[AISWorld] Electronic Markets - CfP Special Issue on "Intermediation"

[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 "Intermediation". 

The submission deadline is August 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 

"Intermediation"
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Guest Editors
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* Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany
* Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA
* Rolf Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Theme
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Intermediation is a widespread phenomenon in modern economies: centralized market platforms, wholesalers, retailers or brokers provide services to link buyers and sellers. Yet at the same time, intermediaries have always been contested and disintermediation or bypassing have been suggested as more direct and efficient modes of markets coordination.
In electronic market environments this ambivalence has been reproduced: we find numerous instances of direct sales strategies and disintermediation in order to establish direct links to customers and to lower distribution costs. On the other side we have observed major innovation and increasing differentiation of intermediation services: multi-sided markets comparison sites, user generated content platforms, or certification providers. Moreover, we find that in several online markets a multitude of direct and indirect distribution channels exist next to each other. Multi-level distribution systems or intermediation ecosystems have been built with highly differentiated intermediaries partly competing and partly complementing each other. 
The special issue addresses theoretical voids in the explanation of intermediation and intermediation ecosystems, it looks into innovations of intermediary service portfolios and addresses empirical research in the transformation of distribution systems over extended periods of time.

Papers are welcome in the following research fields:

* Theories of intermediation,
* Intermediation service innovation and intermediary business models,
* Intermediation ecosystems: structure, roles and linkages,
* The economics of intermediation,
* Industry specific, empirical studies of the transformation of distribution channels over time,
* Cross-country, cross industry comparisons,
* Contingency model of intermediation,
* Case studies of intermediaries,
* User perception of intermediaries: Value assessment and channel choice.

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. 

All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards. Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed journal and supports methodological and theoretical pluralism, i.e. empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science and/or prototypes are all welcomed by the journal. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special issue, please contact the guest editors listed below.

Contact addresses
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Stefan Klein [stefan.klein(at)uni-muenster.de],  
Charles Steinfield [steinfie(at)msu.edu], 
Rolf Wigand [rtwigand(at)ualr.edu] or 
Editorial Office [editors(at)electronicmarkets.org]

Submission
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All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system at http://elma.edmgr.com. 
Instructions, templates and general information are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.  Please note the preferred article length must be in a range of 3,500 to 6,500 words.
 
Important deadline
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* Submission Deadline: August 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]=20&cHash=e46254bef89a83cb1133cf5105ca14b4. 

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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
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Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed academic journal and published quarterly by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).