[AISWorld] cfp: JOCEC Special Issue on Knowledge Management and Social Media

[Dianne P. Ford]

Please excuse any cross-postings.

 

Call for submissions for Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic
Commerce ( <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10919392.asp> JOCEC)

 

Special Issue on 

"Knowledge Management and Social Media: The Challenges"

 

Guest Co-Editors: 

Robert M. Mason 

The Information School, University of Washington

 <mailto:rmmason at uw.edu> rmmason at uw.edu

 

Dianne P. Ford

Faculty of Business Administration

Memorial University of Newfoundland

 <mailto:dpford at mun.ca> dpford at mun.ca

 

 

Papers solicited for this special issue cover issues, challenges, ideas, and
solutions for two aspects of knowledge management (KM) and social media
(SM).  As one example, knowledge managers often perceive a tension between
potential benefits and risks associated with social media.   On the one
hand, SM offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing information and
knowledge both among colleagues closely bound by shared interests but also
among those representing the "strength of weak ties" (Granovetter, 1973).
On the other hand, SM, because of the ease with which information can be
disseminated, threatens organizational control of information and increases
the risk of the loss of intellectual property and proprietary knowledge.  

 

For this special issue, we encourage authors from academia, industry,
governments, and non-profits, especially collaborations among these groups,
to address these and other tensions or synergies that may arise between KM
and SM.  We welcome examination of these tensions at the societal,
organizational, group/team, and individual levels of analysis.  We solicit
case studies, surveys, experiments, qualitative research, and collaborative
action research among academics, executives, and policy makers that
illustrate innovative approaches, resolutions, and solutions to these
tensions, risks, and opportunities.  We especially seek papers that offer
conceptual models combined with empirical evidence of the consequences or
findings of observations related to these models.

 

Timeline for the Special Issue:

 

June 15, 2011:  deadline for (optional) submission of early version of paper
to HICSS mini-track on this topic (conference dates:  January 4-7, 2012).
For more information:   http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/)

 

June, 2011 to December 2011 - abstracts are welcome for feedback on fit with
the special issue (please email the guest co-editors directly).

 

March 15, 2012 - full paper submission deadline for JOCEC Special Issue
review process.  (Note that the schedule enables authors who submit early
versions of their papers to HICSS can revise/expand their work based on
conference feedback.)

 

October 31, 2012 - final versions of accepted papers will be submitted for
publication process, with the special issue targeted for publication in the
first 1-2 issues (depending on the number of good quality, accepted papers)
of 2013.

 

Submit the digital manuscript in standard MS Word format (.doc not .docx) as
an attachment to an email with "JOCEC" (without quotes) as the first word in
the subject line to both Guest Co-Editors, Dr. Robert M. Mason at
<mailto:rmmason at uw.edu> rmmason at uw.edu and Dr. Dianne P. Ford at
<mailto:dpford at mun.ca> dpford at mun.ca.  Specifically, all papers submitted
should conform to JOCEC standards and have no identifying information in the
papers to allow for the double-blind review process.  

 

Articles should be concise and in English, not more than 35 pages and/or
10,000 words. This limitation applies to the entire paper - cover page,
abstract, narrative, footnotes, figures, and references included.
Manuscripts (including title page, abstract, text, quotes, acknowledgments,
references, appendixes, tables, figure captions, and footnotes)should be
typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, using 8 1/2'' 11''
page settings. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, starting with
the title page. The title page should contain the article title, author(s),
affiliations, a short form of the title (less than 50 characters including
letters and spaces), and the name, complete mailing address, and telephone
number of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should
contain a short abstract (200-250 words), and 5-10 related keywords. All
acronyms should be spelled out where first used. Each table and figure
should be called out within the text.

 

For more specific formatting information, please refer to the Instructions
for Authors found on the journal's website:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653688~tab=submit~
mode=paper_submission_instructions

 

 

 

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Dr. Dianne P. Ford

Associate Professor, OB/HR, MIS

Faculty of Business Administration

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St.John's, NL, A1B 3X5

CANADA

Ph: (709) 864-8511

Fax: (709) 864-7680

Website: www.busi.mun.ca/dpford

 

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