[AISWorld] MISQ Special Issue on Social Justice - Curated Case Track Information

[Min-Seok Pang]

 Dear fellow researchers,

Thank you for your interest and participation in MISQ Special Issue on
Digital Technologies and Social Justice. This is to provide further
information on submissions to the Curated Case Track.

*Further details on the category of cases (Curated Case Track)*



In the Call for Papers (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTNsJe85Do1CnRvPLIaeYiIa0yi7PRK-/view?usp=sharing)
you can read that* "we seek original case submissions that shed a bright
light on pressing social justice phenomena, which future IS research can
build upon for further theorization and expansion of IS knowledge. With
curated case collections, we wish to collate several individual empirical
case studies into a joint, peer-reviewed paper. These curated case
collections are intended to bring the research community’s attention to
particularly relevant understudied issues and ongoing initiatives on the
ground relating to social justice and digital technology. As such, they may
serve as a starting point and motivation for further research attention to
important aspects of social justice."*



Because this is a novel type of papers, we wish to provide additional
information about the format and further process:



*The purpose:* We included this novel format to be able to publish
empirical exemplar cases that provide insights into novel, significant
phenomena or issues. Our hope is that they can serve as an inspiration and
a motivation to other researchers and spark research interests towards
hitherto overlooked or under-researched themes and issues. These papers are
therefore neither teaching cases, nor primarily practitioner-oriented
papers.



*The format*: The emphasis in the case papers is on the empirical
contribution. Cases need to be based on an analysis of empirical data. We
expect that they contain a problem definition (and this requires conceptual
positioning), a well-structured and relevant description of the empirical
case, a sound analysis, and formulation of insights or learnings from the
case. We do not expect that the case papers have any extensive literature
review (beyond that which is required to define and conceptualize the case
itself). Also, we don’t expect that the paper will offer theoretical or
methodological contributions. Please consult the criteria listed in the
Call for Papers.



*The review process and publication*: The case papers will be sent for
review individually, and the "curation" (i.e. combining several cases into
a case collection) will only happen after the individual cases are
accepted. During the review process, we may ask you to share additional
information (e.g. on the data generation and analysis process) per the
journal transparency policy (https://misq.umn.edu/research-transparency).
For the publication, we envision a format similar to what you can find in
the special issue of Next Generation IS Theories at MISQ 45(1) (
https://misq.umn.edu/contents-45-1/), where 5 Regular Articles are
complemented by a 6th unconventional article. This 6th article (co-authored
by the SI guest editors) contains a brief introduction to 8 shorter
“Provocations,” which appear as standalone, specific pieces of work by each
author team, however, not as Regular Articles.



*Practical information:* We ask for manuscripts with a length of
approximately 2000 words. You may provide additional details such as data
generation and analysis processes in appendices. You should submit a case
paper to MISQ ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/misq) in the
same way as a Regular Article, but *please specify in your cover letter
that you're submitting to the Curated Case track. If not specified in the
cover letter, it would be considered a Regular Article submission*.



*Case studies as regular articles*: We also want to clarify that in
addition to submissions to the Curated Case Track, we also welcome your
case study submissions as Regular Articles, with similar formats and
lengths. Like other regular articles, these case studies will be expected
to have substantial theoretical contributions and implications.


Once again, thank you very much for your interest and participation in the
special issue, and we look forward to your submission by June 30.