The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) invite doctoral students (irrespective of stage in the program) to apply to become a HICSS Doctoral Fellow and participate in the HICSS Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on the day before the main conference on January 6, 2025. The Consortium is free, but all participants must register for the HICSS conference. HICSS is the longest running technology conference and will celebrate its 58th year with the 2025 conference.

Research Area: Management Information Systems

The HICSS Doctoral Consortium will help each Doctoral Fellow develop one paper toward journal publication and open opportunities for new research partnerships. Almost all HICSS attendees are authors of accepted conference papers (about 95%). Many new research projects begin at HICSS with conversations about mutually interesting topics during research discussions, coffee breaks, and social events. We encourage the Fellows to propose new joint research projects with other Fellows, with their Mentors, and with other scholars at the conference who share their interests.

Further, the HICSS Doctoral Consortium builds a community of scholars. Those accepted will be inducted as HICSS Doctoral Fellows, and will begin to build life-long relationships with other Doctoral Fellows and with their Faculty Mentors to help them become leaders within the HICSS family and academia as a whole.

Application Instructions:

Students should submit a summary of a completed research project or one that is a work in progress (5 pages, inclusive of all items, according to HICSS Final Specifications). This summary should begin with the research question, and why it is important. The key reason for rejection at top journals is not because of problems with theory or method, but because the research question is not interesting. The summary should also include (where applicable) theory, methods, and results.

Schedule

8:30 Networking and Welcome
9:00 Group Discussions of Consortium Papers
10:30 Break
10:45 Meet the Mentors Activity
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Group Discussions of Consortium Papers
14:30 Break
15:00 Mentor Panel
18:00 Reception

Faculty Mentors

Sue Brown, University of Arizona
Lemuria Carter, University of Sydney
Michelle Carter, Alliance Manchester Business School
Christy M. K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Deborah Compeau, Washington State University
GJ de Vreede, University of South Florida
Triparna de Vreede, University of South Florida
Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas, Austin
Julia Kotlarsky, University of Auckland
Helmut Krcmar, Technical University of Munich
Ning Nan, University of British Columbia
Jeff Parsons, Memorial University
Stacie Petter, Wake Forest University
Yasser Rahrovani, University of Western Ontario
Matthias Soellner, University of Kassel
Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School
Jason Thatcher, Temple University
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen

Important Dates
The deadline for submissions is June 30 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time.
Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17.

Inquiries
For questions, please contact the HICSS Doctoral Fellows & Consortium Co-chairs:
Sue Brown, suebrown@arizona.edu
Michelle Carter, michelle.carter@manchester.ac.uk

Research Area: Digital Government

The HICSS Digital Government (DG) Doctoral Consortium aims to provide collegial and affirmative environment where doctoral students currently working on dissertations in digital government research can share their work and receive constructive feedback. The DG Doctoral Consortium is a full-day session in which doctoral students engage in discussions and presentations with peers and senior scholars in digital government.

The Digital Government Doctoral Consortium Committee invites applications for doctoral students whose research is in the field of digital government. Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled in at least year 2 of the PhD program.

We welcome candidates from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government.

Application Instructions

Candidates apply to the Doctoral Consortium submitting a 2000-words document outlining the thesis structure, theoretical foundations, empirical ground and expected key contributions. Any document and material submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will not be published in the proceedings, and the authors will retain the full authorship rights to their submitted work. When applying, students must guarantee proper funding for to attend the doctoral consortium. Importantly, admitted Doctoral students must register for HICSS 2024.

Schedule

8:30 Networking and Welcome
9:00 Paper session 1
10:30 Break
10:45 Meet the Mentors Activity
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Paper session 2
14:30 Break
15:00 Digital government panel
16:30 Wrap-up
18:00 Reception

Faculty Mentors

Peter André Busch, Univeristy of Agder
Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics
Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw
Mila Gascó-Hernandez, University at Albany – SUNY
Francesco Gualdi, London School of Economics
Jonathan Lazar, University of Maryland
Christian Schaupp, West Virginia University
Gabriela Viale Pereira, University for Continuing Education Krems

Important Dates
The deadline for submissions is June 30 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time.
Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17.

Inquiries

For questions, please contact the Digital Government Doctoral Consortium organizers:
Antonio Cordella, a.cordella@lse.ac.uk
Francesco Gualdi, f.gualdi@lse.ac.uk