The theme of ICIS 2014 is Building a Better World through Information Systems. Tracks: 1) Building a Better World Through IS (Conference Theme Track); 2) Societal Impacts of IS; 3) Breakthrough Ideas in IS; 4) Decision Analytics, Big Data, and Visualisation; 5) E-Business; 6) Economics and Value...

This intensive week-long doctoral seminar will be taught by internationally renowned scholars in the Management and Strategy field from Europe and North America. Topics covered in the Seminar will range from formal theoretical modeling to latest empirical methodologies for strategy research.

Conference themes are: - Public-private partnerships for innovation-based development - University-Industry relationships and the promotion of learning, innovation, and competence building systems - Overcoming raw material curse through new manufacturing and service activities - National...

Topics: - International Migration and Local Development - Demography - Integration, Trade and Capital Flows - Income Distribution and Inequality - Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development - Economic Growth and the Impact of Shocks - International Production Networks - Transport...

Preliminary Schedule of the Jornadas: Roundtable on the Electricity Market. Invited Sessions: - Business Strategy - Empirical Industrial Organization - Experiments in Industrial Organization - Health Economics - Innovation Economics - Internet Economics - Regulation

We invite contributions addressing issues in the operations, supply chain, and services management discipline. These contributions should aim to take the discipline forward and can be of any type, including conceptual papers, empirical studies, analytical modelling, and simulation. Topics:...

The SEARCH consortium is exploring the integration process between the EU and its Neighbourhood Countries (which include non-EU states in Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa). Topics: - Trade flows, FDI and location choices. - Migration, human capital and social capital. -...