Dear colleagues,
In order to attend some request about submission deadline for this
project, this have been extended to April 9, 2001. So i encourage you to
send your chapter proposal to share with practitioner and academic
community findings and relevant ideas about Information Technology based
on systemic approach.
Cordially,
Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D
International Tutor
Newport University, CA
USA.
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission deadline extended April 9, 2001
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH
A book edited by Jeimy J. Cano. Newport University, USA.
During last decade information systems/information technology (IS/IT) has
a
important development in the world, specially in business environment.
This
issues had a special outcomes for organizations in different ways
individual satisfaction, organizational profits and technological advance.
Therefore,
MIS discipline face highest challenges in order to explore creative and
innovative solutions, strategies and reflections to support new
advantanges
in a new environment, where individual move dinamically, diary
organizational change and exponential technological advance.
Through the use of IS/IT to support business strategies to reach
competitive advantage companies are looking for ideas and answers to solve
gap between
competiveness and technological investment. This book face this challenge
offering a systemic scenario where all players are related with others in
order to show properties that could be hidden in different relationships
and
not in a specific element or player. For these reason, the essence of this
invitation is share accumulated knowledge as in academic and practitioner
community in IS/IT comprehension based in a systemic (holistic) view like
a
support new ways to explore MIS discipline and technological understanting
in next century.
The main purpose of this book is rethinking information
systems/information
technology like his name says, they are systems.
Representative topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Systemic concepts on Information Technology
- Management cybernetics in Information technology
- Theoretical models in Information Technology/Informations Systems
incorporation
- Information systems and business strategies: Systemic approach
- IS/IT and organizational complexity
- Information technology incorporation: case studies
- Technology transfer in developing contries
- Technological frames
- IS/IT and Organizational culture impact
- Information systems management and strategy formulation
- Social and human issues in information systems
- Knowledge management and organizational learning systems
BOOK Sections:
I. Systemic concepts on Information Technology
II. Theoretical models in Information Technology/Informations Systems
incorporation
III. Information Systems and Business Strategies: Holistic approach
IV. IT/IS Organizational and social issues
V. Information Technology incorporation: Case studies
VI. Reflections on IT Incorporation: Tendencies and Perspectives
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 9,
2001, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaning the mission an
concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposal will be
notified by May 15, 2001 about the status of their proposal and sent
chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by
September 15, 2001. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind
review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group
Publishing in 2002.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (word97) to:
Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D
International Tutor
Newport University.
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