JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL ISSUE on:
COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadlines:
Deadline for submission: March 1st 2006
Reviews returned: May 5th 2006
Final Submission: August 1st 2006
Publication: December 2006
Special Issue Editors: Yasmin Merali and Bill McKelvey
The internet and related advances in information and
communications technology are implicated in the emergence of the
network economy and the network society. Greater connectivity and
access to increased variety and volume of information has generated
greater informational complexity, whilst enhanced communication
capability makes possible new and complex forms of organisation
embodying distributed network structures and processes.
The quest for coherent integration of social, economic,
information and technology networks has resulted in the convergence
of strategy, OD and information systems research on issues of
information and informating, connectivity, co-ordination, competition
and collaboration, learning and transformation at multiple levels of
analysis in the networked world. These developments highlight the
importance of trans-disciplinary research.
The communication, informational and representational
capabilities conferred by IT have profound significance for social,
economic, political and organizational scholars. The opportunities
and threats posed by the entanglement of information, economic,
political and social networks raise various organizational, IT, and
IS performance problems as well as ethical and philosophical issues.
One consequence is that scholars from all disciplines have turned to
complexity science in their search for new paradigms.
Complexity science is viewed as a source of concepts for enabling
the trans-disciplinary exploration of complex organisation in the
network economy and network society. Complex adaptive systems, chaos,
emergence, self-organisation and co-evolution are examples of
commonly used complexity concepts in this context, and numerous
computational techniques are available for modeling the non-linear
dynamics associated with these concepts.
The ambition of this issue is to provide a forum for opening up
the IS discipline to perspectives offered by scholars from diverse
fields, in order to stimulate a discussion about the changing role of
the Information Systems community and scholarship in the
interconnected world.
The fundamental purpose of this Special Issue is to explore the
utility of complexity science and its concepts in advancing the
development of paradigms for IS research in the networked world. We
welcome papers that explore the potential contribution of complexity
science to the development of ontological and epistemological
constructs deployed to articulate the nature and role of information,
IS and IT in the networked world. Papers that address trans-
disciplinary themes are encouraged, as are papers from scholars from
disciplines other than Information Systems.
Given the limited number of papers the Special Issue can publish,
we are also preparing a book, and we invite papers for that on the
same basis as for this Special Issue. The authors of papers invited
for revision will be invited to participate in a trans-disciplinary
research meeting on the special issue theme at Warwick Business
School. Attendees will be expected to cover the costs of their travel
and lodging.
Submission Procedure
� Please make electronic submissions. Word for Windows and
Powerpoint are preferred.
� Submissions must be sent to both Special Issue Editors at the
following addresses:
Yasmin.Merali@warwick.ac.uk AND bill.mckelvey@anderson.ucla.edu
AND to the JIT Editorial office at jit@templeton.ox.ac.uk.
� Submissions will be extensively refereed by two reviewers and an
Editor.
� Please feel free to contact Yasmin Merali with queries relating
to the Special Issue.
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Kurt A Richardson
Managing Editor
BSc(hons), MSc, PhD
MInstP, MIEE, AMIMA, AFORS
CPhys, CSci
http://kurtrichardson.com
http://isce.edu
http://emergence.org
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Jerry LR Chandler
Research Professor
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University
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