IFIP Working Group 8.2 Conferences

IFIP Working Group 8.2 holds regular conferences and workshops. The proceedings for working conferences are currently published by Springer. Springer has made recent IFIP proceedings available for free in their Computer Science Readings Room (registration required—instructions are given on the Springer page).

Upcoming IFIP WG 8.2 conferences and workshops

  • Working Conference on ''IT and Change in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century'', Working Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10–13 August 2008.
    • General Chair: Ojelanki Ngwenyama
    • Program Chairs: Michael Barrett and Elizabeth Davidson
    • Organizing Chair: Catherine Middleton
  • OASIS Workshop prior to ICIS 2008 in Paris, France.
  • The Role of IS in Leveraging Intelligence and Creativity in SMEs, Guimarães, Portugal, Summer 2009.
    • General Chairs: Dewald Roode and Rick Watson
    • Program Chairs: Bernd Stahl, Gurpreet Dhillon and Richard Baskerville
    • Organizing Chairs: Isabel Ramos
  • Human Benefit through the Diffusion of IS Design Science Research, Working Conference, Perth, Australia, December 2010 (before the ACIS conference) (joint with WG 8.6).
    • General Chairs: Deborah Bunker and Nancy Russo
    • Program Chairs: Jan Pries-Heje and John Venable
    • Organizing Chair: John Venable and Jan Pries-Heje

Proposals for future Working Conferences may be made three years in advance of the proposed date.

OASIS Workshops are generally held in conjunction with the ICIS conference, unless there is a Working Conference at the same time.
Business meetings are held at the end of all conferences and workshops. Please see the business meetings page for minutes from past business meetings.

Past IFIP 8.2 conferences and workshops

  • The Information Systems Environment, Working Conference, Bonn, West Germany, 1979. Proceedings edited by Lucas, Land, Lincoln & Supper.
  • Beyond Productivity: Information Systems Development for Organizational Effectiveness., Working Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1983. Proceedings edited by Bemelmans.
  • Research Methods In Information Systems, Working Conference, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, 1984. Proceedings edited by Mumford, Hirschheim, Fitzgerald & Wood-Harper.
  • Working Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 1985.
  • Information Systems Assessment: Issues and Challenges, Working Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 1986. Proceedings edited by Bjorn-Andersen & Davis.
  • Systems Development for Human Progress, Working Conference (with WG 8.1), Atlanta, GA, USA, 1987. Proceedings edited by Klein & Kumar.
  • Desktop Information Technology, Working Conference, Ithaca, NY, USA, 1989. Proceedings edited by Kaiser & Oppeland.
  • Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, Working Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990. Proceedings edited by Nissen, Klein & Hirschheim.
  • The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies on Information Systems Development, Working Conference (with TC 8), Helsinki, Finland, 1991. Proceedings edited by Kendall, Lyytinen & DeGross.
  • Working Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1992.
  • Human, Organizational and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development, Working Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 1993. Proceedings edited by Avison et al.
  • Transforming Organisations with Information Technology, Working Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1994. Proceedings edited by Baskerville, Smithson, Ngwenyama & DeGross.
  • Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work, Working Conference, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, 1995. Proceedings edited by Orlikowski, Walsham, Jones & DeGross.
  • Method Engineering: Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support, Working Conference (with WG 8.1), Atlanta, GA, USA, 1996. Proceedings edited by Brinkkemper, Lyytinen & Welke.
  • Systems and Qualitative Research, Working Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 31 May to 3 June 1997. Proceedings edited by Lee, Liebenau & DeGross. Also available: ''Discussion at the Panel on Assessing Critical Social Theory Research in Information Systems'', reported by Marie-Claude Boudreau.
  • Information Systems: Current Issues and Future Challenges, Working Conference (with WG 8.6), Helsinki, Finland, 1998. Proceedings edited by Larsen, Levine & DeGross. The proceedings are available from the London School of Economics mirror.
  • New Information technologies in Organizational Processes: Field Studies and Theoretical Reflections on the Future of Work, Working Conference, St. Louis, MS, USA, 20-22 August 1999. Proceedings edited by Ngwenyama, Introna, Myers & DeGross.
  • Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology, Working Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 9-11 June, 2000. Proceedings edited by Baskerville, Stage & DeGross.
  • OASIS Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 10-13 December, 2000 (before ICIS 2000).
  • Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective, Working Conference, Boise, ID, USA, 27-29 July 2001. Proceedings edited by Russo, Fitzgerald & DeGross.
  • OASIS Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, US, 16 December 2001 (before ICIS 2001). The proceedings are available (in PDF format, 216 kB).
  • Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, Working Conference, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 12-14 December 2002 (immediately before the ICIS 2002 Conference). Proceedings edited by Wynn, Whitley, Myers & DeGross.
  • Organizational Information Systems in the Context of Globalization, Working Conference (with WG 9.4), Athens, Greece, 15-17 June 2003. Proceedings edited by Korpela, Montealegre, Poulymenakou. The conference was preceded by a IS PhD Supervisors' Workshop on 14 June 2003.
  • 2003 OASIS Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA, 14 December 2003.
  • Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice, Working Conference, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, 15-17 July, 2004. Proceedings edited by Kaplan, Truex, Wastell, Wood-Harper & DeGross. The lyrics to ''Bring back Manchester'' and pictures from the conference are available (user name "IFIP" and password "manchester2004").
  • OASIS Workshop, Washington, DC, USA, 12 December 2004 (before ICIS 2004).
  • Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges, Working Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1-3 August 2005. Proceedings edited by Sørensen, Yoo, Lyytinen & DeGross.
  • OASIS Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 11 Dec 2005. The abstracts are available.
  • Social Exclusion: Societal and Organisational Implications for Information Systems, Working Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 13-15 July 2006.
  • OASIS Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 10 Dec 2006. The abstracts are available.
  • Virtuality and Virtualization, Working Conference, Portland, OR, USA, 28-31 July 2007 edited by Crowston, Sieber & Wynn. (Jointly presented by IFIP WG 9.5 on Virtuality and Society.)
  • OASIS Workshop 9 December 2007 (prior to ICIS) in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Source: M. Jones, 2001, Duane Truex, Ken and Julie Kendall, and collective Working Group memory. Please let me know if you have additional information on one of the working conferences or workshops.

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