[AISWorld] Publication of JITCAR 17.2 by Taylor & Francis and Invitation for Manuscript Submission

Shailendra Palvia Shailendra.Palvia at liu.edu
Sun Aug 23 22:56:27 EDT 2015


Invitations for Manuscripts Submission and Announcement of JITCAR 17.2

Dear Colleagues around the world:

About Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR)


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.

PLEASE NOTE THAT A POSITON OF BOOK REVIEW EDITOR IS AVAILABLE.  PLEASE WRITE TO ME IF INTERESTED.



>From the Editor's Desk
It gives me a great pleasure to present this second JITCAR issue of 2015.  This Special Issue on IT Status in Korea has been edited by two guest editors Dr. Kyootai Lee and Dr. Kailash Joshi. This special issue is supported by the Graduate School of Management of Technology at Sogang University, South Korea. The contents of this issue are:  Editorial Preface article by Dr. Kyootai Lee Dr. Kailash Joshi; first Research article by Dr. Younsuk Lee and Mr. Jinhan Park; second Research article is co-authored by Dr. Junghee Han, Mr. Changryul Kim, and Dr. Kailash Joshi; Expert Opinion report by Dr. Tae-Hee Lee; and Book Review by Dr. Jooyeoun Lee.  Summary information of these items is as follows.

Dr. Kyootai Lee and Dr. Kailash Joshi in their editorial preface article titled, "IT Status in Korea: Past, Present, and Future," stress that the IT industry has experienced unprecedented growth and advancement in Korea, even though, the development has been highly heterogeneous across different sectors in the IT industry. Such imbalance, e.g., between hardware and software sector growth -- can impede future sustained growth in IT industry. The authors highlight four key challenges faced by Korean IT industry: Lack of Strong Content Providers; Lack of International IT and IS Services; Low Level of Attention to Cyber Security; and Lack of Globally Dominant Software Firms. They go on to suggest a research agenda that can help provide answers for some of the difficulties embedded in the Korean context in the belief that such an agenda would address not only the unique cultural and economic circumstances of Korea and the challenges faced by Korean IT/IS industry, but also provide guidelines for IT/IS human resource management and IT/IS service business models.

The first research article is titled, "Value Creation and Value Capture: The Case of Cybershelter for IS Security in South Korea."  This article introduces a case of successful cyber security innovation in South Korea named Cybershelter - a public service introduced by KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency) to protect vulnerable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The framework of value creation and value capture is utilized to assess success of this public service in preventing the financial losses of vulnerable SMEs from DDoS attacks.  Value from Cybershelter is captured by several primary as well as secondary beneficiaries mainly by blocking and preventing the spread of DDoS attacks and ensuring the high availability of websites.  The value is captured in terms of : (a) quality improvement and revenue increases for firms, (b) manufacture of security equipment and provision of new related or similar services by the private sector, (c) adoption of similar protection systems by other public organizations to prevent DDoS attacks and (d) higher consumer confidence in the availability of Internet based services.

The second research article is titled, "Analysis of Internet Protocol Television Evolution in Korea: An Open Innovation Perspective."  This article investigates the patterns of innovation of three dominant Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) players in Korea: KT, LGU+ and SK in light of the open innovation framework along four key components in the IPTV value chain consisting of content, platform, network, and terminals. The researchers found that KT has employed mainly inbound open innovation for contents and platform in the value chain; LGU+ also uses inbound open innovation, particularly using technology alliance with the Google platform; and SK Broadband utilizes coupled innovation types on two value chain stages of content and platform. Primary finding is that content plays a critical discriminating role in the IPTV industry growth.

The Expert Opinion report documents interview by Dr. Tae-Hee Lee with Mr. Sooyong Park, President, Korean National IT Promotion Agency (NIPA) regarding Korean Information and Communications Technology Policies and Future Directions. The ICT industry has been touted as an engine of Korean economic growth since the mid-1990s. Recently the Korean government has sought to establish a single unitary "control tower" named NIPA by merging the different organizational units that have evolved to promote the ICT industry. The interview is conducted and documented under five key categories: macro policies, industry structures, R&D investment, public-private cooperation, and governance.  Questions posed by the interviewers are: (a) Do you have any alternative plans or ideas about small and medium-sized companies' (besides few large companies) positioning in the ICT industry?; (b) In the context of Korea having recorded a trade deficit in ICT sector due to higher imports than exports, do you have any strategies for reversing the current situation so that ICT exports exceed imports?; (c) Do you have any plan for developing Korea's software industry based on the models of other developed countries?; (d) What is the R&D policy with respect to the manufacturing (hardware) and software sectors within the ICT industry?; (e) Is there any plan for manpower cultivation and maintenance in the current ICT-industry-revitalization plans?; (f) Is NIPA offering policy, systems, and services for private large, medium and/or small companies? In the case of SMEs for example, it is especially difficult to understand their policies and overall business. Does NIPA have any specific communication channels for them?; and (g) Do you have any strategies for implementation of seamless integration of ICT R&D functions into NIPA and the resulting organic business processes thus enabled?

Book review report provides a detailed critique of the 2013 book titled, "The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies," edited by Mr. Jason Farman and published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.  The book review can be summarized as follows.

"The Mobile Story is a compilation of articles. This book is organized into six parts: Part One, titled, "Narrative and Site Specific Authorship" contains 3 articles that mainly explain the narrative theories and their related applications in research and practice in the context of mobile technologies.  Part Two, "Design and Practice," includes several insights on the design and practice of mobile technologies. This part starts with theoretical and practical overviews by Jeff Ritche, entitled "The affordance and Constraints of Mobile Locative Narratives".  Part Three, "Space and Mapping," involves articles that analyze the relationship between maps and mobile media.  Part Four, "Mobile Games," discusses a series of mobile story-games that employ not only locative but also non-locative mobile technologies.  Part Five, "Narrative Interface," focuses on how mobile technologies proffer new methods for storytelling.  Part Six, "Memory, History, and Community," starts with the first article "Mobile Media after 9/11" by Alberto Galindo. The author observes "how might the mobile phone as a narrative interface transform our relationship to these stories (9/11 stories) and these memorializations?" Overall, this book provides many excellent insights into how people use information technologies to build their own stories in their locations. Thus, it can act as a practical resource for mobile systems planners, designers, and managers. Because theories and practical examples are well integrated, the book should be appropriate as a textbook and/or a side-reading material for mobile technology related courses."

The new publisher, in line with the ongoing trends, published this journal online during 2014.  And it will continue to do so in 2015. The website to find all JITCAR issues is: http://www.tandfonline.com/utca. All authors and reviewers are encouraged to 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 the 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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