---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: Trust in the Digital Economy Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:38:17 -0400 From: Gabriele Piccoli isworld_manager@CORNELL.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

I am posting this for Sirkka Jarvenpaa. Please, direct all inquiries to: Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@BUS.UTEXAS.EDU

Special Issue of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems Call for Papers

Trust in the Digital Economy

The concept of "trust" is becoming a more critical and visible success element of organizations as they become more information technology intensive in terms of their strategy, structure, business processes, and intra and interorganizational relationships. Trust is essential in nearly any business practice and innovation that involves information technology: distributed systems, virtual organizations and teams, competences built on intangible assets such as knowledge, electronic commerce, and so on. For example, trust is essential for=20 =09 1. Transacting with customers in electronic environments and managing their privacy . 2. Increasing knowledge sharing in IT enabled organizations (e.g., virtual teams, virtual organizations). 3. Inter-organizational collaborative networks and outsourcing relationships 4. Distributive IT architectures (e.g., peer to peer architectures)

There remains untapped potential for strategic IT research to advance knowledge by developing, testing, corroborating, and extending theories in the area of trust in digital environments. We invite original scholarly works dealing with issues of trust and information systems that advance our knowledge either theoretically or empirically on the role and value of trust in IT enabled business practices and innovations. We are particularly interested in contributions on the creation, evolution, antecedents, consequences, and breakdowns of trust in digital environments. We are open to any of the theoretical schools or perspectives of trust that exist. We invite research based on diverse theoretical perspectives, including organizational behavior and theory, strategic management, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and computer science. We also encourage and welcome contributions from a wide range of methodological approaches.

The purpose of this special issue is to stimulate theoretical and empirical research on the role and value of trust in IT-enabled competitive strategies, structures, business processes, and intra- an inter-organizational relationships in the contemporary business environments. While there are many interesting and important research issues and questions, we highlight a few below. Authors are encouraged to raise other issues as well and focus their attention on particular industries or industry sectors.

Some of the questions include:

* How and why does trust matter in digital environments? * How is trust created and how does it evolve in digital environments? =20 * What role do information technologies play in increasing trust between parties?=20 * How can the value and impacts of information technologies on trust be assessed? * How do concepts of trust relate to the information technology development tools and development environments? * What are the basis of trust relationships in electronic commerce models (B-C relationships and B-B marketplaces?=20 * What organizational designs, structures, and processes are likely to promote trust? * What is the role of trust in Information technology theories? =20

Clearly, there are many other interesting research questions related to the special issue theme. Submissions will be handled by one of the Special Issue editors.

Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas, Austin. Phone: (512) 471-1751. E-mail: Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@bus.utexas.edu

V. Sambamurthy, University of Maryland, College Park. Phone: (301) 405-8645. E-mail: smurthy@rhsmith.umd.edu

All submissions are due by June 30, 2001. =20

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