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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">SPECIAL ISSUE ON<b> M-Commerce and Social Networking<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Guest Editor:
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Hongjiang Xu</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">INTRODUCTION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">M-commerce includes any business activity conducted over a wireless telecommunications network. Mobile applications
have become more popular among businesses and users. For example, location-based M-commerce delivers transactions to individuals in a specific location, at a specific time. Although M-commerce is powerful and helpful in many parts of business, the new techniques
and the acceptance and understanding of this technology for users have a conspicuous impact on business decisions.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Social networks are a place where people create their own space or homepage on which they write blogs, post pictures,
videos, or music, share ideas, or link to other Web locations they find interesting. Mobile social networking members converse and connect with one another using cell phones or other mobile devices. Businesses seek to use M-commerce applications through social
networks to reach for their customers. The merging of M-commerce and social networks has created new opportunities from both business and user perspectives.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Developing countries have particular situations that impact M-commerce and social networking development and management.
Therefore, the challenges faced by developing countries are different for M-commerce and social networking applications.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">This special issue increases the understanding of M-commerce applications and social networking and provides opportunities
for researcher and practitioners to share their current research efforts and practice of M-commerce and social networking development and management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">L-commerce (location-based commerce)<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">M-commerce and social networking<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">M-commerce and social networking in developing countries
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoBodyText"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue
on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">M-commerce and Social Networking on<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> or before</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">November 30, 2012</b>. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication.
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf</font></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">ABOUT
</span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The <b>Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)</b> is designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social,
cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world. JECO discusses the influence of electronic commerce on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. The secondary
objective of this publication is to expand the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of electronic commerce technologies and utilization in modern organizations, assisting researchers and practitioners to devise more effective systems for managing
the human side of e-commerce.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">www.igi</font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">-global.com/JECO
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">PUBLISHER:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="HTMLBody"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations
</b>is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints.
For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit <a href="http://www.igi-pub.com/">
<font color="#0000ff">www.igi-global.com</font></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Hongjiang Xu, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Candara','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">E-mail:
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">hxu@butler.edu</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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