[AISWorld] EM Call for Papers "Big Data Analytics in Electronic Markets"

Thu Feb 19 09:45:41 EST 2015

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Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the special
issue on "Big Data Analytics in Electronic Markets". 

The submission deadline is November 30, 2015. 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 need to be submitted by the
deadline shown in the CfP.

Please feel free to forward this email 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,

Carsta Militzer-Horstmann

Executive Editor

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

Call for Papers for Special Issue on 

"Big Data Analytics in Electronic Markets"

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Guest Editors

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* Ngai, Eric W. T., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China,
<mailto:eric.ngai at polyu.edu.hk> eric.ngai at polyu.edu.hk

* Gunasekaran, Angappa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA,
<mailto:agunasekaran at umassd.edu> agunasekaran at umassd.edu

* Fosso Wamba, Samuel, NEOMA Business School, France,
<mailto:Samuel.fosso.wamba at neoma-bs.fr> Samuel.fosso.wamba at neoma-bs.fr

* Akter, Shahriar, University of Wollongong, Australia,
<mailto:sakter at uow.edu.au> sakter at uow.edu.au

* Dubey, Rameshwar, Symbiosis International University, India,
rameshwardubey at gmail.com <mailto:rameshwardubey at gmail.com> 

Theme

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In the past, the main challenge that businesses faced had to do with
operating under conditions of data scarcity. Decision-making was subject to
incomplete, insufficient, and time-lapsed data. However, such challenge no
longer exists, given the current exponential growth of data available to
businesses. Instead, the challenge that businesses now face has to do with
the sheer abundance of data. Up until 2003, only 5 exabytes (1018 bytes) of
data were available, whereas nowadays the same amount of data can be created
within two days (Sagiroglu and Sinanc, 2013). Businesses now have more data
than they can effectively use; as a result, a new critical issue is
emerging: big data analytics. The term big data refers to "data sets with
sizes beyond the ability of common software tools to capture, curate,
manage, and process the data within a specific elapsed time" (Bharadwaj, El
Sawy, Pavlou and Venkatraman, 2013, p. 447). The ability to manage big data,
information, and knowledge to gain competitive advantage becomes
increasingly important in enabling data-driven decisions in businesses. 

Electronic markets are particularly inseparable from big data analytics,
given that the accomplishments fuelled by big data analytics are primarily
generated from the electronic market community, as in the case of the
product recommender systems introduced by electronic market leaders, such as
eBay and Amazon (Chen, Chiang and Storey, 2012). The data of the electronic
market are more visible and easier to collect than those of traditional
markets because the former can be collected through screen-scraping and
agent-based data collection approaches (Chang, Kauffman and Kwon, 2014). Big
data analytics has opened opportunities to practitioners of the electronic
market to listen to the voice of the market, including customers, employees,
investors, and media, through different sources, such as newsgroups and
social media sites. For academics, these opportunities represent another
broad and encompassing area of research. 

To successfully implement big data analytics, businesses must overcome not
only technological obstacles, such as data acquisition and management, but
also managerial obstacles, such as understanding how to use analytics to
improve business performance. Given the importance of the above challenges
and issues, big data analytics has increasingly attracted the attention of
scholars. The core objective of this special issue is to provide a platform
through which academics and practitioners can exchange views, share skills
and knowledge, and understand how big data analytics can significantly help
businesses in the electronic markets to create added value.

Central topics

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Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited, to the
following:

- Big data analytics and mining applications for electronic markets

- Content analysis and network community analysis of blog contents and
bloggers' interaction networks

- Performance analysis of big data tools and their applications in
electronic markets

- Development of decision support systems for social media brands and
competitive analysis of electronic markets

- Challenges and issues in big data analytics for electronic markets

- Data science and predictive analytics specific to electronic markets

- Organizational impact of big data analytics

- Quantification of the impact of user-generated content on consumers' good
purchase expenditures in electronic markets

We encourage contributions with a broad range of methodological approaches,
including conceptual, qualitative and quantitative research. We would also
like to welcome authors publishing on the topic of big data analytics in
electronic markets.

We also welcome contributions addressing related topics not listed above
(please contact the special issue editors in that case to discuss the fit
prior to submission).

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.

Submission

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Prospective authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the
guidelines published at
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/general-information/>
http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/general-information/. All
manuscripts that meet the scope of this special issue will be peer reviewed
and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards. All
submissions should be original, not published nor under review elsewhere. If
you would like to discuss any aspect of the special theme, please contact
the guest editors for the special issue. Submission must be in English and
should consist of 3,500 to 6,500 words. Articles must be submitted via the
electronic submission system at  <http://elma.edmgr.com>
http://elma.edmgr.com.

Important deadline

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* Submission Deadline: November 30, 2015

The CfP is also available on our website at
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/call-for-papers/single-view-for-cfp/datum/
2015/02/19/cfp-special-issue-big-data-analytics-in-electronic-markets/>
http://www.electronicmarkets.org/call-for-papers/single-view-for-cfp/datum/2
015/02/19/cfp-special-issue-big-data-analytics-in-electronic-markets/

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References:

Bharadwaj, A., El Sawy, O., Pavlou, P. A., and Venkatraman, N. (2013).
Digital business strategy: Toward a next generation of insights. MIS
Quarterly, 37(2), 471-482. 

Chang, R. M., Kauffman, R. J., and Kwon, Y. (2014). Understanding the
paradigm shift to computational social science in the presence of big data.
Decision Support Systems, 63, 67-80.

Chen, H., Chiang, R. H. L., and Storey, V. C. (2012). Business intelligence
and analytics: From big data to big impact. MIS Quarterly, 36(4), 1165-1188.

Sagiroglu, S. and Sinanc, D. (2013). Big data: A review. In Proceedings of
the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
(CTS), 42-47.

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

Editors-in-Chief: Rainer Alt, Leipzig University and Hans-Dieter Zimmermann,
FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland 

Executive Editor: Carsta Militzer-Horstmann, Leipzig University

Editorial Office:

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 

c/o Information Systems Institute, Leipzig University

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 9733600

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