[AISWorld] Electronic Markets - CfP Special Issue on "Digital Services for Consumers"

[Heyden, Karen]

- Apologies for cross-postings - 

Dear colleagues,
 
We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for Electronic Markets' special issue on "Digital Services for Consumers". 

The submission deadline is May 31, 2013. The detailed CfP is copied below.
                               
We cordially invite original research contributions to the special issue or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from all potential authors. Please note that general research articles can be submitted anytime whereas special issue articles have to be submitted by the deadline shown in the CfP.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.

If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics please contact the editorial office (editors at electronicmarkets.org).

With best regards,
Karen Heyden
Executive Editor
 
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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
 
Call for Papers for Special Issue on 

"Digital Services for Consumers"

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Guest Editors
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* Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland 
* Hubert Österle, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
* Steven Alter, University of San Francisco, USA

Theme
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Mobile computing, high speed communication, internet of things, and a plethora of services available through several devices changes the way we live. This is a huge potential but also challenge for consumers as well as enterprises. What services are useful, which are fun to use? How to handle complexity of different offerings? What services does she or he really need? What services around product offerings are most beneficial for which purpose? Which services work best for digital natives and digital immigrants? What are underlying mechanisms for explaining successful design, use and effects of digital services for consumers? 
Service innovations, new ways of service creation, orchestration and consumption, using and creating vast amounts of openly available or user-generated data offer great potential for improving everyday life of large parts of our society. Examples range from healthcare (with e.g. offerings such as patientslikeme.com) to new business models and ways of value creation and value capturing become critical, as a big opportunity, but also as a challenge for enterprises and other organizations. 
Electronic services via the web emerge for all areas of life, e.g. entertainment, communication, shopping, household, health, mobility, job, and finance.

Papers are welcome in the following research fields:

.	Service markets for providers and consumers
.	Service innovation
.	Methods, models & tools for designing and developing consumer services
.	Entrepreneurship, business and service models for consumer solutions
.	Business-, service- and operating models for consumer solutions
.	Management of consumer data
.	Consumer technologies
.	Consumer behavior
.	Service (Eco-) systems for consumer solutions
.	Methodological and theoretical pluralism is part of the journals policy 

We welcome submissions using quantitative or qualitative methods, e.g. case studies, prototypes, classifications and frameworks. We also would like to encourage submissions of interdisciplinary work by authors from different areas. If authors have any questions regarding suitability of their work for this special issue, whether topical or methodological, they should not hesitate to contact (one of) the guest editors.

All papers should be original, not published or under review elsewhere. Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Contact addresses
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janmarco.leimeister at unisg.ch  
hubert.oesterle at unisg.ch  
alter at usfca.edu
or editors at electronicmarkets.org

Important deadline
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* Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013

The CfP is also available on our website at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/call-for-paper/single-view-for-cfp/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=19&cHash=84c5721fd1c632194e8121b4dc117202

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 
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Editors-in-Chief: Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig and Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen 
Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

Editorial Office:
Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 
c/o Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 9733600
Fax +49 341 9733612
E-mail: editors at electronicmarkets.org  
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Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed academic journal and published quarterly by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).