Call for Papers

Call For Papers

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MENA – AIS is a chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). It is the premier academic association for individuals and organizations who lead the research, teaching, practice, and study of different areas of information systems in the MENA region.

Every year, MENA – AIS organizes MENACIS, the Middle East & North Africa Conference for Information System, a regional conference affiliated with AIS.

This year, MENACIS 2021 will be held on 11-14 November 2021 in Agadir, Morocco in hybrid format. MENACIS 2021 invites academics and researchers from all over the world, but also especially from the MENA region, to reflect on innovative research in information systems, from the point of view of a rapidly changing world.

We welcome submissions – either as full research papers or research in progress – that analyses the equalizing role digital technologies play in different aspects of contemporary life.

While the theme of this conference reflects research in the MENA Region, all research topics are welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Innovative Information Systems in the MENA Region
Trends of Information Systems and innovation Ecosystems in the MENA region
IS in the service of innovation ecosystems in the MENA region
Information systems solutions during COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 on education, industry, individual, and society
IS/ IT in the period of crisis: issues and value creation
Opportunities and challenges of innovative information systems
Digital learning and online learning platforms during pandemics
Digital transformation and the future of work
Digital and social aspects in the digital era
Ethics and Information Technology
IS Education
IS healthcare

Accepted Papers will need to show both relevance and methodological rigor.

The best contributions will be published in:

The Data Base For Advances In Information Systems Journal (Q1).
Springer volume “Lecture notes in Information Systems and Organization” series, indexed on Scopus.
AIS Library.
IBIMA Business Review Journal (IBIMABR) : indexed on Scopus (Q3).
Revue Management & Innovation (for contributions in French and English) : indexed CAIRN

At least one author for each accepted paper should attend the conference, presenting her/his contribution.

Submission

We invite you to submit completed research papers, and short papers (research in progress) to MENACIS 2021. The body of the submission (text, figures, tables, references, and appendices) should be stored in one single file and must use the MENACIS 2021 format. All figures and illustrations must be inserted into your Word.doc or Word.docx file as either JPG or GIF format (other formats or embedded graphic objects will not be converted to PDF correctly). Any submission that does not use this template or deviates from the formatting requirements will be rejected without review. Here is the template adapted from the ICIS.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: August 15^th 2021 by midnight Morocco time (GMT+1)
Acceptance notification: October 3^rd 2021
Camera-ready submission: October 17^th 2021
MENACIS conference: November 11-14, 2021

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Requirements

Length Requirements
Each type of submission has specific page length requirements. Any submission that exceeds page length limits will be rejected without review.

Completed research papers must not exceed sixteen (16) single-spaced pages (all inclusive) and must conform to the MENACIS paper submission template. The page limit covers everything in the submission, including title, text, tables, figures, appendices, and references. Submissions that exceed this limit will be automatically rejected. For empirical work, completed research papers should have completed analyses and documentation of results. Completed research papers should be similar to journal submissions, but shorter.

Short papers must not exceed eight (8) single-spaced pages and must conform to the MENACIS paper submission template. The page limit covers everything in the submission, including title, text, tables, figures, appendices, and references. Submissions that exceed this limit will be automatically rejected.

Short papers typically describe ongoing work that is yet to be completed, but promising. Short papers could take various forms. For example, they can be theoretical (presenting promising frameworks), empirical (with some preliminary results), or present a design of novel and useful concepts, artefacts (testing need not to be done). Short papers should include a paragraph describing what work remains to complete the paper, and how the authors plan to continue working on the paper prior to MENACIS 2021 in November 2021. Please note that the progress described is expected to be substantive in nature. Accepted short papers will be presented in regular sessions as short presentations during MENACIS 2021. In case of acceptance, authors should specifically report the progress made to the study between acceptance and delivery of presentation.

Additional information on how to prepare for presentations in MENACIS 2021 will be made available after paper acceptances.

Anonymize all Submissions for Blind Review
Authors name(s) should not appear in the body of the paper (including the abstract). Please note that if your paper reveals author names anywhere, they will be early rejected outright without any further review.

How to Submit a Paper
All submissions are to be made via EASYCHAIR submission system.
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Number and Order of Authors
Each author can be on at most 2 submissions. After initial submission, authors cannot be added to or deleted.

Doctoral Consortium

We are planning for a face-to-face MENACIS 2021 Doctoral Consortium on November 11^th, yet we are making contingency plans for a virtual consortium format.

Our Doctoral Consortium is a collegial environment to enable doctoral students currently working on dissertations in the area of Information Systems to share their work, receive constructive feedback, and build lifelong friendships.

English or French are the two accepted languages of the doctoral consortium and all submitted materials.

The application package should include the following the PhD student information including the dissertation abstract, and a Dissertation Proposal Abstract summarizing the research prepared by the student.

The submitted materials must be uploaded in ONE FILE and emailed to [email protected].

All submissions must be in Microsoft Word DOC/ DOCX format. The deadline for submission is August 3^rd, 2021. Students’ packages that are incomplete, in other file formats, received after the deadline, or composed of multiple files will be declined.

Dissertation Proposal Abstract Format and Instructions

The Dissertation Proposal Abstract should outline the candidate’s research and in the form of an abbreviated dissertation proposal. It must include a cover page with the following information:

Title of the proposal
Information about the candidate, including name, university affiliation, name of dissertation supervisor, website address, and contact information: email address, mailing address, and phone numbers.

The proposal abstract should provide a motivation for the relevance of the research, the research question(s), a presentation of the theoretical basis and context for the research, a description of research approach and methodology, preliminary findings and expected contributions to knowledge. The document should also 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 the proposal. The extended abstract may not exceed 2,000 words all inclusive.

Looking forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to our conference at MENACIS 2021.

Thank you and best regards,