[AISWorld] AMCIS 2017 CFP: Service Innovation in Virtual Communities Mini-track

[Hamed Qahri-Saremi]

CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS 2017
August 10-12, 2017 <http://airmail.calendar/2017-08-10%2012:00:00%20CDT>,
BOSTON, MA, USA
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017
<http://airmail.calendar/2017-03-01%2012:00:00%20CST>
https://amcis2017.aisnet.org/

Mini-Track Title: *Service Innovation in Virtual Communities*

Track: *Virtual Communities and Collaboration*


Mini-Track Description:

Grounded in service-dominant logic perspective, service innovation refers
to the exchange and application of specialized competences (knowledge and
skills) to create novel resources that are beneficial to actors inside and
outside of organizations. As such, service innovation incorporates various
partners from service providers to service consumers as active participants
in its process. As such, information technology, in particular virtual
communities and collaboration (VCC) technologies, can play a poignant role
in the service innovation process. VCC technologies enable organizations to
interact and collaborate with external actors such as consumers and other
business partners to improve their business processes, products and
services, and value propositions. Although VCC technologies are giving rise
to new forms of service innovations, their implications and impacts for
businesses have yet to be clarified in the research findings. To that end,
this mini track focuses on the use of VCC technologies in service
innovation and their business impacts.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   - Business impacts of use of collaborative and virtual communities
   technologies toward service innovation.
   - Affordances of collaborative and virtual communities technologies for
   service innovations.
   - New theoretical models explaining the role of collaborative and
   virtual communities technologies for service innovations.
   - Opportunities and challenges of service innovation in the
   collaborative and virtual communities technologies context.
   - Case studies showing the success and/or failures of use of
   collaborative and virtual communities technologies toward service innovation
   - Ethical, legal, and privacy issues of use of collaborative and virtual
   communities technologies toward service innovation.


Important Dates:

   - January 9, 2017 <http://airmail.calendar/2017-01-09%2012:00:00%20CST>:
   ScholarOne opens for Completed and ERF paper submissions
   - March 1, 2017 <http://airmail.calendar/2017-03-01%2012:00:00%20CST>:
   ScholarOne closes for Completed and ERF paper submissions
   - April 17, 2017 <http://airmail.calendar/2017-04-17%2012:00:00%20CDT>:
   Notification of initial decisions on Completed and ERF paper submissions
   - April 25, 2017
<http://airmail.calendar/2017-04-25%2012:00:00%20CDT>: Camera
   ready submissions due on Completed Research and ERFs


Mini-track Co-Chairs:

   - Hamed Qahri-Saremi – DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.
   - Reza Vaezi – Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA.
   - Babak Abedin – University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Mini-track email: vc.ct.si.bi at gmail.com