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Call for submissions for:

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC)

Special Issue on: “Knowledge Management and Social Media: The Challenges”

 

Guest Co-Editors:

Robert M. Mason

The Information School, University of Washington
rmmason@uw.edu

 

Dianne P. Ford

Faculty of Business Administration Memorial University of Newfoundland

dpford@mun.ca

 

Papers solicited for this special issue cover issues, challenges, ideas, and solutions for two

aspects of knowledge management (KM) and social media (SM).  As one example, knowledge managers often perceive a tension between potential benefits and risks associated with social media.   On the one hand, SM offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing information and knowledge both among colleagues closely bound by shared interests but also among those representing the “strength of weak ties” (Granovetter, 1973).  On the other hand, SM, because of the ease with which information can be disseminated, threatens organizational control of information and increases the risk of the loss or misuse of intellectual property and proprietary knowledge.

 

For this special issue, we encourage authors from academia, industry, governments, and non- profits, especially collaborations among these groups, to address these and other tensions or synergies that may arise between KM and SM.  We welcome examination of these tensions at the societal, organizational, group/team, and individual levels of analysis.  We solicit case studies, surveys, experiments, qualitative research, and collaborative action research among academics, executives, and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches, resolutions, and solutions to these tensions, risks, and opportunities.  We especially seek papers that offer conceptual models combined with empirical evidence of the consequences or findings of observations related to these models.

 

Timeline for the Special Issue:

 

March 15, 2012 – full paper submission deadline for JOCEC Special Issue review process.

 

October 31, 2012 – final versions of accepted papers will be submitted for publication process, with the special issue targeted for publication in the first 1-2 issues (depending on the number of high-quality accepted papers) of 2013.

 

Submit the digital manuscript in standard MS Word format (.doc not .docx) as an attachment to an email with “JOCEC” (without quotes) as the first word in the subject line to both Guest Co- Editors, Dr. Robert M. Mason at rmmason@uw.edu and Dr. Dianne P. Ford at dpford@mun.ca. Specifically, all papers submitted should conform to JOCEC standards and have no identifying information in the papers to allow for the double-blind review process.

 

Articles should be concise and in English, not more than 40 pages and/or 12,000 words. This limitation applies to the entire paper - cover page, abstract, narrative, footnotes, figures, and references included. Manuscripts (including title page, abstract, text, quotes, acknowledgments, references, appendixes, tables, figure captions, and footnotes) should be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, using 8 1/2'' 11'' page settings. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, starting with the title page. The title page should contain the article title, author(s), affiliations, a short form of the title (less than 50 characters including letters and spaces), and the name, complete mailing address, and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should contain a short abstract (200-250 words), and 5-10 related keywords. All acronyms should be spelled out where first used. Each table and figure should be called out within the text.

 

For more specific formatting information, please refer to the Instructions for Authors found on the journal’s website:

 

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653688~tab=submit~mode=paper_submission_instructions

 

References

Granovetter, M.S. (1973) The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology.  78:6,

1360-1380.

 

 

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Dr. Dianne P. Ford

Associate Professor, OB/HR, MIS

Faculty of Business Administration

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St.John's, NL, A1B 3X5

CANADA

Ph: (709) 864-8511

Fax: (709) 864-7680

Website: www.busi.mun.ca/dpford

 

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