C.W. Post Professor Launches New Research Journal to Address
Information Technology Explosion
September 16, 1998 - The explosion of information technology (IT) applications
in almost all sectors of business, scientific, educational and government
arenas is fostering a widening gap between theory and practice, frameworks
and applications, making it difficult for users to understand and for experts
to control. In response, the world's top information technology experts,
led by Professor Shailendra Palvia, Ph.D. of the C.W. Post Campus of Long
Island University, will launch the Journal of Information Technology Cases
and Applications (JITCA)
in January 1999. JITCA's focus will be on case studies and application
studies that explain existing theories and concepts, according to Dr. Palvia,
of Hicksville, NY who serves as editor-in-chief of the new journal and
who is professor and director of Management Information Systems in C.W.
Post's College of Management. It will also help in building new theories
and frameworks. "This refereed quarterly international journal is
supported by IT scholars from around the world and will disseminate the
most timely information to educators, managers, practitioners, and researchers
all over the world," said Dr. Palvia.
Beginning in January 1999, JITCA will publish articles about cases and
applications that affect all organizations - from small start-ups to multinational
firms - in every country in the world, whether advanced, newly industrialized,
developing, or under-developed. Furthermore, the primary thrust of a case
or application may include artificial intelligence, business process reengineering,
cross-cultural issues, cybernetics, decision support systems, electronic
commerce, firewalls and Internet, groupware, information systems, robotics,
webonomics, and so on.
JITCA will also review cutting edge IT books and publish interviews
with leading IT experts from industry, government and academia. Global
associate editors, industry editors, book editors and members of the editorial
review board include noted Ph.D.s from the United States and abroad from
such noted universities as Warwick Business School; University of Nebraska's
College of Information Science and Technology; Babson College; University
of South Carolina; Erasmus University (Netherlands); University of Technology
(Sydney); Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and INSEAD (France),
among others. Three of the four advisory editors are themselves editors-in-chief
of prestigious international journals and one advisory editor is contributing
editor of the leading business magazine, Forbes.
"Given the explosive number of firms successfully employing IT
in Singapore and elsewhere, and the large number of cases written about
them, the journal is timely," says Dr. Lai Lai Tung of Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore.
JITCA encourages manuscript submissions from authors in academe, government
and industry. For additional information, contact Dr. Palvia at (516) 299-2302;
spalvia@liu.edu. Subscriptions are
$75 per year for individual subscription; $145 per year for organizational/library
subscriptions. For subscription information, contact Ivy League Publishing
at (770) 649-6718. Please visit the JITCA Website at www.liu.edu/jitca.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
