[AISWorld] EJIS Special Issue - Governing IT in Inter-organizational Relationships

[Felix Tan]

Call for Papers
European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/ 
 
Special Issue on
Governing IT in inter-organizational relationships
Submission deadline: 30 October 2010
 
Business firms and other organizations in the public and private
sectors increasingly operate as part of highly distributed and loosely
coupled ecosystems.  These network arrangements are precipitated by
pressures to globalize markets for and sources of products and services
in a bid to lower costs and increase profitability or program outcomes. 
 The capacity to operate within this global network of relationships is
facilitated by the extraordinary technological and process innovations
made possible by the application of advanced information and
communication technologies (ICTs).  These technologies are fueling the
unprecedented growth in inter-organizational relationships and the
complex inter-linkages that result.  Enterprises in both the private and
public sectors are connecting to each other through complex enterprise
systems that underpin their value chains.  At the same time many
organizations are attempting to move away from owning ICT systems and
infrastructure that support their business model to sourcing these
systems and services in non-traditional market or network arrangements. 
For example, firms are increasingly adopting cloud-based and open source
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) models for provisioning ICT systems and
infrastructure.  Other organizations are joining forces to create ICT
service delivery networks usually manifested as IT shared services. 
These complex network arrangements pose a number of IT governance
challenges.  These challenges revolve around the allocation of
accountability, responsibility, and decision rights in network
arrangements where there is distributed ownership of the ICT resources,
systems, and processes.  They also relate to the challenge of
safeguarding and enhancing the quality and value of IT services
delivered through these new IT service provisioning ecosystems.
 
The issues described above should raise some important questions for
both researchers and practitioners.  We solicit papers for this special
issues covering, but not limited, to the following topics:
·         Frameworks and theories for understanding
inter-organizational IT governance relationships.
·         Emerging issues in governing IT in loosely-coupled, global
business ecosystems.
·         Multi-jurisdictional governance of IT in government and other
public sector organizations.
·         Governing IT in cloud computing and other
platform-as-a-service arrangements.
·         Shared IT service governance.
·         Governance of common IT infrastructure.
·         Research approaches to studying inter-organizational IT
governance.
·         IT governance in traditional outsourcing and market
arrangements.
·         Implications for IT governance in open source relationships.
·         Processes and mechanisms for governing inter-organizational
IT arrangements.
·         Participants roles and relationships with new forms of IT
provisioning
·         Governing employee owned and selected IT in organizational
settings
·         Cross-cultural issues relating to IT governance in
inter-organizational relationships
 
 
Guest Editors for the Special Issue
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada,
gerald_grant at carleton.ca 
Felix B. Tan, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand,
felix.tan at aut.ac.nz 
 
Submission Guidelines and Important Dates
·  Papers may be submitted to the special issue any time before October
30, 2010
·  Submit using the EJIS online paper submission system at
http://ejis.msubmit.net ( http://ejis.msubmit.net/ )
(Select the Special Issue during submission)
·  Follow the EJIS formatting guidelines at
http://ejis.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_auth_instructions

·  (Note that papers should be no longer than 8000 words)