International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes the latest notable findings related to the interdisciplinary field of e-collaboration; a new field that is at the intersection of the fields of computer-human interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and electronic commerce

Electronic commerce

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...

. Its goal is to publish joint research on e-collaboration by business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

, management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, and computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 researchers.

IJeC is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to focus on the interdisciplinary field of e-collaboration. It is widely indexed, and carried in full-text format by selective databases, including ProQuest-ABI/Inform. IJeC has been published since 2005 by IGI Global

IGI Global

IGI Global is a privately-held international publishing company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States...

. According to WorldCat

WorldCat

WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative...

, IJeC is available in subscription-based full-text format in more than 300 major libraries worldwide. The average number of citations per article within five years of publication is slightly over 10.

Best articles

Every year IJeC's Editorial Board selects one article to receive its Best Article Award. Below are the articles selected in past years.

• 2010. Collaborative Performance: Addressing the ROI of Collaboration (Vol.6, No.1); by: Kjetil Kristensen, ESoCE-NET, Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  ; and Björn Kijl, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

• 2009. The Impacts of Electronic Collaboration and Information Exploitation Capability on Firm Performance: Focusing on Suppliers using Buyer-Dominated Interorganizational Information Systems (Vol.5, No.2); by: Ilsang Ko, Chonnam National University
  Chonnam National University
  Chonnam National University is a South Korean university located in the metropolitan city of Gwangju which lies in the middle of South Jeolla or Jeonnam province, for which the school is named in the Southwest of the country...
  
  , South Korea
  South Korea
  The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
  
  ; Lorne Olfman, Claremont Graduate University
  Claremont Graduate University
  Claremont Graduate University is a private, all-graduate research university located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles...
  
  , USA; and Sujeong Choi, Chonnam National University
  Chonnam National University
  Chonnam National University is a South Korean university located in the metropolitan city of Gwangju which lies in the middle of South Jeolla or Jeonnam province, for which the school is named in the Southwest of the country...
  
  , South Korea
  South Korea
  The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
  
  .

• 2008. An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Deceptive Communication in a Computer-Mediated Environment (Vol.4, No.3); by: Randall J. Boyle, University of Utah
  University of Utah
  The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
  
  , USA; Charles J. Kacmar, University of Alabama
  University of Alabama
  The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
  
  , USA; and Joey F. George, Florida State University
  Florida State University
  The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
  
  , USA.

• 2007. The Cross-Culture Differences within Us (Vol.3, No.3); by: David Gefen, Drexel University
  Drexel University
  Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...
  
  , USA; Nitza Geri, The Open University of Israel
  Open University of Israel
  The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. , the Open University taught around 39,000 students.The Open University of Israel has more students than any other academic institution in Israel. The administration is based in the city of Ra'anana. Students from all over...
  
  , Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  ; and Narasimha Paravastu, Central State University
  Central State University
  Central State University, commonly referred to as "C-State", is a historically black university located in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. It is the only public HBCU in Ohio.-History:...
  
  , USA.

• 2006. E-Collaboration by Vandals and Warriors (Vol.2, No.1); by: Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University
  Georgia State University
  Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...
  
  , USA.

• 2005. The Technology Shaping Effects of E-Collaboration Technologies – Bugs and Features (Vol.1, No.1); by: M. Lynne Markus
  M. Lynne Markus
  M. Lynne Markus has made fundamental contributions to the study of enterprise systems and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organizational change, and knowledge management. Her early work in these areas has been published in several high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and set the stage for much of...
  
  , Bentley College
  Bentley College
  Bentley University is a private co-educational university in Waltham, Massachusetts, west of Boston. Founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968...
  
  , USA.

External links

• International Journal of e-Collaboration website