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<h2 id="european-conference-on-information-systems">European Conference on Information Systems</h2> <p>The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is an annual conference for <a href="/facts/Information_systems/apcSzFLh">information systems</a> and <a href="/facts/Information_technology/glMzunwe">information technology</a> academics and professionals and was affiliated with the AIS. The organization of the conference comes under the purview of the ECIS Standing Committee. After being an affiliated AIS conference for many years, ECIS now has officially been adopted as the World Region 2 (Europe, Africa and Middle East) conference for AIS since 2017.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>ECIS is considered to be one of the premier information systems event in the European region ,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of <a href="/facts/Peer-reviewed/ly6yEgcW">peer-reviewed</a> information systems research papers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> The conference more recently had acceptance rates in the low 30% range.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> The electronic version of the conference proceedings (1993-2008-excluding 1995 and 1998) and full citations (1993-2008) are available publicly. </p><p>The first ECIS conference took place in 1993 in <a href="/facts/Henley-on-Thames%2c_United_Kingdom/LUohWkpQ">Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom</a>. </p> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <p>The association publishes academic journals including:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Journal_of_the_Association_for_Information_Systems/24md9evU">Journal of the Association for Information Systems</a> (JAIS)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Information_Systems_Research_in_Scandinavia/UavdnPKj">Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems</a> (SJIS)</li> <li>Revista Latinoamericana Y Del Caribe De La Associacion De Sistemas De Informacion (RELCASI)</li> <li>Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS)</li> <li>Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS)</li> <li>Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA)</li> <li>Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)</li> <li>AIS Transactions on Replication Research (TRR)</li> <li><a href="/facts/AIS_Transactions_on_Human-Computer_Interaction/8h6UQ2FK">AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction</a> (THCI)</li></ul> <p>Affiliated journals include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Business_%2526_Information_Systems_Engineering/E5pxvdwX">Business & Information Systems Engineering</a> (BISE)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Management_Information_Systems_Quarterly/kWduAy2R">Management Information Systems Quarterly</a> (MISQ)</li> <li><a href="/facts/MIS_Quarterly_Executive/D8MfY36q">MIS Quarterly Executive</a> (MISQe)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Information_Systems_(journal)/7uue6g8z">Information Systems Journal</a> (ISJ)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Syst%25C3%25A8mes_d%2527Information_et_Management/R7wz5913">Systèmes d'Information et Management</a> (SIM)</li> <li>Foundations and Trends in Information Systems (FnTIS)</li></ul> <p>Both AIS published titles and affiliated journals are included in the <a href="https://aisel.aisnet.org/">AIS eLibrary</a>, which is accessible as a benefit of membership.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="leo-award">Leo Award</h2> <p>Since 1999 the AIS annually grants the Leo Award to one or more persons, who have made exceptional contributions to the research and practice of Information Systems. Award recipients have been:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>1999 : <a href="/facts/C._West_Churchman/ARJFIpQ5">C. West Churchman</a>, J. Daniel Couger, <a href="/facts/B%25C3%25B6rje_Langefors/bdjImDpB">Börje Langefors</a>, <a href="/facts/Enid_Mumford/DSPjH20F">Enid Mumford</a></li> <li>2000 : Gordon B. Davis</li> <li>2001 : Richard O. Mason</li> <li>2002 : <a href="/facts/Jay_Nunamaker/R9p8j2r2">Jay Nunamaker</a>, <a href="/facts/Paul_Gray_(information_technology)/Ur8LBFaI">Paul Gray</a></li> <li>2003 : <a href="/facts/Frank_Land/tn4J6A4C">Frank Land</a>, <a href="/facts/John_F._Rockart/tJBJ540j">John F. Rockart</a></li> <li>2004 : <a href="/facts/William_Richard_King/uCuKwcQR">William Richard King</a>, <a href="/facts/Rob_Kling/8m95BSnr">Rob Kling</a></li> <li>2005 : <a href="/facts/Andrew_B._Whinston/paltVvG6">Andrew B. Whinston</a></li> <li>2006 : Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Phillip Ein-Dor</li> <li>2007 : <a href="/facts/Izak_Benbasat/2dSG4E8g">Izak Benbasat</a>, <a href="/facts/Ephraim_R._McLean/xqpFqzrj">Ephraim McLean</a></li> <li>2008 : <a href="/facts/Dewald_Roode/82dyz3dA">Dewald Roode</a>, <a href="/facts/M._Lynne_Markus/DSQmGo1s">M. Lynne Markus</a>, Robert W. Zmud, Kenneth L. Kraemer</li> <li>2009 : Daniel Robey, <a href="/facts/E._Burton_Swanson/rcXWh6ja">E. Burton Swanson</a></li> <li>2010 : Blake Ives, Carol Saunders</li> <li>2011 : Richard (Rick) Watson, Ron Weber</li> <li>2012 : <a href="/facts/Bob_Galliers/eLYBhsRb">Bob Galliers</a>, Detmar Straub</li> <li>2013 : <a href="/facts/Rudy_Hirschheim/JQ3VHn1G">Rudy Hirschheim</a>, <a href="/facts/Kalle_Lyytinen/fSxA0vx7">Kalle Lyytinen</a></li> <li>2014 : Joey George, Ting-Ping (T.P.) Liang</li> <li>2015 : Dennis Galletta, <a href="/facts/Allen_S._Lee/KNGE8S68">Allen Lee</a>, Kwok Kee Wei, Dov Te'eni</li> <li>2016 : Richard Baskerville, James Marsden</li> <li>2017 : Sirkka Jarvenpaa, <a href="/facts/Vallabh_Sambamurthy/xGx3om6n">Vallabh Sambamurthy</a></li> <li>2018 : David Avison, Jane Fedorowicz</li> <li>2019 : <a href="/facts/Ritu_Agarwal/E2NCtJCt">Ritu Agarwal</a>, Michael D. Myers, <a href="/facts/Arun_Rai/we4xVtDp">Arun Rai</a></li> <li>2020 : <a href="/facts/Cynthia_Beath/Anox20P7">Cynthia Beath</a>, <a href="/facts/Varun_Grover_(information_scientist)/GrvXGIG0">Varun Grover</a>, Elena Karahanna, Jae Kyu Lee</li> <li>2021 : Alan Dennis, Alok Gupta, Dorothy E. Leidner</li> <li>2022 : <a href="/facts/Suzanne_Rivard/pg3p5GBA">Suzanne Rivard</a>, Rajiv Sabherwal, <a href="/facts/Geoff_Walsham/uRbuUTDW">Geoff Walsham</a>, Joe Valachich</li> <li>2023 : Soon Ang, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Yolande Chan, F. Warren McFarlan,</li></ul> <h2 id="other-awards">Other Awards</h2> <p>The AIS awards several other awards including for best papers of the field and for educational achievement. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Management_information_system/u99Vk7Jt">Management information system</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://aisnet.org/page/ECISPage">European Conference on Information Systems</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition DOI: 10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044815" (PDF). doi:10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044815. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)[permanent dead link] <a href="http://history.aisnet.org/images/ISHistory/PDF/Association_for_Information_Systems.pdf" target="_blank">http://history.aisnet.org/images/ISHistory/PDF/Association_for_Information_Systems.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"About AIS - Association for Information Systems (AIS)". aisnet.org. Retrieved 2016-03-25. <a href="http://aisnet.org/?AboutAIS" target="_blank">http://aisnet.org/?AboutAIS</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"About AIS - Association for Information Systems (AIS)". aisnet.org. Retrieved 2016-03-25. <a href="http://aisnet.org/?AboutAIS" target="_blank">http://aisnet.org/?AboutAIS</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition DOI: 10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044815" (PDF). doi:10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044815. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)[permanent dead link] <a href="http://history.aisnet.org/images/ISHistory/PDF/Association_for_Information_Systems.pdf" target="_blank">http://history.aisnet.org/images/ISHistory/PDF/Association_for_Information_Systems.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"ECIS Named Official Conference of AIS Region 2 - Association for Information Systems (AIS)". aisnet.org. Archived from the original on 2023-12-06. Retrieved 2024-04-04. <a href="https://aisnet.org/news/334030/ECIS-Named-Official-Conference-of-AIS-Region-2.htm" target="_blank">https://aisnet.org/news/334030/ECIS-Named-Official-Conference-of-AIS-Region-2.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Willcocks, L., Whitley, E. & Avgerou, C. The ranking of top IS journals: a perspective from the London School of Economics. Eur J Inf Syst 17, 163–168 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9 Archived 2024-04-04 at the Wayback Machine <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Whitley, Edgar A.; Galliers, Robert D. (2007). "An alternative perspective on citation classics: Evidence from the first 10 years of the European Conference on Information Systems". Information & Management. 44 (5): 441–455. doi:10.1016/j.im.2007.04.004. Archived from the original on 2023-11-15. Retrieved 2024-04-04. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378720607000493" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378720607000493</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Vidgen, Richard; Henneberg, Stephan; Naudé, Peter (2007). "What sort of community is the European Conference on Information Systems? A social network analysis 1993–2005". European Journal of Information Systems. 16 (1): 5–19. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000661. ISSN 0960-085X. Archived from the original on 2023-12-15. Retrieved 2024-04-04. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000661" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000661</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Galliers, Robert D., Oja, Mari-Klara and Whitley, Edgar A. (2012) An anatomy of European information systems research: the first 20 years of the European Conference on Information Systems. In: Twentieth European Conference on Information Systems, 2012-06-10 - 2012-06-13, Barcelona, Spain. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Willcocks, L., Whitley, E. & Avgerou, C. The ranking of top IS journals: a perspective from the London School of Economics. Eur J Inf Syst 17, 163–168 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9 Archived 2024-04-04 at the Wayback Machine <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Research - Association for Information Systems (AIS)". aisnet.org. Retrieved 2016-03-25. <a href="http://aisnet.org/?AISeLibrary" target="_blank">http://aisnet.org/?AISeLibrary</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"About AIS - Association for Information Systems (AIS)". <a href="http://aisnet.org/?MembershipRates" target="_blank">http://aisnet.org/?MembershipRates</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>https://aisnet.org/page/LeoAward Archived 2018-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at aisnet.org. Retrieved June 8, 2011. <a href="https://aisnet.org/page/LeoAward" target="_blank">https://aisnet.org/page/LeoAward</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>