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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Apologies for cross-postings. - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the special issue of Electronic Markets on "Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration". The submission deadline is March 25, 2011. The detailed CfP is copied below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We cordially invite original research contributions to the special issue or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from all potential authors. In addition, we invites well-known scholars in various areas of electronic markets and business networking to write a position paper on a salient issue of their choice. Please note that general research articles and position papers can be submitted anytime whereas special issue articles have to be submitted by the deadline shown in the CfP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics please contact the editorial office (editors@electronicmarkets.org).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Karen Heyden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Executive Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers for Special Issue on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>"Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Guest Editors:<br><br>* Nicholas C. Romano, Jr., Oklahoma State University, USA, [nicholas.romano@okstate.edu]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* James B. Pick, University of Redlands, USA, [james_pick@redlands.edu]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Narcyz Roztocki, SUNY at New Paltz, USA, [roztockn@newpaltz.edu]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Theme:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being deployed across organizations located in different countries and world regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multi-national collaboration processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Despite the intensive research for more than two decades of different aspects on IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. In addition, most of the investigation has been conducted in the context of a single country. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the global economy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures differ significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region. For IS/IT projects to be successful and productive in the global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>This special issue of Electronic Markets seeks to make a broad inter-disciplinary contribution to the literature in this area. The main objective of the special issue is to examine the linkages between global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT investment and the challenges posed by global collaboration processes, projects and challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Studies offering a wider focus from a human, organizational or technical perspective are encouraged, and a variety of methodological approaches including exploratory approaches, theory building, case analysis, testing through interviews, or surveys are welcome. Papers from researchers in Management, Marketing, Computer Science, and other related disciplines are welcome and encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Success factors of collaboration technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global economy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Comparative cross-country research on IS/IT collaboration* Country-specific case studies on IS/IT collaboration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Collaboration during the IS/IT off shoring /outsourcing projects<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Cross-border and cross-organizational IS/IT project management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Cross-border and cross-organizational value-chains and value-networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>All papers will be peer reviewed and should be original, not published or under review elsewhere and should conform to Electronic Markets’ publication standards. Further information and instructions are available at <a href="http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors">http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors</a>. <br>Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system and should use the manuscript template. Please read all of the instructions carefully before submitting your manuscript and ensure the main article files do not contain any author identifiable information. (instructions at <a href="http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/submission">http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/submission</a>). <br>Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or theoretical work, qualitative re-search, design science, prototypes) is welcomed by the journal. <br>Full papers are invited to be submitted by March 25, 2011. <br><br>If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special issue, please contact the editors for the special issue.<br><br>Contact addresses:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:nicholas.romano@okstate.edu">nicholas.romano@okstate.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:james_pick@redlands.edu">james_pick@redlands.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:roztockn@newpaltz.edu">roztockn@newpaltz.edu</a> <br>or <a href="mailto:editors@electronicmarkets.org">editors@electronicmarkets.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Important dates: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Submission Deadline: March 25, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Notification 1st Decision /Resend to Authors for Revisions: June 14, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>====================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>====================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Editorial Office:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>c/o Information Systems Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>University of Leipzig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>04109 Leipzig, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Phone +49 341 9733600<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Fax +49 341 9733612<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>E-mail: editors@electronicmarkets.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>http://www.electronicmarkets.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronic Markets is published continuously online and quarterly in print by Springer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>