Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2012
Cases on Strategic Systems Design and Managerial Approaches
A book edited by Prof. Nouha Taifi
Industrial Engineering Department, Mohammadia School of Engineering,
University Mohammed V, Morocco
To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-
global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=409
Introduction
Every organization or system has processes and procedures for operations.
In order to understand them, design concepts are used to model research
and business processes to end up with clear maps of systems and
organizations. New designs can encourage new systems to be developed, and
new methodologies can lead to new designs. Further investigation into
strategic research, management or systems design can lead to the
development of new theories, and this is the objective of the book.
Overall Objective of the Book
The objective of the book chapters will be to present practical cases on
strategic research, system and management design but also to provide
concrete new theories derived from each book chapter. The nature of the
research, management and systems in different contexts of the book
chapters will provide new approaches and methodologies derived from their
design. The book chapter will need to consist of quantitative or
qualitative research or both. In particular, the editors are interested in
two theories in particular—complexity and chaos theory—that may underlie
the applications and case studies and inspire new theories and models in
this book.
Target Audience
The potential audience of this book will be from the disciplines of
management and engineering sciences. The book will also be a support to
lectures by professors, a source for university students and researchers,
and a guide for practitioners.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Managerial practices based on Complexity theory;
- Managerial practices based on Chaos theory;
- Managerial practices based on simultaneous use of Complexity and Chaos
theory;
- System design development through analysis;
- Systems architectures, applications and improvements;
- Research practices and design;
- Cross-comparison of management and design indifferent contexts;
- Cross-comparison of management and design in organizations.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February
28, 2012, 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 March 15th, 2012 about the status of their proposals
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
June 30th, 2012. 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 in 2013 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.
SCHEDULE FOR PUBLICATION
Book chapter proposals received: February 28th
Notification of accepted chapter proposals: March 15th
Receipt of full book chapters: June 30th
Review book chapters and revision feedback: August 15th
Final case submission: September 15th
Anticipated publication: November 2012
Proposals and inquiries can be forwarded electronically (word document)
to:
Prof. Nouha Taifi
Industrial Engineering Department
Mohammadia School of Engineering,
University Mohammed V
Rabat, Morocco
Email:
taifi@emi.ac.ma or
nouha.taifi@gmail.com
Tel (Mobile): 00212600382481