<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black" lang="EN-AU">BOOK CHAPTERS ARE INVITED:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">INNOVATIONS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU">Sub title: The impact of social media, semantic web and cloud computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU">Editors: Gloria Phillips-Wren, Liana Razmerita and Lakhmi C. Jain</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU">Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU">Novel technologies including social media, semantic web and cloud computing have the potential to reinvent the management of knowledge and communication inside and outside the organisational borders. Recent innovations in knowledge management have been associated with emerging concepts such as enterprise 2.0, enterprise social software, knowledge management 2.0, corporate semantic web, harnessing the collective intelligence, and open innovation.</span><span lang="EN-US">These novel technologies along with the associated emerging concepts are recognized to be critical for creating competitive success in a global business environment. For example, social media can be exploited as a driver for innovation within and outside the company’s boundaries. An important question to be addressed in this book is: How companies may explore these new ways of managing knowledge, communicating and innovating in order to gain or maintain their competitive advantage? </span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU">For this book, we seek chapters from both academia and industry including case studies, novel architectures and conceptual models combined with their evaluations in a corporate context.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-AU">Timeline</span><span style="color:red" lang="EN-AU"></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextFirstIndent" style="margin-left:36.0pt; text-indent:0cm"><b><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">30 November</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F497D; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"> </span></b><b><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">2012</span></b><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">:  Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (300-500 words) of their proposed chapters which includes research question, methodology, and contribution.</span></p><h3 style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">15</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"></span><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">December</span><span style="color:#1F497D; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"></span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">2012</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-AU">:  Acceptance decision.</span></h3><h3 style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">30 September</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">2013</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-AU">:  Draft chapters due</span></h3><h3 style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">15</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"></span><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">November </span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">2013</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-AU">:  Feedback to the authors</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"></span></h3><h3 style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">30</span><span style="color:#1F497D; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"></span><span style="color:red; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">January</span><span style="color:#1F497D; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"></span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">20</span><span style="color:#1F497D; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">14</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-AU">:  Camera ready chapters due</span><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">We will be pleased to offer one complimentary copy to the corresponding author (or the first listed author) of each chapter as a token of appreciation. Co-authored chapters are acceptable. The average length of each chapter is approximately 20 to 30 pages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU">Please send your chapter proposal to the Editorial Team contact as:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; layout-grid-mode:line" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-AU">Associate Professor Dr Liana Razmerita</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-AU">Department of International Business Communication,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-AU">Copenhagen Business School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Email: </span><a href="https://mail.au.dk/owa/redir.aspx?C=yXJHanJKzEK1UIJd5VDDB2pTRpY3fM8IYIhzZGiFOQXQB8MfdlkRkv1t11eLbiQDZ6LYTR8humU.&URL=mailto%3alr.ibc%40cbs.dk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">lr.ibc@cbs.dk</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Dr. Gloria Wren </span><a href="https://mail.au.dk/owa/redir.aspx?C=yXJHanJKzEK1UIJd5VDDB2pTRpY3fM8IYIhzZGiFOQXQB8MfdlkRkv1t11eLbiQDZ6LYTR8humU.&URL=mailto%3agwren%40loyola.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">gwren@loyola.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Prof. Dr. Lakhmi Jain </span><a href="https://mail.au.dk/owa/redir.aspx?C=yXJHanJKzEK1UIJd5VDDB2pTRpY3fM8IYIhzZGiFOQXQB8MfdlkRkv1t11eLbiQDZ6LYTR8humU.&URL=mailto%3aLakhmi.Jain%40unisa.edu.au" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Lakhmi.Jain@unisa.edu.au</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Liana Razmerita</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Associate Professor, PhD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Department of International Business Communication</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Copenhagen Business School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><a href="https://mail.au.dk/owa/redir.aspx?C=yXJHanJKzEK1UIJd5VDDB2pTRpY3fM8IYIhzZGiFOQXQB8MfdlkRkv1t11eLbiQDZ6LYTR8humU.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cbs.dk%2fstaff%2fliana" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.cbs.dk/staff/liana</span></a></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tel: +45 3815 2182</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>