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Communications of the Association
for
Information Systems
Call for Papers, Special Section on
Emerging Ideas in Information Systems
Guest Editors:
Fred Niederman, St. Louis
University
Don McCubbrey, University of Denver
We are soliciting papers on
emerging
ideas in Information Systems (IS) that provide a "breakthrough"
or innovative way of thinking. Our goal is to stimulate original
thinking and reconceptualization of existing observations in
service to
the practice of IS. Our leaning is toward addressing phenomena
that
confront leaders and workers in the IS domain as well as the
effects of
using IS beyond organizations. We emphasize the potential of such
thinking to increase the value of our scholarly work to our
practitioner
colleagues and our students, as they serve in the role of change
agents
and entrepreneurs and engines of organizational and societal
progress.
We want to stress the forward-looking positioning of this
endeavor.
We are particularly looking for
conceptual
papers or think pieces that will help to bring forward emerging
aspects
of the field. We are also open to meta-analyses and literature
reviews
that emphasize what we have learned in a particular domain and
what questions
remain to be addressed. We are open to case studies and other
methods
that focus on practice. We are as interested in the details of
small
accumulated choices/actions as we are in the summary of these into
the
effects of large constructs on one another.
Within the organizational IS
context,
we are looking for papers that emphasize:
(1) reorganization or
reinterpretation
of the relationship among components in development, managing, and
innovating
with IS within and between organizations, e.g. better
understanding of
the interaction of specific organizational policies and practices
with
development constraints and outcomes;
(2) reporting of patterns of
findings
based on observations and studies in the IS domain, e.g.
meta-analysis
or literature reviews showing patterns of findings and unaddressed
questions
in a domain of interest;
(3) observation of detailed
strategic,
tactical, and operational behaviors and/or artifacts from the
organizational
application of IS, e.g. case studies showing the acquisition,
adaptation,
and use of information systems focused on detailed choices and
local as
well as summary outcomes;
(4) extrapolations of current
trends
into future prospects; and
(5) IS capabilities to address the
grand
challenges facing society including health care, sustainability,
poverty
alleviation, employment, social equity, and extending
participation in
governing institutions.
We envision including work on
emerging
technologies like ubiquitous computing, natural language
processing, complex
adaptive systems, agent-based modeling, social media, virtual
worlds, and
analytics, particularly when such inquiries incorporate what has
been learned
from "emerged" technology, what differentiates these technologies,
what we can learn in observing their utility, and their potential
for influencing
both workplace and society at large.
We are not only interested in
success
stories, but also in "failure" stories with an emphasis on what
was learned.
Interdisciplinary scholarship is
increasingly
demonstrating its value, and IS crosses almost every knowledge
domain from
art to the natural sciences. Therefore, papers that envision
innovative
interdisciplinary applications will be welcomed.
Editorial Board:
Currently being composed, we plan
to
invite a broad array of IS scholars from the three AIS regions
whose prior
work is based on a broad diversity of content and methods.
Timetable:
Submit abstract to co-editors by
January
9, 2012
Submit paper by March 5, 2012
Reviews returned to authors by
April
2, 2012
Revise and resubmit by May 21, 2012
Final decisions by June 1, 2012
Papers published by July 16, 2012
Review Process:
Inquiries prior to submission are
welcome.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the
Special
Section review board. Papers will have two rounds of peer review.
The first
round of reviews will provide developmental guidance for improving
those
papers that are conditionally accepted. Final selections for the
Special
Section will be made from the second-round submissions.
Submission Instructions:
All submissions should be emailed
to
the guest editors in MSWord format, following APA guidelines.
Submit to
niederfa@slu.edu and dmccubbr@du.edu.