[AISWorld] Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Information Technology: "Openness and Information Technology” (2nd)

Tue Sep 29 13:49:32 EDT 2015

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting your work to the below special issue.

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*Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the **Journal of Information
Technology:*

*"Openness and Information Technology”*

*Special Issue Editors:*

Kieran Conboy, NUI Galway
Joseph Feller, University College Cork
Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St. Gallen / Kassel University
Lorraine Morgan, LERO / NUI Galway
Daniel Schlagwein, UNSW Australia [corresponding]

*Aim and Purpose:*

Over the past decade, “open” phenomena enabled by information technology
(IT) have received an increasing amount of interest from information
systems (IS) researchers. Evidence of this interest can be seen in tracks
(e.g., the underlying track of this special issue, the track on “Openness and
IT” at ECIS); conferences (e.g., the IFIP Working Group 2.13 OSS
conferences); journal special issues (e.g., Whelan et al. 2014); and the
formation of the AIS Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice
(SIGOPEN) and its related workshops (pre-ECIS and pre-ICIS).

For this special issue, we broadly understand the term “openness” to mean
the accessibility of knowledge, the transparency of action and the
permeability of organizational structures. This openness can be both a
driver for and result of new IT, the area of interest to us in this special
issue. Openness has significant implications for individuals, organizations
and societies. For example, individual users actively participate in the
creation of widely used common knowledge goods such as Wikipedia
(Germonprez et al. 2011) or Linux (Benkler 2006). A new generation of
entrepreneurs can now be seen to leverage the power of crowds in the design
and delivery of products and services (Orlikowski and Scott 2015), and for
the funding of their business ventures (Kuppuswamy and Bayus 2013). For
established businesses, openness has changed approaches to business model
architectures and innovation. This has been achieved through “internal
openness” (e.g., inner source software, internal co-creation platforms and
enterprise social software) and “external openness” (e.g., open innovation
markets, open sourcing and crowdsourcing) in organizations including LEGO
(Schlagwein and Bjørn-Andersen 2014), Philips Healthcare (Ågerfalk and
Fitzgerald 2008) and SAP (Leimeister et al. 2009). Likewise, open
technologies are central to new intra- and inter-organizational forms of
value creation supporting “ecosystems” of interdependent actors (e.g., the
app ecosystems surrounding Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS or Facebook’s
social networking platform) (Morgan et al. 2013; Benlian et al. 2015). What
is more, openness shifts power structures by relatively devaluing physical
production facilities and emphasizing the value of information and
IT-enabled business models (Chesbrough 2007) or value creation outside of
traditional organizations (Feller et al. 2008; Faraj et al. 2011). Openness is
one mechanism by which IT can create “a better world” through creating
common goods (Benkler 2006; Walsham 2012). Increasingly, the academic
sector and the research community themselves face new challenges (and
opportunities) emerging from the combination of openness and IT (Kane and
Fichman 2009; Cooper and Sahami 2013).

We invite applied, empirical and theoretical research papers that
significantly contribute to our understanding of IT-enabledopenness: its
manifestations, antecedents and, most critically, its impact on
individuals, organizations and societies. We welcome and encourage
submissions from researchers using diverse epistemological and
methodological approaches. The papers will be evaluated for the
interestingness and novelty of their contributions.

Papers should focus on the concept of openness and the relationship between
IT and openness. That is, “openness and IT” should be central to the paper
and not merely provide a background for studies on generic business,
individual or social behaviour (e.g., research on individual and social
behaviour that uses social media or open source communities merely as a
background would be out of scope). Authors in doubt about whether their
papers are within the scope of the special issue are encouraged to submit
an extended abstract to the editors (see below) for feedback.

The special issue is open to all authors. Authors with papers accepted at
the “Openness and IT” track at ECIS 2013-15 are especially encouraged to
submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers.

*Topics of Interest (Examples):*

§  Open business (e.g., open business models, open ecosystems, value
networks)

§  Open capital (e.g., crowdfunding, crowd equity, cryptocurrencies)

§  Open innovation (e.g., crowdsourcing, distributed innovation,
co-creation)

§  Open platforms (e.g., open APIs, open content, open data)

§  Open production (e.g., open source software, open source hardware, open
design)

§  Open scholarship (e.g., open/citizen science, open access, open
education/MOOCs)

§  Open society (e.g., DIY/hacker/maker/participatory cultures, open
government)

*Associate Editors / Editorial Review Board:*

Alexander Benlian, Darmstadt University of Technology

Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen

Ulrich Bretschneider, Kassel University

Michael Cahalane, UNSW Australia

Kevin Carillo, Toulouse Business School

Kevin Crowston, NSF / Syracuse University

U. Yeliz Eseryel, University of Groningen

Patrick Finnegan, UNSW Australia

Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska Omaha

Rob Gleasure, University College Cork

Jeremy Hayes, University College Cork

James Howison, University of Texas at Austin

George Kuk, Nottingham University

Juho Lindman, Hanken School of Economics

Björn Lundell, University of Skovde

Ann Majchrzak, University of Southern California

Attila Marton, Copenhagen Business School

Jeffrey Moretz, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology

Niamh O’Riordan, NUI Galway

Timothy Olsen, Arizona State University

Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Chulalongkorn University

Matti Rossi, Aalto University

Hendrik Send, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Maha Shaikh, University of Warwick

Klaas-Jan Stol, University of Limerick

Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics

Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen

*Submission Guidelines:*

For preparation and submission of manuscripts, as well as general criteria
for acceptance at the Journal of Information Technology, please follow
Instructions for Authors (
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/instructions.html). Papers should be
no longer than 8000 words. Concise writing is appreciated.

*Timeline:*

§  1 Oct 2015: Optional (not a requirement to submit to the special issue):
Authors in doubt about whether their papers are within the scope of the
special issue or who otherwise wish to receive early feedback are
encouraged to submit an extended abstract to the editors.

§  1 Jan 2016: Paper submission deadline: Late submissions cannot be
accepted. Only submissions made through the submission system will be
considered. The editorial team will screen all submitted papers and will
only forward to reviewers papers that are deemed to have a reasonable
chance of acceptance.

§  1 Apr 2016: First round reviews and decisions.

§  1 Jul 2016: Second round (revision) submission deadline.

§  1 Oct 2016: Second round reviews and decisions: Papers will not undergo
more than two rounds of review (i.e., one major revision). Papers not
accepted (subject to minor revisions) in the second round will be rejected.

§  1 Jan 2017: Final submission deadline: For accepted papers (subject to
minor revisions).

§  1 Mar 2017: Final approval of papers.

§  1 May 2017: Online publication of special issue (anticipated date).

*References:*
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Ågerfalk, P.J., and Fitzgerald, B. 2008. Outsourcing to an Unknown
Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy, *MIS
Quarterly* 32 (2): pp. 385-409.

Benkler, Y. 2006. *The Wealth of Networks*. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale
University Press.

Benlian, A., Hilkert, D., and Hess, T. 2015. How Open Is This Platform? The
Meaning and Measurement of Platform Opennessfrom the Complementors’
Perspective,* Journal of Information Technology (advance online
publication).*

Chesbrough, H.W. 2007. *Open Business Models: How to Thrive In the New
Innovation Landscape*. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business School Press.

Cooper, S., and Sahami, M. 2013. Reflections on Stanford's MOOCs,
*Communications
of the ACM* 56 (2): pp. 28-30.

Faraj, S., Jarvenpaa, S.L., and Majchrzak, A. 2011. Knowledge Collaboration
in Online Communities, *Organization Science* 22 (5): pp. 1224-1239.

Feller, J., Finnegan, P., Fitzgerald, B., and Hayes, J. 2008. From Peer
Production to Productization: A Study of Socially Enabled Business
Exchanges in Open Source Service Networks, *Information Systems Research* 19
(4): pp. 475-493.

Germonprez, M., Hovorka, D., and Gal, U. 2011. Secondary Design: A Case of
Behavioural Design Science Research, *Journal of the Association for
Information Systems* 12 (10): pp. 622-683.

Kane, G.C., and Fichman, R.G. 2009. The Shoemaker's Children: Using Wikis
for Information Systems Teaching, Research, and Publication, *MIS Quarterly* 33
(1): pp. 1-17.

Kuppuswamy, V., and Bayus, B.L. 2013. Crowdfunding Creative Ideas: The
Dynamics of Project Backers in Kickstarter, *SSRN Working Papers* (2234765).

Leimeister, J.M., Huber, M., Bretschneider, U., and Krcmar, H. 2009.
Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based
Ideas Competition, *Journal of Management Information Systems* 26 (1): pp.
197-224.

Morgan, L., Feller, J., and Finnegan, P. 2013. Exploring Value Networks:
Theorising the Creation and Capture of Value with Open Source
Software, *European
Journal of Information Systems* 22 (9): pp. 569-588.

Orlikowski, W.J., and Scott, S.V. 2015. The Algorithm and the Crowd:
Considering the Materiality of Service Innovation, *MIS Quarterly* 39 (1):
pp. 201-216.

Schlagwein, D., and Bjørn-Andersen, N. 2014. Organizational Learning with
Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of LEGO, *Journal of the Association for
Information Systems* 15 (11): pp. 754-778.

Walsham, G. 2012. Are We Making a Better World with ICTs? Reflections on a
Future Agenda for the IS Field, *Journal of Information Technology* 27 (2):
pp. 87-93.

Whelan, E., Conboy, K., Crowston, K., Morgan, L., and Rossi, M. 2014. The
Role of Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation, *Journal of the
Association for Information Systems* 15 (11): pp. 1-11.

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http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/index.html – or contact me.

Kind regards,

Daniel

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