 

 

DAY 3 – TUESDAY 17/6/2003

8:00 – 9:00

Registration: Antoniadou Lobby

9:00 – 10:00

Business Meeting 9.4: Antoniadou Amphitheatre

10:00 – 11:00

AUEB’s Conference Greeting

Prof. G. Venieris, Dean of AUEB, and

Prof. G. Doukidis, Head of the  Department of Management Science and Technology

Greek Keynote Speaker: 

Dr. T. Karounos, Director

Managing Authority of the Operational Programme for the Greek Information Society (2000-2006)

Chair: A. Poulymenakou

 

 

Antoniadou Amphitheatre

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break: Antoniadou Lobby

11:30 – 13:00

 

Keynote 2 (Closing Keynote address)

Geoff Walsham: Development, Global Futures and IS Research: A Polemi.

Chair: Mikko Korpela

Formal Close of Conference:

Mikko Korpela, Ramiro Montealegre and Angeliki Poulymenakou

 

Antoniadou Amphitheatre

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch: Antoniadou Lobby

14:00 – 15:00

Business Meeting 8.2: Antoniadou Amphitheatre

 

Note: Presentations will be held with data projectors

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