Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal of
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

Information Technology Success Factors and Models in 
Developing and Emerging Economies

Tentative Publication Date: December 2010
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: February 1, 2010

Additional information about the special issue may be 
available at the special issue website at:
http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~roztockn/itd2010.htm

Information technology (IT) projects continue to suffer 
from frequent cost and time overruns and failure to fully 
deliver on the expected benefits to the users or the 
organization. Furthermore, what determines the success or 
failure of information technology implementations and use 
in developing and emerging economies may differ 
substantially from generally accepted success factors in 
highly developed countries. Developing economies are 
defined by low gross national income per capita, and are 
generally characterized by low standards of living, a weak 
industrial and commercial base, and a poor infrastructure. 
Still developing economies that exhibit robust, continual 
economic expansion, resulting in fast growing per capita 
income, and which have administrations that are dedicated 
towards developing the commercial base and improving the 
infrastructure are termed emerging economies. IT is 
generally considered to be a prime factor in the economic 
and national development of these regions.

The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for 
research and practice specifically directed at the factors 
and models that contribute to the success (or failure) of 
IT implementation and use for economic and national 
development in developing and emerging economies. 
Submitted papers, while focusing on specific success 
factors or exemplary models, must explain how the work 
makes a contribution to better understanding the role of 
IT in economic or national development, affecting people's 
lives and their communities, Submitted work will be 
evaluated for methodological soundness, empirical 
completeness, and academic rigor, as well as originality 
and interestingness.

Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to 
the following:
- Organizational culture and IT success factors in 
developing or emerging economies
- Factors and models that contribute to (or may inhibit) 
technology bringing about economic development
- Case studies looking at successful (or failed) models of 
IT use in developing or emerging economies
- Critical success factors in Web service adoption in 
developing or emerging economies
- Differences in success perception of IT between 
developing/emerging and developed countries
- Cultural factors and models in successful IT adoption 
and use in developing countries
- Factors and models that may make IT a successful tool 
for achieving global competitiveness

Special Issue Editorial Board:

Niv Ahituv, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mito Akiyoshi, Senshu University, Japan
Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas-Pan 
American, USA
Anton Arapetyan, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Military Institute, USA
Eszter Ágnes Bartis, Corvinus University, Hungary
Sergey Butakov, Woosong University, Korea
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Dorota Dobija, Kozminski University, Poland
Anca Draghici, Politehnica University of Timisoara, 
Romania
Biswadip Ghosh, Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA
G. Harindranath, University of London, UK
Kalinka Kaloyanova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Mehruz Kamal, State University of New York at Brockport, 
USA
Ranjan Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
Ilsang Ko, Chonnam National University, Korea
Niki Kunene, University of Louisville, USA
Abdulrahman A. Mirza, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Valter Moreno, Ibmec-RJ, Brasil
Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State University, USA
Nicolau Reinhard, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Tomáš Sabol,Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Sergey Samoilenko, Virginia Union University, USA
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Margaret Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kuldar Taveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Marinos Themistocleous, University of Piraeus, Greece
Tibor Vörös, Central European University, Hungary

Contact Information for Special Issue Editors:

Narcyz Roztocki
State University of New York at New Paltz
School of Business, 75 S. Manheim Blvd.
New Paltz, NY 12561-2443
Phone: (845) 257-2935
Fax: (845) 257-2947
roztockn@newpaltz.edu

H. Roland Weistroffer
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Business, Snead Hall, 301 West Main Street
Richmond, VA 23284-4000
Phone: (804) 828-7118
Fax: (804) 828-3199
hrweistr@vcu.edu
 
Important Dates:
  
Deadline for submissions of papers: 	February 1, 2010
Notification of initial acceptances: 	March 31, 2010
Deadline for revised papers: 		May 15, 2010
Notification of final acceptances: 	July 15, 2010
Deadline for final versions:		September 1, 2010
Tentative Publication Date: 		December 2010

Submission Guidelines:

Manuscripts should be prepared according to ITD's 
instructions to authors, available at 
http://itd.ist.unomaha.edu/submissionguide.htm, and 
submitted via email to both special issue editors 
simultaneously.


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