[AISWorld] CFP: Journal of Virtual Worlds Issue on Enterprises Welcome Virtual Worlds

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The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research - JVWR
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is happy to announce the call for a special Issue # 6(3)2013 on
 Enterprises Welcome Virtual Worlds

Edited by:
 Imed Boughzala, Telecom Business School, Institut Mines-Telecom, France
 Gert-Jan de Vreede, The Center for Collaboration Science, University of
Nebraska at Omaha, USA
 Moez Limayem, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas,
USA

 *JVWR* is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide
spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many
disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual world research.

 Motivation and Scope
 Virtual worlds provide a visual window to a persistent and synthetic world
inhabited by avatars that are deeply involved in social interactions, along
with economic, organizational and commercial activities. They present
challenges and opportunities for enterprises. Enterprises have to overcome
limitations originating from sharing different physical space and
opportunities while virtual worlds offer possibilities that are sometimes
impossible in the real world. *Today’s virtual worlds bring a variety of
opportunities with respect to team collaboration, virtual project
management, immersive virtual education, product marketing, simulation and
design. *Several companies are already using virtual worlds but others are
hesitating to jump in for different reasons: technology readiness or
investment, evidence of proof of value and proof of use in the field.

 This special issue on *“Enterprises Welcome Virtual Worlds” *will
highlight research that makes a significant and novel contribution in
theory and practice about virtual worlds in the enterprise field domain.
 We are looking for papers that provide new directions for research by
examining organizational, individual/group, design, and/or social
perspectives of virtual worlds in intra or inter organizational and
business activities and environments. We especially welcome innovative and
creative research that enables our audience to see the opportunities and
obstacles offered by virtual worlds.

 Authors are invited to submit *original manuscripts that will make
significant contributions to the advancement of our understanding of
enterprise applications with virtual worlds* (experiments, case studies,
action research, design science, empirical investigation, comparative
research, prototyping and experimental engineering emphasizing technical
and methodological dimensions of virtual worlds). There are no preferred
methodological stances for this special issue: it is open to qualitative
and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist,
or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, or
developmental in nature.

  Themes and Topics of Relevance Include, but are not limited to:

   - The impact of virtual world on organizational and business performance
   - Success factors of virtual worlds applications
   - Change management using virtual worlds
   - Factors influencing virtual world adoption, adaptation, and diffusion
   in the field
   - Introducing virtual world technologies and processes in organizations
   and cross organizational collaborations
   - Facilitation, management and leadership styles in virtual worlds
   - Skills, knowledge, and abilities to successfully work, play and learn
   in virtual worlds
   - Creativity and innovation in virtual worlds
   - Approaches and processes for repeatable tasks in virtual worlds
   - Best practices, collaboration techniques, and pattern languages for
   virtual world processes
   - Theories, guidelines and strategies for designing virtual world
   processes, technologies and systems
   - Policies, risks and phenomena in virtual worlds
   - Enhancing robustness, flexibility, and longevity of virtual world
   applications, processes, and technologies
   - Modeling techniques and frameworks to support virtual world processes
   and applications
   - Embedded technologies for virtual worlds
   - Information access, processing, and dissemination in virtual worlds
   - Collaboration and co-creation styles in virtual worlds
   - Cultural perspectives on virtual worlds
   - Approaches to training virtual world skills
   - Serious games and Mobile learning applications
   - Knowledge management through virtual worlds
   - Knowledge transfer from virtual to real world
   - Ethical issues surrounding virtual worlds

 Submission Instructions
 Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of up to 6000
words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors
should submit a two-page extended abstract by the deadline indicated below.
All submissions (abstracts and papers) should be made via the JVWR
publishing system. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with JVWR
double-open policy. See details on the Journal's site in About JVWR>
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Accepted papers will be published online in *Volume 6, Number 3 (2013)* of
the Journal.

 Deadlines and Timeline
 Authors submit abstract: *September 15, 2012*
 Editors return comments on abstracts: *September 30, 2012*
 Authors submit full paper: *March 1, 2013*
 Editors return review report and initial decision: *May 1, 2013*
 Authors submit revised paper: *June 1, 2013*
 Editors return final comments and decision: *July 1, 2013*
 Authors submit final version: September *15, 2013*
 Publication: *November 1, 2013*

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 Please Contact:
 Imed Boughzala: imed.boughzala AT telecom-em.eu
 Gert-Jan de Vreede: gdevreede AT mail.unomaha.edu
 Moez Limayem: MLimayem AT walton.uark.edu

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