From: kling@ics.uci.edu (Rob Kling) Subject: CFP: Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems Date: 20 Jan 93 00:00:59 GMT Crossposted from comp.human-factors Deadline, end of February, coming soon .... Rob Kling Call for Papers SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS A Special Issue of The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 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. 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.