Over past several decades, the IS community has accepted good ideas and adopted theories, methodologies, philosophical bases and assumptions from the reference disciplines to solidify its domain and demarcate its reference disciplines. Information and decision-making have been a universal subject of research in many academic disciplines both within the business school and outside the business school. Many theories and ideas originated from cognitive science, psychology, systems science, communication science, organizational science, information science/library science, and computer science have positively contributed to the emergence of new research area of information systems.

This minitrack will serve as an important forum for the exchange of ideas to promote cooperative research between the IS community and other well-established academic fields.

Possible Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assessing the current state of intellectual relationships between the information systems area and other academic disciplines within the business school or outside the business school.
• Examining the contributions from reference disciplines to the development of information systems subspecialties.
• Investigating the contributions from information systems to the development of other academic disciplines.
• Reporting new developments in other reference disciplines/other established fields such as anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, systems science, computer science, communications science, organization science, management science, information science/library science, etc.
• Exploring new areas of cooperative research between the IS system areas and other established fields.
• Applications of information systems in Engineering, Medicine, Arts and Entertainment, Military, Government, and Not-for-profit Organizations.
• Applications of information systems in functional management areas such as Accounting Information Systems, Financial Information Systems, Marketing Information Systems, Manufacturing Information Systems, Human Resources Information Systems, and the like.

Sean B. Eom
Department of Management
College of Business
Southeast Missouri State University
Tel.: 573-651-2615
Fax. : 573-651-2992
E-mail: sbeom@semovm.semo.edu