[AISWorld] Electronic Markets: Deadline Extension CfP - Special Issue on "Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration"

[Karen Heyden]

- Apologies for cross-postings. - 


Dear Colleagues, 

Please note the extended deadline to 

    April 10, 2011 

for the special issue on "Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT
Collaboration". 

The detailed CfP and the important deadlines are copied below.

Best regards,
Karen Heyden
Executive Editor


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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

Call for Papers for Special Issue on

"Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration"
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Guest Editors:

* Nicholas C. Romano, Jr., Oklahoma State University, USA,
[nicholas.romano at okstate.edu]
* James B. Pick, University of Redlands, USA, [james_pick at redlands.edu]
* Narcyz Roztocki, SUNY at New Paltz, USA, [roztockn at newpaltz.edu]

Theme:

As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being
deployed across organizations located in different countries and world
regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration
technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success
or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the
system must also be taken into consideration for global IS/IT projects
to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively
focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined
the links between international and multi-national collaboration
processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.

Despite the intensive research for more than two decades of different
aspects on IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based on the cultural
environment of North America or Western Europe. In addition, most of the
investigation has been conducted in the context of a single country. As
corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic
and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed,
validated, and further refined in terms of the global economy. 

IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from
collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons.
First, IS/IT infrastructures differ significantly in terms of stage of
development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and
cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various
stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even
conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project
success.  In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a
high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed
for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region.  For IS/IT
projects to be successful and productive in the global economy
researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and
other issues.

This special issue of Electronic Markets seeks to make a broad
inter-disciplinary contribution to the literature in this area.  The
main objective of the special issue is to examine the linkages between
global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT investment and the
challenges posed by global collaboration processes, projects and
challenges.
Studies offering a wider focus from a human, organizational or technical
perspective are encouraged, and a variety of methodological approaches
including exploratory approaches, theory building, case analysis,
testing through interviews, or surveys are welcome. Papers from
researchers in Management, Marketing, Computer Science, and other
related disciplines are welcome and encouraged.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:
* Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration
* Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity
* Success factors of collaboration technologies
* Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity
* Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global economy
* Comparative cross-country research on IS/IT collaboration*
Country-specific case studies on IS/IT collaboration 
* Collaboration during the IS/IT off shoring /outsourcing projects
* Cross-border and cross-organizational IS/IT project management
* Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity
* IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation
* Cross-border and cross-organizational value-chains and value-networks

All papers will be peer reviewed and should be original, not published
or under review elsewhere and should conform to Electronic Markets'
publication standards. Further information and instructions are
available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors. 
Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system and should
use the manuscript template. Please read all of the instructions
carefully before submitting your manuscript and ensure the main article
files do not contain any author identifiable information. (instructions
at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/submission). 
Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or theoretical work,
qualitative re-search, design science, prototypes) is welcomed by the
journal. 
Full papers are invited to be submitted by March 25, 2011. 

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special issue, please
contact the editors for the special issue.

Contact adresses:

nicholas.romano at okstate.edu  
james_pick at redlands.edu
roztockn at newpaltz.edu 
or editors at electronicmarkets.org  

Important dates: 

* Submission Deadline NEW:  April 10, 2011
* Notification 1st Decision /Resend to Authors for Revisions: June 14,
2011

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen
Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

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Electronic Markets is published continuously online and quarterly in
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ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).