[AISWorld] [SUSPICIOUS] AMCIS 2019 Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) Track - Call for Minitrack Proposals

[de Vreede, Gert-Jan]

AMCIS 2019 Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) Track
Call For Minitrack Proposals
 
Track Chairs:
Fiona Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology, mailto:nahf at mst.edu
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of South Florida, mailto:gdevreede at usf.edu
Shu Schiller, Wright State University, mailto:shu.schiller at wright.edu
 
Track Description:
 
The goal of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track is to disseminate research and extend our knowledge and understanding of virtual communities and collaboration. Collaboration is a fundamental part of organizations and organizational partnerships. Following a continuing trend toward globalization, virtual communities and collaboration are an increasingly important part of organizations. Virtual communities are collective groups of individuals who utilize computer-mediated environments to interact and pursue mutual goals. They can be found in virtual worlds, social media and crowdsourcing sites, among others. Organizations and teams can use computer-mediated environments to improve their processes and outcomes, yet collaboration technologies do not foster value-creation by themselves. Researchers and practitioners need to address behavioral, social, cognitive, and technical issues. Research areas range from design issues in collaboration systems, sense of community and engagement in virtual communities, to impact of virtual communities and collaboration in domains as diverse as business, education, and government. This track aims to solicit contributions from a range of epistemological and methodological perspectives to extend our understanding of virtual communities and collaboration to enhance the theoretical foundation for research, share important empirical findings related to these venues, and provide guidance to practitioners.
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
- The design, development, deployment, use, and evaluation of virtual communities in business and educational settings
- Individual and group behaviors in virtual communities and collaboration
- Collaboration among and interplay between virtual communities, and the impact of these environments on participants and communities
- Individual and group behaviors, processes, and governance mechanisms in virtual communities and collaboration
- The role of individual attitudes and characteristics on behaviors, processes and outcomes in virtual communities and collaboration
- Ethics, privacy, security, and trust issues in virtual communities and collaboration
- Intra- and inter-organizational communication and collaboration and cultural issues in virtual communities associated with social media, crowdsourcing and virtual worlds
- Business and economic models of virtual communities associated with crowdsourcing, social media, and virtual worlds
- Power and political issues related to individual, group, organizational, and societal behaviors in virtual communities and collaborations
- Organizational and societal impacts of social networking in virtual communities and collaboration
- Applications of virtual communities and collaboration in different social/cultural settings and business domains
- Novel and innovative applications of virtual communities and collaboration
- Social analytics and big data analytics of virtual communities and collaboration
- Methodological and measurement advances in virtual communities and collaboration
 
Potential Mini-Tracks:
 
- Social and Business Value of Virtual Communities
- Behavioral and Design Issues in Virtual Communities
- Issues and Challenges in Virtual Collaboration and Distributed Decision Making
- Virtual Communities and Social Media in Health Care
- Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities
- Analytics in Virtual Communities and Open Innovation
- Advances in Education through Virtual Communities and Technology-Mediated Collaborative Learning
- Sharing Economy
- Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities
- Social Shopping: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 
We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019), which will be held on August 15-17, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico. AMCIS 2019 brings together academics and industry professionals around the world to exchange knowledge related to the AMCIS 2019 theme: New Frontiers in Digital Convergence.
Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019; 
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.
 
To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit: 
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); 
b) minitrack title; 
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your minitrack. 
 
To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/ais and follow the submission guidelines.
Important Dates:
September 20, 2018: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions
October 19, 2018: Minitrack submissions are due
October 30, 2018: Minitrack decisions are complete
November 5, 2018: Minitrack revisions are due
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST
March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers
April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
May 1, 2019: Track session plans are due
Please contact us if you have any questions.  We look forward to receiving your proposals.
 
Best regards,
Fiona Nah, Gert-Jan de Vreede, and Shu Schiller


GJ de Vreede, PhD
Interim Dean, College of Business
University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
gdevreede at usf.edu