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Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers of Electronic Markets with a focus theme section on 'Information and Data Quality in Networked Business'. The submission deadline is June 15, 2010. The detailed CfP is copied below.

 

We cordially invite original research contributions to the focus theme or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from all potential authors. Please note that general research articles can be submitted anytime whereas focus theme articles have to be submitted by the deadline shown in the CfP.

 

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.

 

If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics please contact the editorial office (editors@electronicmarkets.org).

 

With best regards,

Karen Heyden

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

 

2^nd Call for Papers

for Focus Theme Section on

 

'Information and Data Quality in Networked Business'

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Guest Editors:

   * Boris Otto, University of St. Gallen (CH)

   * Yang W. Lee, Northeastern University (US)

   * Ismael Caballero Muñoz-Reja, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (ES)

Background and Objective:

Today’s competition in global markets is not among businesses, but among business networks. As business networks become increasingly dynamic and relationships between nodes in a business network become more and more complex, requirements regarding the quality of information and data which is exchanged within a networked business gains importance and gets business critical. An example from the consumer goods/retail industry is the quality requirement for carbon footprint information which has to be managed all the way from raw material production to shelf labeling in the stores. And also the recent financial and economic crisis showed the important role information and data quality play in interwoven industries and value chains, as the case of German KfW bank shows which issued a hundreds of millions of EUR worth transaction to Lehman Brothers after the latter had already filed for bankruptcy.

Questions of information and quality, however, have so far been discussed primarily with an intra-company focus. Existing research mainly covers organizational and technical aspects of information and data quality within the boundaries of a certain enterprise. Research investigating the role of information and data quality in networked business is still in its infancy.

The proposed special issue aims at the advancement of information and data quality research in networked business and electronic markets. It explicitly solicits both theoretical contributions and research work which is grounded in practice.

Topics Covered

The special issue covers the following topics (but is not limited to those):

• Information and data quality requirements in networked business

• Information and data quality reporting in networked business

• Data governance in networked business

• Cross-company life-cycle management

• Methods and tools to manage information and data quality in networked business

• Data provenance in networked business

• Information and data architectures in networked business

• Management and exchange of information and data quality metadata

• Information and data supply chains and data synchronization

• Inter-organizational standardization initiatives such as GS1, ISO 8000 etc.

• Information and data quality in inter-organizational information systems

• Community and collaboration approaches for information and data quality management

• Industry-specific cases, e.g. from automotive, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals etc.

• Application scenarios such as SCM, electronic catalogue etc.

Additional topic suggestions are welcome.

All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets’ publication standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes etc.) is welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by June 15, 2010. All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.

Contact addresses:

 

boris.otto@unisg.ch

ylee@MIT.EDU

Ismael.Caballero@uclm.es

or editors@electronicmarkets.org

 

Important deadlines:

   * Submission deadline: June 15, 2010

   * Feedback to authors: August 8, 2010

   * Revision deadline: August 29, 2010

   * Acceptance decision: October 3, 2010

 

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen

Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

 

Editorial Office:

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

c/o Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 9733600

Fax +49 341 9733612

E-mail: editors@electronicmarkets.org

http://www.electronicmarkets.org

 

Electronic Markets is published continuously online and quarterly in print by Springer.

ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).