[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Electronic Commerce Research

[Dongyu Chen]

Call for Papers
Electronic Commerce Research

Special Issue on
Service and Manufacturing Innovations in e-Business Platforms

Theme and Scope
E-business continues to fundamentally transform traditional industries and
markets, and creates unprecedented service and manufacturing innovations.
Examples in service domains include online peer-to-peer lending, crowd
funding, open innovation, healthcare exchanges, O2O, and many more (Angst
and Agarwal 2009; Leimeister; Huber et al. 2009; Herzenstein, Sonenshein et
al. 2011; Duarte, Siegel et al. 2012; Zhang and Liu 2012). E-business has
also created opportunities as well as challenges for manufacturing
industries. For example, today's manufactures have to decide if the firm
should offer products through e-business channels and, if so, how the
operations for the e-business channels would differ from the traditional
channels. Besides, the e-business environment has opened up opportunities
for manufacturers to share and receive real-time information, streamline
relationships with suppliers and customers, and increase the speed,
flexibility, and efficiency of the production process. These e-business
related innovations provide rich contexts for researchersto investigate a
variety of research questions. This special issue aims to seek
original research to understand the technological, economical, managerial,
and behavioral issues of these service and manufacturing innovations in
e-business platforms. The papers will be peer reviewed and will be selected
on the basis of their quality and relevance to the theme of this special
issue. Papers using different methodologies, such as mathematical modeling,
empirical research, experiments, and case studies are invited. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to

1. Internet Finance (including peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding)
2. Cloud computing and big data for services and manufacturing
3. Open innovations for e-business
4. Online to Offline Marketing
5. Information sharing in e-business environment
6. Manufacturing and re-manufacturing strategies for e-business
7. Distribution channels and product variety of e-business
8. E-logistics management
9. Relationship governance in supply chains in e-business environment

Instructions for Manuscripts
Guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are provided at
the Electronic Commerce Research website. Manuscripts (pdf and source
files) must be directly emailed to the Corresponding Guest Editors - Dr.
Xin Luo (xinluo at unm.edu) and Dr. Fujun Lai (fujun.lai at usm.edu or
laiusm at 163.com) with the indication that the submission is for the Special
Issue on "E-business Innovations". The manuscript should include a title
page containing the title of paper, full names and affiliations, complete
postal and electronic addresses, an abstract and some keywords. Submissions
not in compliance with the guidance will not be considered for review.


Important Dates
Manuscript submission deadline: July 1, 2015
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: September 01, 2015
Revised paper due: December 01, 2015
Final paper submission deadline: February 01, 2016
Tentative Publication Date: 3rd or 4th Quarter, 2016

Guest Editors
Dr. Fujun Lai
College of Business
The University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Email: Fujun.lai at usa.edu or laiusm at 163.com
Dr. Lai is a McCarty Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences and
Professor of Management at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. He
received his Ph.D in Operations Management from City University of Hong
Kong.  Dr. Lai has published more than 40 papers in such journals as
Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of
Production Research, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions, Decision Support
Systems, Journal of Business Research, Communications of the ACM, Journal
of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, among
others. His research interests include enterprise systems, supply chain
relationship management, and global logistics.

Dr. Xin (Robert) Luo
Anderson School of Management
The University of New Mexico, USA
Email: xinluo at unm.edu
Dr. Luo is an Endowed Regent's Professor and Associate Professor of MIS and
Information Assurance in the Anderson School of Management at the
University of New Mexico, USA. He is the Associate Director of Center for
Information AssuranceResearch and Education at UNM. He received his Ph.D.
in MIS from Mississippi State University, USA. He has
publishedresearch papers in leading journals including Communications of
the ACM, Computers & Security, Decision Support Systems, European Journal
of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information &
Management, Journal of the AIS, and Journal of Strategic Information
Systems, etc. He is currently serving as an Ad-hoc Associate Editor for MIS
Quarterly and an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences, European Journal
of Information Systems, Electronic CommerceResearch, Journal
of Electronic Commerce Research, and International Conference on
Information Systems. His researchinterests center around information
assurance, innovative technologies for strategic decision-making, and
global IT management.


References:
Angst, C. M. and R. Agarwal (2009). "Adoption of electronic health records
in the presence of privacy concerns: The elaboration likelihood model and
individual persuasion." MIS Quarterly 33(2): 339-370.
Duarte, J., S. Siegel and L. Young (2012). "Trust and credit: The role of
appearance in peer-to-peer lending." Review of Financial Studies 25(8):
2455-2484.
Herzenstein, M., S. Sonenshein and U. M. Dholakia (2011). "Tell me a good
story and i may lend you money: The role of narratives in peer-to-peer
lending decisions." Journal of Marketing Research 48 (SPL): S138-S149.
Leimeister, J. M., M. Huber, U. Bretschneider and H. Krcmar (2009).
"Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based
Ideas Competition." Journal of Management Information Systems 26 (1):
197-224.
Zhang, J. J. and P. Liu (2012). "Rational herding in microloan markets."
Management Science 58(2): 892-912.