[AISWorld] 2nd CfP AMCIS 2013: Mini-Track Virtual Communities: Services, Business Models, and Crowd Creation

[Ulrich Bretschneider Dr.]

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First CALL FOR PAPERS
Mini-Track "Virtual Communities: Services, Business Models, and Crowd 
Creation"
19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
August 15-17, 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA
AMCIS 2013 website http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/
Mini-Track website http://www.virtual-community.org
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=== SCOPE ===
Virtual communities (VC) and social networking based on social networking 
sites, message boards, chat rooms, user groups and blogs have emerged as 
high activity domains on the Internet. VC and social networks are designed 
for a variety of purposes, ranging from Communities of Interest, 
Communities of Relationship (Facebook, etc.), or Innovation Communities 
(Dell Idea Storm, etc.). Web 2.0 Mechanisms are also boosting the 
development of VC and the role of user-generated content within VC. The 
significance of these communities is evident by the impact they have on 
information generation and transmission, and socialization. For example, 
today, blogs are quickly becoming a primary source of information in a 
variety of domains. But also the generation of innovations or the sourcing 
of tasks is achieved through communities as the examples of oDesk or 
Innocentive illustrate. 
Within the field of IS researchers are interested in studying interaction 
patterns, social structures, transaction processes, management aspects, 
business models, and design aspects of information systems and services 
for VC. Further related issues are trust, network effects, transaction 
costs as well as the generation of innovations. "Wisdom of Crowds", 
"Collective Intelligence" and "Crowdsourcing" are important new terms 
describing mechanisms around user-generated content in VC and Social 
Networks.

=== SUGGESTED TOPICS ===
Despite the increasing popularity of VC and social networking, several 
questions relating to VC and social networking remain largely unexplored. 
We call for papers on all aspects of VC. We welcome empirical, conceptual 
and theoretical work. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

* Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities 
* Community models, platforms, services, and interactions, multi-channel 
communities 
* Management and organizational behaviour of communities 
* Community-related business models 
* Innovation generation and Virtual Communities (e.g. case studies on 
"wisdom of crowds", "collective intelligence", etc.) 
* User-generated content and customer collaboration in Virtual Communities 

* Peer-to-Peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities 
* Crowdsourcing through communities
* Case studies and empirical studies, best practices and lessons learned 
* Motivation of participants in virtual communities 
* Benefits of participation in and competition among virtual communities 
* Information dispersion in virtual communities 
* Typologies and taxonomies of virtual communities 
* Evolution of and innovation in virtual communities 
* Gaming Communities 

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
* January 4, 2013: AIS Review System will begin accepting submissions for 
AMCIS 2013 
* February 22, 2013 (11:59 PM CST): Submission deadline 
* April 22, 2013: Authors notified of paper acceptance decision 
* May 9, 2013: Camera-Ready Papers due 

=== MINI-TRACK CHAIR INFORMATION ===
* Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister
Information Systems, Kassel University/Germany

* Prof. Balaji Rajagopalan, Ph.D.
School of Business Administration, Oakland University/USA and Galgotias 
University, Greater Noida/India

* Dr. Ulrich Bretschneider (primary contact: bretschneider at uni-kassel.de)
Information Systems, Kassel University/Germany
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