Call for Papers

Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations

Special Issue on Offshoring and Outsourcing

This special issue of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations is
designed to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world who are implementing offshoring and outsourcing arrangements. These impacts can be viewed from the impacts on consumer behavior, as well as the impact on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. The secondary objective of this special issue is to expand the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of offshoring and outsourcing, with regard to electronic commerce technologies and utilization in modern organizations, assisting researchers and practitioners to devise more effective systems for managing the human side of offshoring and outsourcing.

Papers are invited on all aspects of e-commerce and oragnizational issues related to offshoring.

These include (but are not limited to):
Offshoring strategic management
Offshoring management and leadership
Offshoring and organizational behavior
Offshoring and organizational development
Offshoring and organizational learning
Offshoring technologies and the workplace
Offshoring and employee ethical issues
Offshoring stress and strain impacts
Offshoring and human resource management
Offshoring and cultural issues
Offshoring and customer behavior
Offshoring and customer relationships
Offshoring and national work force
Offshoring and political issues

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are requested to send FULL submission (with authors, title and abstract) as an email attachment to jeco@mit.edu by August 10, 2006. Preferred formats are PDF and PostScript (compressed with gzip or zip). Manuscripts must not exceed 8000 words and must be written in English and set in 10 or 11 point font.

Please do not send papers directly to guest editors' email addresses.
For submission information, please see http://www.idea-group.com/jeco

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: August 10, 2006 (to jeco@mit.edu)
Notification: August 20, 2006
Final revision: September 15, 2006
Publication: April 2007

GUEST EDITOR
Professor Amar Gupta
Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)
T. R. Brown Chair in Mgmt & Technology, Professor of Entrepreneurship & MIS and
Sr. Dir. of Research and Business Development Eller College of Management, at
the University of Arizona
Telephone: (520) 626-9842
Email: gupta@eller.arizona.edu

ASSOCIATE GUEST EDITORS
Satwiksai Seshasai - Development Team Lead, IBM and Doctoral Student, MIT
(satwik@us.ibm.com )
Nathan Denny - Doctoral Student, University of Arizona (denny@ece.arizona.edu)

For more information, please contact us.