[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issues of ECRA on Social Commerce

[zhoul at umbc.edu]

Call for Papers

A Series of Special Issues of Electronic Commerce Research and
Applications (ECRA) on Social Commerce
(http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/ecra2011_special_issue_social_commerce.pdf)

The primary goal of this special issue of ECRA is to foster research in
the intersection between social networking and e-commerce, on how social
networking has been enhancing and expanding e-commerce, on how e-commerce
broadens the applications and utilizations of social media, and on how
recent technological and marketplace developments seem to be leading to
social commerce. Research contributions involving emerging technologies,
current issues and future perspectives that will shape social commerce
practice and development are encouraged and welcome. This special issue
aims to bring together scholars who can offer new and visionary
perspectives on a broad spectrum of key subjects related to social
commerce.

This special issue series will be co-edited by:
•	Lina Zhou, University of Maryland Baltimore County
•	Ping Zhang, Syracuse University
•	Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland.
The Sponsoring Editor for this special issue is Rob Kauffman, ECRA’s
Editor-in-Chief.

Topics. The special issue welcomes all types of research perspectives and
methodologies, such as design science, behavioral science, behavioral
economics, and management and strategy, as well as theory, analytical
modeling, empirical methods, and interdisciplinary approaches. Relevant
topics include:
•	Trust and diffusion in social commerce contexts
•	User modeling and personalization in social commerce
•	Consumer behavior in social commerce
•	Culture issues involved in social commerce and social shopping
•	Social media collaboration, and user-generated content for social commerce
•	Drivers of accessibility in social commerce networks
•	Technological developments and platforms for social commerce
•	Applications that enhance the social commerce experience
•	Social recommender systems, and the role of social media in e-marketing
•	Data mining and living analytics in social media social for business and
consumer insights
•	Privacy, security and fraud detection in social commerce
•	Social business strategy, adoption and diffusion issues, growth and
barriers to success
•	Prospective and retrospective assessment of the business value of social
commerce systems
•	Digital couponing, group-buying and business models of social commerce
•	Gamification, behavioral economics approaches, and location-based social
commerce

The final deadline for first submissions of full papers is February 15,
2012, and the submission window is open from now up to the deadline.
Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts to the special issue editors
prior to October 15, 2011 as a means to gauge their interest and get
suggestions on developing a special issue paper. Papers will be assigned
for review as they are received, and acceptance decisions will be made on
a rolling basis over time, as appropriate to the development of high
quality research for publication.

All papers should be submitted to the submission system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ecra, via the ‘Social Commerce Special Issue’ tab
at the ‘Article Type‘ step in the submission process. Authors should
follow Electronic Commerce Research and Applications’ format at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621289/authorinstructions.

More details on background, submission guidelines, and review process are
available at
http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/ecra2011_special_issue_social_commerce.pdf



Lina Zhou
Department of Information Systems
UMBC