[AISWorld] International Journal of E-Business Research: TOC 9(1) and CFP

[In Lee]

The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 9, Issue 1 January - March 2013
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1548-1131 EISSN: 1548-114X
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijebr

Editor-in-Chief: In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA


Guest Editorial Preface
Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, and Alessia D’Andrea (National Research Council, Italy)

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PAPER ONE

The Influence of Corporate Social Media on Firm Level Strategic Decision Making: A Preliminary Exploration

S. Venkataraman (IIM Calcutta, Calcutta, India) and Ranjan Das (Faculty of Strategic Management, IIM Calcutta, Calcutta, India)

Social media engagement by business firms has been steadily on the rise, with its application extending to a range of corporate functions, beyond marketing and customer engagement, many of which can be construed as strategic. However, the potential influence of social media on strategy process or strategic decision making has scarcely been explored in strategic management literature. In addressing this gap, this paper conceptually explores the likely influence of social media on issue of strategic decision making and the mechanism of such influence, and also uses an assortment of anecdotes from practice for illustrative purposes. The authors suggest a plausible model whereby corporate social media engagement is seen to exert its influence through the three key dimensions of strategy process - environmental factors, strategists characteristics and decision issue characteristics. In particular social media engagement is conceived as ingraining knowledge creation and integration through socialization within an extended value network.

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PAPER TWO

Adoption of Online Social Media Innovation: Who’s Inside the Spectrum?

Khan Md. Raziuddin Taufique (M. H. School of Business, Presidency University, Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Faisal Mohammad Shahriar (Department of Business Administration, Leading University, Sylhet, Bangladesh)

Few but mentionable studies have been conducted in typifying the Online Social Media (OSM) users. Studies on innovations taking place within the OSM environment are also very much found. But gaps are present in linking OSM innovations and adoption of innovations by the OSM users. Precise and objective studies to put the OSM users in an adoption spectrum are close to nil, though such studies might carry great significance in this new but exploding field of business and marketing. This study focuses on proposing an ‘Adoption Spectrum’ for OSM innovations by the users by proliferating Rogers’s ‘Adoption of Innovation’ with the ‘Typology of OSM Users’. Absolutely conceptual and qualitative in nature, the study concentrates on assessing the speed and magnitude of adoption of OSM innovations by the users. The proposed spectrum is an alignment between Rogers’s work and the OSM user typology. Mentionable limitation of this piece of work may be forwarding the empirical justifications for further study. However, the study may be used as input for managing innovations by the firms that venture through OSM.

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PAPER THREE

A Review of Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches for Business Applications in Social Networks

Evis Trandafili (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania) and Marenglen Biba (Department of Computer Science, University of New York in Tirana, Tirana, Albania)

Social networks have an outstanding marketing value and developing data mining methods for viral marketing is a hot topic in the research community. However, most social networks remain impossible to be fully analyzed and understood due to prohibiting sizes and the incapability of traditional machine learning and data mining approaches to deal with the new dimension in the learning process related to the large-scale environment where the data are produced. On one hand, the birth and evolution of such networks has posed outstanding challenges for the learning and mining community, and on the other has opened the possibility for very powerful business applications. However, little understanding exists regarding these business applications and the potential of social network mining to boost marketing. This paper presents a review of the most important state-of-the-art approaches in the machine learning and data mining community regarding analysis of social networks and their business applications. The authors review the problems related to social networks and describe the recent developments in the area discussing important achievements in the analysis of social networks and outlining future work. The focus of the review in not only on the technical aspects of the learning and mining approaches applied to social networks but also on the business potentials of such methods.

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PAPER FOUR

A Secure Mobile Payment Framework in MANET Environment

Shaik Shakeel Ahamad (Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, & Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India), V. N. Sastry (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India) and Siba K. Udgata (Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)

In this paper the authors propose a Secure Mobile Payment Framework in Multi hop Cellular Network environment (which is an integration of cellular networks and mobile ad hoc networks) using Mobile Agent technology and Digital Signature with Message Recovery (DSMR) mechanism based on ECDSA mechanism. Secure communication in Multi hop Cellular Networks is a nontrivial task because of lack of infrastructure, no prior trust relationships among nodes due to the absence of a centralized authority. Mobile Agent technology and Digital Signature with Message Recovery based on ECDSA mechanism provides secure mobile payments in Multi hop Cellular Networks. Mobile Agent technology has many benefits such as bandwidth conservation, reduction of latency, reduction of completion time, Asynchronous (disconnected) communications. Digital Signature with Message Recovery based on ECDSA eliminates the need of adopting PKI cryptosystems. The proposed protocol ensures Authentication, Integrity, Confidentiality and Non Repudiation, achieves Identity protection from merchant and Eavesdropper, achieves Transaction privacy from Eavesdropper and Payment Gateway, achieves Payment Secrecy, Order Secrecy, forward secrecy, prevents Double Spending, Overspending and Money laundering. The security properties of the proposed protocol have been verified successfully using BAN Logic, AVISPA and Scyther Tools and presented with results.

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Mission of IJEBR:

The primary objective of the International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice of all facets of electronic business. Emerging e-business theories, architectures, and technologies are emphasized to stimulate and disseminate cutting-edge information into research and business communities in a timely fashion. The secondary objective of this journal is to develop a comprehensive framework of e-business by taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding e-business and its implications on businesses and economies. This journal will serve as an integrated e-business knowledge base for those who are interested in contributing to the advancement of e-business theory and practice through a variety of research methods including theoretical, experimental, case, and survey research methods.

Coverage of IJEBR:

IJEBR appears quarterly and maintains rigorous review processes. Theoretical, experimental, survey, and case studies are all appropriate. Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following:

•	Applications of new technologies to e-business
•	B2B e-marketplaces
•	Cloud computing business models
•	Collaborative commerce
•	Developing and managing middleware to support e-business
•	Digital libraries
•	E-business models and architectures
•	E-business process modeling and simulation studies
•	E-business standardizations
•	E-business strategies
•	E-business systems integration
•	E-business technology investment strategies
•	Economics of e-business
•	E-CRM
•	E-finance
•	E-healthcare
•	E-HRM
•	E-SERVQUAL
•	E-TAM
•	E-value chain
•	Electronic communications
•	Electronic markets and infrastructures
•	Electronic supply chain management and the Internet-based electronic data interchange
•	E-marketing
•	E-procurement methods
•	E-payment market
•	E-services
•	Evaluation methodologies for e-business systems
•	Global e-business
•	Intelligent agent technologies and their impacts
•	Interorganizational information systems
•	Mobile commerce
•	Online communities
•	Online consumer behavior
•	Outsourcing and e-business technologies
•	Semantic Web
•	Social commerce
•	Social media
•	Social network
•	Social shopping
•	Trends in e-business models and technologies
•	Trust, security, and privacy of e-business transactions and information
•	Valuing e-business assets
•	Virtual organization
•	Web advertising
•	Web-based languages, application development methodologies, and tools
•	Web personalization and mass customization technologies
•	Web services-based e-business systems
•	Web 2.0

and all other related issues that will contribute to the advancement of e-business research. 

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/ijebr.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. In Lee at I-Lee at wiu.edu


In Lee, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Computer Sciences
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL USA

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)
http://www.igi-global.com/ijebr

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