[AISWorld] EJIS Special Issue on Governing Inter-organizational Relationshiops - Submssion date Extension - Nov 15, 2010

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We are extending the submission date to November 15, 2010.  This is to accommodate the many requests we have received for a limited extension.



Gerry Grant and Felix Tan

Guest Editors



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,



Felix B. Tan, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand,





Submission Guidelines and Important Dates

*  Papers may be submitted to the special issue any time before November 15,

 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)




Gerald Grant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Information Systems
Director - Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP)
Coordinator of theInformation Systems Area Group
Sprott School of Business
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
gerald_grant(at) carleton.ca
www.sprott.carleton.ca/~ggrant
www.conf-irm.org

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