<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><h1 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Special issue on: "Personal Beliefs and IT/IS
Development"<font size="2"> </font></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">for </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"></span><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="1"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Int.
J. of Information Systems and Change Management</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(IJISCM)</span></font></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Subject Coverage</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We encourage submission of
high-quality papers addressing issues involving people in IT/IS
development and implementation at organizational, national and international
level.<span style=""> </span>Potential topics include, but are
not limited to, the following:</span></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="white-space: pre;"></span>Attitude towards technology
development, societal issues.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Impacts of personal beliefs in IT
use in organizational context.</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Empirical analysis of ERP, SCM or
large IT system implementation focusing on people issues.</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Policy guidelines in incorporating </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">religious
values, democratic values, attitude towards science, attitude towards
competition, etc to technology related decision making.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">International
comparison of religious beliefs towards technologies.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Emerging issues
in IT/IS development with particular emphasis to cross-cultural issues.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Full paper deadline: <i style="">15 June<span style=""> 2012</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Notification of acceptance and
review results: <i>20 July 2012</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Revised submission deadline: <i>20 August
2012</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Notification of acceptance: <i>10 September
2012</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Camera-ready version deadline: <i>1
October 2012</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">View the Call for Paper on page (<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT559_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.inderscience.com/callPapers.php" target="_blank">http://www.inderscience.com/callPapers.php</a></span>) or on the IJISCM home page (<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT560_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.inderscience.com/ijiscm" target="_blank">http://www.inderscience.com/ijiscm</a></span>). Follow instructions there for manuscript submission. </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></b></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><div><span></span><div><div><font color="#3366ff"><em>Purnendu Mandal</em></font><em><br></em>Professor,College of Business, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas(409) 880 8634; Email: <a href="mailto:purnendu.mandal@lamar.edu" target="_blank">purnendu.mandal@lamar.edu</a></div></div><span></span><br></div></div></div><br></div><font face="monospace"><br>
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