Call for Papers

Outsourcing of Professional Activities: Analysis of Strategic, Technical, Organizational, and Economic Aspects: Unique opportunity to submit papers that will be considered concurrently for publication in three journals!

The rapidly evolvingU field of Outsourcing and Offshoring is covered in the latest issue of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Vol 5, No. 2, April-June 2007 (released in February 2007). Forthcoming issues of the ACM Transactions of Internet Technology and the Information Resources Management Journal will also be exclusively devoted to this topic. Given the importance of this field and the widespread shortage of good papers on the subject, a concerted effort has been launched to solicit papers on various aspects of this field. A new process has been established to enable papers related to outsourcing to be concurrently evaluated for publication in three journals: IRMJ, JECO, and IJEGR.

You are invited to submit a paper for potential publication in a journal that is appropriate based on the theme of your paper. Based on its focus within the broad topic of Offshoring and Outsourcing, it will be examined for potential publication in relevant journals of IGI: specifically, IRMJ, JECO, and IJEGR. You can access details of these journals via:

http://idea-group.com/journals/

Your paper can cover Economic, Technological, Strategic, Political,  Organizational, and other aspects associated with offshoring of knowledge-based professional services. Or it can include discussion of issues such as:

• Big picture of offshoring delivery models and value addition models.

• Theoretical models for offshoring.

• Analysis of Specific Outsourcing Situations in Commercial and Governmental Sectors

• New opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.

• Global forces that are catalyzing the growth of offshoring and outsourcing.

• Concepts of offshoring and outsourcing that are nucleating new information technologies and information management techniques.

• Use of new information resources management paradigms that can drastically revolutionize activities in other professions.

• Advent of collaboration techniques that can blend domestic and foreign workers to address new applications.

• The distinction between "what to outsource" versus "what can be outsourced".

• Outsourcing and Government: Role, trend, policy, and adoption of electronic techniques.

Your manuscripts will undergo peer review process to ensure high quality.

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are requested to send FULL submission (with authors, title and abstract) as an email attachment to:

gupta@eller.arizona.edu

(All manuscripts will be acknowledged within 72 hours of receipt.)

Preferred format is WORD. Manuscripts must not exceed 12,000 words and must be written in English and set in 12 point font.

For other submission information, please follow the specifications at http://www.idea-group.com/irmj

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 28, 2007.
Notification: Rolling basis.
Revisions: Rolling basis.
Publication: In various issues of IRMJ, JECO, and IJEGR to be published during 2007 and 2008.

GUEST EDITOR FOR FIELD OF OUTSOURCING AND OFFSHORING:
Professor Amar Gupta
Thomas R. Brown Chair in Mgmt & Technology, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Management & Organizations, & MIS and
Sr. Dir. of Research and Business Development at Eller College of Management; and
Professor of Computer Science, College of Science
University of Arizona
Telephone: (520) 626-9842
Email: gupta@eller.arizona.edu
Webpages: http://next.eller.arizona.edu/ and http://next.eller.arizona.edu/people/gupta/index.aspx

For more information, please contact us.