[AISWorld] ISeB CfP: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)

[Kai Fischbach]

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Call for Papers
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) 

Special Issue on Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
Deadline: April 1, 2012
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*Guest Editors*
Kai Fischbach (University of Bamberg, Germany) 
Christine Legner (HEC Lausanne, Switzerland) 
Robert Winter (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) 

*Theme*
The complexity of corporate information technology (IT) environments has been steadily growing in the last decades, and keeping pace with an ever-changing business environment has become a constant challenge. In response, architectural considerations have become a key concern in today's information management. It is acknowledged that only continuous and holistic management of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) can ensure the sustainability, agility, and strategic alignment of corporate IT environments. 
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) has evolved as a discipline, beginning in the 1990s. Early work centered on architecture models, principles, and standards that comprise the content of the EA. As companies gain practical experience implementing EA concepts, they become more concerned with the management aspects in EAM, the effectiveness of EAM and its success factors. Despite a growing body of EA-related knowledge, different definitions of EAM coexist, ranging from enterprise-wide IT management to enterprise development and transformation. Correspondingly, researchers have identified substantial differences with respect to the objectives followed, the methodology employed, and the organizational implementation of EAM in practice. This has stimulated studies related to EAM adoption scenarios and situational aspects of EAM implementation. Still, though, EAM is a relatively young and immature discipline, characterized by a great variety of research approaches and a strong focus on conceptual frameworks and models. Until recently, theoretically rounded research on EAM practice has been rather limited.
With this special issue, the journal Information Systems and e-Business Management seeks to stimulate EAM research. We invite original submissions of novel research that advances our understanding of EAM as a management discipline. We are open to all types of contributions, including conceptual, design-oriented, and theory-building papers. We encourage authors to submit contributions that are lively and will inspire readers from both academia and industry. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
1)	The EAM discipline and its relationship to other management disciplines (e.g., strategic management, organizational development, IT management).
2)	Specific EAM application contexts (e.g., IT/business alignment, business transformation, M&A, outsourcing).
3)	EAM strategy (EAM positioning and goals, EAM services/"products," communication and stakeholder involvement).
4)	Conceptualizing EAM (e.g., meta models, roadmaps, specific architectures such as business architecture).
5)	EAM organization and governance (e.g., processes, organizational roles, monitoring, and key performance indicators).
6)	EAM tool support and EAM-related standards.
7)	Organizational implementation of EAM (e.g., situational adaptation).
8)	EAM adoption and success.
9)	EAM value (metrics, funding, and charging). 
10)	Innovative EAM case studies

*Deadlines*
April 1, 2012	Paper submission deadline
June 1, 2012	First round review completed
June 20, 2012	Editorial decisions due 
Aug 5, 2012		Revised papers due (second round)
Sep 25, 2012	Second-round review completed
Oct 1, 2012		Editorial decisions due
Nov 15, 2012	Revised papers due (third round) 
Dec 15, 2012	Final decisions

*Submission Instructions*
Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Authors submitting articles for publication should follow the submission guidelines of ISeB for preparing the manuscripts. Submissions should be sent to the guest editors of this Special Issue via the journal's editorial manager system: http://www.editorialmanager.com/iseb/
Please choose the article type 'S.I.: Enterprise Architecture Management' while submitting to the special issue.

*Associate Editors*
Frederik Ahlemann (EBS Business School, Germany)
João Paulo A. Almeida (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Scott Bernard (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Brian Cameron (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Robert Lagerström (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Susanne Leist (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Florian Mattes (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Erik Proper (Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
Raymond Slot (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)
José Tribolet (INESC and TU Lisbon, Portugal)

*About the Journal*
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) is an international journal that focuses on the core tasks of Information Systems Management, the conceptual analysis, design, and deployment of information systems, as well as on all e-business related topics. The central aim of the journal is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in information systems management and e-business which advance the field fundamentally and significantly. 
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) has been accepted for Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition and Current Contents / Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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Prof. Dr. Kai Fischbach
University of Bamberg
Chair in Information Systems and Social Networks