[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters: “Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations - Theory and Practice”
Lazar Rusu
lrusu at dsv.su.se
Wed Feb 10 09:41:25 EST 2016
*Call for Book Chapters: “Information Technology Governance in Public
Organizations - Theory and Practice”**
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*Editors:*
Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, Sweden
Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
*Publisher:* Springer International Publishing AG
*Series:* Integrated Series in Information Systems.
*Important Dates:*
May 15, 2016 Full Chapter Submission
August 15, 2016 Review Results to Authors
September 15, 2016 Revised Chapter Submission
This book is scheduled to be published by Springer International
Publishing AG, in Integrated Series in Information Systems. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
http://www.springer.com/series/6157. This publication is anticipated to
be released in 2017.
*Introduction:*
The research in IT governance in public organizations has already
captured the attention of researchers, policy makers and IT
practitioners and different research studies have been reported in this
topic both in developed and developing countries.
The researchers studying IT governance in public organizations have
encountered different challenges that are mainly due to the differences
between political, administrative, and practices in these organizations.
Some of these challenges are related to governance processes and
policy-making mechanisms change due to the application of ICT-enabled
innovation. Moreover, the dilemma is actually related to governance and
alignment issues between policy ICT-enabled initiatives and the diverse
stakeholders they involve. Furthermore, public organizations are now
very concern to make more steps towards digitalization and transform
their services. Therefore this requires from organization’s management
to focus on having effective IT governance in their organization that as
result will enable IT alignment and will create business value from IT
investments. For this purpose public organization’s management has
given a special attention to IT Governance that has growth in importance.
The book’s primary contribution will be to highlight the actual trends
and challenges in research in IT governance in public organizations with
the aim to report innovative research and new insights in the theories,
models and practices in this research topic.
*Topics of interest:*
In particular, contributions will mainly include but are not limited to
the followings:
* IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms in
public organizations;
* IT alignment in public organizations;
* Digital governance in public organizations;
* Critical success factors in IT governance implementation in public
organizations;
* IT leadership in public organizations;
* ICT-enabled governance innovation in public organizations;
* Theoretical models for studying IT governance and IT alignment in
public organizations;
* Practices of IT governance implementation in public organizations.
*Submission Procedure:*
Full book chapters (15-20 pages) are expected by May 15, 2015. All
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this
project. Submissions of the book chapters will be done through easy
chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itgov2017
The manuscripts will be submitted in a word format and the contributors
should follow the Springer guidelines for formatting the book chapters.
More information about this issue you could find here:
http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/990/data/v7/Manuscript+guidelines+for+English+books
*For any questions concerning the book please contact the editors:*
Professor Lazar Rusu
Stockholm University
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
Borgarfjordsgatan 12, P.O. Box 7003, 164 07 Kista, Sweden
Email: lrusu at dsv.su.se
Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
College of Management of Technology (CDM) - CSI
ODY 1 16 (Odyseea) Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: gianluigi.viscusi at epfl.ch
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