Call for Papers

Information Resources Management Journal

Special Issue on Offshoring and Outsourcing with emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurial aspects

This special issue is envisaged to look at offshoring and outsourcing from multiple perspectives:

• Innovations in Information Resources Management 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; and

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

Papers are invited on all aspects of information resource management issues related to offshoring. These include (but are not limited to):

Offshoring strategic management of information resources
Offshoring management and leadership
Offshoring security and privacy
Offshoring document management
Offshoring performance and scalability issues
Offshoring applications development
Offshoring networking and communications
Offshoring and innovative applications
Offshoring and entrepreneurial ventures
Offshoring by surmounting of spatial and temporal barriers
Offshoring and collaboration
Offshoring and distributed applications development

SUBMISSIONS

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

irmj@eller.arizona.edu

Preferred formats are WORD and PDF. Manuscripts must not exceed 12,000 words and must be written in English and set in 12 point font.

For submission information, please see http://www.idea-group.com/irmj

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: December 01, 2006
Notification: Rolling basis; latest by April-May 2007
Final revision: May-June 2007
Publication: Early 2008

GUEST EDITOR
Professor Amar Gupta
T. R. Brown Chair in Mgmt & Technology, Professor of Entrepreneurship & MIS and
Sr. Dir. of Research and Business Development Eller College of Management; and Professor of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Telephone: (520) 626-9842
Email: gupta@eller.arizona.edu

For more information, please contact us.