Keynote Speeches

	Guoqing Chen EMC chair professor of Information Systems, deputy dean of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China. He is the president of Association for Information Systems (AIS) China Chapter and the associate/area editor and EB member for several international journals, and chief editor of China Journal of Information Systems (CJIS). His teaching and research interests include MIS and e-business, business intelligence, and fuzzy logic and data modeling.
Some Issues of e-Business Research in the Context of Emerging Technologies
Abstract
With rapid advances in IT that is more pervasive and transparent in products and services, E-business applications are deemed to be in a new phase in the context of emerging technologies characterized by a set of intensified features such as mobility, virtual reality, personalization, extreme data, and social networks. Thus, recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of research interests to address the issues of e-business from a variety of perspectives including participants (both individual and organizational) behaviors, innovative business models, inter-organizational/market mechanisms, enabling technologies, and social computing. This presentation is to focus on some of these issues, particularly on patterns of adoption in Chinese companies, discovery of associative/relevant knowledge, and managerial countermeasures against virus attacks in e-business operations.
	Joey F. George Senior Editor, Information Systems Research, Former Editor-in-Chief Communications of the AIS, Professor of MIS & the Thomas L. Williams Jr.Emient Scholar in MIS, College of Business, Florida State University, USA.
Dangers of Deception for E-Business
Abstract
Globally, e-business has grown enormously in the past 15 years.  As with any type of commerce, success in e-business depends to some extent on trust between the trading partners.  One of the pillars of trust is a belief in the honesty of business partners.  Yet we know from studies of deception that people are not always honest.  Although we have learned much about deception and how to detect it in face-to-face settings, we know very little about deception where communication is meditated by computers. Further, most of what we know about deception is based on research conducted in a North American context.  This presentation is based on a multi-year research project that investigated deception in computer-mediated communication.  Findings from this project, and from current work that investigates deception in a cross-cultural setting, are used to address the issues of deception as they relate to global business-to-customer e-business.  In global e-business, business partners are located all over the world, and much of the communication is necessarily mediated, so what we know about deception in those contexts is especially relevant.
	Varun Grover Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly Senior Editor, Journal of the AIS Senior Editor, Database for Advances in Information Systems Department of Management William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, Clemson University, USA.
Information Systems Research: Are We Making a Contribution? Some Thoughts, Data, Directions & Ideals
Abstract
While there is little doubt of the importance and pervasiveness of the IT catalyst in contemporary business and social environments, why is the IS research discipline’s contribution always being questioned?  Is because the core of the field is still amorphous? Or is it because of the inability to make appropriate tradeoffs between rigor and relevance?  Or is it because the field is not respected by more mature disciplines like Marketing and Management?  Or is it because the knowledge created is not unique?  Or could it just be a general pessimism in the field that has reinforced itself over the years?  This talk deals with these issues.  I will frame the discussion of the contribution of the IS discipline and then briefly present the results of analysis involving socio-metric data to illustrate the potential contribution of the field.

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