---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Call for Chapter - Deadline Extension Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 06:12:25 -0500 From: Cano MartÃnez Jeimy jcanoma@BANREP.GOV.CO To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Dear colleagues,
In order to attend some request about submission deadline for this project, this have been extended to April 9, 2001. So i encourage you to send your chapter proposal to share with practitioner and academic community findings and relevant ideas about Information Technology based on systemic approach.
Cordially,
Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D International Tutor Newport University, CA USA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission deadline extended April 9, 2001 CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH A book edited by Jeimy J. Cano. Newport University, USA.
During last decade information systems/information technology (IS/IT) has a important development in the world, specially in business environment. This issues had a special outcomes for organizations in different ways individual satisfaction, organizational profits and technological advance. Therefore, MIS discipline face highest challenges in order to explore creative and innovative solutions, strategies and reflections to support new advantanges in a new environment, where individual move dinamically, diary organizational change and exponential technological advance. Through the use of IS/IT to support business strategies to reach competitive advantage companies are looking for ideas and answers to solve gap between competiveness and technological investment. This book face this challenge offering a systemic scenario where all players are related with others in order to show properties that could be hidden in different relationships and not in a specific element or player. For these reason, the essence of this invitation is share accumulated knowledge as in academic and practitioner community in IS/IT comprehension based in a systemic (holistic) view like a support new ways to explore MIS discipline and technological understanting in next century. The main purpose of this book is rethinking information systems/information technology like his name says, they are systems. Representative topics include but are not limited to the following: - Systemic concepts on Information Technology - Management cybernetics in Information technology - Theoretical models in Information Technology/Informations Systems incorporation - Information systems and business strategies: Systemic approach - IS/IT and organizational complexity - Information technology incorporation: case studies - Technology transfer in developing contries - Technological frames - IS/IT and Organizational culture impact - Information systems management and strategy formulation - Social and human issues in information systems - Knowledge management and organizational learning systems BOOK Sections: I. Systemic concepts on Information Technology II. Theoretical models in Information Technology/Informations Systems incorporation III. Information Systems and Business Strategies: Holistic approach IV. IT/IS Organizational and social issues V. Information Technology incorporation: Case studies VI. Reflections on IT Incorporation: Tendencies and Perspectives
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 9, 2001, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaning the mission an concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposal will be notified by May 15, 2001 about the status of their proposal and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 15, 2001. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Publishing in 2002.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (word97) to:
Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D International Tutor Newport University. E-mail: jcanoma@banrep.gov.co
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