-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) on Agile Business and Open Innovation Challenges for Information Systems Design Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:01:48 +0200 From: Aurelio Ravarini aravarini@liuc.it To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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Special Issue On: Agile Business and Open Innovation Challenges for Information Systems Design

Guest Editors: Aurelio Ravarini (aravarini@liuc.it mailto:aravarini@liuc.it) and Gianluigi Viscusi (viscusi@disco.unimib.it mailto:viscusi@disco.unimib.it)

The growing relevance of networks in the information society is progressively matching the business impact of open business models, giving life at an emergent organizational form often referred to as agile business. Within an agile business, new ways of providing services to businesses, such as crowdsourcing and people services, are enabled by technologies available at a low cost and low impact on the existing IT infrastructures. These phenomena addressed with different terms (collective intelligence, social computing, servitization, etc.) contribute and are enacted by the information growth related to the diffusion of Internet, social networks, new media, and Free/Libre Open Source Software. These factors challenge the information systems research because of the multiple dimensions involved at conceptual and disciplinary level (spanning among others from sociology, economics and organizational science, to computer science and engineering).

Objective of the Special Issue: This special issue encompasses all aspects of business agility and open innovation and promotes the exchange of ideas from academics and researchers on the impact of open and service oriented business models on organizations and information systems management and design. Original research papers, as well as expository and survey papers, are sought. Papers submitted to this special issue should relate in some way to the work of Ralf Koetter. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, the following.

Recommended Topics: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Business requirements modeling - Collective intelligence - Free/Libre Open Source Software - IT service management and governance - Open innovation in private and public sector - Open knowledge and organizational boundaries - Quality, trust and security of services - Service compliance with laws and regulations - Service design methodologies and patterns - Service innovation and strategy - Service science applications and information systems design - Value models in service science

Submission Procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Agile Business and Open Innovation Challenges for Information Systems Design on or before December 15, 2011.

All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Aurelio Ravarini and Gianluigi Viscusi Guest Editors E-mail: aravarini@liuc.it mailto:aravarini@liuc.it; viscusi@disco.unimib.it mailto:viscusi@disco.unimib.it

Aurelio Ravarini CETIC Research Center - http://cetic.liuc.it Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC