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- From: kling@ics.uci.edu (Rob Kling)
- Subject: Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems: TOIS paper call
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:32:51 GMT
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- Call for Papers (9/13/92)
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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- A Special Issue of The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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- The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) announces a Special
- Issue devoted to the applications of theories and methods of the social
- sciences to understand the development, social organization, role, and
- impacts of information systems in organizations.
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- Possible topics include studies of the social processes of implementing
- large scale information systems, the relationship of information systems
- developments to changes in organizational strategy, the role of information
- systems in changing the organization of work, the ways that information
- systems fit or help change organizational cultures, and the social dynamics
- of groups that develop or use information systems.
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- Empirical studies which carefully examine key social processes that
- influence the nature or impacts information systems are of particular
- interest, whether they use qualitative or quantitative data. Theoretical
- papers can also be appropriate if they carefully use empirical materials to
- help illustrate and explain the value of the theoretical position which is
- advanced. Authors should take special care in indicating the ways that
- their papers help advance the research frontiers. The special issue editor
- will be particularly sympathetic to papers which develop new empirical or
- theoretical directions, as long as the rationale for and value of the
- innovations is well developed.
-
- The TOIS editors consider information systems to be a label with broad
- meanings, and includes: electronic mail, books, libraries, classrooms,
- museums, decision and meeting support systems, and entertainment systems,
- as well as more traditional transaction processing systems and networks of
- such systems.
-
- The editor for this special issue is
- Professor Rob Kling
- Department of Information and Computer Science
- University of California, Irvine
- Irvine, Ca 92717
- 714-856-5955 kling@ics.uci.edu
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- The special issue will be published in July 1994. In order to allow
- adequate time for review, revisions, and publication, five copies of each
- paper must be submitted by February 26, 1993 to:
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- Dr. Robert B. Allen
- Editor in Chief, TOIS
- Room 2A-367
- Bell Communications Research, Inc.
- 445 South Street
- Morristown NJ 07960-1910
- [201/829-4315 rba@bellcore.com]
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- Please see the July 1990 issue of TOIS for guidelines about format.
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- High quality papers which are submitted or revised late, or whose focus do
- not fit this special issue, may be accepted for publication in subsequent
- issues of TOIS. Papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received. Since
- some papers may require revision before final acceptance, time is being
- allowed for revision and re-review of promising papers. It would be
- advantageous for authors to submit papers as soon as possible to allow
- adequate time for reviews and possible revisions. Questions about the scope
- of the special issue should be directed to Professor Rob Kling.
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- The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
-
- The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) is now in its 9th
- volume. The Transactions was founded as the Transactions on Office
- Information Systems, and the word 'Office' was dropped from the title as of
- 1989. About 5500 copies were mailed for the January 1992.
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- TOIS covers a wide range of studies, including information interfaces,
- object-oriented databases, information retrieval for office systems
- (including CSCW), the social dimensions of information systems, and the
- social and organizational impact of computers.
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- TOIS serves as the major ACM journal for publishing leading edge research
- on these topics. The Communications of the ACM (CACM) also publishes
- articles about these topics, as well as others. A key distinguishing
- feature between the CACM and TOIS is that articles for CACM should interest
- a broad and diverse segment of its 70,000 readers. In contrast, TOIS
- publishes specialized papers which might be of greatest interest to a
- researchers who are close to a paper's topic. Professor Kling serves on
- both the editorial board of CACM and TOIS, and can be contacted with
- questions about the suitability of specific papers these journals.
-