Extended Deadline ISJ Call for Papers - Ecommerce Enabled Manufacturing Operations

[Joseph Sarkis <jsarkis@clarku.edu>]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Information Systems Journal 

E-commerce Enabled Manufacturing Operations: Issues and Analysis

The management of materials, information, and other resources in
organizations has expanded beyond the role of typical operations managers.
Along with the breakdown of internal and external organizational boundaries
has come the more open environment that may envelop organizational
boundaries. Practitioners and managers throughout the world have realized
the enormity and importance of these inter-organizational systems.  Central
to the development of these systems are concepts, technologies, and tools
for electronic commerce.  These issues are of critical importance to large,
medium, and small-sized manufacturing firms. 

E-commerce encourages and supports communication and cooperation among
various functions, vendors, and customers of organizations.  Evolving
e-commerce paradigms and practices are expected to be central enablers to
operations and manufacturing concepts such as concurrent engineering, design
for "x", supply chain management, computer integrated manufacturing, agile
and virtual enterprising.  Thus, its importance is strategically vital to
organizations that wish to remain competitive.  Practitioners have realized
this importance by spending billions in e-commerce-enabled systems and
practices, and supporting processes.  Yet, researchers have been slow to
critically investigate their roles, especially with respect to manufacturing
organizations.  Thus, we have decided to help expand the field of knowledge
in this area by offering this special issue of the Information Systems
Journal.

Papers are sought for a special issue, "E-commerce Enabled Manufacturing
Operations: Issues and Analysis". Conceptual and strategic frameworks,
empirical research, case studies, and analytical models focusing on
development, design, management and control of e-commerce-enabled
manufacturing and operations systems for improving organizational
competitiveness are especially encouraged. Contributed papers may deal with,
but are not limited to:

*	Planning for E-commerce in Manufacturing and Operations settings
-Organizational strategy, justification, and project management
-Models and tools to integrate and incorporate e-commerce within strategic
directions
-Applications of tools through case studies
-Project management models (e-commerce linkages with internal systems)
-Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
-Web based enterprise integration and management
*	Design and Analysis of E-commerce based Manufacturing systems.  
-Performance of E-commerce enabled Manufacturing and Operations systems 
-Decision Tools and approaches for systems development
	-Integration of e-commerce with existing and new operations business
processes and policies
	-Architectures and Systems Models integrating manufacturing and
operations with E-   
	 Commerce
*	Operations of E-commerce systems
-Capacity and logistics planning and management 
-Materials management in an E-commerce setting
-Scheduling in an E-commerce setting
-Supply Chain management within an E-commerce setting
-Shop floor operations
-Virtual facility layout
*	Monitoring and Control of E-commerce systems
-Performance evaluation tools and techniques for E-commerce based operations
systems
	-Decision support and expert systems and their development for the
E-commerce enabled    
	  manufacturing setting
-Cost Management and Product Pricing for E-commerce Enabled Systems

Papers will be evaluated on their contribution, suitability to the special
issue, and overall quality.  Authors should closely follow the guidelines
under "Instructions to Authors" of the Information Systems Journal.  Please
visit the homepage of the journal for further information:
http://www.blacksci.co.uk/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=isj&File=isj&Page=aims
. Manuscripts will be strictly refereed based on the standards of the
Information Systems Journal. Four copies of the manuscript should be mailed
to one of the following guest editors by January 31, 2002.

Publication Schedule:

Deadline for submitting manuscripts: July 31, 2002
Review reports on the submitted papers: August 30, 2002
Revised paper submission: September 30, 2002
Forward final accepted papers to the Editor: October 31, 2002
Publication of the special issue: End of 2002, Early 2003.

Guest Editors for the Special Issue:
Professor A. Gunasekaran Department of Management University of
Massachusetts
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300 
USA
Tel:  (508) 999-9187 
Fax: (508) 999-8776
E-mail: agunasekaran@umassd.edu

Professor Janice M. Burn Foundation Professor and Head MIS,
Edith Cowan University
Churchlands Campus
Perth, WA 6018
Australia 
Tel: (618) 9273 8718
Fax: (618) 9273 8222

Professor R. P. Sundarraj
GSOM
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA  01610-1477
USA
Tel:  (508) 793-7648	
Fax:  (508) 793-8822
E-mail: rsundarraj@clarku.edu

Professor Joseph Sarkis
GSOM
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA  01610-1477
USA

Tel:  (508) 793-7659	
Fax:  (508) 793-8822
E-mail: jsarkis@clarku.edu