[AISWorld] The Journal of Strategic Information Systems: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR REVIEW ARTICLES

[Galliers, Robert]

THE JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTSEMS

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR REVIEW ARTICLES

Bob Galliers, Sirkka Jarvenpaa and Suzanne Rivard



At the Editorial Board meeting held at ICIS in Dublin in December, it was decided that The Journal of Strategic Information Systems would henceforth dedicate the June issue of the journal each year to review articles in the realm of strategic information systems, broadly defined.



We therefore invite authors to submit proposals for the 2019 Review Issue of JSIS. We seek high-impact scholarly surveys of important research literatures in the strategic information systems domain. Such articles will provide a synthesis of recent research and highlight important directions for future inquiries. The Review Issue is open to proposals concerning established and emerging topics in the field of strategic information systems, including those dealing with research methods relevant for our context.



Proposals should be submitted between June 1, 2017 and July 1, 2017 via JSIS’s online submission portal at: https://www.evise.com/profile/#/JSIS/login. (Please be sure to select Review Issue as the submission type.)



Please note that proposals may not be submitted until June 1, 2017.



Proposals should be double-spaced and include no more than ten pages of text. References, tables, and appendices do not count against this page limit. All proposals will be subject to editorial review. Please do not send complete papers. If you already have a draft of your paper, please note that in your proposal.



Submissions will be evaluated with regard to the following criteria:

 Relevance. The proposed manuscript should thoroughly review a significant and important research area within the field of Information Systems that has strategic impact and relevance. We also welcome reviews of important research areas that have yet to make a major impact in the field of Information Systems but argumentation can be made that the area is of strategic significance to the information systems field. Obviously, it is upon the authors to make a strong linkage of the research area to the IS system phenomena.

 Scope of Interest. While papers must contribute to the strategic information systems literature and its developing agenda they must speak to scholars in cognate IS domains and fields, including, for example: Strategic Management, Organization Studies and Knowledge Management.  Ethical, policy and societal issues can form an important feature.

 Viability. The proposal should clearly feasible given the tight time constraints in place. More detail on the timeline is provided below.

 Organization and Coherence. The proposal should follow a logical structure, read clearly, and thoroughly and comprehensively represent extant research in the topic area concerned.

 Insight for Future Work. The proposal should convey important implications for future research, both in the context of the chosen topic and for the strategic information systems domain more broadly.

 Timeliness/Contribution. Reviews should normally be on topics for which no recent reviews exist and the proposal should clearly indicate its intended contribution to knowledge. If existing reviews exist, they need to be identified and there needs to be compelling argumentation how the proposed review will contribute to the literature beyond the existing reviews.



JSIS’s terms of reference can be found at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems, and reviews of prior publications and proposals for future directions are provided in Gable (2010) and Galliers et al. (2012), for example.



Submissions should clearly state which type of review is being proposed using for example the Paré et al. (2015) classification, namely, whether the review is Narrative; Descriptive; Qualitative/Systematic; Umbrella; Theoretical; Realist, or Critical in nature. Further helpful guidance is provided by The Academy of Management Annals http://aom.org/Publications/Annals/Information-for-Contributors.aspx, Rivard (2014), Rowe (2014) and Webster and Watson (2002).



Due to editorial constraints, it is vital for authors to strictly adhere to the following timeline. We will not be able to consider late submissions. If you have questions, please contact us at:

rgalliers at bentley.edu<mailto:rgalliers at bentley.edu>,

Sirkka.Jarvenpaa at mccombs.utexas.edu or

suzanne.rivard at hec.ca<mailto:suzanne.rivard at hec.ca>



Relevant dates are as follows:

June 1, 2017 and July 1, 2017: Proposals due to The Journal of Strategic Information Systems online at https://www.evise.com/profile/#/JSIS/login (please be sure to select Review Issue as the submission type)

*August 15, 2017: Final decisions on proposals following initial feedback by the Review issue editors with input from the JSIS senior editors to authors invited to submit full papers.

*January 15, 2018: Full draft of paper due.

*March 15, 2018: Feedback to authors on full paper.

*July 15, 2018: Revisions Due

Expected Review Issue Published Spring 2019
*Please note that these dates are indicative as each paper may require different timing and a different number of revisions to make the final deadline.


References

Galliers, R.D., Jarvenpaa, S.L., Chan, Y.E., Lyytinen, K. (2012). Strategic information systems: Reflections and prospectives, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 21(2), 85-90.
Gable, G. (2010). Strategic information systems research: An archival analysis, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 19(1), 3-16.
Paré, G., Trudel, M.C., Mirou, J., Kitsiou, S. (2015). Synthesizing information systems knowledge: A typology of literature reviews, Information & Management, 183-199.
Rivard, S. (2014). The Ions of Theory Construction, MIS Quarterly, 38(2), iii-xiii.
Rowe, F. (2014). What literature review is not: diversity, boundaries and recommendations, European Journal of Information Systems, 23, 241–255.
Webster, J. Watson, R.T. (2002). Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: Writing a literature review, MIS Quarterly, 26(2), xiii-xxiii.