Changes in Conference Schedule

Baltica

Chair Michael Myers, University of Auckland

Paper "Supporting Cooperation in a Virtual Organization," Markus Rittenbruch, Helge Kahler, and Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn
Discussant Vivek Choudhury, Florida State University

Paper "Knowledge Barriers to Diffusion of Telemedicine," Huseyin Tanriverdi, Boston University, and C. Suzanne Iacono, National Science Foundation
Note; discussant changed, new discussant is Kristin Braa, University of Oslo

Nautica

Chair Prabuddha De, University of Dayton

Paper "Riverbank Financial: Balancing the Pendulum," Kathryn Brohman and Sid L. Huff, University of Western Ontario; Duncan Copeland, Georgetown University
Note, new discussant is Guy Fitzgerald, Brunel University

Baltica

Chair Ulrike Schultz, Southern Methodist University

Panelists Richard J. Boland, Jr., Case Western Reserve University
Note: Lynda Harvey, Griffith University is unfortunately not able to come 
Helena Karsten, University of Cambridge and University of Jyväskylä

Europaea

Chair Robert W. Zmud, University of Oklahoma

Guests Philip Ein-Dor, Tel Aviv University, JAIS and CAIS
Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University, MIS Quarterly
Jukka Heikkilä, Helsinki School of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Note, new guest: Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia, Information Systems Research

Fennia I

Note, new chair: Hans van der Heijder, Price Waterhouse

Panelists M. Lynne Markus, Claremont Graduate School
Note, Scheer and Wortmann are not coming
Kuldeep Kumar, Erasmus University

Nordia

Chair Graham Pervan, Curtin University

Paper "Shifting Boundaries and New Technologies: A Case Study in the UK Banking Sector," Susan V. Scott, The London School of Economics, and Geoff Walsham, University of Cambridge
Discussant Derrick Neufeld, Note: correct university is the University of Manitoba

Paper "Technology as Traitor: Emergent SAP Infrastructure in a Global Organization," Ole Hanseth and Kristin Braa, University of Oslo
Discussant Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University

Session T3.1

Note; new location: Fennia I

Chair Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University

Paper "Developing a Successful Information and Communication Technology Industry: The Role of Venture Capital, Knowledge, and the Government," T. Vinig, University of Amsterdam; R. Blocq, J. Braafhart, and O. Laufer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Discussant Ann Brown, City University Business School

Paper "Patterns in the Organization of Transnational Information Systems," William R. King, University of Pittsburgh, and Vikram Sethi, Southwest Missouri State University
Discussant Karen Loch, Georgia State University

Note; new location: Nautica

Chair Michael Vitale, University of Melbourne

Panelists Ben Light, Manchester Business School
Gerhard Knolmayer, University of Bern
John Mooney, University College Dublin

Europaea

Note, chair changed: John Venable

Paper "Energizing the Nexus of Corporate Knowledge: A Portal Toward the Virtual Organization," Alexander Y. Yap and Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Note, Discussant changed: Vivek Choudry, Florida State University

Session W2.1

Nordia

Chair Sandy Staples, University of Melbourne

Panelists Arnstein Borstad, Statoil Research Center
Note, Scharam Dusdar is from University of Art/Centre for Informatics, Austria
Nava Pliskin, Ben Gurion University
Celia T. Romm, University of Wollongong
Margaret Tan, National University of Singapore