The Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) hosted the fourth edition of the highly successful International Symposium of Information Systems. This was the first time the symposium moved out of its traditional home at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad to the historic state of Rajasthan in North of India. The 2 day conference, opened on January 2, at Manvar desert resort in the heart of the Thar Desert in between Jodhpur and Jaisalmer.

ISIS has become known for its high quality research programme and for facilitating rich interactions with the captains of the Indian IT and BPO industry. Several aspects of theoretical and empirical research in information systems, especially those related to the globalisation of information technology development and outsourcing of business processes formed a part of this conference.

Like earlier years, this year also ISIS made its mark by bringing together academicians from various universities spread across the globe. The research topics truly captured the interesting facets in IT industry.

The Conference was co-chaired by Professor Rajiv Banker (Temple University); Professor Ravi Bapna (ISB, University of Minnesota); Professor V Sambamurthy (Michigan State University).

Few of the research papers which were presented at the conference:

• Performance effects related to the sequence of integration of healthcare technologies: Sarv Devaraj


• Patterns of IT architecture and their Impact on Hospital Efficiency: Pankaj Setia; Monika Setia; Ranjani Krishnan; V. Sambamurthy


• Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) and IT Intelligence: Rajesh Radhakrishnan


• Towards Service Innovation – an emerging research challenges in Data Analytics Services: Jaya Seethamraju; Ravi Seethamraju


• Modeling User Click Behavior in Sponsored Search: Kartik Hosanagar; Vibhanshu Abhishek; Peter S. Fader


• An Integrative Model for the Success of Online Auction Marketplaces: Mitigating Institutional, Seller, and Product Uncertainty: Angelika Dimoka; Paul A. Pavlou


• Consumers Online Search: A Synthesis of the Impact of Consumer and Product Characteristics: Peng Huang; Nicholas Lurie; Saby Mitra Influence of Web services on supply chain Management: Ravi Seethamraju


• Valuation of Software Development Projects: Real Options Approach Revisited: Rajiv Banker, Sunil Wattal, Jose Plehn-Dujowich


• Assessing Returns to Training Investments in the Context of IT Services: R Bapna; R. Gopal A. Gupta; Nishtha Langer; A. Mehra


• A Systematic Review on the contributions of Strategic Management thought in advancing the domain of Supply Chain Management: Ashish Dwivedi


• Live Easy or Die Hard: Impact of Network Effects on Migration in Online Communities: Anitesh Barua; Rajiv Mukherjee


• Forbidden to Simmelian Ties: Dynamics of Online Expertise Sharing Communities: Param Vir Singh; Ray Reagans; Ramayya Krishnan


• The wages of connectivity: Impacts of Corporate portal investments on research and development outcomes: Shaila Miranda


• Information Technology and firm risk: New evidence from recent Data: Indranil Bardhan;Gokcen Arkali; Vish Krishnan


• Impact of Diversification on Innovation Strategy in IT Firms: Rajiv Banker; Sunil Wattal; Jose Plehn-Dujowich