Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems: TOIS paper call
From: Rob Kling <kling@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:22:19 GMT



                      Call for Papers   (9/13/92)

           SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS

 A Special Issue of The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) announces a Special
Issue devoted to the applications of theories and methods of the social
sciences to understand the development, social organization, role, and
impacts of information systems in organizations.

Possible topics include studies of the social processes of implementing
large scale information systems, the relationship of information systems
developments to changes in organizational strategy, the role of information
systems in changing the organization of work, the ways that information
systems fit or help change organizational cultures, and the social dynamics
of groups that develop or use information systems.

Empirical studies which carefully examine key social processes that
influence the nature or impacts information systems are of particular
interest, whether they use qualitative or quantitative data. Theoretical
papers can also be appropriate if they carefully use empirical materials to
help illustrate and explain the value of the theoretical position which is
advanced. Authors should take special care in indicating the ways that
their papers help advance the research frontiers. The special issue editor
will be particularly sympathetic to papers which develop new  empirical or
theoretical directions, as long as the rationale for and value of the
innovations is well developed.

The TOIS editors consider information systems to be a label with broad
meanings, and includes: electronic mail, books, libraries, classrooms,
museums, decision and meeting support systems, and entertainment systems,
as well as more traditional transaction processing systems and networks of
such systems.

The editor for this special issue is
Professor Rob Kling
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, Ca 92717
714-856-5955    kling@ics.uci.edu

The special issue will be published in July 1994. In order to allow
adequate time for review, revisions, and publication, five copies of each
paper must be submitted by February 26, 1993 to:

Dr. Robert B. Allen
Editor in Chief, TOIS
Room 2A-367
Bell Communications Research, Inc.
445 South Street
Morristown  NJ  07960-1910
[201/829-4315  rba@bellcore.com]

Please see the July 1990 issue of TOIS for guidelines about format.

High quality papers which are submitted or revised late, or whose focus do
not fit this special issue, may be accepted for publication in subsequent
issues of TOIS. Papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received. Since
some papers may require revision before final acceptance, time is being
allowed for revision and re-review of promising papers. It would be
advantageous for authors to submit papers as soon as possible to allow
adequate time for reviews and possible revisions. Questions about the scope
of the special issue should be directed to Professor Rob Kling.
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The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) is now in its 9th
volume.  The Transactions was founded as the Transactions on Office
Information Systems, and the word 'Office' was dropped from the title as of
1989.  About 5500 copies were mailed for the January 1992.

TOIS covers a wide range of studies, including information interfaces,
object-oriented databases, information retrieval for office systems
(including CSCW), the social dimensions of information systems, and the
social and organizational impact of computers.

TOIS serves as the major ACM journal for publishing leading edge research
on these topics. The Communications of the ACM (CACM) also publishes
articles about these topics, as well as others. A key distinguishing
feature between the CACM and TOIS is that articles for CACM should interest
a broad and diverse segment of its 70,000 readers.  In contrast, TOIS
publishes specialized papers which might be of greatest interest to a
researchers who are close to a paper's topic. Professor Kling serves on
both the editorial board of CACM and TOIS, and can be contacted with
questions about the suitability of specific papers these journals.