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Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you that the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences will be organized in January 4-7, 2022 at the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, at Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa. The conference is a good place for presenting IB papers that intersect with information systems research. This time there will, for instance, be organized a special mini-track on Born digitals, which could interest many of you. Please find below some more information. Please feel free to ask more information from me or the other organizers. See you at Hawaii! Mika Gabrielsson HICSS AND BORN DIGITALS MINITRACK<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/knowledge-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-systems/#born-digitals-minitrack> This minitrack explores the impact and role of digitalization in global groups and organizations. This is crucial for instance for entrepreneurial firms and internationalizing firms as well as born digitals. Success of their entrepreneurial activities, international business operations, management and marketing is depending on effective learning and knowledge coordination. Our minitrack covers aspects related to entrepreneurship, marketing, management, international business, digitalization, knowledge intensive firms like born digitals, and the role of culture within these contexts. We are open to all methodological and theoretical approaches and welcome papers from researchers as well as practitioners. Potential topics in our minitrack may include, but are not limited to: * Digitalization in the context of entrepreneurial, internationalizing firms or global organizations * The role of digital artifacts in new ventures, international new ventures and other entrepreneurial firms * Born digital firms, being digital from inception and featuring a digital infrastructure * Business models of born digitals and internationalizing firms * The role of cultural differences in managing and designing international customer relationship and other marketing activities in the digitalized world * Digital platforms in the context of international business and born digitals * Managing global diversity and sustainability through digitalization and sharing economy * Practitioner papers and field studies in topics above Minitrack Co-Chairs: Minna Rollins (Primary Contact) University of West Georgia [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Mika Gabrielsson University of Eastern Finland [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Arto Ojala University of Vaasa [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sara Fraccastoro University of Eastern Finland [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> HICSS-55 Call for Participation The Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) invites submission of: * Papers * Applications for Pre-Conference Doctoral Consortium Important Dates for Paper Submission June 15, 2021 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper Submission Deadline August 17, 2021: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 22, 2021: Deadline for Authors to Submit Final Manuscript for Publication October 1, 2021: Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for HICSS-55 Important Dates for Pre-Conference Doctoral Consortium Application September 7, 2021 | 11:59 pm HST: Application deadline September 30, 2021: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection More information and Submissions: hicss.hawaii.edu ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.