[AISWorld] CfP AMCIS 2016 Mini Track “Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities”

Ulrich Bretschneider Dr. bretschneider at uni-kassel.de
Mon Jan 11 05:08:42 EST 2016


Call for Papers AMCIS 2016
Mini-Track “Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities”
22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems
August 11-13, 2016, San Diego, CA 
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Description
Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities (VCCs) have emerged as high activity 
domains on the Internet. VCC are designed for a variety of purposes, 
ranging from VCCs for Creation (Wikipedia), for Work (TopCoder, odesk), or 
for Funding (Kickstarter, etc.). 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, today, Wikipedia is 
quickly becoming a primary source of information in a variety of domains. 
Crowdsourcing is also becoming more and more attractive for firms. By 
practicing Crowdsourcing firms tend to get access to services, ideas, or 
content from a large group of people via VCC. In this vein, firms’ 
traditional Make-Or-Buy decisions turn to the management and integration 
of globally distributed resources. For example, firms source the 
generation of innovations or the work on tasks through VCCs as the 
examples of Dell’s Ideastorm or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk illustrate. 
Within the field of IS researchers are interested in studying interaction 
and collaboration patterns, social structures, transaction processes, 
management aspects, business models, and design aspects of information 
systems and services for VCC. Other related issues are trust, network 
effects as well as collaboration activities. In this vein, research that 
unlocks the value of "Wisdom of Crowds" or "Collective Intelligence" can 
be very insightful. 

Suggested Topics 
Despite the increasing popularity of VCC, several questions relating to 
VCC remain largely unexplored. We call for papers on all aspects of VCC. 
We welcome empirical, conceptual and theoretical work. Possible topics 
include (but are not limited to): 
•Collaboration in VCC
•Social, political and economic impact of VCC 
•Community models, platforms, services, and interactions in VCC
•Management of VCC 
•VCC-related business models 
•Innovation and content generation in VCC
•Collaboration among and between VCC members 
•Case studies and empirical studies, best practices and lessons learned 
•Typologies and taxonomies of VCC 
•Labor and work organization within VCC
•Individual and group behaviors inVCC
•Worker performance, attitudes, motivation and satisfaction within VCC
•Ethical issues associated with VCC

Important Dates 
•January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin. 
•March 2, 2016 (10:00am, PST time zone): Submission deadline. 

Mini-track Chair Information 
•Ulrich Bretschneider (Primary Contact), Kassel University, Germany 
(bretschneider at uni-kassel.de)
•Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
•Jonathan (Hua) Ye, Harbin Institute of Technology, China


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