[AISWorld] CfP Electronic Markets: "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) for Online Marketplaces"

Mon Mar 14 06:13:27 EDT 2022

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Dear colleagues,

Electronic Markets is seeking submissions for a Special Issue on
"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) for Online Marketplaces".
Please find further details below.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Environmental, Social, and Governance
(ESG) for Online Marketplaces"

Submission deadline: January 31, 2023

Guest Editors

*	Sunghan Ryu, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Series Editor of SAGE Business Cases,
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shryu(at)sjtu.edu.cn
*	Kees Koedijk, Faculty of Banking and Finance, Utrecht University;
and Fellow of CEPR, Editor of Journal of International Money and Finance,
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c.g.koedijk(at)uu.nl
*	Victor Chow, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West
Virginia University,
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victor.chow(at)mail.wvu.edu
*	Xiang Gao, Research Center of Finance, Shanghai Business School,
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gaoxiang(at)sbs.edu.cn 

Theme

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) refer to the three central
factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of an investment
in a corporate entity (Friede et al. 2015; Ketter et al. 2020; Van Duuren et
al. 2016; Vo et al. 2019).[i] The ESG perspective emphasizes social
objectives beyond the traditional financial objectives of the companies and
has a great impact not just in production but more importantly on supply
chain, resources allocation, marketing channels, and customer networking
within and across global markets (Drempetic et al. 2020). The three-factor
ESG has been considered salient in the entire society, including
policymakers and social activists, but has become particularly critical in
the area of investment (Al-Shaer and Zaman 2019; Benlemlih et al. 2018). ESG
metrics have been derived from reports and news articles, evaluating the
company in different sustainability and social impact aspects (Benlemlih et
al. 2018; Drempetic et al. 2020; Friede et al. 2015; Van Duuren et al.
2016).

Yet there is a lack of research for the impact of ESG around real-world
marketplaces, where companies transact and interact with consumers and other
stakeholders. More specifically, online marketplaces' ESG activities are
becoming more prominent, as we could see the rapid growth of successful
online marketplaces across the world (Keating et al. 2009; Liao et al. 2010;
Schmitz and Latzer 2002). While the call to explore and examine the
sustainability topic has been recently articulated in related information
systems (IS) domains (Ketter et al. 2020; Pan et al. 2021), relevant
academic contributions in the online marketplace domain are still dismal.
After an initial special issue on sustainability in Electronic Markets
(Jabłoński et al. 2020), the purpose of this special issue is to initiate
and grow a research stream to examine the key aspects of online marketplaces
from the perspective of ESG in different sectors, e.g., commerce, service,
tourism, entertainment, and open avenues for future research and managerial
implications. The special issue also seeks to analyze the importance of each
ESG factor in the online marketplaces. Both theoretical and empirical papers
are encouraged to contribute to the special issue.

Central issues and topics

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

*	Interactions between ESG, sustainable development, and online
marketplaces; 
*	Measurements of ESG in online marketplaces on firm-, industry-
and/or macro-level;
*	Impact of ESG and sustainability on online marketplaces and their
stakeholders such as government, employees, customers, communities, and
suppliers;
*	ESG cost and performance evaluation on online marketplaces'
decisions;
*	Consequences of good or bad ESG practices and communications by
online marketplaces;
*	ESG and sustainability indicators for SMEs and startups in online
marketplaces; ESG and sustainability challenges of emerging online platforms
in media and entertainment sectors;
*	Business models for online marketplaces and ESG choices and
sustainable growth;
*	Linkages between macro-level, industry-level, and firm-level factors
on sustainable growth and environmental considerations in online
marketplaces;
*	Responsible and sustainable investment in online marketplaces.

Submission

All manuscript submissions will go through an initial round of screening by
the special issue editorial board to ensure that they fit the objectives of
the special issue and Electronic Markets and can be reasonably improved
during the time frame of the special issue. The authors should follow the
authors' guideline of Electronic Markets for formatting their manuscripts.
Manuscripts that pass the initial screening will go through the review
process. It is expected that a manuscript will go through a maximum of three
rounds of revision and will be published online first once accepted for
publication.

Electronic Markets is a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journal
(IF 4.765 in 2020) in the area of information systems and supports
methodological and theoretical pluralism, i.e., empirical or theoretical
work, qualitative research, and design science are all welcome by the
journal.

Important deadline

* Submission Deadline: January 31, 2023

References

Al-Shaer, H., and Zaman, M. 2019. "Ceo Compensation and Sustainability
Reporting Assurance: Evidence from the Uk," Journal of Business Ethics
(158:1), pp. 233-252. 

Benlemlih, M., Shaukat, A., Qiu, Y., and Trojanowski, G. 2018.
"Environmental and Social Disclosures and Firm Risk," Journal of Business
Ethics (152:3), pp. 613-626. 

Drempetic, S., Klein, C., and Zwergel, B. 2020. "The Influence of Firm Size
on the ESG Score: Corporate Sustainability Ratings under Review," Journal of
Business Ethics (167:2), pp. 333-360. 

Friede, G., Busch, T., and Bassen, A. 2015. "ESG and Financial Performance:
Aggregated Evidence from More Than 2000 Empirical Studies," Journal of
Sustainable Finance & Investment (5:4), pp. 210-233. 

Jabłoński, M., Timmers, P., and Sarkis, J. 2020. "Sustainability in Business
Models in the Network Economy," Electronic Markets (30:4), pp. 675-678. 

Keating, B. W., Quazi, A. M., and Kriz, A. 2009. "Financial Risk and Its
Impact on New Purchasing Behavior in the Online Retail Setting," Electronic
Markets (19:4), pp. 237-250. 

Ketter, W., Padmanabhan, B., Pant, G., and Raghu, T. 2020. "Addressing
Societal Challenges through Analytics: An ESG Ice Framework and Research
Agenda," Journal of Association for Information Systems (21:5), pp.
1115-1128. 

Liao, C. C., Palvia, P., and Lin, H. N. 2010. "Stage Antecedents of Consumer
Online Buying Behavior," Electronic Markets (20:1), pp. 53-65. 

Pan, S. L., Carter, L., Tim, Y., and Sandeep, M. 2021. "Digital
Sustainability, Climate Change, and Information Systems Solutions:
Opportunities for Future Research," International Journal of Information
Management, pp. 102444. 

Schmitz, S. W., and Latzer, M. 2002. "Competition in B2C e-Commerce:
Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence," Electronic Markets (12:3), pp.
163-174. 

Van Duuren, E., Plantinga, A., and Scholtens, B. 2016. "ESG Integration and
the Investment Management Process: Fundamental Investing Reinvented,"
Journal of Business Ethics (138:3), pp. 525-533. 

Vo, N. N. Y., He, X., Liu, S., and Xu, G. 2019. "Deep Learning for Decision
Making and the Optimization of Socially Responsible Investments and
Portfolio," Decision Support Systems (124), pp. 113097. 

[i] The concept of sustainability or sustainable development is usually
traced back to the report "Our Common Future Produced" by a United Nations
(UN) commission in 1987. Sustainability in the context of business and
economics is often aligned with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
presented by the UN in the document "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development." See https://sdgs.un.org/goals for more
details.

Best regards,

Rainer Alt, Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Ramona Coia

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 

Editors-in-Chief: Rainer Alt, Leipzig University and Hans-Dieter Zimmermann,
FHS St.Gallen, University of Applied Sciences 

Executive Editor: Ramona Coia, Leipzig University Editorial Office:

c/o Information Systems Institute

Leipzig University

Grimmaische Str. 12, 

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 341 - 97 33 611

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