<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Information Systems Journal (ISJ) – Special Issue “</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">New Trends in Information Systems Development”</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><font face="Arial"></font></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Special Issue Guest Editors</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Linda Dawson, University of Wollongong, Australia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Peter Axel Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Nancy L Russo, <span>Northern Illinois University, USA</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Aims and Background</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Information systems development (ISD) is arguably at the core of the information systems discipline. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Despite persistent problems and practices, Information Systems Development (ISD) is an evolving field, which has to deal with rapidly changing social and business environments and continuously emerging new base technologies and technical infrastructures. Developments such the Web 2.0 based on interactivity and graphical multimedia features, mobile application development for handheld devices, business applications based on standardized software architectures and ‘software’ as services offered as part of a ‘cloud’ pose new challenges to the development of IS products.<s> </s>Global, distributed organizations, agile software development, and the reversal of outsourcing, off-shored development<s> </s>(in-sourcing) are new movements concerning the development process proper. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">These trends lead to new or adapted IS products, which have to be developed under new conditions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">and these changes add complexity to an already complex problem space wherein, despite 50 years of ISD experience, the perception of the so-called “software crisis” still persists. Unfinished and run-away projects, systems poorly aligned with businesses and user requirements and the problem of the costs required to develop ISD are still major concerns. </span><s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></s></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Research in the field is largely fragmented and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">practice often seems to be ahead of research. Conversely, where research is indeed ahead, industrial uptake of academic research results is often limited. As a consequence, there is an urgent need for a sustainable understanding and integrative theory based on extensive, empirical field research.<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The proposed special issue aims at publishing new research, which investigates the new trends in ISD from both a product and a process perspective and which goes beyond surface level considerations. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This research might address field investigations of the new contexts of ISD or “proof of concept” tests of new development approaches.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">There is a general paucity of ISD research; theory and studies of longitudinal processes of organization, specialization and institutionalization in ISD are needed. Little ISD research goes beyond ISD methods; there is a need for theory and studies about social behaviour and processes of communication, negotiation, and learning and their relation to the broader historical, political and social context of ISD. Finally, there is a paucity of ISD research that relates individual knowledge, learning and sense-making to the broader context; this kind of theory and studies is also needed. We therefore encourage research addressing questions such as: What are the different types of ISD relating to social, commercial, organizational and technological contexts? How is this diversity dealt with? What are the different kinds of knowledge and skills needed in different types of ISD contexts? What new organizational structures have evolved to address the new ISD? What are the individual mechanisms for dealing with the diversity of environments and applications? <span> </span>How does learning and sense-making take place in the new social, commercial, organizational and technological contexts?<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For this special issue we call for rigorous research examining the effectiveness of approaches to ISD, including associated managerial aspects, using sound theoretical frameworks and appropriate research methods.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For the purposes of the special issue, we see the practice of ISD as including activities such as analysis,<span> </span>including problem formulation and requirements elicitation, design, programming and maintenance. We also include the organizing and management of IS development projects and the creation and use of ISD methods and tools for the development, deployment and organizational and/or societal implementation and utilisation of information technology. This expansive view of ISD covers a multitude of approaches. In addition it accepts notions such as amethodical information systems development, open source software development, extreme programming, service-oriented architecture, component-based development, offshoring, commercial off-the-shelf software, cloud computing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">(including "private" or enterprise cloud development)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> and Web services, mobile application development and development for Web 2.0 as ISD practices influencing the wider discourse.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Submission Guidelines</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Manuscripts should not normally exceed 7000 words and should be submitted online at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isj" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-AU">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isj</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">. Authors will have to select Special Issue Submission as the manuscript type. Author guidelines are available at ‘author guidelines’ at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/isj/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-AU">http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/isj/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">. All submissions </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">will be peer-reviewed following the double-blind review process of ISJ.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Timetable</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Full initial paper submission deadline: <span> </span>15 February 2011</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><font size="2">First Notification of acceptance to authors: <span> </span> <span> </span>30 April 2011</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Revised paper submission deadline: (if required) <span> </span> 30 June 2011</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Final Notification of acceptance to authors: <span> </span> 31 August 2011</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 31 October 2011</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Publication of special issue: early 2012 </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><font face="Arial"></font></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Guest Editors</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Karlheinz Kautz</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Department Informatics</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Copenhagen Business School</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Denmark</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Karl.<a href="mailto:Kautz@cbs.dk"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Kautz@cbs.dk</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://uk.cbs.dk/research/departments_centres/institutter/node_8155/menu/staff/menu/academic_staff/videnskabelige_medarbejdere/professors/kautz" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">uk.cbs.dk/staff/kautz</span></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Linda Dawson</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">School of Information Systems and Technology</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">University of Wollongong</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Australia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:lindad@uow.edu.au"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">lindad@uow.edu.au</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/~lindad/%20" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">www.uow.edu.au/~lindad/</span></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Peter Axel Nielsen</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Department of Computer Science</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Aalborg University</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Denmark</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a title="mailto:pan@cs.aau.dk" href="mailto:pan@cs.aau.dk"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">pan@cs.aau.dk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.cs.aau.dk/~pan/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">www.cs.aau.dk/~pan/</span></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dr Nancy L Russo</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Department of Operations Management & Information Systems</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Northern Illinois University</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">USA</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:nrusso@niu.edu"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">nrusso@niu.edu</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.cob.niu.edu/faculty/m10nlr1/">www.cob.niu.edu/faculty/m10nlr1/</a></span></div></font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>