[AISWorld] Extended deadline for submission JECR CFP

[William Yu Chung Wang]

Due to several requests of extended deadline for submissions, the
editors have decided to extend the deadline to 22th of May for three
weeks.

Please see the CFP and new deadline as below.

Sincerely

William

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Journal of Electronic Commerce
Research
Co-Editors in Chief
Professor Melody Y. Kiang
mkiang at csulb.edu
Professor Robert T. Chi
rchi at csulb.edu
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Cloud Service and Electronic Commerce
Special Issue Editor: William Yu Chung Wang & Huan Ming Chuang
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR) is pleased to announce a
call for papers for a
special edition of the journal focusing on Cloud Services and Electronic
Commerce
Purpose of the Special Issue:
The evolution of Internet Technology has provided a new initiative in
Electronic Commerce –the
Cloud Computing that has been introduced with the opportunity to address
real-time access of
consumer and business products, software and solutions, without the
requirement of owning the
underlying resource by the users. As defined by Gartner Group, Cloud
Computing refers to Cloud
Technology and Cloud Service. The former actually derives from existing
Distributed and Grid
Computing while the later is a concept of providing services of
application software,
infrastructure, and platform to the remote customers. As long as a
device links to the third party
provider, the location agnostic service could be delivered.
Such initiative also affects the business model of software vendors and
infrastructure provider.
Traditional desktop applications and data storage are now available
online, even the complicated
package (e.g., Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Cloud, and Google
Datacenter) at the personal
and family level. An individual user could easily store and edit
personal digital content such as
video, image, and files, via various network-enabled devices to connect
to the customized web
portal that is hosted by the third party service vendor. From the
business aspect, running ERP
Systems via Cloud websites allows companies to reduce IT operation
costs, lighten the
infrastructure, and adopt agile approach to new upgrades. Cloud Service
offers significant
potential not only to the giant enterprises but also to the small and
medium firms. It has arrived at
a right time when traditional business models for IT remain a burden for
small and medium
enterprises. A study of “Total Economic Impact” reported by Forrester
Consulting further
indicates the potential return on investment could be up to three
hundred percents 7.4 months
after adoption.
Despite Cloud Service has been a trendy topic in the industry, further
research development in
this regard is needed at the academic side. For example, little is known
on the factors on personal
usage behaviour of Cloud Service as well as the intention of deployment
in business cloud market.
In particularly it brings the prospective solutions to small companies
which are normally not
capable to afford expansive modules in enterprise systems. Moreover,
there are debates on social,
ethical, and security issues over the services that are necessary to
investigate.
Potential Manuscript Topics:
In this connect, this special issue aims to attract research reports
that examine the lessons from
cloud services, especially those that investigate how the new emerging
concept brings
implications to extend the existing knowledge and theories.
Areas in which contributions may be made include (but are not limited
to):
 Virtualization of Resources, Outsourcing, and Cloud Service for
Electronic Commerce
Solution
 Adoption Issues for Cloud Computing and Cloud Service
 Marketing and Customer Relationships on Cloud Service
 Impacts on Business Process Management and Business Functions, e.g.,
Staffing, Finance,
Marketing, Insurance, Logistics, and etc.
 Using Cloud Computing and Cloud Service for Value Chain Management
 Empirical Cases on the Public, Community, Hybrid, and Private Clouds
(e.g., office and
family cloud).
 SaaS, P Service in the Air: Content Delivery, Software Usage, Utilities, and
etc.
 Cloud Service in Government, Education, Finance & Banking,
Manufacturing, Tourism, and
other industries.
 Solutions for the Small and Medium Firms or the Giant Enterprises
 Extended Web 2.0 in Cloud
 Social, Cultural, Security, and Ethic Issues as the Table Stakes
 Future Applications (e.g., cloud systems and customization)
Important Dates:
Deadline for Submission: May 1, 2011
Paper acceptance/rejection: July 30, 2011
Revised paper submission: Sep 30, 2011
Final paper submission: Oct 15, 2011
Online publication date: Nov 2011
Submission Guidelines:
JECR publishes original empirical research, theoretical and
methodological articles, evaluative
and integrative reviews, field research, business surveys, and
application papers of interest to a
general readership. A submission based on a paper appearing elsewhere
(such as conference
proceedings or newsletters) must have major value-added extensions to
the earlier version. For
conference papers, it should have at least 30% new material. The
submitted manuscripts should
follow the format as suggested in the Submission Guideline found in the
journal website:
http://www.csulb.edu/journals/jecr/s_guide.htm
Of particular note is that the manuscript should be prepared in
Microsoft Word format. The
names, affiliations, and contact information (i.e., phone, fax, email
addresses) of all authors
should be provided only on the cover page and separated from the main
text. The submitted paper
will undergo a double-blind review. Contributing authors may be asked to
serve as reviewers for
the special issue. Authors may submit completed manuscripts
electronically at any time prior to
the May 22nd, 2011 deadline. Manuscripts and any questions should be
directed to:

William Yu Chung Wang, PhD
Department of Business Information Systems
Faculty of Business and Law Auckland University of Technology Private
Bag 92006
Auckland 1142, NZ
Email: william.wang at aut.ac.nz
Tel: 64 9 9219999 ext 5048
Huan-Ming Chuang
chuanghm at yuntech.edu.tw
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Tel: 886 5 5342601 ext 5325
Information Systems Department  College of Business Administration 
CSULB
1250 Bellflower Blvd  Long Beach, CA 90840
http://www.jecr.org