PROGRAMME GUIDE

Transforming Societies: Managing the Change!

October 17th & 18th 2013 Beaumont Estate, Windsor, United Kingdom

10th European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems 2013

PROGRAMME GUIDE

Welcome Welcome to old Windsor, celebrating the 10th European, Mediterranean and Middle Easter Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2013). It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 10th EMCIS anniver-sary in 2013 hosted by the Brunel University (UK). EMCIS - is an annual research event addressing the IS discipline with regional as well as global perspective. EMCIS has successfully helped bringing together researchers from around the world in a friendly atmosphere conducted to free exchange of innovative ideas. EMCIS was first founded by Brunel University research Group ISEing and colleagues from Brunel Business School took the responsibility of organising this event every year. A number of respected collaborations were made with different local universities across the destinations cho-sen each year and EMCIS still proves to attract many further partnerships. We thank the International Committee - Prof. Peter Love, Curtin University, Australia, Prof. Janice Sipior, Villa-nova University, USA, Prof. Ashok Ranchhod, University of Southampton, UK, Prof. Kamel Ghorab, Alhosn Univer-sity, UAE, Prof. Inas Ezz, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences - SAMS, Egypt, Prof. Nitham Hindi, Qatar Uni-versity, Qatar, Associate Prof. Vicenzo Morabito, Bocconi University, Italy, Associate Prof. Marinos Themisto-cleous, University of Piraeus, Greece, Associate Prof. Paulo Rupino da Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Assistant Prof. Fletcher Glancy, Miami University, USA, Assistant Prof. Manar Abu Talib, Zayed University, UAE, Dr. Sofiane Tebboune, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Dr. Ahmed Mouradi, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt, Dr. May Seitanidi, University of Kent, UK, Dr. Sevgi Özkan, Middle East Technical Univer-sity, Turkey, Dr. Karim Al-Yafi, Qatar University, Qatar. We are confident that your participation, presentations and active engagement in scientific debates will make EMCIS 2013 a very special event.

Founding Chair Zahir Irani (Brunel University, UK) Conference Co-Chairs Dr. Sarmad Alshawi (Brunel University, UK) Dr. Ahmad Ghoneim, (Brunel University, UK ) Organising Committee Associate Prof. Vicenzo Morabito, Bocconi University, Italy - (Program Chair) Dr. Maged Ali, Brunel University, UK - (Program Chair) Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - (Program Chair) Dr. Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK - (Publications Chair) Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli, Brunel University, UK - (Public Relations Chair) Dr. Muhammad Kamal, Brunel University, UK - (Website Coordinator) Dr. David Fuschi, Brunel University, UK - (Organiser) Dr. Andreea Molnar, Brunel University, UK - (Organiser)

EMCIS Organisation

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Zahir Irani is Professor of Operations and Information Management. He is currently the Acting Dean of the

School of Professional Development, and Head of Brunel Business School. Having worked for several years as

a project manager, Professor Irani retains close links with industry. He consults for the Office of the Deputy

Prime Minister (ODPM) in the UK as well as international organisations such as HSBC, Royal Dutch Shell Pe-

troleum, BMW and Adidas. He has also taken part in UK-Government funded trade missions to the Middle-

East and Gulf region. Professor Irani reviews research proposals submitted to UK funding councils, European

Commission and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA. Professor Irani leads a multi-disciplinary

group of International PhD students that research information systems evaluation and application integra-

tion. He has been recognized as the Hooker Distinguished Professor at McMaster University (Canada) as well as being a Visiting Profes-

sor at several Universities.

He is the editor-in chief of the established Journal of Enterprise Information Management and European Editor of the Business Process

Management Journal. He has co-authored teaching text-books and written almost 200 internationally refereed papers and received AN-

BAR citations of research excellence. He has spoken at conferences and guest seminars world wide, and is internationally known for his

scholarly work in the area of information systems evaluation and application integration. Professor Irani is on the editorial-board of

several journals, as well as co and- mini-track chair to international conferences. He has edited special issue journals, and publishes his

scholarly work in leading journals that include: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information & Management, Informa-

tion Systems Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems and European Journal of Information Systems. Professor Zahir Irani

has received numerous contracts, grants and awards from funding bodies that include the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research

Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Royal Academy of Engineering, Australian Research Council (ARC),

QinetiQ, Department of Health and European Commission.

Keynote Speakers

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Mustafa Özbilgin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Brunel Busi-

ness School, Brunel University (London, UK). Drawing on his research on equality, diversity and inclusion at work

from comparative and relational perspectives, he has published more than 10 books and large number of journal

articles. His most recent book, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Edward Elgar) brings together papers from over

30 scholars in the field and his other text, Global Diversity Management (co-authored with Ahu Tatli, Palgrave)

provides evidence from international field studies. He has authored and edited ten books and published large num-

ber of papers in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Educa-

tion, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management (US), Journal of Vocational Behavior, Interna-

tional Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization among others.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 to date) and he serves as an associate editor for

Gender Work and Organization. He sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Academy of Management Learning and Education

(AMLE), Journal of Managerial Psychology and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal among others. Having worked

at University of Hertfordshire, University of Surrey, Queen Mary, University of London and University of East Anglia over the last 12

years, Professor Özbilgin has held visiting posts at the Cornell University (USA), CEPS-Instead (Luxembourg), Japan Institute of Labour

Policy and Training (Japan). He currently holds visiting professorships at the University of Paris (Pantheon-Assass) and Dauphine Uni-

versity in France and St Gallen University in Switzerland. He is also the founder of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international

conference (EDI).

EMCIS Conference Programme Thursday 17th October, 2013

09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION, TEA/COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS

09:30 WELCOME BY CONFERENCE CHAIRS

09:30 - 09:40 Welcome: Dr Ahmad Ghoneim

EMCIS 2013 Opening Speech by Dr Sarmad AlShawi

09:40 - 10:40 KEYNOTE SPEECH 1 - ROOM (A) Prof Zahir Irani - “Is IS Dead?”

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10:40 - 11:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

TRACK: eLearning and Social Media -

ROOM (A)

CHAIR - Marinos Themistocleous

TRACK: Management and

Organisational Issues in Information

Systems - ROOM (B)

CHAIR: Gianluigi Viscusi

TRACK: Social and Culture Issues of

Information Systems

ROOM (C)

CHAIR: Maged Ali

11:00 - 11:20 [ELSM #21] Learnonline: A case study

of technology enabled integrated learn-

ing environment

Abrar Haider (Australia), Azadeh Pish-

dad (Australia)

[MOIIS #30] Does group cohesion mat-

ter to decision quality in information

systems development teams?

Gary Lohan, Thomas Acton (Ireland)

[SCIIS #34] The Foundations for an IS

Quality Culture in the context of ISO

9001

João Barata, Paulo Rupino da Cunha,

Cristina Chuva Costa (Portugal)

11:20 - 11:40 [ELSM #2] Is E-Learning capable and

mature? Applying eMM to Jordanian

Universities

Hussein Al-Yaseen (Jordan)

[MOIIS #38] Impact of human resource

management information systems on

the quality of appraisal performance

process

Somayeh Pouransari, Wafi Al-

Karaghouli, Tariq Khan (UK)

[SCIIS #14] An empirical study of the

social individual differences on mobile

social network service use

AbdulMohsin Alkhunaizan, Steve Love

(UK)

11:40 - 12:00 [ELSM #12] E-Learning for Tertiary

Education in Pakistan

Irfanullah Arfeen (Pakistan), Muham-

mad Kamal (UK)

[MOIIS #18] Complex-networks model

analysis for the conceptualization of

Information Systems development

José L.R. Sousa, Ricardo J. Machado

(Portugal)

[SCIIS #27] A conceptual model of En-

terprise application integration in higher

education institutions

Naseir Aserey, Sarmad Alshawi (UK)

12:00– 12:20 [ELSM #43] Deploying Open Source

Software (OSS) in UAE Schools

Abu Talib, Manar (UAE), Bashayer,

Mezhel; Huda, Abdulla; Reem, Khalid;

Zamzam, Ali (UAE)

[MOIS #57] Investigating the factors

affecting Information Systems within

sustainable environments

Salakjit Jongsaguan, Ahmad Ghoneim

(UK)

[SCIIS #40] The effect of organizational

culture on CRM success

Fahed Al Duwailah, Maged Ali (UK)

12-20:13-30 LUNCH BREAK

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TRACK: Cloud Computing and Visu-

alisation - ROOM (A)

CHAIR - Karim AlYafi

TRACK: Enterprise Systems in Or-

ganisations - ROOM (A)

CHAIR - Sergio De Cesare

TRACK: e-Government and IT in Pub-

lic Sector

ROOM (C)

CHAIR: Vishanth Weerakkody

13:30 - 13:50 [CCV #37] Understanding the deter-minants of cloud computing adop-tion within the UK

J. Ranald. I. Lumsden (UK), Anabel,

Gutierrez (UK)

[ESO #36] Enterprise System use matur-

ity: analysis of purchasing process use in

Greek SMEs

Marios Mantakas , Dimitris Doukas

(Greece)

[EGIT #39] A framework for utilizing

Web 2.0 social media for participative

governance

Yannis Charalabidis , Euripidis Loukis ,

Lefkothea Spiliotopoulou, Vasiliki Dia-

mantopoulou (Greece)

13:50 - 14:10 [CCV #41] Providing integrated e-

health services for personalized medi-

cine utilizing cloud infrastructure

Konstantinos Koumaditis, Marinos

Themistocleous (Greece)

[ESO #45] The effects of information

systems interoperability on business

performance

Euripidis Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis,

Vasiliki Diamantopoulou (Greece)

[EGIT #8] Experiences and perceptions

of SME professionals in e-planning

Janet D. Kneller (UK)

14:10 - 14:30 [CCV #26] Cloud computing

educational environment

Adi A. Maaita , Zahraa F. Muhsen, Ay-

man J. Nsour (Jordan)

[ESO #4] Web-based financing business

- Users' view

Raija Halonen, Petteri Parkkisenniemi

(Finland)

[EGIT #46] A theoretical model for the

application of Web 2.0 in e-Government

Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Zahir Irani (UK)

14:30– 14:50 [CCV #31] Visual artefacts and

decision-making quality in information

systems development projects

Garry Lohan, Thomas Acton (Ireland)

[ESO #22] Technological Isomorphic

pressures in institutionalisation of ERP

System

Azadeh Pishdad , Abrar Haider

(Australia)

[EGIT #48] The elicitation of Key Per-

formance Indicators of e-Government

providers: a bottom-up approach

Ibrahim H. Osman,et al. (UK)

14:50 -15:20 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

15:20-16:20 WORKSHOP - Mr Steve Jones Room A

16:20-17:40 PHD CONSORTIUM– Dr. Maged Ali Room A

18:30 - 21.30 GALA DINNER –The Chapel /Beaumont Lounge

EMCIS Conference Programme Friday 18th October, 2013

09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION, TEA/COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS

09:30 - 10:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH 2 - ROOM (A)

Prof Mustafa Ozbilgin ”Managing diversity for transforming workplaces and societies”

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10:30 - 11:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

TRACK: Management and Organisa-

tional Issues in Information systems -

ROOM (C)

CHAIR: Gianluigi Viscusi

TRACK: Supply Chain Management &

Green and Sustainable IT - ROOM (A)

CHAIR - Emel Aktas

TRACK: e-Government and IT in Pub-

lic Sector - ROOM (C)

CHAIR: Steve Jones

11:00 - 11:20 [MOIS #52] IS/IT adoption research in

the Saudi Arabian context: Analysing

past and outlining future research direc-

tions

Abdullah Baabdullah, Yogesh Dwivedi

and Michael Williams (UK)

[SCM #24] Online grocery retailing in

Jordan: Future perspectives

Mohammad Alnawayseh, Mohammad

Alnabhan (Jordan), Wamadeva Bala-

chandran, (UK)

[EGIT #33] The Impact of personality

traits and core self evaluation on em-

ployees organisational commitment

Naimatullah Shah, Abdul Wahid

(Pakistan)

11:20 - 11:40 [MOIS #17] Five dimensions of Infor-

mation Systems: A perspective from the

IS and quality managers

João Barata and Paulo Rupino Da Cunha

[SCM #55] The effective implementa-

tion of Total Quality Management and

leadership in Saudi Universities: A re-

view and framework to enhancing H.E.

strategy

Majed Aldaweesh, Wafi Al-Karaghouli,

David Gallear (UK)

[EGIT #11] eGovernance Implementa-

tion model: Case study of the Federal

Government Agencies of Pakistan

Irfanullah Arfeen (Pakistan), Muham-

mad Kamal (UK)

11:40 - 12:00 [MOIS #28] The uses of user resistance

for the institutionalization of power in

system implementation

Ibrahim Almatrodi , James Cornford

(UK)

[GSIT #35] The impact of Green

Information Systems on sustainable

supply chain and organisational

performance

Titilayo Ogunyemi, Emel Aktas (UK)

[EGIT #47] E-government process im-

plementation barriers: a case study in

Greece

Maria-Sofia Markezini (Greece), Maged

Ali (UK), Kholoud Alkayid (Australia)

12-00:13-30 LUNCH BREAK

13.30 - 14.30 WORKSHOP - Mr Anuj Sood- Horizon 2020

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TRACK: Healthcare Management -

ROOM (A)

CHAIR - Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou

TRACK: Social and Cultural Issues of

Information Systems -

ROOM (B)

CHAIR - Laurence Brooks

TRACK: Cloud Computing and Knowl-

edge Management -

ROOM (C)

CHAIR - Wafi Al-Karaghouli

14:30 - 14:50 [HCM #42] Towards an evaluation

Framework for the evaluation of medi-

cal web applications

Georgios Xydopoulos , Lampros K. Ster-

gioulas (UK)

[SCIS #13] The influence of organisa-

tional culture on the use of systems devel-

opment methodologies

Magda Huisman (South Africa)

[CCV # 32] Towards the adoption of

cloud computing for boosting the Jorda-

nian e-government

Anas Ratib AL-Soud (Jordan)

14:50 - 15:10 [HCM #53] Electronic records in

healthcare: the need for quality stan-

dards

Inas Ezz (Egypt)

[SCIS # 15] The role of trust in the

development and adoption of cultural

internet-based systems

Michalis Pavlidis (UK), Evangelia

Kavakli, Philemon Bantimaroudis,

Haralambos Mouratidis, Christos

Kalloniatis , Stefanos Gritzalis (Greece)

[KMI # 49] Media Production Process

Management Support: the Challenges

Faced by Decision Makers

David Fuschi, Atta Badii (UK)

15:10 - 15:30 [HCM #54] The chaotic nature of

healthcare information systems: the

need for transdisciplinary collaboration

Inas Ezz (Egypt) , Ray Paul (UK)

[SCIS # 44] Designing a multidiscipli-

nary conceptual model of e-commerce

acceptance in developing countries

Christina Rayed (Egypt)

[KMI # 56] Impact of Knowledge Man-

agement Processes on Organisational

Performance; a Preliminary Study

Mohammed Tubigi, Sarmad Alshawi,

Hammed Alalwany (UK)

15:30-15:50 [KMI #50] Semantically-enabled proc-

ess modelling for 3d and stereoscopic

productions

David Fuschi, Atta Badii (UK)

15:35 -16:20 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

16:20 END OF DAY 2 AND EMCIS 2013

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