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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="line-height: 13px; ">Reminder: The Journal of Strategic Information Systems</span><span style="line-height: 13px; "> welcomes papers for a Special
Issue on</span><span style="line-height: 13px; "> “Strategic and policy perspectives on social media technologies”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 12px; ">Guest Editors<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Sirkka Jarvenpaa, <i>The University of Texas at Austin</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Sandy Staples, <i>Queen’s University<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Robin Teigland,<i> Stockholm School of Economics<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px; ">The widespread diffusion and proliferation of social media technologies and tools present organizations of all sizes and shapes with numerous strategic and policy-oriented opportunities and challenges. Moreover, such technologies
and tools have fundamentally transformed how various external and internal stakeholder relationships are influenced and managed, how brand loyalty is built, how talent is attracted and employment commitment is built, how innovations (products, services, business
models, processes) are created and appropriated, how knowledge is created and shared both within and across organizational boundaries, how funding is raised, how control is exercised, how policies are developed and diffused, and how laws are interpreted. This
special issue invites papers that build our understanding of these phenomena.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines as well as papers based on either quantitative or qualitative approaches. Implications of findings for theory and practice are essential and we encourage
papers that extend existing theories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Questions addressed by papers suitable for the special issue could include the following:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">How can our theories better account for the strategic use
of social media? What are the implications of such use to the theories of the firm?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">How have social media shaped policy and strategy making in
organizations and societies? What are the implications of such use to theories of organizations? Of institutions?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">How are social media leveraged for innovation, including frugal
innovation?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">What role does national cultural play in the strategic and
policy perspectives of social media?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">What are the challenges and risks that firms and other organizations
face in achieving strategic value from social media? How can these be overcome?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">How do organizations build dynamic capabilities with social
media?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Symbol; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -0.25in; ">How do social media shape legal and policy frontiers?</span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px; "> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; ">To be considered for publication, papers must be submitted electronically by November 30, 2013. In line with JSIS convention, selected manuscripts will be sent out for blind review.
Authors are instructed to follow the Guide for Authors and submission guidelines for the journal at the journal’s website,</span><span style="font-size: 12px; "> </span><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/" style="font-size: 12px; ">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/</a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Cambria Math'; ">‐</span><span style="font-size: 12px; "> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; ">choosing
"Special Issue: The strategic and policy perspectives on social media technologies" as the paper type in the online submission system.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Further enquiries about the special issue can be directed to Sirkka Jarvenpaa (<a href="mailto:Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu">Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu</a>), Sandy Staples (<a href="mailto:sstaples@business.queensu.ca">sstaples@business.queensu.ca</a>),
or Robin Teigland (<a href="mailto:robin.teigland@hhs.se">robin.teigland@hhs.se</a>).</span></p>
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