[AISWorld] CFP: TEACHING CASES on Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services - Special Issue of JITTC

[Julia kotlarsky]

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
THE JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TEACHING CASES
 
Special Issue on Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services
 
Editors:  Leslie Willcocks and Julia Kotlarsky
 
Global sourcing of IT and business services has received  rising  attention
from the early 1990s, and now represents a global market of over $450
billion in annual revenues.  By 2012 the area represents an intriguing mix
of IT and business process outsourcing, cloud sourcing, and offshore onshore
and nearshore variants. The subject is increasingly taught in BSC and MSC
programmes  either within modules or as a module in itself. The offshore
market alone represents over $65 billion annual revenues, and is expanding
at well over 10 per cent per annum, while IT outsourcing are set to expand
at between 5-10% annually for the next five years depending on country and
activity selected.  These phenomena well deserve in-depth focus in
educational and training programmes and one major tool here is the teaching
case.  

 
Sourcing refers to the process of identifying, negotiating, and forming
supply agreements with vendors of goods and services. Within the IS
discipline, sourcing refers to contracting of specific IT-related work to a
third party (typically a specialist company) not directly controlled by the
organisation (typically referred to as outsourcing) or could also be done
in-house (insourcing).  For this special issue,  specific areas of interest
include, but are not restricted to:
* State-of-the art in global sourcing of IT-related services
* Business process outsourcing cases e.g human resources, procurement,
accounting and finance.
* Cloud sourcing  -from a supplier and/or client perspective
* Management issues in running outsourcing arrangements
* Case studies of success or failure and what can be learned
* Developing a sourcing strategy
* Business, IT and sourcing strategy alignment
* Transition and implementation examples
* Offshore outsourcing and offshore captive centres
* Job markets, skills and capabilities
* Knowledge issues in global sourcing
* Innovation and outsourcing
* Retained capabilities
* Developing economy issues - e.g. innovation, e-government, markets, IT
industry     
* Intellectual property issues in  sourcing arrangements.
* Security issues in outsourcing
 
The Teaching Case: 
For examples of teaching cases we are looking for see The JIT Teaching Cases
electronic journal http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jittc/ The following
offers guidelines, but please enquire if you feel you have a good submission
that does not follow these exactly e.g a shorter case or unusual subject. A
teaching case is usually 4000-12,000 words in length (e.g. shorter cases for
undergraduate teaching or longer for postgraduate and MBA), has
illustrations, and quotes where appropriate,  and is based on real life
circumstances. Aspects of the case may be anonymised where information is
particularly sensitive, and would hinder publication otherwise. The teaching
case can be based on primary research, but also on secondary sources. We are
looking for cases that are up-to-date, though they may also include the
history of how the organization, or events reached their present point..A
teaching case should be written to promote discussion of the issues raised,
setting out problem areas, giving enough history and detail, and raising
questions at the end. The teaching case should be as complete in itself as
possible, and be written and presented attractively. Submission should be of
the Teaching Case  itself, and in a separate document a Teaching Note for
the case indicating guidance for teachers including objectives, who to use
it with, suggested questions, and guidelines on answers and further reading.
 
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the  Theme Issue editors and one
further expert reviewer.
 
Deadlines: 
Deadline for submission of full teaching case with teaching note  - July 1st
2012
Reviews returned:  August 1st 2012
Final Submission:  September 30th 2012
 
 
Guidelines: 
For guidelines on preparation of manuscripts and criteria for acceptance
please follow the Journal of Information Technology Instructions for Authors
<http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/instructions.html>
(http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/instructions.html
<http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/instructions.html> ). The length of
the teaching case should be between 4000-12000 words (including abstract and
references). The teaching Note must cover objectives, questions/assignments,
and a detailed discussion of how the case can be used, including frameworks,
content that can be used and an analysis of the case
 
All submissions should be sent in MS Word format to: A.H.Yeates at lse.ac.uk
and also to the special issue editors.
Theme Editors details:
Prof. Leslie P. Willcocks
London School of Economics
United Kingdom
l.p.willcocks at lse.ac.uk

Dr. Julia Kotlarsky
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Julia.kotlarsky at wbs.ac.uk
 


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