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Introduction
This chapter provides an overview of the book, unpacking the rationale for why the book is important, explaining the title, exploring in detail who the audience may be, and outlining the structure of the book ...
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Encouraging Great Reviewing Practices
This chapter focuses on the issues associated with develo** an appropriate culture and process for the reviewing of manuscripts. Consistent reviewing practices contribute to the reputation of a journal in wa...
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Develo** and Maintaining a Reputation
In this chapter, I consider the reputation of the journal, and the way this reputation can be enhanced, or damaged. This topic is closely related to Chapter 6 because the reputation to a significant extent dep...
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Continuing and Emerging Challenges and a Call to Action
Chapter 9 deals with some of the more generic emerging challenges that journal editors may face, now or in the foreseeable future. These include how to handle predatory journals, plagiarising authors, the open...
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Sourcing Content and Authors
This chapter deals with the important topic of content, i.e. the research papers that the editor aims to accept for publication in the journal. I differentiate between newly and long-established journals, expl...
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Develo** and Maintaining an Audience
Chapter 6 examines the audience of the journal. Here I explore steps that the editor can take to grow the audience of a journal, in both academic and non-academic spheres. For instance, while the audience migh...
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Engaging with the Publisher and Editorial/Production Teams
This chapter deals with a topic that is largely invisible to both researchers and the audience: engagements with the publisher and the editorial or production teams. Even senior and associate editors may have ...
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Cultural Values
This chapter focuses on the cultural values that the editor seeks to establish for the journal. These values may be informed by the members of the editorial advisory board, as well as senior and associate edit...
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Past Practices, Current Debates and Disputes: Future Engagements and Opportunities Regarding Digital Transformation for Sustainable Development
This chapter provides a historical account of the development of Working Group 9.4 from its inception in 1988 to the present day. The intellectual and practical issues that have drawn our attention, as well as...
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Theorising Editing
In this closing chapter, I attempt to develop what amounts to a theory of editing. I try to see the world of the editor through the eyes of an anthropologist, to narrate what it is that editors do, and to exam...
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The Regular and Irregular Work Activities of Editors
This chapter is structured around a description of the more or less regular daily activities of editors. These include communications with a wide variety of stakeholders, predominantly associated with the hand...
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Digital Equity, Sustainable Development and the ICT Professional
Digital equity and sustainable development are in the focus of attention nowadays. While ICT professionals and professional societies have contributed to supporting develo** countries for many years, it is e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Applying Photovoice to the Study of Asian Immigrants’ Information Needs
Immigrants in their new country may have diverse and complex information needs. Appropriate methods are part of scientific discourse on how to effectively engage with immigrants to reflect their information n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
iTransformation of a Digital Village: A Community Development Initiative Through ICTs
The rapid diffusion of ICTs enables people to learn further and develop personal skills. Technology-based communication facilitates people to interact internally and externally, thus creating the opportunity f...
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E-business and fast growth SMEs
This paper tests a theoretical model to evaluate e-business capability and value in the fast growth small-to-medium enterprise (SME) context. We propose that e-business value depends on how fast growth SMEs de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Facilitating Social Harmony Through ICTs
Social Harmony involves the peaceful interaction of people in a social setting. In this keynote address I briefly examine the historical antecedents of social harmony and identify some of the salient barriers ...
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People, places and time in research design and reporting: responding to commentaries on particularism
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Context is king! Considering particularism in research design and reporting
We aim to raise awareness of context by examining its role in empirical research. We apply the dichotomy of universalism and particularism, and discuss the interaction of theory and culture in order to conside...
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Commentaries on retrospect and prospects for IS research
I have read with great interest Allen S. Lee’s content-rich and thought-provoking retrospect and prospect IS paper. The perspective I have taken in reading the paper has been as a member of the IS research com...
