Special issue: “Expanding the Frontiers of Information Systems Research.”

JAIS Reseach Perspectives. 

We invite you to contribute to this special issue, where we encourage expansive, ambitious “Research Perspectives” articles that highlight the potential for our discipline to contribute broadly. See the call for papers on the JAIS website:

http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/JAIS_Expanding_Frontiers_Call3.pdf

From the call:  "The goal of this special issue is to inspire, to provoke, and to challenge. We encourage submissions with radical goals, ambitious thinking, and a positive, proactive view of the IS discipline’s potential to improve relevant scholarship, and by doing so perhaps the world."

Deadline for submissions: March 28, 2011

Please contact us if you have questions.  We encourage authors to contact one of the special issue editors with an outline or extended abstract before the submission deadline for feedback.

Best Regards,

Special Issue Editors:
Cynthia Beath, University of Texas at Austin, Cynthia.Beath@mccombs.utexas.edu
Nicholas Berente, University of Georgia, berente@uga.edu
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve Unviersity, kalle@case.edu

Special Issue Editorial Team:
J.P. Allen, University of San Francisco

Soon Ang, Nanyang Technological University

Corey Angst, University of Notre Dame

Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam

Genevieve Bassellier, McGill University

Marie-Claude Boudreau, University of Georgia

Andrew Burton-Jones, University of British Columbia

Brian Butler, University of Pittsburgh

Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, University of New South Wales

Jan Damsgaard, Copenhagen Business School

Uri Gal, University of Sydney

Mike Gallivan, Georgia State University

Sean Hansen, Rochester Institute of Technology

Ole Hanseth, University of Oslo

Ola Henfridsson, The Viktoria Institute

Rudy Hirschheim, Louisiana State University

Jonny Holmstroem, Umeå University

Dirk Hovorka, Bond University

Blake Ives, University of Houston

Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas at Austin

Jannis Kallinikos, London School of Economics

Giovan Francesco Lanzara, University of Bologna

Lars Mathiassen, Georgia State University

Harrison McKnight, Michigan State University

Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State Univeristy

Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Paul Pavlou, Temple University

Jacqueline Pike, Duquesne University

Neil Ramiller, Portland State University

Yuqing Ren, University of Minnesota

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology

Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics

Frantz Rowe, Université de Nantes

Carol Saunders, University of Central Florida

Leiser Silva, University of Houston

Sandra Slaughter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Bernard Tam, National University of Singapore

Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics

Joe Valacich, Washington State University

Jan vom Brocke, Hochschule Liechtenstein

Molly Wasko, University of Alabama at Birmingham