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Tentative Publication Date: December 2010
Deadline for Submission: February 1, 2010
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Special Issue Editors:
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz
H. Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University
Editor-in-Chief:
Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Information technology (IT) projects continue to suffer from frequent cost and time overruns and failure to fully deliver on the expected benefits to the users or the organization. Furthermore, what determines the success or failure of information technology implementations and use in developing and emerging economies may differ substantially from generally accepted success factors in highly developed countries. Developing economies are defined by low gross national income per capita, and are generally characterized by low standards of living, a weak industrial and commercial base, and a poor infrastructure. Still developing economies that exhibit robust, continual economic expansion, resulting in fast growing per capita income, and which have administrations that are dedicated towards developing the commercial base and improving the infrastructure are termed emerging economies. IT is generally considered to be a prime factor in the economic and national development of these regions.
The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for research and practice specifically directed at the factors and models that contribute to the success (or failure) of IT implementation and use for economic and national development in developing and emerging economies. Submitted papers, while focusing on specific success factors or exemplary models, must explain how the work makes a contribution to better understanding the role of IT in economic or national development, affecting people's lives and their communities, Submitted work will be evaluated for methodological soundness, empirical completeness, and academic rigor, as well as originality and interestingness. Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Organizational culture and IT success factors in developing or emerging economies
- Factors and models that contribute to (or may inhibit) technology bringing about economic development
- Case studies looking at successful (or failed) models of IT use in developing or emerging economies
- Critical success factors in Web service adoption in developing or emerging economies
- Differences in success perception of IT between developing/emerging and developed countries
- Cultural factors and models in successful IT adoption and use in developing countries
- Factors and models that may make IT a successful tool for achieving global
Call for Papers in PDF Format (22 KB)
Special Issue Editorial Board:
Niv Ahituv, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mito Akiyoshi, Senshu University, Japan
Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
Anton Arapetyan, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Military Institute, USA
Eszter Agnes Bartis, Corvinus University, Hungary
Sergey Butakov, Woosong University, Korea
Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Dorota Dobija, Kozminski University, Poland
Anca Draghici, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Biswadip Ghosh, Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA
G. Harindranath, University of London, UK
Kalinka Kaloyanova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Mehruz Kamal, State University of New York at Brockport, USA
Ranjan Kini, Indiana University Northwest, USA
Ilsang Ko, Chonnam National University, Korea
Niki Kunene, University of Louisville, USA
Abdulrahman A. Mirza, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Valter Moreno, Ibmec-RJ, Brasil
Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State University, USA
Nicolau Reinhard, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil
Tomas Sabol, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Sergey Samoilenko, Virginia Union University, USA
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Margaret Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kuldar Taveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Marinos Themistocleous, University of Piraeus, Greece
Tibor Voros, Central European University, Hungary
Contact Information for Special Issue Editors:
Narcyz Roztocki
State University of New York at New Paltz
School of Business
75 S. Manheim Blvd.
New Paltz, NY 12561-2443
Phone: (845) 257-2935
Fax: (845) 257-2947
Email: roztockn@newpaltz.edu
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H. Roland Weistroffer
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Business
Snead Hall, 301 West Main Street
Richmond, VA 23284-4000
Phone: (804) 828-7118
Fax: (804) 828-3199
Email: hrweistr@vcu.edu
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Important Dates:
- Deadline for submission: February 1, 2010
- Notification of initial acceptances: March 31, 2010
- Deadline for revised papers: May 15, 2010
- Notification of final acceptances: July 15, 2010
- Deadline for final versions: September 1, 2010
- Tentative Publication Date: December 2010
Submission Guidelines:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to ITD's instructions to authors, available at http://itd.ist.unomaha.edu/submissionguide.htm, and submitted via email to both special issue editors simultaneously.
Comments/questions/suggestions/ideas are welcome via email to Narcyz Roztocki
(roztockn@newpaltz.edu)