[AISWorld] SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED - Special Issue of JITT: Disruptive Innovation

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CALL FOR PAPERS  - Special Issue of JITT: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS
Guest editors: Giampaolo Viglia, Hannes Werthner and Dimitrios Buhalis

The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new theoretical and empirical research on disruptive innovation for tourism, understanding how and why the changes happened (theory building), as well as providing cases for the respective arguments.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The major topics of interest focus on disruptive innovation and their role within the Tourism experience and industry. They include but are not limited to:

  *   Structural changes to the industry (e.g.: dematerialization, smartness, new forms of accommodations, disruptive technologies, mobile, etc.)
  *   New market structures and network relations as well as new roles of tourism players
  *   Diffusion issues
  *   Operators' challenges (e.g.: forecasting the future demand, aggregations, smart statistics to support change, identifying competitor set)
  *   Incremental innovation versus disruptive innovation (e.g., going beyond traditional business, traditional markets exploring not well understood problems)
  *   How smart and connected Products are transforming competition
  *   Contextual issues (sectorial differences as well as regional differences; competition vs oligopoly)

SUBMISSION ?DEADLINE EXTENDED
Papers are required no later than July 30th 2016
Notification of outcome will be provided by August 30th 2016
Final papers should be submitted by October 15th 2016
Please submit manuscripts through the Springer online system (if you are a new author to the system you will be required to create a system login).
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jitt

Any questions related to this special issue should be directed to:
Dr. Giampaolo Viglia, gviglia at bournemouth.ac.uk
Prof. Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology, hannes.werthner at ec.tuwien.ac.at
Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University, dbuhalis at bournemouth.ac.uk

More details of the call can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/40558