Session Chair: Mike Godfrey

Building Relationships Between the Management Information Systems Area and Other Academic Disciplines: An Introduction
Sean B. Eom: Southeast Missouri State University

More than a footnote: The perils of multidisciplinary research collaboration
Sue Newell: Nottingham Trent University
Robert D Gallier: London School of Economics

Beyond the Resource-Based View: Commitment as the Underlying Mechanism in the Application of IT Competencies
Tom Butler: University College Cork, Ireland
Ciaran Murphy: University College Cork, Ireland

Shanghai

Session Chair: Jack D. Becker

Information Systems in Academia: Where are the Faculty?
Susan A. Sherer: Lehigh University

Making Theories More Accessible: A Proposal for a Theory Markup Language
Marc N. Haines: The Univeristy of Georgia

An Investigation of Information Systems Topic Coverage in IS versus Functional Area Business Journals
Derrick J. Neufeld: The University of Western Ontario
Sandy Staples: Queen's University

Industry/Academic Partnerships in Information Systems and Technology
Jack D. Becker: University of NorthTexas
Carol V. Brown: Indiana University