Best Paper Award

The PACIS 2013 best paper awards recognised three outstanding contributions to the conference.

Best paper

Developing a maturity model for product service systems in manufacturing enterprises

Alexander A. Neff, Florian Hamel, Thomas Ph. Herz, Falk Uebernickel and Walter Brenner, University of St. Gallen (HSG)

First runner up

All online friends are not created equal: discovering influence structure in online social networks

Xi Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chong (Alex) Wang, City University of Hong Kong; Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Second runner up

Biting newcomers to improve collaborative learning system: an opportunity cost perspective

Myunsoo Kim and Byungtae Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Congratulations to all of the award winners and to everyone who contributed to the PACIS 2013 programme.