-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] TOC -- Intl J of Acctg Info Systems (IJAIS) - December 2011 Datum: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 15:34:03 -0500 Von: Nicolaou, Andreas I. anicol@bgsu.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Andreas I. Nicolaou Owens-Illinois Professor, Department of Accounting& IS Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403, USA

Editor, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems http://www.elsevier.com/locate/accinf

-----Original Message----- From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Merrill Warkentin Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:40 AM To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org Subject: [AISWorld] CFP Special Issue of EJIS on Cross-Cultural IS Research

Call for Papers European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) (www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/)

Special Issue on Cross-Cultural IS Research: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Traditions

Globalization not only affects all dimensions of organizational management, it can also impact IS research and research methods. China and other Eastern cultures are contributing the Oriental traditions to the Occidental lenses of analysis, while also providing interesting contrasts to the historical experiences in the Western world. With this backdrop, the significance of cultural issues is becoming increasingly evident in many academic disciplines. What role does culture play in the design of, adoption of, and use of information systems? How do these experiences differ between Eastern and Western cultural environments? Beyond that, to what extent and how should we integrate unique Eastern and Western management theories?

Cross-cultural IS research has piqued increasing interest among IS scholars. A variety of theoretical frameworks derived from various reference disciplines have guided cross-cultural IS researchers to investigate intra-cultural congruence and variation. However, recent key studies indicate that much of the extant work could fall into an "ecological fallacy" because researchers have substituted national stereotypes for individualistic and idiosyncratic traits, and have ignored the fact that culture, which isn't solely a national differentiator, may co-vary with other national characteristics and could continuously evolve. Studying IS in the Chinese culture should help us surface the unstated assumptions in Western-culture theories. We need research that extends and expands the contributions to our understanding of the role of culture in IS.

The focus of this special issue will be on innovative yet critical thinking on cross-cultural IS research, especially as it relates to contrasting or converging Eastern and Western experiences and viewpoints. In essence, we are keen on receiving novel and extendable studies on cross-cultural IS artefacts instead of merely replicating existing models in various contexts. We also invite scholarly conceptual analyses of the role of scientific discovery across the globe, and how various research traditions may be enhanced by inclusion of new lenses and perspectives that are prominent in other cultures. We seek fresh research approaches that go beyond the traditional Hofstede paradigm which pursue new theoretical and methodological avenues for investigating IT-related phenomena in Asia and the Western World. We wish to be inclusive and not limit our investigation to any technologies, research methods, or paradigms, but would welcome any meaningful, rigorous scholarship that extends our understanding of current research findings in both the Occidental and Oriental worlds. Research can be conducted at the individual, group, organization, industry (inter-organizational), or society/nation level.

Theoretical perspectives may include behavioural, organisational, cognitive, cultural, socio-technical, or other lenses for analysis of important issues in this domain. We particularly encourage contributions to knowledge based on rigorous research methodologies, such as field or case studies, controlled experiments, or various other qualitative, quantitative, normative, critical, or rational analyses. This special issue will serve as a venue to inform and be informed, to share knowledge, and to foster continued research interactions between the two research traditions.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Novel methods and tools for cross-cultural investigation (e.g. new validated scales) -Insightful analyses of Eastern versus Western IS research traditions -Information system usage behaviours under different cultural influences (e.g. adoption behaviours, security behaviours, social patterns within groups using IT, etc.) -IS behaviours when Eastern users collaborate with Western users -Managerial strategies and their impacts on IS usage patterns -Innovative research into contrasts between emerging IT usage, such as comparisons between usage patterns of mobile social networking or cloud computing -The role of national social and economic policies in promoting and altering IT usage by organizations and individuals

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State Univ., USA M.Warkentin@msstate.edu Patrick Y.K. Chau, The Univ. of Hong Kong, China Pchau@business.hku.hk Brigitte Charles-Pauvers, Univ. of Nantes, France Brigitte.Charles-Pauvers@univ-nantes.fr

Submission Guidelines:

- Authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors early for initial feedback on proposals. - Papers may be submitted to the special issue any time before April 1, 2012. - Follow the EJIS formatting guidelines: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/author_instructions.html - Note that manuscripts should be no longer than 8000 words. - Submit using the EJIS online paper submission system and select Special Issue "CCR" at http://ejis.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex - The guest editors will screen all submissions before sending papers out for review.

Key Dates:

Submissions for the Special issue close on April 1, 2012 First round decisions: July 2012 Second round revisions due: October 2012 Second round decisions: December 2012 Final round revisions due: March 2013

Special Issue Editorial Board (Associate Editors):

Ariane Bertho-Antal, University of Berlin, Germany Shekhar Chaudhuri, IIM Calcutta, India Himadri Das, IMI, India Robert M. Davison, City University of Hong Kong, China Qing Hu, Iowa State University, USA Yaobin Lu, Huazhong University of Science& Technology, China Shin-Yuan Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan John Kidd, Aston University, UK Vincent Siu-king Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Paul Benjamin Lowry, City University of Hong Kong, China Xin Luo, University of New Mexico, USA Je-Yi Mao, Renmin University, China Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Zhong-Ming Wang, Zhejiang University, China

Thank you, Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University

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