[Sigkm-l] Business Social Networking | call for chapters | deadline June 15

[Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha]

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Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions

A book edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Patrícia Gonçalves, Nuno Lopes & Eva Maria Miranda 

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Dear Professor / Dr./ Mr. /Mrs.,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the book " Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions " within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.


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Social Networks are a hot topic. Their daily appearance invades schools, universities, organizations and enterprises as a new tool for people to communicate and share their interests, to find new users or new public with similar interests, especially those focused on Business and Professional Networking.
In this book, we will define the beginning of social networks, from the social and organizational to the technological dimensions and how these can enhance business. Taking into account that social networks may contain millions of users, they are a new tool that may provide open access to human resources otherwise unreachable due to physical barriers that are not present in the digital world. Today’s businesses live in the digital world, whose soul depends on network communications. The web and all the related technologies are a tool to assist in business, as a way to disseminate or search for information. 


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The mission of the proposed book is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities and trends related to this explosive range of new developments and applications, in permanent evolution. Social networks and their integration in businesses will be addressed under the technological, organizational, managerial and social perspectives, in a very comprehensive way, aiming to disseminate current developments, case studies, new integrated approaches and practical solutions and applications.
The overall objectives include:

    -  To discuss the importance of social networks and their support to new organizational models (networked, collaborative, virtual, knowledge-based, ubiquitous);
    -  To discuss the importance of social networks and their impact on organizations, namely marketing functions, trust building, commercial sector, job offers, head hunting, technological problem solving, information sharing, etc.
    -  To present practical solutions;
    -  To introduce the state-of-the-art examples and development trends;
    -  To discuss organizational and ethical aspects and implications;
    -  To discuss organizational preparedness and opportunities;
    -  To discuss critical success factors.

The book is intended to support a professional audience of managers and IT professionals and also an academic audience (teachers, researchers, and students, mainly of post-graduate studies of Management and of Information Systems and Technologies).



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The book intends to collect the most recent technological and organizational developments in all embraced fields of knowledge or disciplines of social and business networking, encompassing networking design, communication, critical success factors, case studies, marketing, security, trust building, etc. related to the use of social networks in business. It is intended to cover the following aspects::

1. The technological dimension, addressing:
    - supporting technologies and tools; 
    - networking and computing developments and requirements; 
    - human-computer interaction; 
    - search and ranking of information; 
    - security.

2. Social aspects:
    - Trust building; 
    - Ethics; 
    - Impact on work, employment and behaviour; 
    - Communication.


3. Business and managerial aspects:
    - Social networks in marketing; 
    - Organizational and managerial aspects.


4. Case studies / studies of impact and adoption


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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 15, 2010, a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. 
This proposal should be sent in Word format to  bsn.book at gmail.com.

Authors will be notified by June 20 about the status of their proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines to prepare the full chapter (7,000 to 10,000 words) and will have until September 15 after notification to submit the full chapter. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by two or three reviewers.

-------  Publisher  
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This book is scheduled to be 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. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

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Kind regards,

Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha,
Goran D. Putnik
Patrícia Gonçalves
Nuno Lopes 
Eva Maria Miranda

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