[AISWorld] Call for papers for CAIS special section on Emerging Ideas in Information Systems

[Ilze Zigurs]

Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Call for Papers, Special Section on Emerging Ideas in Information Systems

Guest Editors:
Fred Niederman, St. Louis University
Don McCubbrey, University of Denver

We are soliciting papers on emerging ideas in Information Systems (IS) 
that provide a "breakthrough" or innovative way of thinking.  Our goal is 
to stimulate original thinking and reconceptualization of existing 
observations in service to the practice of IS.  Our leaning is toward 
addressing phenomena that confront leaders and workers in the IS domain as 
well as the effects of using IS beyond organizations.  We emphasize the 
potential of such thinking to increase the value of our scholarly work to 
our practitioner colleagues and our students, as they serve in the role of 
change agents and entrepreneurs and engines of organizational and societal 
progress.  We want to stress the forward-looking positioning of this 
endeavor.

We are particularly looking for conceptual papers or think pieces that 
will help to bring forward emerging aspects of the field.   We are also 
open to meta-analyses and literature reviews that emphasize what we have 
learned in a particular domain and what questions remain to be addressed. 
We are open to case studies and other methods that focus on practice.  We 
are as interested in the details of small accumulated choices/actions as 
we are in the summary of these into the effects of large constructs on one 
another.

Within the organizational IS context, we are looking for papers that 
emphasize: 

(1) reorganization or reinterpretation of the relationship among 
components in development, managing, and innovating with IS within and 
between organizations, e.g. better understanding of the interaction of 
specific organizational policies and practices with development 
constraints and outcomes;
(2) reporting of patterns of findings based on observations and studies in 
the IS domain, e.g. meta-analysis or literature reviews showing patterns 
of findings and unaddressed questions in a domain of interest;
(3) observation of detailed strategic, tactical, and operational behaviors 
and/or artifacts from the organizational application of IS, e.g. case 
studies showing the acquisition, adaptation, and use of information 
systems focused on detailed choices and local as well as summary outcomes;
(4) extrapolations of current trends into future prospects; and
(5) IS capabilities to address the grand challenges facing society 
including health care, sustainability, poverty alleviation, employment, 
social equity, and extending participation in governing institutions.

We envision including work on emerging technologies like ubiquitous 
computing, natural language processing, complex adaptive systems, 
agent-based modeling, social media, virtual worlds, and analytics, 
particularly when such inquiries incorporate what has been learned from 
"emerged" technology, what differentiates these technologies, what we can 
learn in observing their utility, and their potential for influencing both 
workplace and society at large.

We are not only interested in success stories, but also in "failure" 
stories with an emphasis on what was learned. 

Interdisciplinary scholarship is increasingly demonstrating its value, and 
IS crosses almost every knowledge domain from art to the natural sciences. 
 Therefore, papers that envision innovative interdisciplinary applications 
will be welcomed. 

Editorial Board:
Currently being composed, we plan to invite a broad array of IS scholars 
from the three AIS regions whose prior work is based on a broad diversity 
of content and methods.

Timetable:
Submit abstract to co-editors by January 9, 2012
Submit paper by March 5, 2012
Reviews returned to authors by April 2, 2012
Revise and resubmit by May 21, 2012
Final decisions by June 1, 2012
Papers published by July 16, 2012

Review Process:
Inquiries prior to submission are welcome.  Each paper will be reviewed by 
at least two members of the Special Section review board. Papers will have 
two rounds of peer review. The first round of reviews will provide 
developmental guidance for improving those papers that are conditionally 
accepted. Final selections for the Special Section will be made from the 
second-round submissions.

Submission Instructions:
All submissions should be emailed to the guest editors in MSWord format, 
following APA guidelines. Submit to niederfa at slu.edu and dmccubbr at du.edu.
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