[ecrea] Call for Chapter Proposals: Business Innovation and Disruption in Publishing

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Business Innovation and Disruption in Publishing
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Vol. 1 in the Business Innovation and Disruption Book Series
Book Series Editor-in-Chief: Robert DeFillippi
Volume One Co Editors: Robert DeFillippi and Patrik Wikström
MEDIA XXI Publishers, 2012
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This volume will examine how the publishing industry is undergoing a 
process of disruption and transformation due to the technology of the 
Internet, social forces driven by social media, the development of new 
portable digital devices with greater capabilities and smaller size, the 
decreasing costs of new information, and the creation of new business 
models and forms of intellectual property ownership rights for a 
digitized industry. This volume is soliciting chapter proposals from a 
multidisciplinary array of scholars who can contribute to one or more of 
the following themes:

* Disruption of publishing industry structure and value chain relations
* Transformations  in user behavior
* Disruptive business models in publishing
* Disruptive technologies in publishing
* Intellectual property innovations in publishing
* Innovative options for  content creators
* Innovative  modes of content aggregation and distribution
* Case studies of innovative modes of  business response to disruption 
challenges
* Assessments of prospective economic winners and losers in publishing 
eco system

This volume is seeking manuscripts that can address the above topics 
through a variety of modes of analysis:  institutional analyses, 
quantitative empirical study, case studies, and theory-based simulations 
or modelling. Our intention is to offer a plurality of theoretic 
perspectives and empirical methods from diverse social science, business 
and media industry disciplines that can inform a more holistic 
understanding of the forces shaping the new world of publishing and shed 
some light on the impact of those forces on how publishing content is 
created, aggregated and distributed, and on the economic and social 
consequences for industry producers and consumers.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Founded in 2003, Media XXI (www.mediaxxi.com) is an internationally 
focused publisher based in Portugal with offices in Brazil and 
representatives in the USA, Angola, Spain and multiple other locales in 
Europe. Spanning the business management and the media industries 
worlds, Media XXI is uniquely positioned to serve the needs and 
interests of both scholars and practitioners, particularly in the 
context of this book series.

SCHEDULE FOR PUBLICATION
* Book chapter proposals received: OCTOBER 15
* Notification of accepted chapter proposals: NOVEMBER 1
* Receipt of full book chapters: FEBRUARY 1
* Review book chapters and revision feedback: FEBRUARY 28
* Receipt by editors of final draft of book chapters: APRIL 15
* Anticipated publication:  AUGUST 1 (2012)

Submit your chapter proposal by Microsoft Word email attachment. We 
would most appreciate a three to five page proposal outlining your 
chapter and identifying your theoretic and empirical method approaches 
and selected topics related to business innovation and disruption in 
publishing. Include as a separate file a brief biography covering your 
current institutional affiliation and position and a listing of your 
relevant publications and educational background and any other pertinent 
information on your qualifications for contributing to this volume.

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Send proposals and inquiries to Robert DeFillippi 
<(rdefillippi /at/ mediaxxi.com)>
Book Series Editor-in-Chief
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Professor and Chair
Strategy and International Business Department
Director of Center for Innovation and Change Leadership  
(www.suffolk.edu/cicl)
Sawyer Business School
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108






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Patrik Wikström, PhD ( http://www.patrikwikstrom.com ) | MMTC ( 
http://www.mmtcentre.se ) @ JIBS ( http://www.jibs.se )
+46(0)733-904395 | (patrikwikstrom /at/ gmail.com)