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Subject: JITCA Special Issue: IT and eBusiness in the Financial Services Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:09:36 -0500 From: Steven Gordon gordon@babson.edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

REMINDER: January 15 is the deadline for proposals for the special issue of JITCA on IT and eBusiness in the financial services. The original call for papers is reproduced below and attached as a Word document. The proposal itself need be no more than a page, but proposals are required. Please address your proposal to the special issue editor, Steve Gordon, gordon@babson.edu. Thank you.

CALL FOR PAPERS

JITCA – Special Issue on Information Technology and E-Business in the Financial Services Deadline for Proposals: January 15, 2002 Deadline for Submission: March 31, 2002

For this special issue, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2002, authors are invited to submit original case research and case studies on the use of information technology in the financial service industries. Financial services include depository institutions, non-depository credit institutions, security and commodity brokers, dealers, and exchanges, insurance carriers, insurance agents and brokers, and holding and other investment offices. Financial services account for nearly fifty percent of the service economy in the United States, have a similar importance in most industrialized nations, and are central to the integration of developing nations into the world economy. Financial service companies were among the earliest commercial users of information technology and remain at the forefront in their push to transact business electronically.

Possible topics for this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: · Obstacles to and facilitators of e-business for financial services · Electronic integration among services, such as banking and brokerage · Providing security for financial transactions · Development, implementation, and operation of online banking, trading, and/or insurance · Investment management portals · Wireless brokerage services · Preparing for stock decimalization · Preparing for the Euro · Securities trading over electronic communications networks (ECNs) · Front office/back office integration · Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the financial services · Expert systems for financial planning and advising

Important Dates One page proposal: January 15, 2002 Feedback on proposals: January 31, 2002 Submission due: March 31, 2002 Authors notified: June 30, 2002 Final revisions due: Sept. 30, 2002

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be made by electronic mail to the special issues editor, Steven Gordon (gordon@babson.edu). Submissions must be in English, and should represent the original work of the authors. Each submission is limited to 25 double-spaced pages (excluding appendices) in Times New Roman or similar 12 pt. font.

Submissions should include the following documents as separate e-mail attachments: · Cover page with name, e-mail, mailing address, university/organization affiliation, phone/fax numbers of the contact person and all co-authors.

· Body of the paper, including title, keywords, abstract of no more than 150 words, main body, and references. Reference format should follow MIS Quarterly. Attachments may be sent in text (.txt), rich text (.rtf), Microsoft Word (.doc), or Adobe (.pdf) format. Figures may be included within Microsoft Word or Adobe documents or attached separately as GIF or JPG files.

About JITCA

The Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications (JITCA) is a refereed quarterly publication with a focus on cases and applications that explain existing theories and concepts or that help in building new theories and frameworks. JITCA intends to disseminate current and relevant IT cases and applications to educators, managers, practitioners, and researchers all over the world. More information about JITCA and its editors can be found at http://www.liu.edu/jitca.

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