[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS: Crowd-based Platforms Minitrack at HICSS 51

[Bin Gu]

Call for Papers
HICSS-51 Internet and Digital Economy (IDE) Track
Minitrack: Crowd-based Platforms

January 3-6, 2018
Hilton Waikoloa Village
Hawaii, Hawaii
Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu

Crowd-based platforms on the Internet harness the wisdom, labor and money from the crowd, to facilitate idea generation, labor exchange and funding of innovative entrepreneurial projects. Crow-based platforms include online labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, Freelancer.com), crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Innocentive.com, Zhubajie.com) and crowdfunding marketplaces (GoFundMe.com, Indegogo.com). The uprising scale and importance of such platforms has revolutionized the digital economy.

Notably, these crowd-based platforms have attracted much attention from IS academic scholars. The different types of crowd-based platforms offer new opportunities to understand information systems and related problems, such as new product development in crowdsourcing marketplaces (Huang et al. 2014); communication and coordination in software development (Hong and Pavlou 2016) and system design in online labor markets (Hong et al. 2014; Liang et al. 2016); social influence of contribution patterns (Burtch et al. 2013) in crowd funding marketplaces. Hereby, more innovative research is warranted in this research stream, given the scale and societal impact of these platforms.

In this mini-track, we seek to receive submissions of papers related to these three types of platforms below, with topics including but not limited to the following. We also welcome research using different data and methodologies, such as econometrics, field or lab experimentation, field surveys, analytical model, or grounded theory approaches.

(1) Crowdsourcing contest platforms

* New product development
* Value co-creation
* Contest performance
* Contest design

(2) Online labor platforms

* Auction design
* Auction performance
* Effect of online labor markets on local economy
* Effect of local economy on online labor markets
* Global dynamics

(3) Crowdfunding marketplace

* Signaling
* Social capital
* Social influence
* Crowdfunding success factors

Deadlines:

April 1: Paper Submission and Review System for HICSS-51 goes live.

June 15 (11:59 PM, Hawaii Time): Deadline to submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be *without author names*.

August 17: Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to authors. All travel arrangements – including visa or fiscal/ funding procedures – should begin immediately after you receive the notification of acceptance. Make sure your email account accepts the address from our review system.

September 4: If your paper is accepted with mandatory changes (AM), you must make specified changes and resubmit your paper to the Paper Submission and Review System for reconsideration, still without author names.

September 22: Deadline for submitting final manuscript for publication. Add author names, affiliation, and email address to your papers.

October 1: At least one author of each paper must register by October 1 in order secure publication in the Conference Proceedings.


Mini-Track Chairs:


Kevin Hong
Department of Information Systems
Arizona State University
Email: ykhong1 at asu.edu<mailto:ykhong1 at asu.edu>

Bin Gu
Department of Information Systems
Arizona State University
Email: bin.gu at asu.edu<mailto:bin.gu at asu.edu>

Nina Huang
Department of Marketing
Temple University
Email: nina.huang at temple.edu<mailto:nina.huang at temple.edu>


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Bin Gu
Professor | Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly
Associate Dean, China Programs
W. P. Carey School of Business
Department of Information Systems
Arizona State University
P. O. Box 874606
Tempe, AZ 85287-4606
p. 480.965.1870
e. Bin.Gu at asu.edu<mailto:Bin.Gu at asu.edu>
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