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<div id="divRpF735597" style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Candara,sans-serif">********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
<b>November 30, 2012</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">SPECIAL ISSUE ON<b> M-Commerce and Social Networking</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Guest Editor:
<b>Hongjiang Xu</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/journal-electronic-commerce-organizations-jeco/1076</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">INTRODUCTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">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 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">RECOMMENDED TOPICS:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">E-business social networks</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">L-commerce (location-based commerce)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">M-commerce and social networking</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">M-commerce and social networking in developing countries
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">M-commerce development and management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mobile enterprise</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mobile financial applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mobile marketing and advertising
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mobile social networking</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Social commerce</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on
<b>M-commerce and Social Networking on<i> or before</i></b><i> </i><b>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"">INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"; color:blue">http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">.
</span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">ABOUT </span>
<b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO):</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.igi</span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">-global.com/JECO
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">PUBLISHER:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
<b>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
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.igi-pub.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"; color:blue">www.igi-global.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">All submissions should be directed to the attention of:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Hongjiang Xu, PhD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Guest Editor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">E-mail: hxu@butler.edu</span></p>
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