-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] MISQ Special Issue on Social Justice - Curated Case Track Information Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 09:07:30 -0500 From: Min-Seok Pang mins.pang@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Dear fellow researchers,

Thank you for your interest and participation in MISQ Special Issue on Digital Technologies and Social Justice. This is to provide further information on submissions to the Curated Case Track.

*Further details on the category of cases (Curated Case Track)*

In the Call for Papers ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTNsJe85Do1CnRvPLIaeYiIa0yi7PRK-/view?usp=s...) you can read that* "we seek original case submissions that shed a bright light on pressing social justice phenomena, which future IS research can build upon for further theorization and expansion of IS knowledge. With curated case collections, we wish to collate several individual empirical case studies into a joint, peer-reviewed paper. These curated case collections are intended to bring the research community’s attention to particularly relevant understudied issues and ongoing initiatives on the ground relating to social justice and digital technology. As such, they may serve as a starting point and motivation for further research attention to important aspects of social justice."*

Because this is a novel type of papers, we wish to provide additional information about the format and further process:

*The purpose:* We included this novel format to be able to publish empirical exemplar cases that provide insights into novel, significant phenomena or issues. Our hope is that they can serve as an inspiration and a motivation to other researchers and spark research interests towards hitherto overlooked or under-researched themes and issues. These papers are therefore neither teaching cases, nor primarily practitioner-oriented papers.

*The format*: The emphasis in the case papers is on the empirical contribution. Cases need to be based on an analysis of empirical data. We expect that they contain a problem definition (and this requires conceptual positioning), a well-structured and relevant description of the empirical case, a sound analysis, and formulation of insights or learnings from the case. We do not expect that the case papers have any extensive literature review (beyond that which is required to define and conceptualize the case itself). Also, we don’t expect that the paper will offer theoretical or methodological contributions. Please consult the criteria listed in the Call for Papers.

*The review process and publication*: The case papers will be sent for review individually, and the "curation" (i.e. combining several cases into a case collection) will only happen after the individual cases are accepted. During the review process, we may ask you to share additional information (e.g. on the data generation and analysis process) per the journal transparency policy (https://misq.umn.edu/research-transparency). For the publication, we envision a format similar to what you can find in the special issue of Next Generation IS Theories at MISQ 45(1) ( https://misq.umn.edu/contents-45-1/), where 5 Regular Articles are complemented by a 6th unconventional article. This 6th article (co-authored by the SI guest editors) contains a brief introduction to 8 shorter “Provocations,” which appear as standalone, specific pieces of work by each author team, however, not as Regular Articles.

*Practical information:* We ask for manuscripts with a length of approximately 2000 words. You may provide additional details such as data generation and analysis processes in appendices. You should submit a case paper to MISQ ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/misq) in the same way as a Regular Article, but *please specify in your cover letter that you're submitting to the Curated Case track. If not specified in the cover letter, it would be considered a Regular Article submission*.

*Case studies as regular articles*: We also want to clarify that in addition to submissions to the Curated Case Track, we also welcome your case study submissions as Regular Articles, with similar formats and lengths. Like other regular articles, these case studies will be expected to have substantial theoretical contributions and implications.

Once again, thank you very much for your interest and participation in the special issue, and we look forward to your submission by June 30. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org