« June 2007 | Main | July 2008 »
July 18, 2007
Guest Editor in Real Life
Clearing ones desk before the summer Holidays can be a rewarding experience. I just found my physical copy of the special issue on E-government Process Integration and Enterprise Architecture that I guest edited in the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce with Vishanth Weerakkody and Marijn Janssen. Now I can show my wife that all the late hours that I spend editing the issue also materialized in something tangible.
In an entry last year I announced the call for papers and we received a bunch of quality papers – all good candidates for publications. However, in the end we decided to publish the following five papers:
- A Comparative Account of Joined-Up Government Initiatives in Dutch and Belgian Social Security
By Homburg, V. M. F.
- Integration and Enterprise Architecture Challenges in E-Government: A European Perspective
By Weerakkody, V.; Janssen, M.; Hjort-Madsen, K.
- Managing E-Government Application Evolution: A State Government Case
By Kung, H. J.; Tung, H. L.; Case, T.
- E-Mexico: Collaborative Structures in Mexican Public Administration
By Luna-Reyes, L. F.; Gil-Garcia, J. R.; Cruz, C. B.
- The E-Government Development, IT Strategies, and Portals of the Hong Kong SAR Government
By HO, K. K. W.
You can find all the papers here.
It was fun to work with Vishanth and Marijn and a great learning experience for me to edit a special issue in a journal. Hopefully, it will not be the last time I do that.
Posted by khm at 02:55 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 09, 2007
Piling Higher & Deeper Again, Again...
The next three weeks I am working on my PhD (more about academic life here). Buried in books at the IT-University of Copenhagen, I will try to get my hands around my research question, my publications and the red thread in my research.
My first challenge is to reflect on my research question. The blurry question that I am working with these days is “Why and how is enterprise architecture adopted as an information systems planning trend/innovation in the public sector?” It needs to be more focused and linked with my publications.
The goal of my PhD-project is to produce a paper model dissertation that contributes to the scare research carried out in the area of EA in government by conducting various studies in public agencies in Denmark and the USA. So fare, I have a couple of decent publications under my belt. But, I need to produce a plan for 1)which publications to include in my PhD-dissertation and 2)which articles I can/must write to tie it all together.
I am very motivated and will try to keep you all up to date on my progress in the lab.
Posted by khm at 09:13 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack