[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Designing Organizational Systems

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Call for Book Chapter Proposals

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Title: Designing Organizational Systems: an Interdisciplinary Discourse Book Editors: Richard Baskerville & Marco De Marco
Publisher: Springer
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 20, 2011 

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Introduction

Design science is often grounded in the H.A. Simon book The Sciences of the Artificial in which a distinction is made between the natural sciences and the sciences related to the making of human artifacts. These artifacts are necessarily material and can consist of many forms of designed interventions (i.e. actions, structures, processes, systems) to address field problems. The key characteristic of natural sciences is that they are descriptive and deductive in nature, being engaged in the quest for truth. On the other hand, design sciences, like architecture, engineering, and law, are prescriptive and abductive in nature. Debate about the role of these design sciences has engaged scholars in the fields of management and organization studies, and design research is now in the foreground of many conferences and top journals, especially in the information systems field. Indeed in this field a particularly relevant problem involves the explicit prescription for the design and d
evelopment of theoretical classes of IT systems. 

This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Alessandro D’Atri, who passed away in April 2011. Professor D’Atri started his career as a brilliant scholar interested in theoretical computer science, databases and, more generally information processing systems. He journeyed far in various applications, such as human-computer interaction, human-factors, ultimately arriving at business information systems and business organization after more than 20 years of research based on "problem solving". Among his many accomplishments, Alessandro founded in 1998 the Research Centre for Information Systems (CeRSI) at LUISS University in Rome, and he framed all the research activities in the context of "projects" of applied research founded by national and international institutions. In 2003 together with Marco De Marco he founded ItAIS, the Italian Chapter of the International Association for Information Systems. Through CeRSI and ItAIS Professor D’Atri pursued the development of an i
nterdisciplinary culture in which social sciences, systems design and human sciences are mutually integrated.

Rather than retrospection, this book is aimed to advance in the directions Alessandro pursued.  We aim to stimulate a debate about the potential of design research in the field of information systems and organization studies with an interdisciplinary approach. We invite conceptual and/or empirical contributions addressing the design problem of organizational systems and information systems aimed at: i) using research for supporting organization design, ii) investigating the process of designing organization systems, iii) designing organization systems with the purpose of learning social phenomena.
Target audience
The target audience of this book will comprise researchers in the business organization and information systems fields.  In addition, the book will provide a valuable resource for professionals, business managers and policy makers concerned with the design of complex organizational systems and IT based innovative solutions. 
Solicited topics
Contributions should be based on a design science paradigm applied to the development of artifacts related to organizational and/or IT systems. Suggested areas include (but are not limited to):
-	Design research in organizational interventions
-	Design research in information systems development
-	Design research in IT management and governance
-	Design research and the new professions
-	The role of design research in IT R&D projects
-	Challenges and principles in a design science project within the field of organization studies
-	Challenges and principles in a design science project within the field of information systems studies
-	Assessment of design research results
-	Benefits for practitioners in participating in design research projects
-	Kernel theories for design research in organizational interventions
-	Kernel theories for design research in information systems 

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Editorial Board

Senior Editors:
-	Giovan Francesco Lanzara, University of Bologna
-	Jan vom Brocke University of Liechtenstein 
-	Jing Zhao, China University of Geosciences Wuhan
-	Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University 
-	Marcello Martinez, Università di Napoli Federico II 
-	Nancy Pouloudi, University of Athens 
-	Ole Hanseth, University of Oslo 
-	Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen 
Managing Editor:
-	Paolo Spagnoletti, LUISS Guido Carli

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Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 1-2 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter by January 20, 2012. This proposal should be submitted in Word format or PDF to the EasyChair platform at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dosid2012   
Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines to prepare the full chapter (7,000 – 10,000 words) to be submitted by March 31, 2012.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by two or three reviewers selected by the Editorial Board. 

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Important Dates
January 20, 2011: Book chapter proposal due February 28, 2012: Book chapter proposal acceptance notification March 31, 2012: Full chapter submission deadline April 30, 2012: Notification of review results May 15, 2012: Submission of revised version of accepted chapters May 30, 2012: Submission of final materials of accepter chapters

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Contacts
Email: dosid2012 at easychair.org
Web: http://www.cersi.it/cersi-events/events/194-call-for-book-chapter-proposals.html 

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Paolo Spagnoletti
Assistant Professor
CeRSI (Research Center on Information Systems) 
LUISS Guido Carli University 
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