[AISWorld] CFP: ECRA Special Issue on Information Services in Electronic Commerce

[Guo, Xunhua]

/Call of Papers/

*ECRA Special Issue on Information Services in Electronic Commerce*

*Purpose.* The past several years have witnessed the emergence of
information services in electronic commerce characterized by mobility,
virtualization, personalization, and social computing. These include Web
2.0, Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, semantic Web, mobile computing,
the Internet of Things, and so on. Meanwhile, business environments are
becoming increasingly service-centered in both developed and developing
economies. Innovations in business models and new development in
information technologies interact with one another and are fused to
create the changes we see in the ever-evolving e-commerce world. This
special issue focuses on research in information services in e-commerce.
Our goal is to explore new theoretical perspectives and new empirical
results that will help us to understand how emerging technologies and
service innovation may influence the development of e-commerce.

*Editors.*    This special issue will be co-edited by:
    •    Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University, chengq at sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
    •    Xunhua Guo, Tsinghua University, guoxh at sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
    •    J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, jlzhao at cityu.edu.hk

Interested authors should feel free to direct questions to the special
issue editors. All papers should be submitted via ECRA’s submission
system at www.ees.elsevier.com/ecra, in a format as specified in the
submission guidelines. The sponsoring editor for this special issue is
Robert J. Kauffman, ECRA’s Editor-in-Chief.

*Topics.* The special issue will be devoted to the exploration of
strategic, managerial, organizational, technical, security, privacy and
policy challenges with regard to information services under e-commerce.
We seek high-quality, unpublished contributions on the following
and other related topics:
    •    Business models for service-oriented e-commerce
    •    The role of IT in service innovation and value co-creation in
e-commerce
    •    Information services in social network applications and mobile
business
    •    Service-oriented transformations of e-commerce platforms
    •    Service-oriented personalization in online marketing
    •    Knowledge and innovation in the design of e-commerce services
    •    Business intelligence and data mining in information services
    •    Facilitation of service experiences through digitally-enabled
processes and practices
    •    Support for customer and business partner relationships in
online communities
    •    Theoretical and analytical approaches for investigating
service-oriented transformation

*Submission Deadline.* The submission deadline for full papers is
September 1, 2011. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts to the
special issue editors prior to May 1, 2011, as a means to gauge the
special issue editors’ interest and get suggestions on developing a
special issue paper.

*Submission Guidelines.* Only original and unpublished research papers
will be considered. Authors should limit their initial submissions to no
more than 32 double-spaced pages in 12-point font with appropriate
margins, inclusive of all materials (i.e., references, figures, tables
and appendices). Author names and affiliations should be listed on the
first page of the paper; the reviewing will be single blind only. All
papers should be submitted via ECRA’s submission system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ecra. Authors should select “Information
Services in Electronic Commerce Special Issue” when they reach the
“Article Type” step in the submission process. Authors should follow
Elsevier’s Electronic Commerce Research and Applications format at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621289/authorinstructions.

*Review Process.* The special issue editors will return first reviews
and AE reports no later than 90 days from the date of submission,
approximately December 1, 2011. We will use a developmental reviewing
approach for this special issue, with the aim of helping special issue
authors to achieve very high quality final publications. Second and
third round reviews, as needed, will be completed on an expedited basis,
if authors are able to turn their revisions around quickly. We also will
provide special issue authors with an indication as early as possible of
rejection for the special issue, including decisions on the basis of a
first reading by the special issue editors. Inappropriately targeted or
under-developed papers will be returned immediately to
the authors.

*Publication Date.* The publication of this special issue will occur on
a “best effort” basis some time in 2012 (or early 2013). The actual date
of publication depends on the timing of completion of all of the
articles that it will contain, and also is subject to the editorial
staff’s and publisher’s ability to schedule it. ECRA’s experience is
that special issues are published no later than about 6 months after the
last article of the issue is completed and sent to production by the
authors and special issue editors.