[AISWorld] CFP: Special issue of EJISDC on "Information Technology for the Informal Sector in Developing Countries"

[Maria Alexandra Cunha]

Special Issue on

"Information Technology for the Informal Sector in Developing Countries"
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The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
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[Currently published by John Wiley & Sons, Online ISSN: 1681-4835]

The focus of this special issue is research on information technology for
the informal sector in the context of developing countries.  Although the
informal sector’s presence in the developed world is by no means meagre,
the themes and issues related to IT for this sector in the developing
country contexts seem stark and deeply contrasted from those relating to
the informal sector in developed countries.  Such contexts are often
starved and constrained of the complementarities that technology use
demands such as human capital (Chew et al., 2010) or the ability to move
beyond traditional product and value chain characteristics (Graham, 2011)
but in contrast also exhibit the need for the legal and regulatory
environments to recognise the changing nature of digitised societies (Cruz
and Sajo, 2015).

There is no dearth of studies on specific facets of IT, especially mobile
communications, use and impact on the informal sector.  Yet there is
absence of both deep analytical research which brings forth interesting
theorisation, abstraction and generalisation about the potential, nature
and impact of IT for the informal sector in the developing country
context.  This special issue welcomes theoretical and empirical papers on
topics related to the theme including, but not limited to the following:

• Informal sector’s Adoption, Use, Effective Use, Appropriation, Adaptive
Use of IT
• Building B2C and B2B E-Commerce through the Informal Sector
• IT for SMEs, Micro-Enterprise, Nano-Enterprises
• IT’s impact on Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship
• Digitisation of the informal sector
• IT applications for the informal sector
• Social-media supported social-networks
• Technology value appropriation
• Debates and discourses on IT and the Informal Sector in Developing
Countries

*Special Issue Guest Editors:*

Priya Seetharaman (Primary Contact)
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
priyas at iimcal.ac.in

Maria Alexandra Cunha
FGV-EAESP, Sao-Paulo, Brazil
alexandra.cunha at fgv.br

John Effah
University of Ghana Business School, Ghana
jeffah at ug.edu.gh

*Timelines:*

Initial indication of interest to submit: Any time before the formal
submission deadline.

Authors are encouraged to provide as much information about the paper when
expressing interest.  An extended abstract that includes an outline of the
background, research design, and any initial findings, if available, is
welcome.

Initial submission of complete papers – April 30, 2018
Completion of 1st round of reviews – July 31, 2018
Revisions due: September 30, 2018
Completion of 2nd round of reviews: October 30, 2018
(Final) revisions due –  December 2018
Final decisions – January 2019

*Submissions:*

All papers must be submitted at the journal’s online paper submission
website at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejisdc .  Please use the code
ITIS to indicate that your submission is for the special issue.

*References:*

Chew, H., Levy, M. R., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2011). The Limited Impact of
ICTs on Micro-Enterprise Growth: A Study of Businesses Owned by Women in
Urban India. *Information Technologies and International Development*,
7(4), 1-16.

Cruz, E.M. & Sajo, T.J. (2015). Exploring the Cybersex Phenomenon in the
Philippines. *Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing
Countries*, 69(5), 1-21.


Graham, M. (2011). Disintermediation, Altered Chains and Altered
Geographies: The Internet in the Thai Silk Industry. *Electronic Journal of
Information Systems in Developing Countries*, 45(5), 1-25.

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*Maria Alexandra Cunha* | Professora
*Fundação Getúlio Vargas*  | EAESP
*IMQ *– Departamento de Ensino e Pesquisa de Informática e Métodos
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