CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposals Submission Deadline: 3/1/2010


Sustainable E-Business and Customer Value solutions:
Strategic Alignment and Innovation
A book edited by Dr. Venkatesh Mahadevan, PhD (vmahadevan@swinburne.edu.au) and
Co-edited by Dr. Zenon Chaczko, PhD (zenon@eng.uts.edu.au)

Introduction
In the last decade, due to globalisation, E-Businesses has been attempting to redesign the existing business value chains through the application of information technology (IT) that were previously unimaginable. The pragmatic view of value proposition through IT enhanced E-Businesses encompasses new strategic planning, alignment, management, execution and quality control assessments. Thus, E-Businesses are driving constant business transformation in both new technology execution paradigms and new assessment paradigms. Many leading edge organisations – both established and start-ups – are increasing their investments in innovative E-Business applications. Several IT vendors and service providers are positioning their products and services as “E-Business ready” and are bringing new customer value solutions to the market. The huge potential of innovative E-Business applications and competitive pressure are driving rapid adoption of sustainable business plans that reflects concurrent top-down and bottom-up perspectives of E-Business design, development and implementation sequences.

Considered the future of businesses and follow-ons, E-Businesses, are already making headway. What are E-Business philosophical basics? What are the challenges and uncertainties related to innovative E-Business solutions? Views differ depending on a shift from technology-driven to stakeholder-driven E-Business design, development and implementation rationale among the business and technology managers and so on. These incarnations of E-Businesses, while they may seem somewhat ambitious and futuristic, they are already gaining growing interest and prominence, and are making progress.

E-Business ready applications have much to offer. They can harness the potential of the user learning curve in a more collaborative, peer-to-peer, smart manner and leverage the power of the business processes and technology capabilities and resources for organisational competitive advantages. As leading edge organisations have begun to harness these new generation E-Business applications to their advantage, researchers are addressing unresolved issues, and adopting a holistic, yet thematic, approach towards exploring a wide array of interconnected business concepts, technologies and activities involved in evaluating the business opportunities that innovative E-Business solutions may afford.

Objective of the Handbook
The new Handbook of Research on Sustainable E-business and Customer Value Solutions: Strategic Alignment and Innovation is intended to be a premier comprehensive reference source on providing strategic building blocks of new generation E-Business applications. This in-depth collection will consist of more than 30 chapters (short articles) covering many different aspects of sustainable E-business applications, and examining the sustainability of these innovative E-Business solutions in several contexts. Illustrated with real-world examples and case studies, the handbook will confront the many different challenges that the business and technology managers face while establishing a conceptual framework in successfully deploying new generation E-Business applications and outline their implications for creating high-performance strategic business networks. Furthermore, the handbook will provide a comprehensive coverage on ongoing research work in this important area and identify potential areas for further research. This will provide researchers, scholars, professionals, developers and students relevant new information, knowledge and insights on design, development and implementation of emerging E-Business applications.

Why You Should Write for the Handbook?
You now have great opportunity to publish on a topic that is state-of the-art in a comprehensive, unique first ever handbook in this area which will be widely read and recognized. In addition, you will gain benefits such as:
• Peer recognition and endorsement of your work globally
• Membership of an elite group of contributors with excellent networking opportunities
• Support from the editor - continuous and ongoing feedback and suggestions for improvements of your chapter

Recommended Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Emergence of New Generation E-Business Applications
• Evolution of New Generation E-Business Philosophies
• Trust and Value Creation through New Generation E-Business Applications
• Knowledge Management through New Generation E-Business Applications
• Service Competence of New Generation E-Business Applications
• Application Excellence of New Generation E-Business Applications
• E-Business Readiness
• Reinventing Critical E-Business Design, Development and Implementation Capabilities
• Strategic Experimentation Paradigm for a New Breed of E-Business Applications
• E-Business /IT Budgeting Processes
• E-Business /IT Infrastructure Requirements
• Enrichment of E-Business Customer Experiences
• Enrichment of E-Business Marketing
• Development of E-Business/IT Professionalism
• Changing Role of Business and IT Leaders
• Testing the Sustainability of a New Breed of E-Business Applications in several varied contexts
• Entrepreneurial E-Business Best Practices
• Legal, Ethical, Cultural, Training and Social Issues related to E-Business
Design, Development and Implementation
• E-Business Tomorrow
• Case Studies; Experience Reports; Future prospects
• Research and Development – research findings, work-in-progress, agenda for research

Submission Procedure
We invite researchers, professionals, practitioners, executives and entrepreneurs to contribute chapters (5,000 – 7,500 words) to this unique and very timely reference source on any topic or issue related to the theme and scope of the handbook (see the list of suggested topics) on or before March 1, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 1, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
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 scheduled to be released in 2011.

Important Dates
March 1, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline
April 1, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
July 1, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
Sep 15, 2010: Review Result Returned
Nov 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission
Dec 31, 2010: Final deadline

Editorial Advisory Board
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