The 2003 International Business Information Management Conference
General Theme: e-business and organizations in the 21st Century

Cairo, Egypt
16 - 18 December 2003

Home page: www.ibima.org

Pyramid trip on Dec. 19, 2003 more photos

List of Accepted papers

1^st Workshop on Managing Emerging Technologies & Information Systems in Organizations (MET-ISO 2003)
Workshop Chair: Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

1^st Workshop on E-Transformation: Planning and Managing the Organizational Transition to E-Business (E-Trans 2003)
Workshop Co-chairs:
Magdy Serour and Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Bhuvan Unhelkar, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Welcome

Welcome to web site of The 2003 International Business Information Management Conference.  This major international event will be held in Cairo, Egypt from 16 - 18 December 2003.  The conference will address a range of important themes with respect to e-business and its impact on organizations.  The conference will include numerous paper and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe.

This is a conference for those who are interested in global business development in the 21st century.  All are encouraged to register and attend this major and timely conference. A range of travel, tour and accommodation options are also available. Conference participants are welcome to submit presentation extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals.  Please refer to call for papers.  Presentations submitted for publication will be fully refereed and published in print and electronic formats. For those unable to attend the conference in person, virtual presentations are available. Virtual presentations allow participants to submit papers for refereeing and publication in the conference proceedings.   Virtual participants will receive a full copy of the conference proceedings on a CD.

The phenomenal growth of the Internet has lead businesses around the globe to believe in the promise of utilizing the Internet to conduct business.  The 2003 International Business Information Management Conference aims at exploring the role of e-business and its impact on organizations in the 21st century. While the focus is e-business, this conference brings together all business functional areas such as logistics and distributions, marketing, sales, accounting, finance, and management to assess the impact of e-business on these areas and to coordinate efforts among different business functions in transforming organizations.  Please refer to conference themes and tracks.

Sponsors Center for  Global Electronic  Commerce (CGEC) Virginia Tech, USA

Conference Chair Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University, USA e-mail: khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu Local Chair Yasser El-Kassrawy, Tanta University, Egypt Local Organizing Chair Wessam Salah, Cairo, Egypt Conference Advisory Committee    France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA Nevert Boraie, TripleLine Consulting, USA  Janice M. Burn, Edith Cowan University, Australia Elizabeth Daniel, Information Systems Research Centre, Cranfield University, UK Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt Ralf Klischewski, University of Hamburg, Germany Prashant Palvia, The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA Moh'd Radaideh, UAE University, UAE Sushil Sharma, Ball State University, USA Program Committee Olayele Adelakun, DePaul University, USA