The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is an annual conference for
information systems
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...
and
information technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...
academics and professionals and was affiliated with the
Association for Information Systems
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides ...
(AIS). The organization of the conference comes under the purview of the ECIS Standing Committee. After being an affiliated AIS conference for many years, ECIS now has officially been adopted as the World Region 2 (Europe, Africa and Middle East) conference for AIS since 2017.
ECIS is considered to be one of the premier information systems event in the European region and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of
peer-reviewed information systems research papers. The conference more recently had acceptance rates in the low 30% range.
[Willcocks, L., Whitley, E. & Avgerou, C. The ranking of top IS journals: a perspective from the London School of Economics. Eur J Inf Syst 17, 163–168 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.9] The electronic version of the conference proceedings (1993-2008-excluding 1995 and 1998) and full citations (1993-2008) are available publicly.
The first ECIS conference took place in 1993 in
Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Bucking ...
.
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Management information system
A management information system (MIS) is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization. The study of the management information systems involves peo ...
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Academic conferences
Information systems conferences
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Association for Information Systems conferences