Aims and objectives
The availability of data is driving organizations to store, organize, and analyze information to make better decisions. What types of decisions are being made and with what tools? Organizations need proper information in the right form at the right time. Business intelligence and analytics are the tools that organizations can use. How are they justified, used, and implemented?
The theme of this special issue highlights the need for conceptualization and empirical study of the implications of the role of business intelligence and analytics within organizational structures. For this special issue, we call for high-quality research studies from academia, industry, governments, and nonprofits, especially collaborations among these groups, to address the benefits, justifications, implementation, and use of business intelligence (BI) analytics applications in a case study approach.
Topics may include various elements of analytics such as descriptive/retrospective, predictive, and prescriptive applications, along with IT-based reporting mechanisms that provide actionable information to stakeholders in an organization (e.g., dashboards, interactive reports, visualizations). Case studies incorporating streaming, real-time initiatives, and approaches to leveraging structured and unstructured data sources are welcome. Case study submissions should go beyond a pure data and technology focus, and extend the scope to include describing the information-creation process (e.g., deciding what data sources to be used for creating effective BI for decision support) and potentially mechanisms for monitoring effectiveness for BI users.
The articles included in this special issue could include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Emerging Trends in business intelligence and business analytics
The move to mobile BI
Cloud BI
Innovative applications
Streaming BI
Business cases for BI and analytics
Observed and potential benefits from BI
Managerial strategies for BI
Implementation issues
Development of conceptual models (information creating process)
Performance management and dashboards
Collaboration issues
Knowledge discovery and applications
Visualization, modelling, and analytics
Personalization and learning
Social media analysis
Timeline for the special issue
September 1, 2017: Full paper submission deadline for the JOCEC Special Issue review process.
December 1, 2017: Initial review notifications.
February 1, 2018: Final versions of accepted papers will be submitted for publication process, with the special issue.
The special issue targeted for publication in a late 2018/early 2019 issue.
About the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
JOCEC (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hoce20) disseminates and stimulates original research about relationships between computer/communication technology and the design, operations, and performance of organizations. Now in its twenty-seventh volume, JOCEC is published by Taylor & Francis. ISSN: 1091–9392 <//1091–9392> (Print), 1532–7744 <//1532–7744> (Online).
Submission guidelines
Submit the digital manuscript in standard MS Word format (.doc not .docx) as an attachment to an email with “JOCEC” (without quotes) as the first word in the subject line to one of the Guest Editors (Jerry Fjermestad or Stephan Kudyba or Kenneth Lawrence at [email protected]. Specifically, all papers submitted should conform to JOCEC standards and have no identifying information in the papers to allow for the double-blind review process.
Articles should be concise and in English, not more than 40 pages and/or 12,500 words. This limitation applies to the entire paper—cover page, abstract, narrative, footnotes, figures, and references included.
Manuscripts (including title page, abstract, text, quotes, acknowledgments, references, appendixes, tables, figure captions, and footnotes) should be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, using 8 ½ x 11ʹ’ page settings. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, starting with the title page. The title page should contain the article title, author(s), affiliations, a short form of the title (less than 50 characters, including letters and spaces), and the name, complete mailing address, and telephone number of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should contain a short abstract (200–250 words), and 5–10 related keywords. All acronyms should be spelled out where first used. Each table and figure should be called out within the text.
For more specific formatting information, please refer to the instructions for authors found on the journal’s website:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=hoce20&page=instructions