[governance] CFC: Business Organizations and Collaborative

[Deirdre Williams]

Dear Friends,

Several years ago I saw a call for papers like this one, and from the
same publisher. The topic was connected with networking and diversity
and very much in line with my own interests. I submitted a proposal
for a chapter which was accepted. I spent the next three or four
months stealing time which didn’t really exist so that I could
complete the project inside the deadline. Almost as an afterthought,
on the Sunday before the final Wednesday deadline, the editor
circulated the contract for signature. The contract required me to
sign over to the publisher, absolutely, every vestige of my copyright
in the material, whether it was eventually published or not. In return
would come “enhancement to my reputation” from my work being included
in the publication.

I withdrew the work immediately. I had already broken the terms of the
contract since I had already shared the document for comments with
other people in the field.

I contacted the other chapter authors but no one seemed to share my
outrage at these conditions. One man was in fact quite rude to me :-)
I understand that contracts like the one I was sent are customary – a
rule rather than an exception. I also understand the imperatives of
“publish or perish”. However I expect there are still people who
subscribe to an ethic of sharing and open content. To those I would
like to suggest that they avoid the trap I fell into and ask to see
the contract BEFORE they embark on the project.

Let me be absolutely clear – this is not about money, but about
rights, and specifically about the right to share.

Deirdre


2009/12/16 Kamna Malik <kamna.malik at gmail.com>:
> Chapter proposals are invited for the upcoming book -
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> Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies and
> Patterns
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> To be edited by Kamna Malik and Praveen Choudhary
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>  To be published by IGI Global Publishing.
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> Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
> - Journey of the Web: History and stages of growth of the web, emerging Web
> tools and their applications
> - Individual aspects: Knowledge entrepreneurs, competitive landscape of
> individuals
> - Business aspects: Global supply chains, co-creation of knowledge, products
> and services, changing forms of organization structure and dynamics, extent
> of technology friendliness, control versus trust, competitive landscape of
> business – practices, strategies and patterns
> - Social aspects: Emergence of the virtual world, development of
> communities, freedom of voice, competitive landscape for nations
> - Information System aspects: IS organization structure, future forms of
> information infrastructure, information security, integrity and assurance,
> competitive landscape of information systems function
> - Ethical and Legal aspects: IP ownership, ethical blogging, information
> policies and practices
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> Proposal Submission by: January 5, 2010
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> Proposal Decision by:  January 20, 2010
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> Full Chapter Submission by:  March 5, 2010
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> Complete call for chapters is available at
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> http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=728
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> For submissions and queries, please write to kamna.malik at u21global.edu.sg
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William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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