[AISWorld] CfP AMCIS 2013 - Crowdsourcing in Virtual Communities

[David Geiger]

Mini-track: *Crowdsourcing in Virtual Communities*
19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)
August 15-17, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Link: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/?option=com_content&id=69

DESCRIPTION
Crowdsourcing harnesses the potential of large networks of people via open
calls for contribution and thus enables organizations to tap into a
diversity of knowledge, skills, and perspectives. Fueled by the increasing
pervasiveness of the Internet, crowdsourcing has been rapidly gaining
importance in a wide range of contexts, both in research and practice. In
order to provide better guidance for future crowdsourcing efforts, it is
crucial to gain a deeper and integrated understanding of the phenomenon.
While research on crowdsourcing is multidisciplinary, information systems
take a central role in realizing crowdsourcing approaches by
interconnecting organizations and globally distributed contributors. By
viewing crowdsourcing from an IS perspective, this track aims to channel
related research directions and move from the consideration of isolated
aspects and applications to a systemic foundation for the design of
socio-technical crowdsourcing systems.

We encourage submissions from theoretical, empirical, and design science
research on the following and adjacent topics:
- Crowdsourcing ecosystems and markets
- Platforms, tools, and technologies
- Task characteristics, task design, and task choice
- Contributor motivation and incentive structures
- Design of workflows and processes
- Mobile crowdsourcing
- Quality assurance and evaluation of contributions
- Economics of crowdsourcing
- Case studies of crowdsourcing effectiveness
- Adoption of crowdsourcing business models
- Innovative applications

IMPORTANT DATES
January 4, 2013: Bepress will start accepting paper submissions
February 22, 2013 (11:59 pm CST): Deadline for paper submissions
April 22, 2013: Authors notified of acceptance decisions
May 9, 2013: Camera-ready copy due for accepted papers
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David Geiger
Research Associate
University of Mannheim | Business School | Chair in Information Systems III
http://www.wifo.uni-mannheim.de
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