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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Call for Papers
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:small-caps"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">Special Issue of Journal of Business Economics<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>(ZfB): <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">the impact of Information Systems and Technology
<br>
in the E-Business Age</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">The
<b>Journal of Business Economics</b> <b>(JBE)</b>, founded in 1924 and still one of the leading scientific business and management journals in Europe, is inviting submissions to a Special Issue on the “Impact of Information Systems and Technology in the E-Business
Age”. </span></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">While Information Systems (IS) are an indispensable part of the value creation in firms, understanding and governing the impact of IS or a firm’s IT capability on eventual organizational goals remains a challenge
for researchers and practitioners [Bharadwaj 2000; Santhanam and Hartono 2003]. IT business value is very important to the IS field as it links IT to firm value, which is at the core of strategic management [Peppard and Ward 2004]. A maturing literature on
IT business value creation suggests that organization level impacts should be understood through intermediate constructs such as business process performance [Melville et al. 2004], IT flexibility [Byrd and Turner 2000] or usage [Chan 2000; DeLone and McLean
1992]. Still our knowledge of what are adequate intermediate success variables, how they are related with IT and tangible output, and what technologies and governance mechanisms should be used to achieve desirable outputs is still much too narrow.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Similarly, research shows that IT is essential in important intermediate processes that produce highly relevant output like
<span style="background:white">innovation and knowledge [Kleis et al. 2012]. However, our knowledge on how and why IT and innovation are related is limited. The recent emergence of widespread information and knowledge networks propelled through easy to use
technologies like Wikis and similar social network platforms signifies </span>opportunities for success and innovation creation. But at the same time, uncertainties if they require new theories and approaches or if they are just “traditional” phenomena under
stronger network effects exhibit our lack of sound theoretical knowledge of how such networks and relevant success measures are related, and should be designed and governed.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We want to stimulate novel perspectives on the evaluation and creation of success in IT-related contexts. Following the call of Kohli and Grover [2008] that “evaluation research should have a centrality in our
field, as it is germane to the existential debate on the field’s core” <b>we look for theoretical, empirical, and design oriented research</b> on the evaluation, creation and governance of success in Information Systems and networks. We welcome a variety of
lenses of inquiry, including economic, technical, behavioral, strategic, and organizational. Also, research that establishes rigorous grounds for understanding new phenomena and to foster sophisticated future research by clarifying theoretical foundations,
managerial challenges and key variables by, for instance, rich narratives that help make new phenomena tangible, are sought.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before:always">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Topics of interest include</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Understanding and governing the relation between social media and firm goals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Do we need other theories to understand the adoption, diffusion, usage and value contribution of Web 2.0 technologies, maybe a new IS success 2.0 model, or are those just another application domain?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>How can IT help improve a firm’s innovativeness? How do Knowledge Management Systems yield business benefits?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>How is IT business value creation different in private commercial enterprises compared to public enterprises and NGOs? To what extent should E-Government research hence use theories, methods and success measures that are different
from other research domains?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Economic, technical, and social aspects of IT business value creation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>The societal impact of IS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>How does outsourcing and globalization/internationalization impact IT reliant processes and their performance?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Standards, enterprise architecture and success<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>What are success factors in FLOSS networks (free/libre open source software)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>How do “green IT” initiatives have measurable direct and indirect effects on firm goals, and how can IT help achieve “green” goals beyond lower energy costs?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Domain specific IS success models, for example in Health Care, Automotive (E-Cars), security, knowledge management, outsourcing, E-Government (theoretical and/or empirically validated), cloud computing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">References</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Bharadwaj, A.S. (2000): A Resource-Based Perspective on Information Technology Capability and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation.
<i>MIS Quarterly</i>, 24, 1 (2000), 169-196.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Byrd, T.A., and Turner, D.E. (2000): Measuring the Flexibility of Information Technology Infrastructure: Exploratory Analysis of a Construct.
<i>Journal of Management Information Systems</i>, 17, 1 (2000), 167-208.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Chan, Y.E. (2000): IT Value: The Great Divide Between Qualitative and Quantitative and Individual and Organizational Measures.
<i>Journal of Management Information Systems</i>, 16, 4 (2000), 225-261.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">DeLone, W.H., and McLean, E.R. (1992): Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable.
<i>Information Systems Research</i>, 3, 1 (1992), 60-95.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Kohli, R., and Grover, V. (2008): Business Value of IT: An Essay on Expanding Research Directions to Keep up with the Times.
<i>Journal of the Association for Information Systems</i>, 9, 1 (2008), 23-39.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Landon Kleis, Paul Chwelos, Ronald V. Ramirez, and Iain Cockburn (2012): Information Technology and Intangible Output: The Impact of IT Investment on Innovation Productivity. Information Systems Research, March 2012.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Peppard, J., and Ward, J. (2004): Beyond strategic information systems: towards an IS capability.
<i>Journal of Strategic Information Systems</i>, 13, 2 (2004), 167-194.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:21.25pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.25pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Santhanam, R., and Hartono, E. (2003): Issues in Linking Information Technology Capability to Firm Performance.
<i>MIS Quarterly</i>, 27, 1 (2003), 125-153.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Schedule
</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">First call for papers: August 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Second call for papers: September 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">Submission of papers: September 30, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Author notification: November 15, 2013
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">Submission of first revision: February 15, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Author notification: March 31, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">Submission of a second revision: June 31, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Author notification: August 31, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">Submission of final revisions: October 31, 2014
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">Submission of camera-ready papers: November 30, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Planned publication date: January 2015<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">The Editors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Prof. Dr. Tim Weitzel</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">University of Bamberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de">tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">University of Mannheim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:heinzl@uni-mannheim.de">heinzl@uni-mannheim.de</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Submission of articles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">All papers will be reviewed in an anonymous, double-blind process by distinguished referees with regard to relevance, originality, and research quality
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">in order to guarantee the highest possible quality</span></span><span style="color:black">.
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">Contributions should be handed in English as of September 30<sup>th</sup>, 2013. Manuscripts can be submitted at
<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/zfb">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/zfb</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Please consider the author guidelines at
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.zfb-online.de/index.php?do=ah">http://www.zfb-online.de/index.php?do=ah</a></span></span><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt">Journal of Business Economics<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">The
<b>Journal of Business Economics</b> <b>(JBE)</b> was founded in 1924 by renowned business economics professors under the name “Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (ZfB)” and has since then been counted among the leading professional journals in the business
economics sector. Today, it is edited by eleven university professors who serve as Department Editors.
<b>Information Systems</b> is one of the departments of JBE. The editorial board members are from Europe, Japan and the USA. Further information is available at
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.zfb-online.de/">http://www.zfb-online.de</a></span>.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB">As of January 1st, 2013, the
<b>JBE</b> will only be published in English, but will still carry the German subtitle „Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft“. It creates an international publication platform, allowing the published results to become globally recognized. This will make it more
appealing for authors and in particular for young scientists to publish their articles in the JBE, while they can still benefit from the established reputation of the "Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft”. This benefit becomes even greater given that the
journal will be incorporated into <b>SpringerLink</b>’s international collection „Business and Economics“ and will become widespread throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Contact Information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"> For further inquiries, please contact
</span>Tim Weitzel (<a href="mailto:tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de">tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All best<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tim Weitzel, Armin Heinzl<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">_______________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Prof. Dr. Tim Weitzel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Full Professor,
<a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/isdl">Chair of Information Systems and Services</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dean of the
<a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/wiai">Information Systems and Informatics Faculty</a> at the University of Bamberg<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> <i>Director of CHRIS -
<a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/isdl/leistungen/transfer/e-recruiting/">Centre of Human Resource Information Systems</a><br>
</i> <i>Senior Editor of the <a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais">Journal of the Association of Information Systems</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Bamberg
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/isdl"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.uni-bamberg.de/isdl</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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