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<div>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</div>
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<div>Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Special Issue</div>
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<div>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</div>
<div>AJIS publishes high quality contributions to theory and practice in the global IS discipline. It is particularly interested in IS knowledge drawn from or applied to Australasia and in the Asia-Pacific region. The journal welcomes submissions on research
and conceptual development based on a wide range of inquiry methods, ways of thinking and modes of expression. AJIS is ranked “A” by the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS) and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC).
It is one of two open access “A” journals ranked by ACPHIS, offering potential for papers to be widely accessible and citable.</div>
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<div>Overview of the special issue</div>
<div>There has been a long tradition in the IS academic community, within Australasia but also globally, to research on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and IS. SMEs have been of interest to many researchers because SMEs are considered different to large
organisations in such areas as motives for being in business, heterogeneity with respect to their IS and management capabilities, and flexibility due to their often flat structures and small numbers of employees. Additionally, SMEs are of interest because
as a group they make a significant contribution to the GDP of many national economies globally.</div>
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<div>This has led to a saturation of research concerning the factors which hinder or enable SMEs to adopt various IS such as computers, productivity software, websites and e-business, enterprise systems, social media and, more recently, “green” IT/IS and cloud
computing. Location-based studies (e.g. those that examine rural or remote SMEs and IS) have also been prominent.</div>
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<div>This special issue will focus on IS research which moves beyond SME adoption factors to explore topics that can still examine issues such as those above, but additionally provide new contributions to theory and practice:</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>arising from critical analyses of prior IS literature on SMEs (e.g. topics neglected, issues with the use of theory, etc) and resulting in future research agendas;</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>relating to interventions helping SMEs to consider, plan for, adopt, implement, exploit or resist IS;</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>concerning a non-technocentric view which considers negative aspects of IS for SMEs;</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>associated with interactions between SMEs and external parties (e.g. IS vendors/consultants);</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>relating to novel forms or uses of IS peculiar to particular types of SMEs or SME contexts;</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>concerning how to make better conceptual sense of the interrelationships between SMEs and IS;</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>relating to types of SMEs under-represented in IS literature such as not-for-profits (e.g. sporting clubs, community houses) or those in specific industry sectors (e.g. cultural SMEs, personal
service SMEs).</div>
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<div>Important dates</div>
<div>The special issue editors welcome extended abstracts from authors wanting to see if their paper is suitable for the special issue. Authors who wish to can email abstracts to the editors directly (see details below).</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submission deadline for papers (see submission instructions below) - 30th June, 2014</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Notification of desk rejections - end of July, 2014</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Notification of paper acceptance decision after double-blind review - end of September, 2014</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submission deadline for final versions of accepted papers - end of October, 2014</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Publication of accepted papers - December issue of AJIS, 2014</div>
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<div>Paper submission instructions</div>
<div>All papers must be submitted via the AJIS online system (http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis) and meet theAJIS submission requirements specified at this site.</div>
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<div>Special issue editors</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nabeel Al-Qirim, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, nalqirim@uaeu.ac.ae</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stephen Burgess, Victoria University, Australia, Stephen.Burgess@vu.edu.au</div>
<div>§<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Craig M. Parker, Deakin University, Australia, craig.parker@deakin.edu.au</div>
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