[AISWorld] CFP: HICSS 2018 Mini-Track on The Sharing Economy (with Fast Track to the Internet Research)

[Bo Xiao]

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-51 2018

Minitrack:  The Sharing Economy

(Collaboration Systems and Technologies 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 Sharing Economy that is structured around the disintermediation of conventional channels of commerce in the exchange of both tangible and intangible resources. The 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¡Xin 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) ¡X 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 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 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 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.

The aim of this mini-track is to sensitize both academics and practitioners to the latest trends and developments in the sharing economy in order to determine how value can be created and appropriated within this novel economic environment powered primarily by technology. This mini-track embraces both retrospective and progressive views of how the 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 of the mini-track include, but are not limited to:
„X-- Collaborative consumption and production in sharing economy
„X-- Crowdfunding and communal investment
„X-- Crowdsourcing and open innovation
„X-- Crowd platform strategies
„X-- Data privacy and security in sharing economy
„X-- Design and innovation of crowd platforms
„X-- Digital business models of sharing economy
„X-- Digital labor markets and workforce management in sharing economy
„X-- Disruptive innovation in sharing economy
„X-- Market mechanics of sharing economy
„X-- Policy formulation for sharing economy
„X-- Reputation and trust in sharing economy
„X-- Social network in sharing economy
„X-- Socio-economic and political challenges of sharing economy
„X-- Value appropriation in sharing economy

Best papers accepted to this mini-track will be fast-tracked to Internet Research, an international and refereed journal that is indexed and abstracted in major databases (e.g., SSCI, SCI, ABI/INFORM Global).

For submission instructions please see: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/


MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:

Bo Sophia Xiao (Primary Contact)
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawaii at Manoa
boxiao at hawaii.edu

Eric Lim
UNSW Australia Business School
University of New South Wales
e.t.lim at unsw.edu.au

Chee-Wee Tan
Department of IT Management
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
cta.itm at cbs.dk


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submissions: June 15, 2017   11:59 PM Hawaii time

Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2017

Final paper due: September 22, 2017

Conference: January 3-6, 2018


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Best regards,
Bo Sophia Xiao

Associate Professor
Shidler College Research Fellow
Information Technology Management Department
Shidler College of Business
The University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tel.: (808) 956-7368
Email: boxiao at hawaii.edu
Website: http://shidler.hawaii.edu/directory/bo-sophia-xiao/itm
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Bo Sophia Xiao Associate Professor Department of Information Technology Management Shidler College of Business University of Hawaii at Manoa http://shidler.hawaii.edu/directory/bo-sophia-xiao/itm