IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in applied research publications on all aspects of information technology management, is proud to announce the first round of winners for their ‘Fourth Annual Excellence in Research Journal Awards.’ The winners were chosen based on the following criteria: contribution to the field; originality of the research; practicality of research/results; quality of writing; rigor of the research; and substantive research and methodology. The following papers were selected as the best articles for their respective journals from the 2010 volume year:
 
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)
Factors Affecting e-Payment Adoption in Nigeria
Roya Gholami (Aston Business School, UK)
Augustine Ogun (Aston Business School, UK)
Elizabeth Koh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
John Lim (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS)
An Exploratory Study of the Key Skills for Entry-Level ERP Employees
Alan R. Peslak (Penn State University, USA)
Todd A. Boyle (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
 
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM)
Fair Distribution of Efficiency Gains in Supply Networks from a Cooperative Game Theory Point of View
Stephan Zelewski (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Malte L. Peters (Center for Education and Science of the Federal Finance Administration, Germany)
 
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)
Service Registry Design: An Information Service Approach
Luís Ferreira Pires (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Arjen van Oostrum (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Fons Wijnhoven (University of Twente, The Netherlands and Wilhelms University of Muenster, Germany)
 
International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management (IJCRMM)
Global Account Management (GAM): Creating Companywide and Worldwide Relationships to Global Customers
Svend Hollensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Vlad Stefan Wulff (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
 
International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
Structuring SOA Governance
Michael Niemann (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
André Miede (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Wolfgang Johannsen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Nicolas Repp (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
 
International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS)
The Open System for Master Production Scheduling: Information Technology for Semantic Connections between Data and Mathematical Models
Hyoung-Gon Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Edmund W. Schuster (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Stuart J. Allen (Marysville, USA); Pinaki Kar (New York, USA)
 
International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET)
Using System Dynamics to Analyze Customer Experience Design
Yen-Hao Hsieh (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Soe-Tsyr Yuan (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
 
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS)
Strategy as Action: From Porter to Anti-Porter
Milan Zeleny (Fordham University, USA and The Tomas Bata Univesity, Czech Republic)
 
Congratulations to all of the winners on their outstanding achievements!
 
For in-depth coverage of the winning articles, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/journals/journalawards.aspx.