AIMS AND SCOPE

The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Information Systems publishes high-quality survey and tutorial articles of the field.

Each issue of Foundations and Trends® in Information Systems comprises a 50-100+ page article written by research leaders in the field. Articles that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal.

EDITORIAL SCOPE

Topics covered include:

  • IS and Individuals
  • Computer self-efficacy
  • Decision Support Systems
  • IS acceptance and use
  • IS success
  • Knowledge management
  • Personalization
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Task-technology fit
  • Trust in IS
  • IS and Groups
  • Communication media
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Group support systems
  • Negotiation
  • Social Media
  • Virtual Communities
  • Virtual Teams
  • Virtual Worlds
  • IS and Organizations
  • Business Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Models
  • Business Process Management
  • Coordination (within and among organizations)
  • Crisis Response
  • ERP
  • IS for competitive advantage
  • Resource-based view of IS
  • Virtual Organizations
  • IS and Industries
  • Banking
  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Learning and education
  • Manufacturing
  • Military
  • Not-for-Profit
  • Science
  • IS and Society
  • Culture
  • Global IS
  • Green IS
  • Impacts on Society
  • Internet
  • Pervasive Computing
  • Sustainable Development
  • Third World
  • IS Development
  • Agile Methods
  • Database design and data modeling
  • ERP Implementation
  • IS project failure
  • Outsourcing
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Systems development methodologies
  • User participation
  • IS Economics
  • Auctions
  • E-marketplaces
  • Options and option pricing
  • Trading systems
  • Value of IS
  • IS Management
  • Centralized/decentralized IS structure
  • Governance
  • HR issues in IS field
  • Project selection
  • Resource allocation
  • Service quality (SERVQUAL)
  • Strategic alignment
  • IS Research Methods
  • Measurement instruments
  • Philosophy
  • Research Methods
  • Statistical Methods