[AISWorld] CfP - AMCIS 2015 minitrack - Crowdsourcing and Virtual Collaboration

[Ulrich Bretschneider Dr.]

CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), The El Conquistador 
Resort and Convention Center, Puerto Rico, 13-15 August 2015 (
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/).

Minitrack: Crowdsourcing and Virtual Collaboration: Oceans of Potential

Internetworking on a global scale has introduced opportunities to access 
millions of people with broad diversity of knowledge, skills, and 
perspectives. Crowdsourcing can be thought of as methods of tapping into 
this opportunity to produce value. Crowdsourcing is a new and novel 
approach to tackling problems and creating new value. We have already seen 
many novel and interesting approaches to crowdsourcing, including 
application to astronomy, genealogy, startup funding, creative design, 
business process design, research, prediction, and many other areas. Yet 
the usefulness and potential of crowdsourcing through virtual 
collaboration has only begun to be uncovered. However, the significance of 
these communities is evident by the impact they have on information and 
content generation as well as transmission, and socialization. For 
example, Wikipedia is quickly becoming a primary source of information in 
a variety of domains. 
 
The cross-disciplinary nature of the IS discipline and its unique ability 
to view technology in novel ways gives it strong potential to make big 
waves in the crowdsourcing domain. We encourage full paper and 
research-in-progress submissions ranging from exploratory to confirmatory 
work. All methods of research are encouraged, including design science, 
empirical, and theoretical research. Potential topics include, but are not 
limited to the following: 
 
· Crowdsourcing knowledge management 
· Visualization of crowd-based structure or output 
· Barriers to adoption and switching costs 
· Social and political impact case studies 
· Community-sourced credibility assessment 
· Platforms, tools, and technologies 
· Better crowdsourcing methods and models 
· Innovative crowdsourcing opportunities 
· Mobile factors 
· Human and community factors 
· Crowdsourcing markets and economic models 
· Collaboration among and between individuals of the crowd 
· Labor and work organization within virtual crowdsourcing communities 

We encourage authors to not be limited by this list, but to seek to submit 
IS research that demonstrates broad new or existing potential in the 
crowdsourcing domain. 
 
Important dates:
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin 
February 25, 2015: Deadline for AMCIS manuscript submissions 
Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their 
papers
Tuesday, April 28, 2015:  Deadline for camera-ready revisions 
May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made 
 
Minitrack Co-chairs: 
Nathan Twyman, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, 
USA 
Tim Olsen, Gonzaga University, Washington, USA 
Ulrich Bretschneider, University of Kassel, Germany 
Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 
Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 
 
Background Literature 
Dissanayake, I; Zhang, J; Gu, B (2014): Virtual Team Performances in 
Crowdsourcing Contests, in: Proceedings of the Twentieth Americas 
Conference on Information Systems, Savannah, GA, USA. 
Doan, A; Ramarkrishnan, R; Halevy, A (2011), "Crowdsourcing Systems on the 
World Wide Web", Communications of the ACM 54 (4): 86–96 
Leimeister, J M; Huber, M; Bretschneider, U; Krcmar, H (2009): “Leveraging 
Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting components for IT-based ideas 
competition”, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) 26(1): 
197-224 
Nunamaker, J; Reinig, B; Briggs, R (2009), “Principles for Effective 
Virtual Teamwork”, Communications of the ACM 52 (4): 113-117 
Porter, C; Devaraj, S; Daewon, S (2013), “A Test of Two Models of Value 
Creation in Virtual Communities”, Journal of Management Information 
Systems 30 (1): 261-292 
Xiao, L (2014), “Effects of Rationale Awareness in Online Ideation 
Crowdsourcing Tasks”, Journal of the Association for Information Science 
and Technology 65 (8): 1707-1720 
Zhao, Y; Zhu, Q., (2014) “Evaluation on Crowdsourcing Research: Current 
Status and Future Direction”, Information Systems Frontiers 16 (3): 
417-434 



Dr. Ulrich Bretschneider 
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Universität Kassel | Kassel University 
Wirtschaftsinformatik | Information Systems 
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eMail: bretschneider at uni-kassel.de 
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