[AISWorld] CfP 4th Information Systems Journal Trending Topics: Paper Development Workshop

[Ravi Patnayakuni]

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th ISJ Trending Topics Workshop

July 2, 2024
PACIS Pre-conference Workshop
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Submissions Due: May 5, 2024

Information Systems Journal will be holding the 4th ISJ Trending Topics
Workshop along with the 2024 Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems
at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, July 2,
2024, from 8:30am-12:00pm (UTC +7) as an in-person pre-conference workshop.
The workshop will once again be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing
those authors and editors who cannot travel to Vietnam to join virtually.

Workshop information:

ISJ welcomes research that spans across the diverse and interdisciplinary
IS field. We are interested in submissions that combine the latest
technological and digital innovations with the current context of business,
economy and society. We look for research that is based on solid
theoretical foundations and uses suitable research methods.

The paper development workshop promotes scholarship that focuses on
high-impact research on new trending topics in the IS field. We aim to
highlight the fast-growing technological developments, such as generative
AI, that affect business organizations and society, creating new
opportunities and difficulties, with more complexity and undesired
consequences of technology use. Workshop participants will discuss drafts
of their research work with ISJ editorial board members, and other workshop
participants. A list of topics of interest is provided in this call,
however submissions need not be limited to the list.

Following the workshop, participants are not obliged to submit their work
to ISJ, although the journal is a top-quality outlet that welcomes both
conceptual and empirical papers. An objective of the workshop is to provide
guidance for those papers that will receive feedback during the workshop
and will be ready for submission to ISJ for publication consideration soon
afterwards. In fact, we anticipate that a number of workshop papers will
eventually be published in the journal in the coming years.

Prior to the workshop, participants whose papers have been accepted for
discussion in the workshop, will receive one to three papers to read and
review for their roundtable. During the workshop, participants meet in
small groups where participants receive feedback from ISJ editorial board
members and provide feedback on other participants’ papers. Senior and
Associate Editors from the journal will facilitate the discussion so that
each participant has equal time to receive comments from the group’s
members.

Selection for the ISJ Trending Topics Workshop is competitive. This
workshop primarily seeks high-quality and high-impact research on trending
topics. To be considered, a paper must demonstrate a significant
contribution to IS research, with or without data. In keeping with the
objective of developing potential submissions to the journal the manuscript
should be in a stage of significant progress towards a potential submission.

We do not consider papers that are currently accepted, under review, or
under revision at other journals or conferences.

Topics of interest (include but are not limited to):
• Generative AI and Automation
• Digital transformation
• Social media and digital collaboration for political participation and
societal changes
• Implementation and value of big data and machine learning for
organizations
• Ethical issues, especially in the uses of big-data, algorithms, and design
• Consequences of Gig work arrangements on workers and society
• New organizing forms and business models enabled by platforms
• Dark side of technology including addiction, victimization, surveillance
• Social cyberwarfare and cybersecurity
• Implications of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
• Sustainability and IS for a greener society, government, and/or industry
• The role of IS for climate change
• Psychological, and social aspects of human-computer and human-robot
interactions
• IOT, wearable devices and their impacts
• Designs for wearable, pervasive, and ubiquitous systems and computing

Submission details:

The submission deadline is Sunday May 5, 2024. Papers should be spaced at
1.5 lines with wide margins. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed around
10,000 words for the main text, not including references and any
appendices. References should be prepared according to the Publication
Manual of the APA (6th edition). For more information and author
guidelines, please consult:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652575/homepage/forauthors.html

To submit a paper to the workshop, please proceed in the following way:
Go to: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/ISJ
Submit your paper as a special issue article and select PDW4 as the special
issue from the list.

The review process is double-blind, so any author identifying information
should only appear in the submission system (and not in the submitted
paper).

Individuals selected as participants will be notified on or before May
27th, 2024 if not earlier.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2024
Notification of Accepted Papers: May 27th, 2024
ISJ Trending Topics Workshop: July 2nd, 2024

ISJ Editorial advisors:

Senior Editors:
• Suthirtha Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
• Andreas Eckhardt, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Federico Iannacci, University of Sussex, UK
• Stan Karanasios, University of Queensland, Australia
• Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo, Norway
• M. N. Ravishankar, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Manuel Trenz, University of Göttingen, Germany
• Zhongyun (Phil) Zhou, Tongji University

Associate Editors:
• Martin Adam, University of Goettingen, Germany
• Petros Chamakiotis, ESCP Business School, Spain
• Cecil Chua, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
• Hameed Chugtai, Lancaster University, UK
• Marco Marabelli, Bentley University, USA
• Philip Wu, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Please direct any question about the submission process and the overall ISJ
paper development workshop to Ravi Patnayakuni (Workshop Chair) at:
ravi.patnayakuni at uah.edu

Please direct all other questions related to the ISJ to Robert Davison (ISJ
Editor-in-Chief) at: isrobert at cityu.edu.hk

Ravi Patnayakuni
Department of Information Systems, Supply Chain and Analytics
College of Business
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
E-mail: ravi.patnayakuni at uah.edu