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CALL FOR PAPERS

MISQ EXECUTIVE ~ a publication of MIS Quarterly ~ ~ sponsored by the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University ~

(This call is being repeated since several people have said it arrived in a garbled state)

Call for Papers ( also available at http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/MISQE-call-for-papers.htm ) 19 June 2001

The editor-in-chief, Jack Rockart, and the senior editors, Cynthia Beath, Allen Lee, Jeanne Ross, and Michael Vitale, of the new journal MISQ Executive are inviting submissions.

The mission of MISQ Executive is to encourage practice-based research in the information systems field and to disseminate the results of that research in a manner that makes its relevance and utility readily apparent to both academic and non-academic readers. MISQ Executive will pursue this mission by publishing academic research in a format targeting senior managers. Executives already have access to many sources of knowledge about information systems, but MISQ Executive will differentiate itself from other forms of IS practitioner literature by publishing articles, case studies, and research reports that are theoretically and methodologically sound, and that focus the reader's attention on their rich stories, unique insights, and useful conceptual frameworks.

MISQ Executive is soliciting submissions of articles for publication in the following departments:

**Executive Research. Executive Research articles will present original research and offer lessons, frameworks, explanations, and recommendations relevant to practice. Sloan Management Review provides a model for these articles. Unlike much academic literature, these articles need not emphasize their theoretical roots or describe the methods used, but they will identify related literature that enriches their findings and recommendations for the interested reader.

**Case Research. Case Research articles will provide rich stories of individual organizations' management and technological initiatives. These articles will not only tell the story, but also provide analyses of the events and their outcomes. The annual SIM competition papers published in MIS Quarterly provide good examples of case research articles.

**Research Reports. A Research Report will summarize findings and insights from a recently completed but as yet unpublished research study, including those studies eventually intended for publication in traditional academic journals. The objective of Research Reports is to provide timely and generalizable observations, feedback, and reflections on relatively new phenomena and issues in the information systems arena. A paper suitable for Research Reports would move the research community forward on research in a new area and give practitioners insights into new "hot" areas. Research Reports may, in some cases, be brief (approximately 2 pages) summaries of findings from a just-completed research project, where readers might contact authors for additional details. In other cases, research reports might provide much more detailed findings.

**Research Digest. Research Digest articles will revisit research already published in MIS Quarterly or other academic journals and reframe the research specifically for practitioners who are likely to find the results of the research relevant to current practice. These articles will be rewritten for a practitioner audience in a manner that focuses on managerial practice rather than theory.

MISQ Executive intends to be the premiere IS research journal targeting a managerial audience. It aims to emphasize practice-based research as a worthy and important academic pursuit. Its target audience will include both practitioners and researchers, so that the journal can stimulate ongoing discussions at the intersection of research and practice. Educators may also find its articles to be a useful way to introduce students to concepts or frameworks from MIS research.

Unlike the MIS Quarterly review process, the MISQ Executive review process will rarely engage authors in a long developmental process. The MISQ Executive review process will typically involve an accept/reject decision or a single revision prior to an accept/reject decision. Lengthy, "value adding" review cycles will not be the norm. The review process is as follows:

1. Every submission will be screened for review readiness by a senior editor (SE) or the editor-in-chief (EIC). The EIC or one of the SEs will be designated as responsible for managing the submission through the review process (henceforth, the "managing SE").

2. After passing the screening, the submission will go to at least (but generally, no more than) two members of the editorial board who will serve as reviewers. (However, for the first two issues of MISQ Executive, the reviewers will most likely consist of the other SEs and the EIC). They, in turn, may seek outside persons to be additional reviewers, but the expectation is for this option to be used very rarely.

3. Authors may request (subject to the approval of the managing SE) a review process that is double blind (so that the reviewers and authors do not know each other's identities) or a review process that is open (so that all reviewers and authors in the manuscript's review process know each others' identities).

4. Generally, there will be a quick accept or reject decision on submissions. The editorial board members reviewing the manuscript may discuss their reactions to a manuscript and write a single, joint recommendation to the managing SE, who will make the final decision on the manuscript and communicate with the author.

Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in the form of a single Word or WordPerfect file (including all tables, figures, and diagrams) attached to an e-mail to submit@misqe.org. The e-mail should:

1. list the name(s) and e-mail address(es) of the author(s),

2. identify the corresponding author,

3. indicate the department to which the manuscript is being submitted (Executive Research, Case Research, Research Reports, or Research Digest),

4. nominate one or more of the SEs (Cynthia Beath, Allen Lee, Jeanne Ross, or Michael Vitale) or the EIC (Jack Rockart) to manage the review process for the manuscript and to make the final accept/reject decision on it, and

5. indicate whether the author prefers a blind or open review process.

Authors will transfer the copyright of their articles to MISQ Executive, but will retain the right to distribute copies of their articles themselves for educational and research purposes.

MISQ Executive: A Print Journal, Distributed Electronically

The first two issues of MISQ Executive will be distributed as supplements to MIS Quarterly. MIS Quarterly subscribers will automatically receive, at no cost, the first two issues of MISQ Executive. In addition, the first two issues as well as all subsequent issues of MISQ Executive will be made available in the form of .pdf files that, when printed, will have an appearance similar to articles published in MIS Quarterly, where the visual appeal of MISQ Executive's articles may be enhanced. Pages will be numbered consecutively within issues. There will be four issues every year. These features will distinguish MISQ Executive from electronic journals which only display their articles in html format. MISQ Executive will not be an electronic journal, but will be a print journal that is distributed electronically. The expectation is that most readers will subscribe to MISQ Executive electronically. However, we expect that paper copies of articles and bound issues will be available, at a cost to be determined.

The MISQ Executive website will soon be available at www.misqe.org.

Editor-in-Chief

Jack Rockart Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Senior Editors

Cynthia Beath University of Texas, Austin, USA Allen Lee Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Jeanne Ross Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Michael Vitale Australian Graduate School of Management, AUS

Executive Editor

Alan Dennis Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Editorial Board, current through 19 June 2001

Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Carol Brown, Indiania University, USA Michelle Brown, Syracuse University, USA Yolande Chan, Queen's University, CAN Ted Clark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CHN Kathy Curley, Communispace Corporation, USA Tom Davenport, Accenture, USA David Feeny, University of Oxford, GBR Chuck Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Varun Grover, University of South Carolina, USA John Henderson, Boston University, USA Blake Ives, University of Houston, USA Kate Kaiser, Marquette University, USA Ajit Kambil, Accenture,USA Laurie Kirsch, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jiro Kokuryo, Keio University, JPN Mary Lacity, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA Stuart Madnick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Donald Marchand, International Institute for Management Development, CHE M.Lynne Markus, City University of Hong Kong, CHN, Claremont Graduate University, USA Warren McFarlan, Harvard University, USA Keri Pearlson, CSC Research Services, USA, KP Partners, Inc., USA V. Sambamurthy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Judy Scott, University of Texas, Austin, USA Al Segars, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Maung Sein, Agder University College, NOR Jim Short, London Business School, GBR Christina Soh, Nanyang Technological University, SGP Peter Todd, University of Houston, USA Brad Wheeler, Indiana University, USA Leslie Willcocks, University of Warwick, GBR Mike Zack, Northeastern University, USA Bob Zmud, University of Oklahoma, USA

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