[AISWorld] CFP: "Access (or Sharing) Economy" Minitrack at the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2017)

[Bo Xiao]

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-50 2017

Minitrack:  Access (or Sharing) Economy

(Collaboration Systems and Technology track)


Sharing is ingrained in the fabric of society and efficient access to goods
and services constitutes a major force driving much of the economic
activity today. With greater connectivity brought about by the
proliferation of internetworking technologies, it has become much easier
for individuals to circumvent spatial and temporal barriers during
interactions, thereby giving rise to a novel access (or sharing) economy
that is structured around the disintermediation of conventional channels of
commerce in the exchange of both tangible and intangible resources.

The access (or sharing) economy has gained notable attention within
mainstream media as a new economic paradigm that leverages peer-to-peer
technological platforms to facilitate exchange of resources among
individuals who are joined via fluid relational networks. Almost overnight,
numerous peer-to-peer platforms in the likes of crowd-working (e.g.,
Airbnb, Uber, Amazon Mechanic Turk, E-Lance, Fiverr), co-innovation (e.g.,
Mindmixer, Social Innovator), crowd-funding (e.g., Kickstarter, Indiegogo),
crowd-searching (e.g., Crowdfynd, CrowdSearching), and crowd-voting (e.g.,
California Report Card, Threadless) have sprung up to facilitate both
individuals and/or organizations to pool resources in resolving problems.

While there are many practitioners who have prophesized the access (or
sharing) economy as a game-changer for how organizations and society
function, there are also a number of detractors who questioned the
uncertain and potentially disruptive future that is brought about by such
peer-to-peer exchanges. Critics have painted a dismal picture of the access
(or sharing) economy as a means for individuals and/or firms to dodge
proper regulations and live beyond their means, which in turn contributes
to doomsday scenarios of massive job displacements and spending habits
detrimental to society. In light of the opportunities and challenges posed
by the access (or sharing) economy, there is a clear urgency for a
systematic and thorough scrutiny of how value creation and appropriation
can take place within such economic environments while minimizing its
negative impact to society.

This minitrack embraces both retrospective and progressive views of how the
access (or sharing) economy has evolved and would transform with
technological advances. We welcome papers that identify and address
knowledge gaps in how emergent technologies are shaping the access and
sharing of resources within online peer-to-peer communities. Papers that
subscribe to inter-disciplinary perspectives and/or adopt mixed methods are
particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

-- Collaborative consumption and production in access (or sharing) economy
-- Crowdfunding and communal investment
-- Crowdsourcing and open innovation
-- Crowd platform strategies
-- Data privacy and security in access access (or sharing) economy
-- Design and innovation of crowd platforms
-- Digital business models of access access (or sharing) economy
-- Digital labor markets and workforce management in access (or sharing)
economy
-- Disruptive innovation in access (or sharing) economy
-- Market mechanics of access (or sharing) economy
-- Policy formulation for access (or sharing) economy
-- Reputation and trust in access (or sharing) economy
-- Social network in access (or sharing) economy
-- Socio-economic and political challenges of access (or sharing) economy
-- Value appropriation in access (or sharing) economy



MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:

Bo Sophia Xiao
Information Technology Management Department
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Honolulu, HI, USA
Tel: +1 (808) 956-7368
Fax: +1 (808) 956-9889
Email: boxiao at hawaii.edu
Website: http://shidler.hawaii.edu/directory/bo-sophia-xiao/itm

Eric Lim
School of Information Systems, Technology and Management
Australian School of Business
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Tel: +61 (2) 9385-4688
Fax: +61 (2) 9662-4061
Email: e.t.lim at unsw.edu.au
Website: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/eric-t-k-lim.aspx

Chee-Wee Tan
Department of IT Management
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45 3815-4460
Email: cta.itm at cbs.dk
Website: http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ctaitm



IMPORTANT DATES:

*June 15 (11:59 pm, Hawaii Time): Deadline to submit full manuscripts for
review.

*August 16: Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to authors.

*September 4: Submission deadline for papers accepted with mandatory
changes.


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