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

[Tim Olsen]

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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20150220/7e962859/attachment.html>