The 6th ICESAL 2009 Organizing Committee cordially invites contributors from academia, industry and research from all over the world to submit their original research and/or a proposal to organize a seminar, a workshop or a panel discussion in the forthcoming conference which will be held on the 18th and 19th of May, 2009 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The conference seeks to investigate thoroughly how the disciplines of Enterprise Systems, Accounting, Finance, Logistics, Management and Education and their interaction can enhance business performance in the contemporary complex and competitive environment. As it was the case with the previous conferences, presenters and attendees are expected to come from both the MIS/Computer Science and the Accounting/Logistics/Management fields.

All submissions will be in English and will be blind reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee.

A best paper award, based on the marks assigned by the reviewers and the final decision of the conference chairs, will be awarded at the conference. The paper will be considered for publication in a major international journal.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest fall into the following areas:

AREA I: ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

AREA II: ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

AREA III: LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND E-COMMERCE

AREA IV: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

AREA V: INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

AREA VI: EDUCATION

Topics into each area may include the following (list not exhaustive):

• AREA I: ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
  • ES and Design Theory
  • The REA model
  • ES ontology
  • ES design/development methodologies
  • ES and competitive advantage
  • ES performance and evaluation
  • ES and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  • ERP package selection and implementation approaches
  • ERP Management
  • Philosophical foundations of ES
  • Extended ERP: SCM / CRM / DSS / web-based ERP / ASP models
  • ERP and Industry Solutions such as Hospital Information Systems
  • The market of ERP: International vendors strategies / local ERP vendors' strategies / ERP software solutions
  • Behavioral and organizational aspects of ES: Organizational change / Leadership / Training and learning at work / Job redesign and new technology / User information satisfaction

• AREA II: ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
  • Contemporary accounting issues for the modern enterprise
  • Corporate performance
  • Financial Information Systems
  • Financial Decision Support Systems
  • Auditing and security issues of AIS
  • Sarbanes-Oxley impact on ERP and AIS
  • Management accounting techniques for ES appraisal
  • Accounting Applications Outsourcing
  • Accounting Information Systems (AIS)
  • ERP and Activity Based Costing
  • ERP impact on Financial Accounting and Controlling
  • ERP impact on Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • ERP impact on Management Accounting and Management Accountants
  • ES and Enterprise Risk Management
  • XML, XBRL and financial reporting over the Internet
  • XBRL and continuous auditing
  • Cost Management and Performance Measurement Systems (PMS)
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Economic Value Added (EVA)
  • Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM)
  • Activity Based Profitability Analysis (ABPA)
  • Financial and non-financial measures of business performance
  • Balanced scorecards, IT and the accounting discipline
  • Financial data mining and business performance
  • Wide view of accounting as a discipline
  • Accounting and the virtual enterprise
  • Accounting and strategic management
  • Behavioral and organizational aspects of accounting

• AREA III: LOGISTICS, SCM AND E-COMMERCE
  • Logistics applications
  • E-commerce design methodologies
  • BPR and business process integration
  • E-commerce and SCM impact on management control and performance evaluation
  • Supply Chain optimization
  • E-procurement models
  • B2B and B2C models
  • ERP and Supply Chain Integration
  • Demand Requirements Planning and stock control
  • Sales Order, Warehouse and Inventory Management
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Transport Management, Vehicle Routing & Scheduling

• AREA IV: CRM and IS
  • ES and Customer Relationship Management
  • Foundations of CRM Systems
  • IS and Relationship Marketing
  • ERP and CRM

• AREA V: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
  • The relationship between Acccounting and Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Management Instruments
  • ES and Knoweldge Management
  • Performance Measurement, Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

• AREA VI: EDUCATION
  • Case studies of Enterprise Applications and Education
  • Education standards
  • Education for professional accountants and auditors
  • Communication Technologies and Information Systems Education
  • Curricula and course outlines design, teaching methods, student assessments, and instructional materials concerning ES or/and Accounting
  • Introducing ES into graduate and postgraduate education
  • Is ERP education any different from IS education?
  • Skills required to be a competent ERP consultant
  • Virtual Classroom and ES or/and Accounting/Logistics
  • Which is the best way to teach ERP systems and other enterprise applications to undergraduate and postgraduate students of business schools?

Instructions to authors

The conference accepts completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, workshop and panel proposals.

Completed research papers: Submitted research papers (up to 6000 words) must not have been previously published anywhere.

Research-in-progress papers: Research-in -progress papers should have the format of an extended abstract (2-3 pages). Objectives, methodology and expected or initial findings should be provided.

Workshop proposals: Workshops proposals should be between 1000-1500 words or they can be accompanied by a research or position paper. The duration of the workshop is one and a half hours.

Panel proposals: Panel proposals should be between 1000-1500 words or they can be accompanied by a research or position paper. Panels should include at least 3 panelists and will last one and a half hours.

Submissions of all the above catagories received by the deadline will be double blind reviewed. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, providing that at least one author registers and attends the conference. It is not permitted to non-registrants to present papers.

All submissions should be submitted as an e-mail attachment to the conference's secretariat; icesal@icesal.org. Upon receipt of your submission, you will receive a notification by e-mail within 48 hours. Should you not receive such a notification, please contact the conference's secretariat.

Manuscript style

Please submit your manuscript electronically as an e-mail attachment to the conference's secretariat in Word for Windows document (.doc) or in Acrobat (.pdf) format. The accepted camera-ready version should be in a Word for Windows (.doc) document format. Please make sure your paper adheres to the following instructions:

1. Manuscripts should be typewritten in English using Arial 12 size fonts and including 2.54 cm margin on all four sides.

2. The first page of each submission should include the following: 1.paper title, 2.author name(s), 3.affiliation(s), 4.address(es), 5.telephone / fax number(s) and 6.e-mail address(es).

3. The main body of the paper should include the title (centered, using an Arial 16 size font, bold), the abstract (using an Arial 11 size font) and 3-5 key words, but no author identification. Section headers should be written using an Arial 14 size font, bold, left aligned and numbered. Figures and tables should be included in the text and not provided separately.

4. All references in the text must be included in the reference section and vice versa. References in the text should be of the following format: (Zeon and Dark, 2004; Paul, et al. 2003; Bartol, 1999). You should use “et al.” for reference to more than two authors. In the references section, entries should be ordered alphabetically, unnumbered and must be complete including the last name and initials of all authors. For journal articles, the author(s)' name(s) should be followed by date of publication in parentheses, journal title in italics, volume, number, month and pages. For references to books, include author(s) name(s), date of publication in parentheses, book title, publisher, city, country, year and page.