[AISWorld] JITCAR 16.3-4 and Invitation for Manuscript Submission

Shailendra Palvia Shailendra.Palvia at liu.edu
Tue Feb 17 12:16:35 EST 2015


Invitations for Manuscripts Submission and Announcement of JITCAR 16.3

About Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAAR)


Mission: In this era of uncontrollable explosion of information technology (IT) and its applications, the gap between theory and practice, frameworks and applications keeps widening. This novel journal will focus on research based on in-depth study of real world cases and applications to explain existing theories and concepts or to help in building new theories and frameworks. This journal should be of great value to professors and students as well as researchers and practitioners of IT. It is a double blind refereed international quarterly journal that is supported by IT scholars from all over the world.  The journal is international in all respects: content, authors, readers, reviewers, and editors.


Scope and Coverage: JITCAR will publish case and application research articles focusing on any size of organization: start-up, small, medium, large, or multinational company. These cases and applications can originate from any country in the world: advanced, newly industrialized, developing, or under-developed. Furthermore, the primary thrust of a case or application may include artificial intelligence, business process reengineering, cross-cultural issues, cybernetics, decision support systems, electronic commerce, firewalls and Internet, groupware, human side of IT, information infrastructures, joint application development, knowledge based systems, local area networks, management information systems, neural networks, office automation, prototyping, query languages, robotics, systems analysis, telemedicine, ubiquitous computing, video-conferencing, webonomics, and so on.
Generally, there will be three research articles. Occasionally, there will be two Research articles and one Teaching Case article.  A detailed Editorial Preface article will be a substitute for an article.  Research articles will be based on actual case studies and/or applications studies utilizing case study, field study, and/or field experiment research methodology (JITCA, Volume 1, Number 4, editorial preface).  Each teaching case submission to JITCAR will include three components: the case itself, a summary research note, and a detailed teaching note.  These three components will be reviewed as a package; the journal's decision to publish the case will be determined by the quality of the case itself and the accompanying research and teaching notes.

Review Process: Each suitable article is double blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial review board. A final recommendation is made by the Editor-in-Chief or anyone of the two senior associate editors in consultation with an Associate Editor. If a revision is recommended, the revised paper is sent for a final approval to the original Associate Editor.

Call for Manuscripts: The journal encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, from academia, government, and industry. The journal will also include reviews of cutting edge IT books that have bearing on the journal's mission. Practitioner input will be regularly solicited from time-to-time through the industry editor(s) of JITCA.  To utilize cutting edge IT, authors are strongly encouraged to make their submissions electronically to the editor-in-chief or one of the two senior associate editors by attaching file(s) in appropriate format.

Style: Submitted manuscripts must be written in the APA (American Psychological Association) editorial style.  Footnotes are not allowed.  Endnotes should be kept to a minimum; instead the material should be incorporated in the body of the paper.  References should be listed in alphabetical order.  The suggested size of the manuscript is 20 pages (excluding references, tables, and figures).  The manuscript should be typed double-spaced.

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JITCAR 16.3-4, 2014: From the Editor's Desk

First, let me repeat a great news.  Starting February 1, 2014 -- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group has taken over as the new publisher of JITCAR. T&F has been in existence since 1796 (over 200 years) and publishes over 2000 journals.  Here is a relevant excerpt from Press Release by the new publisher on February 11, 2014.

"Routledge Journals Extends its Library & Information Science Coverage
Taylor & Francis Group is pleased to announce that three titles, Journal of Global Information Technology Management; Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research and Journal of Information Privacy & Security, previously published by Ivy League Publishing, are now to be published under the Routledge imprint.  Routledge, the largest global publisher in Social Sciences is committed to supporting research in the important fields of Library & Information Science and Information Systems.  According to Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director for the area, these three journals will facilitate development of T& F's portfolio in a research area that is becoming increasingly diverse.  Pankaj Palvia, President of Ivy League Publishing, commented that "After having managed the journals for a number of years, I feel that transferring ownership of the journals to Taylor & Francis has been the right move as this change will provide the necessary impetus to have these industry leading journals move to their next level of industry acceptance." Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.  As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology.  From our network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Johannesburg, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues."

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It gives me a great pleasure to present this third and fourth issue combined16.3-4 of 2014.  The contents of this issue are:  Editorial Preface article by Drs. David Paper, Zsolt Ugray, and Jeffrey Johnson; Research article by Drs. Ling Zhu, Sherry Thatcher and Matt Thatcher; Teaching Case article by Dr.  Song-Kyoo Kim; Expert Opinion report by Dr. Mahesh Raisinghani; and Book Review by Dr. Richard Platt.  Summary information of these items is as follows.

Drs. David Paper, Zsolt Ugray, and Jeffrey Johnson in their editorial preface article titled, "Mega Data Value Creation: A Roadmap to Success," focus on big data and ensuing data analytics.  They emphasize that the way data creation, consumption, and storage is increasing exponentially, 'Big' does not capture the size - 'Mega Data' is a more appropriate term.[1]  They propose a roadmap built upon a four-part action plan. Part one deals with enhancing the customer experience. Part two deals with empowering internal data scientists. Part three deals with leadership who is responsible for creating schemes to leverage Mega Data into an efficient and effective manner toward a viable value proposition. Part four deals with outsourcing Mega Data analytics, which may be very complex and difficult because of data access issues, data ownership, lack of business knowledge, and threats to intellectual property (IP).

The research article is titled, "The Institutional Environment for B2B E-commerce Usage: Towards an Understanding in the Chinese Context."  This article leverages new institutional economics (NIE) theory to examine whether and how four facets of the institutional environment -- industrial pressure, governmental support, legal adequacy, and national culture compatibility -- affect Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce usage.

The teaching case article is titled, "Com2uS Mobile Game Development."  Through the two mobile game development cases (Action Puzzle Family and Tiny Farm), students will learn the pros and cons of the waterfall and agile development standard process models, in order to select a suitable development process for planning and designing modern mobile game software, and be able to discuss the fast changing nature of mobile game industry.

The Expert Opinion report probes into the experience and expertise of Jonathan J. Overton, who is currently Director of Program Management Office in the Cook Children's Hospital located in Fort Worth, Texas.  Mr. Overton has extensive experience in Project Management in general and also Project Management Offices (PMOs) Management.  He has spent the last 14 years leading PMOs in the Healthcare industry.  Jonathan focuses on building PMOs and improving delivery through a robust service-centric model.  His successes include implementing projects (subject to constraints), and project audit programs to improve delivery at a 92%+ level of achievement; and estimating project completion hours within 10% of actual hours.  Jonathan has overseen portfolios consisting of over 200+ projects valued at over $225M.  His success has led to recognition in a case study by Gartner, the leading research organization for Information Technology.  In addition, he has presented at several universities.  Jonathan is an active member of the Society for Information Management and serves as a board member on the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of Overseeing Communications.   Questions posed by the interviewer are: (a) Does the baseline of proprietary methodologies allow for a project-management oriented determination of resource allocation as a supporting factor to the cost/benefit effort with proprietary elements?; (b) Is the top-down or bottom-up approach introduced as a concurrent phase that pays attention to the organization's infrastructure  or during execution/monitoring & control/closing phase of the project cycle?; (c) When is Agile methodology the right approach?; (d) What are your thoughts when a newly implemented method or process like agile becomes routine and the initial gains taper off?; (e) What are some key lessons that you would like to share  in the context of the senior management's influence on project outcomes? (f) What are your thoughts on this statement - "Project Managers who increase their leadership deliver projects that are better aligned to strategy and help change an organization's DNA"?; (g) How would you inculcate cultural sensitivity among global project team members?; (h) In order to minimize the scope creep that happens in IT led projects, what area of management should take the lead to
Manage this?

Book review report provides a detailed critique of 2014 book titled, "Business unintelligence Insight and Innovation Beyond Analytics and Big Data," authored By Dr. Barry Devlin and published by Technics Publications from New Jersey.  The book review can be summarized as follows.

"There are two fundamental and recurring models in Devlin's development.  Both models are totally congruous with the foundations of information systems.  The first model, called the IDEAL deals with the relationships between people, process, and information.  Devlin starts out his IDEAL framework by putting processes between people and information Devlin chose a subset of the characteristics of these three levels as the terms for the IDEAL acronym: Integrated - within and across each layer (people, process, information) a unity of thought and purpose; all aspects of this environment must link seamlessly together; Distributed - each layer consists of a concept space with diverse attributes of equal importance, individual independence, and mutual dependence; no single central control point; Emergent - this is a mathematically and socially chaotic/complex environment, the characteristics of which cannot be predicted or calculated in advance; Adaptive - the architecture is sufficiently adaptive to adjust and take advantage of changing business needs and technical capabilities without re-architecting; Latent - the conceptual architecture in not in a form that can be directly implemented; it is a guide for business and IT thought and conversation about what is desired and possible. The second framework introduced by Devlin is what he calls the REAL architecture: Realistic - implementing this architecture can begin today with existing technology and its full extent is achievable with tools and techniques that can be expected within a few years; Extensible - the functions and features of the biz-tech ecosystem are open to extension and expansion to allow technology evolution; Actionable - the actions and approaches required of the business and IT are clearly identified at a high level and can easily be extrapolated to lower levels of detail; Labile - the architecture is flexible enough to allow changes in business needs as the biz-tech ecosystem evolves."

The new publisher, in line with the ongoing trends, has decided to publish this journal online only.  The website to find all JITCAR issues is: http://www.tandfonline.com/utca. Furthermore, effective August 1, all authors and reviewers will start using Routledge's online manuscript submission and reviewing system http://www.editorialmanager.com/jitcar/.  I urge all our current and future authors and reviewers to familiarize themselves with this system.
I hope you will enjoy reading all items in this issue.  With best regards,

Sincerely

Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Professor of MIS, College of Management
Long Island University Post, Brookville, NY 11801.
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2012 LIU Post Nominee for Abraham Krasnoff Lifetime Scholarship Achievement Award
Founding Editor and current EIC, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR), www.jitacr.org<http://www.jitacr.org/>
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[1] Professor Shailendra Palvia was the inspiration behind the term 'Mega Data'.
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