[Air-L] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

[Hakikur Rahman]

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2013
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 30, 2013
Information Systems and technology for 
Organizational Agility, Intelligence and Resilience
A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. Rui 
Dinis de Sousa, Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Portugal

To be published by IGI Global: 
<http://www.igi-global.com>http://www.igi-global.com

(Call for the chapter:
<http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/931>http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/931)

Introduction
The contemporary global economy requires 
innovative organizations and employees with novel 
skills, attitudes, and intellectual agility. 
Organizations and individuals must be able to 
take advantage of scientific and technological 
developments to become more innovative and 
competitive by pursuing flexibility in 
communication and decision making, as well as 
knowledge sharing and collaboration, in a 
trustworthy and secure organizational and 
technological environment. In these aspects, 
information systems and information technology 
(IS/IT) play a central role as promoters of new 
initiatives to communicate, work, do business, 
relate, act, manage, and lead. Similarly, 
manifestations like e-/m-commerce, e-/m-markets, 
e-/m-business, e-/m-tourism, e-/m-governance, 
e-/m-learning, e-democracy, e-/m-collaboration, 
crowdsourcing, intermediation, and others have 
emerged in recent years, conveying IS/IT that 
influence the way individuals and organizations 
see themselves, others, and the possibilities for 
vibrant interaction. At the same time, Web 
technologies and IT applications such as decision 
support systems, workflow management systems, 
enterprise systems, value-chain management 
systems, and document and content management 
systems have allowed these systems to increase 
organizational productivity, bring the 
organization closer to its stakeholders, and 
create new forms of competition and 
inter-organizational collaboration. Foremost, a 
variety of theories, methods, best practices, and 
tools have been developed in different scientific 
areas to support the design and implementation of 
initiatives aimed in promoting organizational 
learning, organizational memory, and the 
transformation of organizational identity to 
improve organizational agility, intelligence, and resilience.

Overall Objective of the Book
The main contributor of this book is comprised of 
a group that carries out research on IS/IT 
through interdisciplinary research and 
development projects (such as transfer of 
knowledge, dissemination of knowledge, and 
various other research approaches including 
basic, transactional, and clinical research), as 
well as advanced training projects aiming to 
develop systematic and comprehensive strategies 
that promote overall organizational well-being. 
The main aim is to advise and support 
organizational agents who want ensure success in 
terms of financial, social, and environmental 
aspects as well as in the aspect of human 
development in a more sustainable way. The broad 
objective of this book will be to incorporate 
methods and technologies for the development of a 
sustained organization among the contemporary 
issues, such as increased globalization, economic 
crisis, short product life cycle, augmented 
competition, and amplified innovation. However, 
in specific, the scope of the book would like to 
include conceptual research, methodological 
aspects, empirical cases (using conventional 
instruments like survey, interview, literature 
review, case studies, and others), and especially 
success cases illustrating practices of the above mentioned instruments.

Target Audience
The target audience may incorporate academics, 
researchers, intermediaries, policy initiators, 
associations, subsidiaries, and individuals who 
would like to initiate a start-up, rejuvenate the 
existing enterprise, or collaborate with other 
partners for better competencies and value 
addition, not only in terms of finance, but also 
in respect to knowledge gain that, in the long 
run, assists in financial gain. In these aspects, 
this book will be a valuable asset to the small 
and medium entrepreneurs; associations dealing 
with small organizations; corporate business 
sectors; intermediaries; knowledge managers 
including academics, researchers, government, and 
non-government staffs; and policy initiators.

Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:
Information Systems and Technologies in 
Organizations with a Broad Vision of the Field, like
Issues of Research and Development in IST
e-/m-commerce
e-/m-market
e-/m-business
e-/m-tourism
e-/m-governance
e-/m-learning
e-democracy
e-/m-collaboration
e-research
Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Intermediation
The Future of IST in Organizations

Emerging Issues in IST in Organizations of Various Industrial Sectors
Organizational Intelligence (OI)
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Collective intelligence and IST that promote OI
Distributed Cognition
Open business models and technologies
Open innovation
Knowledge networks
Social networks
On-line communities
Collaboration and future prediction
Organizational Agility
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Innovation strategies and technologies
Organizational processes and structures
Politics, culture, and IST
IST role in building trust and reputation
IST role in building identity and image
Organizational Resilience
Frameworks and diagnostic tools
Adopting IST to become more resilient
IST to monitor environment and predict changes
Technologies to support individuals and 
organizations to connect, collaborate, and act 
collectively during the response and recovery phase of disasters

Citizen engagement in the design, implementation, 
and evaluation of policies that increase resilience
The IST Focus and Cases in Organizational Well Being
Knowledge & Innovation Management
Business Process Management (BPM)
IS Security Management
IS Development

Case Studies from Various Business Sectors and Organizations
Entrepreneurships
Not-for-profit or non-profit entities (sustained cases)
Government organizations
Research organizations

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to 
submit on or before March 30, 2013, a 2-3 page 
proposal clearly explaining the mission and 
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors 
of accepted proposals will be notified by April 
30, 2013 about the status of their proposals and 
sent case guidelines. Full chapters are expected 
to be submitted by July 30, 2013. All submitted 
chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind 
review basis. Contributors may also be requested 
to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI 
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of 
the “Information Science Reference” (formerly 
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information 
Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” 
imprints. For additional information regarding 
the publisher, please visit 
<http://www.igi-global.com>www.igi-global.com. 
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates:
March 30, 2013:                  Proposal Submission Deadline
April 30, 2013:                     Notification of Acceptance
July 30, 2013:                      Full Chapter Submission
September 30, 2013:                          Review Result Returned
October 30, 2013:               Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:
João Alvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
Kevin DeSouza, Arizona State University, USA
Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de 
Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
Gilberto Perez, Universidade Mackenzie de São Paulo Brazil
Amiram Porath, College for Academic Studies, Israel
Paresh Rathod, Lauria University, Finland


Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Prof. Hakikur Rahman
University of Minho
DSI, Azurem
4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 510 319  •  FAX: +351 253 510 300   •  GSM: +351 960193872
e-mail: hakik at dsi.uminho.pt