SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31, 2013
Guest Editor: Dr. Saqib Saeed
INTRODUCTION:
Nonprofit organizations are an important part of every society. These organizations differ from traditional business and governmental organizations in their structure and operations. As state organizations are cutting benefits of citizens the role of these third sector organizations have become more important as they do advocacy on behalf of poor citizens. Keeping in view their societal importance and scientific challenges in system design, we focus on technology involvement in this challenging domain.
OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
Information technologies can facilitate the working processes of nonprofit organizations but this sector traditionally lack funding and technical resources to setup and maintain technology infrastructures in their settings. Due to these challenges there is a recent interest by researchers in investigating the role of information technology in nonprofit organizations. In this special issue focus is on to understand the issues behind failure and success of technology usage in nonprofit organizations.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
� Technology Appropriation in Nonprofit Organizations
� Empirical Studies of Technology Usage in Nonprofit Settings
� Open Sources Systems and Nonprofit Organizations
� Web 2.0 and Nonprofit Organizations
� Evaluation of IT Systems in Practice
� Technology based Collaboration among Nonprofit Organizations
� Technology for Advocacy and Mobilization Campaigns
� Technology based Communication among Nonprofit Stakeholders
� IT and Knowledge Management in Nonprofit Settings
� System Usability Issues of Nonprofit Settings
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Nonprofit Organizations and Information Technology on or before March 31st 2013.
All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
ABOUT International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA):
The mission of the International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA) is to examine the impact of information technology (IT) on public and nonprofit organizations. Through its mission IJPADA examines the impact of IT on reforming and changing public and nonprofit organizations. This journal compares the adoption of IT in public and nonprofit organizations in developed and developing countries. IJPADA will examine emerging and innovative technologies and their adoption in public and nonprofit organizations. This journal also examines differences in the adoption of IT in private and public sector organizations.
This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJPADA
Editor-in-Chief: Christopher G. Reddick
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
All submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Saqib Saeed
Guest Editor
International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age