Call for papers

Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) -  Special Issue on “ICT in Brazil: Global Issues and Challenges”

 

Submission Deadline:  May 2, 2012

Publication Date: July - September 2013 (tentative)

 

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Felix Tan – AUT Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

 

Special Issue Editors:

Cesar Alexandre de Souza - University of São Paulo, Brazil (calesou@usp.br)

Maria Alexandra Cunha - Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil (alexandra.cunha@pucpr.br)

Nicolau Reinhard - University of São Paulo, Brazil (reinhard@usp.br)

 

The Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) publishes original material concerned with all aspects of global information resources management. The journal emphasizes the managerial and organizational facets of information technology resources management. Articles published in JGIM deal with a vast number of issues concerning usage, failure, success, policies, strategies, and applications of information technology in organizations in and across developed, emerging and developing nations. JGIM has an ISI Impact Factor of 1,222 with a 5 year Impact factor of 1.829 (Qualis A1 in CAPES – Brazilian Ministry of Education - Ranking)

 

Description of the Special Issue

 

Brazil has been receiving great attention in the global scenario because of its steady economic growth in the last decade and improvements in its social indicators, like reduction in poverty and growth of the middle class and its purchasing power. It is one of the “BRICS” countries and is heading to be the 5th largest economy in the world in the next years, although it is not free of challenges like reducing social and economic inequalities, improving educational quality, increasing transparency in government and balancing economic development with environmental protection. Brazil is also well-known for its rich cultural environment with a mix of several different influences (European, African, Indigenous, Arabic and Asian), for its size and population (5th largest in the world in both measures), for its well developed agribusiness and mining sectors and for its rich and diverse natural resources.

 

The history of ICT use in Brazil is marked by innovation and creativity, with highlights to its financial and banking systems, which are among the most developed in the world, and to its huge country-wide e-government initiatives, like electronic voting, tax filing over the internet and integrated electronic invoicing. Both phenomena are derived from historical and political factors, like the huge inflation period during the 70´s and 80´s and a very strong, large sized, complex and centralized federal government with needs to integrate distant regions within the country. Brazil has also a huge internal consumer market for mobile phones, home PCs and software, although, again, not free of challenges like improving geographical range and quality of internet access while reducing its cost, one of the most expensive in the world. Brazil has a well-developed ICT use in Business in general, with good levels of integration within companies and in the supply chain, but companies are regularly faced with challenges of having to adapt imported technologies and governance models, like SOX and international ICT governance best practices frameworks.

 

This special number will consider research papers on Global IT focusing on Brazilian local issues with relevance to the global context. So, we are seeking papers that study the usage and management of ICT in companies, government agencies or by the general society in Brazil and explain their findings based on the peculiarities of the Brazilian context or comparing results with other contexts or countries. Cross-National Studies comparing ICT in Brazil with other Nations, in cultural or other aspects are specially desired, and so are studies of the development, implementation, management and use of IT in Brazilian or foreign multinational, transnational, international and global organizations with locations in Brazil.

 

Suggested Topics include (but are not restricted to):

-           IT Management and Governance in Brazilian Global Companies

-           Outsourcing and Offshoring market and tendencies

-           Compliance with global standards and practices (SOX, Basel, PMBOK, COBIT, ITIL, etc)

-           Global Enterprise Systems Implementation and Management

-           Global e-commerce systems implementation and Management

-           e-Government and e-Participation

-           ICT diffusion and ICT infrastructure in Brazil

-           Digital Inclusion Policies

-           Telecommunications and data security

-           Cloud Computing

-           Social Media and Social Networks