[AISWorld] JITCAR 16.2 and Invitation for Manuscript Submission

[Shailendra Palvia]

Invitations for Manuscripts Submission and Announcement of JITCAR 16.2

Dear Colleagues around the world:

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 a Teaching Case 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.
JITCAR 16.2, 2014: From 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."

It gives me a great pleasure to present this second issue 16.2 of 2014.  The contents of this issue are:  Editorial Preface article by Drs. Steven Gordon, Roger Blake and G. Shankaranarayanan; Research article by Dr. Rajesh Mirani; Teaching Case article by Drs. Wu He and Yong Chen; Expert Opinion report by Dr. Daniel Peak; and Book Review by Dr. Vijay Vemuri.  Summary information of these items is as follows.
Drs. Steven Gordon, Roger Blake and G. Shankaranarayanan in their editorial preface article titled, "An Agenda for Case-Based Research," focus on the need for conducting case research into several IS research areas. The first paragraph of introduction to this article summarizes well the goal of the article.
"Let us face it.  As individuals, only a few things influence our research agendas.  We tend to focus on one or two research streams where we have had previous publishing success, we explore new topics based on what is hot, and perhaps we respond to calls from co-authors or other acquaintances.  In addition, for case-based research, opportunity trumps all other factors.  Since it is never easy to get full access to processes or people in an organization, a perceptive researcher jumps at the chance to take advantage of conducting a case study at an organization to explore in depth into a research domain of interest. . While this approach makes sense for individuals, it behooves us as a research community to set priorities that are not wholly opportunistic or personal.  But, how should a community such as ours set its research priorities? One way is to express and perhaps debate them in outlets such as JITCAR where case-based IT researchers are likely to read."

The research article is titled, "In Pursuit of Institutional Legitimation: Structuration of an Offshoring Decision."   This article analyzes rationale for offshoring decisions utilizing structuration and institutional theories.  The abstract below sums it up.

"This paper applies structuration theory and institutional theory to analyze the organizational dynamics behind a financial services company's decision to initiate IT services offshoring. The analysis finds the decision to have been an emergent one, crystallizing from interactions between upper management's actions and an evolving structural context. Further, their actions were driven more by a legitimation-oriented desire to adhere to various institutional norms rather than purely rational considerations. These findings of isomorphism question the notion that offshoring decisions result from straightforward objectives such as cost savings or quality enhancement. Particularly under uncertainty, they may be subtly shaped by institutional influences in antecedent contexts. The implication is that the planning, execution, and evaluation of offshored projects must take into account the dynamic imperatives embedded in these contexts, and not be anchored solely to static expressions of short-term objectives."


The teaching case research article is titled, "Using Blog Mining as an Analytical Method to Study the Use of Social Media by Small Businesses."  This article explains the usefulness of Blog Mining as a cost effective tool for extracting useful information from blogs about small businesses' use of social media.  Summary of this article is the following abstract.


"The growth in popularity of blogs opens up new opportunities for conducting information studies.  Due to its capability of processing large amount of text data effectively, blog mining can be an effective method for gaining insights into a given topic.  In this paper, we used blog mining to analyze online blog posts related to social media use by small businesses.  This study identified seven relevant themes and found that blog mining is a promising method for understanding emerging Internet-based phenomena. The paper also lists some tools for blog mining, discusses the limitations of blog mining, and provides suggestions for overcoming these limitations."

The Expert Opinion report probes into the experience and expertise of Dr. David Kroenke in the areas of teaching and research; in 1991 the International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year; in 2009, he was named Educator of the Year by the Association of Information Technology Professionals-Education Special Interest Group (AITP-EDSIG); his textbook Database Processing was first published in 1977 and is now in its 13th edition; he has published many other textbooks, including Database Concepts, 5th ed. (2012) (with David Auer), Using MIS,  8th Edition (2014), Experiencing MIS, 6th ed. (2014), MIS Essentials 4th  Edition (2014), and Processes, Systems, and Information, 2nd  Edition (2014) (with Earl McKinnery).   Questions posed by the interviewer are: (a) What are some of your current major projects? (b) What's happening to publishers?  (c) what got you started writing textbooks?  (d) What motivates you to take on a new textbook project?  (e) How has IT changed since you first started in the industry?  (f) Was the adoption of IT by business a smooth and gradual transition? (g) What is the difference between data and information? (h) What makes a particular technology succeed and another one to fail? (i) What happened to your product Salsa, the one that implemented the semantic object model? (j) Has Social Media changed our society? (j) Do you believe the IT jobs outlook in this country will continue to improve?
Book review report provides a detailed critique of 2014 book titled, "The Second Machine Age:
Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies co-authored By Erik Brynjolfsson, and Andrew McAfee.   This book made it to the York Times Science Best Sellers list.  The book review can be summarized as follows.

"The continuing theme of the book is that despite immense advances in the digital technologies, humans have three distinct advantages over computers and information technologies: 1) ideation (coming up with new ideas and concepts), 2) large-frame pattern recognition, and 3) complex communication. These advantages are expected to continue into the foreseeable future...... Unlike many purely science fiction-type prognostication books, the authors concentrate on the economics of the digital age. The issues tackled involve such staples of economic debates as unemployment, GDP, national income accounting, and income and wealth inequalities."

The new publisher, in line with the ongoing trends, has decided to publish this journal online only.  The website to find all JITCAR issues of the last 17 years is: http://www.tandfonline.com/utca. Furthermore, effective August 1, 2014 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 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.
http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia?rn=Faculty+Profiles&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty
Founding and curent Editor-in-Chief, Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR)
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2012 LIU Post Nominee for Abraham Krasnoff Lifetime Scholarship Achievement Award
Faculty Advisor for the Indo-American Club and MIS club
Phone #: 732-983-7034

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