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<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
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<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/JCIT"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">www.igi-global.com/JCIT</span></a><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">
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<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mission of JCIT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">As a refereed, international journal, the primary goal of the
<b>Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT)</b> is to provide effective understanding, solutions, and lessons learned by organizations worldwide in the utilization and management of information systems applications, technology, and resources. In every
discipline, some of the most powerful tools in the hands of educators, researchers, and managers are teaching cases based on the experiences of others. Teaching cases provide a unique opportunity for research to take the shape of experience, implementation,
and application. This is particularly true for information systems educators and professionals. Teaching cases are tremendous sources of solutions, knowledge, ideas, innovations, and lessons related to utilization and management of information systems in organizations.
The impact of technology in a particular setting is described, analyzed, and synthesized for the objective of offering solutions for successful strategies, addressing organizational challenges and experienced pitfalls of the aspect of technology or specific
function. Teaching case material is specifically geared towards academicians and libraries for direct course usage and are regarded as instructional tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Recommended Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">JCIT documents comprehensive, real-life teaching cases based on individual, organizational, and societal experiences related to the
utilization and management of information technology. Teaching cases published in JCIT deal with a wide variety of organizations such as businesses, government organizations, educational institutions, libraries, non-profit organizations, and so forth. Additionally,
teaching cases published in JCIT report not only successful utilization of IT applications, but also failures and mismanagement of IT resources and applications.
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Topics to be discussed in this journal 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"">Data management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Distance learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">E-commerce technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">End user computing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Human side of IT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Information security and ethics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Internet technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Issues of emerging technology<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">IT in developing countries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">IT in government<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">IT in libraries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Legal issues of IT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Multimedia in education<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Web-enabled technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished teaching cases will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for teaching
case submissions at </span><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/files/jcit-guidelines-for-submission.doc"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">http://www.igi-global.com/files/jcit-guidelines-for-submission.doc</span></a><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">
prior to submission. All teaching submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from
the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.<br>
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Teaching case submissions must include the following titles/subtitles in the order they are listed below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Executive Summary<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Organization Background<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Setting the Stage<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Case Description<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Current Challenges/Problems Facing the Organization<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Publisher:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">JCIT 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 www.igi-global.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">All submissions and inquiries regarding the Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT)<b>
</b>should be sent to</span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""> </span>
<a href="mailto:%20jcit@igi-global.com%20"><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">jcit@igi-global.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">.</span><span style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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