Special Issue on SMEs and E-Business Innovation in Africa

Home

SME E-business in Africa

The special issue seeks to explore the experiences of African SME’s in conceptualizing, developing, adopting, and using e-business/e-commerce innovation in newly developed or existing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The issue aims at disseminating research output on e-business/e-commerce initiatives from African SMEs perspectives to both academic and business communities.

While encouraging first-rate academic papers, we are primarily also open to practical case studies that reflect SMEs initiatives, interaction, and experiences with e-business/e-commerce technologies. Submissions should seek to cover the following themes:

E-business models;
E-business start-ups;
E-business development processes;
E-business adoption;
E-business/e-commerce project implementation;
E-business infusion;
E-Payment Systems;
E-Entrepreneurship;
E-business application systems;
E-tailing;
E-media;
E-procurement;
E-Portals;
E-marketing;
E-marketplaces;
Mobile commerce; Other innovative applications areas

Submissions

Papers should not normally exceed 15 Journal pages (about 8000 words including references, tables and figures).
Practical case studies (up to 5000 words/8 pages)
Academic papers (from 7000 to 8000 words/15 pages)
Authors should follow the AJIS Submissions Checklist and the AJIS Paper Submission Template at http://ajisonline.com/ (all papers which fail to use the submission checklist and the template will be rejected without review).
Papers should be submitted through the AJIS online paper submission system at http://ajis.icitd.org/index.php/journal/information/authors (Select the Special Issue on SMEs and E-Business Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa during submission).
Reference citations should follow the APA style. Please refer to the table of examples in the following link: http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/about/instruct/apastyle.html

DOWNLOAD CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates

Papers may be submitted to this special issue any time before August 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance – September 30, 2010
Final Submissions of Camera-Ready Papers – November 1, 2010
Publication Date – January 2, 2011

Guest Editor for the Special Issue

John Effah, Information Systems Research Institute (ISOS), University of Salford. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it