[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue on Social Media Networks in Business (Journal: Computer Networks)

[Alexander Richter]

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue on Social Media Networks in Business
 
Computer Networks (Impact Factor: 1,256)
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-social-media-networks-in-business/)
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Deadline for Paper Submissions: January 15, 2016

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Description of the Special Issue
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In recent years, the rapid proliferation of Social Media Networks has drastically transformed the way in which we communicate, collaborate, and create information. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+ encompass hundreds of millions of users. Social Media Networks have also revolutionized the ways organizations relate to the marketplace, consumers, society as well as their employees, creating new opportunities for firms along the whole value chain. Thus, Social Media Networks are changing not only our private but our business communication practices too, while, at the same time, creating entirely new communities. Particularly the resulting availability of huge amounts of data allows the mining of valuable insights for both research and practice. By revolutionizing communication and collaboration patterns, Social Media Networks promise previously unimagined opportunities, all at a speed (and reach) previously unheard of, but may as well bring along several new challenges and risks.
This special issue aims to contribute to the growing body of research investigating Social Media Networks in a business context and its most recent developments, addressing both theoretical and applied perspectives. We seek rigorous, relevant and previously unpublished submissions in the context of Social Media Networks providing new insights on both transformational impact and challenges in Social Media Networks for organizations (e.g., regarding business transformation). We seek contributions especially focusing on strategic, organizational, and economic analyses. We welcome all methodological approaches, including, but not limited to, theoretical, analytical, design-oriented, and empirical research.
 
Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
 
* Impact of Social Media Networks for companies and organizations
* Diffusion of information in Social Media Networks
* Social Media Networks and Customer Relationship Management
* Enterprise Social Media Networks
* The impact of Social Media Networks in specific industries
* Social Media Networks and mobile computing
* Application of Social Network Analysis
* Social Media Networks and data privacy and security
* Social Media Networks and information overload
* Social Media Networks and Big Data/Data Analytics
* Social Media Networks and their role in community building
 
Important Dates
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Paper Submission Due: January 15, 2016
First Round Notification: March 15, 2016 Revised Paper Submission: April 30, 2016 Second Round Notification: June 15, 2016 Final Papers Due: July 15, 2016 Final Notification: July 31, 2016 Publication Target Date: 4th Quarter 2016
 
Guest Editors
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Dr. Julia Klier
Department of Management Information Systems University of Regensburg, Germany
Email: julia.klier at wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
 
Prof. Dr. Mathias Klier
Institute of Technology and Process Management University of Ulm, Germany
Email: mathias.klier at uni-ulm.de
 
Dr. Alexander Richter
Information Management Research Group
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Email: arichter at ifi.uzh.ch
 
Prof. Dr. Rolf T. Wigand
Departments of Information Science & Business Information Systems University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Email: rtwigand at ualr.edu
 
Submission Details
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All received submissions within the scope of this special issue will be sent out for blind peer review by three experts in the field and be evaluated in regards to the relevance for this special issue, level of novelty, depth of contribution, and overall quality. Submitted articles must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other journals. If the paper was preliminarily published in conference proceedings, the submitted manuscript must be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to explain the enhancements made in the journal version to demonstrate the differences and extension. Submitted articles must be written clearly, in good English, and should not exceed 20 pages (double-spaced). 
Authors should follow the Computer Networks manuscript format which can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for-authors. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the Elsevier Editorial System http://ees.elsevier.com/comnet/ and authors should select 'Social Media Networks' as the article type for submission.
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