INFO: Call for Papers: Technical Innovation and Global Business Communication

[Jeff ALLEN <jeff -at- elda -dot- fr>]

FYI, see the following call for papers:

Best,

Jeff Allen

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:23:53 -0600
From: Chuck Campbell <cpc -at- nmt -dot- edu>
To: TC Forum <tcf-gen -at- listserver -dot- tc-forum -dot- org>
Subject: tcf-gen: Call for Papers: Technical Innovation and Global Business
Communication

Call for Papers

TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND GLOBAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Guest Editors: Jan M. Ulijn (Eindhoven Technical University) and Charles
P. Campbell (New Mexico Tech)

The Transactions on Professional Communication invites authors to
participate in 
a special issue examining how technical innovations in communication, 
particularly the Internet but also videoconferencing and other
technologies, are 
being received and used in business within nations whose cultural
tendencies differ 
from those where the technologies originate.

The technology that makes the world into the global village envisioned by
Marshall 
McLuhan more than 30 years ago now seems to be in place, thanks largely to
the 
Internet and the World Wide Web. Technical innovations in communication
technology 
have been quickly exploited by businesses to expand their reach into new
markets. 
However, not much is yet known about the way this technology is inducing
changes 
in long-standing cultural patterns that prescribe the preferred methods of
negotiating 
business deals. Patterns of communication, to say nothing of values, are
deeply 
rooted in language-culture complexes. Understanding these patterns can
perhaps be 
facilitated by technology. However, technologies impose their own patterns,
and we 
need to know how these patterns interact with established patterns.

Topics

For the special issue of Transactions, we will be looking for contributions
that 
explore topics like the five listed below. For further discussion, see our
background 
paper.)

1. The business and technology perspective: electronic commerce and its
implication 
for a communication model of the human interface

2. The use of electronic mail and meetings, videoconferencing and the
Internet (within 
a general management setting)

3. Evidence about preferences and effectiveness within a communication and 
negotiation setting?electronic or face-to-face?

4. Studies bringing together, analyzing and assessing other human,
cognitive, linguistic, 
and cultural aspects of the use of computer-mediated communication.

5. Reports on the impact of communication technologies (especially
multimedia, the 
Internet, and the World-Wide Web) in assisting (or hindering) communicators in
designing, writing, producing, and disseminating information in different
cultures

We hope the special issue will attract more original contributions to
scholarship 
in this area. In summary, we know that communications technology is changing 
the world; we want to get a clearer idea of how things change.

Schedule for Special Issue

February 1, 2000:All submissions due to guest editors.
February 15, 2000: All submissions out for peer review.
April 15, 2000: All reviews complete. Copies to guest editors J.M. Ulijn
and C.P. Campbell.
May 1, 2000: Guest editors make publication decisions and send
suggestions for revision to Transactions editor K.S. Campbell, who then sends 
decision letters to authors.
October 1, 2000: Revised manuscripts sent back out for review.
December 1, 2000: Final revised manuscripts to K.S. Campbell.
December 15, 2000: Issue enters production.
February 1, 2001: Proofs go to authors.
March 1, 2001: Issue is mailed.

Submissions

Authors should follow IEEE style--see Instructions for Authors,
Transactions on
Professional Communication 41 (December 1998): 299. Please submit proposals 
by 1 December 1999; one paper and two electronic copies of the manuscript
should 
be received no later than 1 February 2000 to be considered for the special
issue. 
To submit a manuscript, contact

Dr. Jan M. Ulijn
TU EINDHOVEN
TEMA 0.42
Postbus 513
5600 MB EINDHOVEN , The Netherlands
Tel. 040 - 247 4569; e-mail J -dot- M -dot- Ulijn -at- tm -dot- tue -dot- nl

Dr. Charles P. Campbell
Department of Humanities
New Mexico Tech
Socorro NM 87801
Tel. 505-835-5284; e-mail cpc -at- nmt -dot- edu
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