Dianne Cyr Ph.D.

Service

Conference Organization

In 2004, I am the Conference Chair and Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop for the Internationalisation of Products and Systems (IWIPS) to be held in Vancouver in July. This is the first year this conference is held in Canada. Last year the conference location was Berlin, and next year it is Amsterdam. As Conference Chair, I am responsible for all facets of the conference planning (venue, program, sponsors, etc). I also created the contents for the conference website, as well as supervised the design and development of the site. Further details about the conference can be viewed at www.iwips2004.org Related to the preceding, during 2002-2004 I am a Member of the Board of Directors for IWIPS.

Institution Building

As a leader and founding faculty member during the start-up phase of TechBC during 1998-2002, I gained substantial experience in planning and policy development as part of university service. As noted in the section of my profile under Teaching Activities, I led in the development of the Management and Technology program. Committee membership during this time was intense and comprehensive, and included:

• University Review Committee (received training in administrative justice)
• University Ethics Committee
• Chair Undergraduate Admissions Committee
• Academic Planning Committee
• Faculty Recruitment Committee
• Graduate Coordination and Planning Committee
• Graduate Advisory Group
• Research Task Force
• Faculty Policies and Development Group
• Co-op Development Group
• Learner Recruitment Committee
• Space Planning Committee
• Co-Director for the Center for E-Business at TechBC (2000-2001) and Director (2001-2002) aimed at fostering e-business projects between TechBC and the business community.

During 2002 to the present, additional service includes:

• Management and Systems Science Program Steering Committee (2007- )
• Member of the Surrey Business Planning Committee to implement the Business program at Surrey (2003- )
• Northwest Summit Program Manager – Hosted by MIS at SFU in 2008 and includes 6 universities (2007-2008)
• Surrey Campus Business Selection Committee (2007-2008)
• Member of the Dean’s Search Committee (2006-2007)
• Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee (2006-2007)
• Member of the Program Advisory Committee for Continuing Studies - Management and Professional Programs (2006-2007)
• Member of the GDBA committee (2005-2006)
• Member of the Surrey Business Planning Committee to redevelop the Management and Technology program (2003-2004)
• Member of SFU Surrey Long Term Planning Committee
• Member of the SFU Surrey Faculty Promotion Committee (2002-2003)

Academic Reviewer

Other service activities have been as an academic reviewer for journals and grants. These include:

Grant Review

Invited committee member to review mid-term progress of grants funded by SSHRC (INE category) in the Research Alliances program. These grants have a maximum value of $900,000 over three years. (2004)

Academic Reviewer for SSHRC INE (Innovation in the New Economy) Research grants

Journal Paper Review

• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies;
• Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce;
• Information Systems Journal;
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Invited member of the Review Board for a special issue of the Elsevier journal, Interacting with Computers titled “Universal Usability Revisted” (2004);
• Information Systems Research;
• IEEE (Special issue on e-business innovation);
• Organization Science;
• Academy of Management Journal;
• Thunderbird International Business Review;
• Applied Psychology;
• DATABASE;
• The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences;
• CJAS Special Issue on Global Business and Technology;
• MIS Quarterly;
• Journal Global Information Management.

• ICIS Human Computer Interaction Workshop;
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS);
• Academy of Management;
• HICSS – HCI track;
• International Conference on Information Systems;
• Association of Internet Researchers;
• International Conference of Electronic Commerce;
• McMaster World Congress;
• Administrative Sciences Association of Canada;
• Academy of Management;
• International Workshop for the Internationalisation of Products and Systems.

External Service Activities

• ASAC Elected Paper Review Chair for the IS division (for the conference in 2006); Program Chair (2007), and Division Chair (2008)
• ICIS Women’s Annual Breakfast, Co-Chair (2005, 2006), and Chair (2007, 2008)
• Program Committee member, Sixth International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB2007), Toronto, (2006-2007)
• Joint Coordinator for a Workshop “Revisiting Online Trust: Concepts, Implications, and Future Directions”. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Banff, November 4-6 (2006)
• Program committee member, 5 th Annual Pre ICIS HCI/MIS Workshop, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2006)
• Program committee member, 8 th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Business to Consumer E-Commerce Track), Fredericton, New Brunswick (2006)
• Program committee member, Seventh World Congress on the Management of e-Business, July, Halifax (2006)