-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP:EJIS: Special Issue on Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration Datum: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:31:20 -0400 Von: narcyz roztocki roztockn@newpaltz.edu Antwort an: narcyz roztocki roztockn@newpaltz.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

CALL FOR PAPERS European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/ Special Issue on Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration

Guest editors: Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. (Oklahoma State University) James B. Pick (University of Redlands) Narcyz Roztocki (SUNY at New Paltz)

Complete Papers Due: April 1, 2009

As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being deployed across organizations located in different countries and world regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multi-national collaboration processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.

Despite the intensive research for more than two decades of different aspects on IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. In addition, most of the investigation has been conducted in the context of a single country. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the global economy.

IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures differ significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region. For IS/IT projects to be successful and productive in the global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues.

This special issue of the European Journal of Information Systems seeks to make a contribution to the literature in this area. The main objective of the special issue is to examine the linkages between global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT investment and the challenges posed by global collaboration processes, projects and challenges. Studies offering a wider focus from a human, organizational or technical perspective are encouraged, and a variety of methodological approaches including exploratory approaches, theory building, case analysis, testing through interviews, or surveys are welcome.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following: -Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration -Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity -Success factors of collaboration technologies -Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity -Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global economy -Comparative cross-country research on IS/IT collaboration -Country-specific case studies on IS/IT collaboration -Collaboration during the IS/IT off shoring /outsourcing projects -Cross-border and cross-organizational IS/IT project management -Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity -IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation -Cross-border and cross-organizational value-chains and value-networks

Guest editors for special issue:

Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business 344 North Hall 700 N. Greenwood Ave. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106-0700 Phone: (918) 594-8506 Fax: (918) 594-8281 (fax) nicholas.romano@okstate.edu

James B. Pick University of Redlands School of Business 1200 East Colton Avenue Redlands, CA 92373-0999 Phone: (909) 748-6261 Fax: (909) 335-5125 (fax) james_pick@redlands.edu

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

Important dates: April 1, 2009 Full Paper Submissions due via online system May 1, 2009 Initial editorial screening results sent to authors May 1, 2009 Requests for reviews sent out for papers editorially accepted June 20, 2009 Reviews due back to guest editors via online system July 1, 2009 Initial decisions and Review results sent to corresponding authors August 1, 2009 Resubmissions due with required revisions in camera ready format Sept 15, 2009 Final decisions sent to corresponding authors Oct 15, 2009 Final Paper versions due End 2009/early 2010 Target publication date of special issue

Submission Instructions: Submit original manuscripts via the EJIS Online Review System http://ejis.msubmit.net IMPORTANT: When you fill out the details for your submission On the "Manuscript Information" Tab in the section "Special Issue" Title of Special Issue" you must select from the pull down list: "Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration" Please read ALL of the instructions carefully before submitting your manuscript and ensure the main article files do not contain any author identifiable information. Although PDF is acceptable for initial submission original source (ie MS Word) files will be required for typesetting etc. All manuscripts must follow the EJIS published style preferences: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/author_instructions.html.

Papers should not normally exceed 12 Journal pages (about 8000 words).

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