[AISWorld] CFP Third International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)

[Jonas Hedman]

Call For Paper

Third International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)

A roundtable in Stockholm, Sweden, May 13-14, 2014


Abstract submission deadline: March 30, 2014

CASHLESS SOCIETY
For centuries, coins and bills were the only options to make purchases and to transfer money between people and organizations. The second half of the last century witnessed the introduction of plastic cards, Electronic Fund Transfer, Internet banking, and pre-paid payment cards all aimed at making payment more efficient. With advances in IT a number of new payment solutions has emerged, including, e.g. premium SMS payments, M-PESA, Pay Pal, Google Wallet, Swish, Bitcoin, Flatter, Square-Up, Seamless, and Klarna. Many innovations offer advantages in terms of costs, security, and convenience, but they also pose a number of challenges and risks related to, at least, technical standards, data security, legal issues, and consumer behavior. Overall, these innovations are changing consumers’ perception and experience of money and paying.

Innovation processes in payments are promoted by different groups of actors (like financial institutions, software companies, merchants, and mobile operators) and by international governmental agencies (like the European Central Bank). New payment services attract attention in media, but they also trigger a debate on the cashless society.

The development towards a cashless society affects our life. It will have an impact on the actors in the payment eco-system, leading to a number of both anticipated as well as unanticipated consequences on the individual, organizational, and society levels. These consequences are of critical importance and need to be explored. We therefore stress the importance of investigating a cashless society from multiple perspectives including economics, technical, infrastructure, sociological, anthropological, design, and information systems, to mention a few.

This roundtable will examine the consequences and impact of a cashless society from multiple perspectives at different levels of analysis. Specifically, topics of interest may include (but are not limited to) the following:

 *     Cash in the future

 *     New payment solutions as disruptive technologies

 *     Social consequences of a cashless society

 *     Digitalization of money

 *     Changes in the payment eco-system

 *     Emerging payment business models

 *     Role of money and payments in society

 *     Economics of payments

 *     Emerging payment technologies, e.g. mobile payments, Bitcoin, Flatter, etc.

 *     Designing new payments and technologies, e.g. NFC, Bio metric payments, etc.

 *     Integrity and privacy issues

SUBMISSIONS

Abstracts for presentations are invited and should not be more than 2000 words. Please also provide a short (100 word) bio, with full contact information including e-mail addresses.

If you plan to send an abstract, please send the title of your paper as well as a list of the authors already by February 20. Mail this to Jan Markendahl (janmar at kth.se) or Niklas Arvidsson (niklas.arvidsson at indek.kth.se).

Abstracts are due March 30, 2014. Please email your abstract to cashlessroundtable at gmail.com. Acceptance decisions will be announced April 15, 2014. If you have questions, please contact the Roundtable Chairs Jan Markendahl (janmar at kth.se) or Niklas Arvidsson (niklas.arvidsson at indek.kth.se).

The roundtable committee consists of Jan Markendahl (KTH / Royal Institute of Technology), Niklas Arvidsson (KTH / Royal Institute of Technology), Jonas Hedman (Copenhagen Business School), Jan Ondrus (ESSEC Business School), and Fergal Carton (University College of Cork).

We will charge participants a fee of 100€ including lunch and coffee for two days. Deadlines:

 *     February 20th: Title of paper and list of the authors

 *     March 30: Abstracts and bio for all the authors

ROUNDTABLE LOCATION

The roundtable will be held in Kista industrial area, 15 km north of Stockholm. We will soon provide hotel and travel information on a new web page (http://wireless.kth.se/cashlessociety/).

Jonas Hedman
Associate Professor
Department of IT Management

Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60, DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Mob.: (+45) 2479 4310 | jh.itm at cbs.dk<applewebdata://6BC22F08-46B3-4803-9383-196C1FAEB236/jh.caict@cbs.dk>

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