18 March 2007

Call for papers: Strategic Management of E-Banking: Business Strategies and Beyond – Alternative Channels and New Core Businesses

Call for papers: Strategic Management of E-Banking: Business Strategies and Beyond – Alternative Channels and New Core Businesses.

A special issue of International Journal of Electronic Banking

The evolution of e-banking in the last decade has been significant. Every bank, in parallel with the traditional business offerings, provides more or less advanced e-banking services to various categories of customers. Nowadays it seems that we have reach a first point of maturity. The initial perception of e-banking as an alternative channel issue seems to be inadequate to summarise the emerging challenges for e-banking.

New strategic considerations for e-banking initiate a dialogue for a new era of services and required infrastructures. All the forecasts concerning e-banking are very optimistic. A very promising future for e-banking sector sets new challenges for the strategic management of e-banking divisions within banking organisations.

This special issue brings together academics, practitioners, researchers, and aims to deliver a reference edition for all those interested in the strategic management of e-banking.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Business strategies for e-banking
  • Strategic management of IT component
  • Human factor of e-banking
  • Strategising social networks in e-banking
  • Strategic clustering
  • Modelling of strategic business processes
  • Information provision gap analysis
  • IT-enabled competitive advantage
  • Competition analysis in e-banking
  • Reflective strategies
  • Understanding e-banking business environment
  • Challenges from globalisation
  • The role of emerging technologies: intelligent agents, recommendation systems, semantic web, web 2.0, collaborative technologies
  • Strategic considerations of security in e-banking
  • Strategic management of competencies
  • Strategic management for technology enhance learning in e-banking
  • Collaborative life
Important Dates

1-2 Page Abstract: 15 May 2007
Submission of Manuscripts: 15 November 2007
Notification to Authors: 15 December 2007
Final Versions Due: 15 March 2008

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