[AISWorld] CfP Electronic Markets: "AI-enabled information systems: Teaming up with intelligent agents in networked business"

[editors at electronicmarkets.org]

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Dear colleagues,
 
Electronic Markets is seeking submissions for a Special Issue on "AI-enabled
information systems: Teaming up with intelligent agents in networked
business". Please find further details below.

Call for Papers: "AI-enabled information systems: Teaming up with
intelligent agents in networked business"
Submission deadline: April 30, 2023

Guest Editors
.	Peter Hofmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany,
peter.hofmann at uni-bayreuth.de 
.	Nils Urbach, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany,
nils.urbach at fim-rc.de 
.	Julia Lanzl, University of Hohenheim, Germany,
julia.lanzl at uni-hohenheim.de 
.	Kevin C. Desouza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia,
kevin.desouza at qut.edu.au 

Theme
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies promise new ways to solve
(existing) problems, resulting in new paths toward business value. While the
understanding of what constitutes AI technologies has continued to change
over time, machine learning has now become the focus of applied research and
practice (Janiesch et al. 2021). Besides AI technologies' capabilities to
outperform humans in certain tasks, it is the "ability to learn and act
autonomously [that] makes intelligent technological actors very different
from most technologies historically used in organizations" (Bailey et al.,
2019, p. 643). Beyond intelligent agents' capabilities to contribute to work
systems, inscrutability issues as technology-implied constraints are
particularly salient in research discussions (Berente et al. 2021).
Accordingly, the integration of intelligent agents in work systems is
calling into question our existing assumptions about networked business.
Motivated by the need to understand intelligent agents' roles and impacts in
networked business, this call for papers focuses on the appropriate design
of AI-enabled information systems as well as their accompanying management.
This comes with multifaceted and fascinating questions for the IS discourse
whose answers take a socio-technical perspective on the changing interaction
within organizations (individuals, teams, etc.) and between organizations.
Particularly, we call for research on forms of networked business where
intelligent and human agents interact for economic purposes within one or
among multiple tiers in economic value chains. We are enthusiastic about
research that elaborates on the configuration of human-AI teamwork,
including associated choices in (inter-) organizational design, work system
setups, and customer interaction.

Central issues and topics
This special issue of Electronic Markets will focus on intra- and
inter-organizational design as well as managerial, methodological, and
operational practices. We welcome research papers that bridge the gap
between technological and organizational issues, emphasizing which of AI
technologies' characteristics constitutes the subject of the study. We
advocate a deliberate examination of different technology and application
contexts. Method-wise, we welcome all established IS research approaches,
including design- and behavior-oriented research approaches as well as
conceptual papers. 

The (non-exclusive) list of topics comprises:
.	Managing AI-enabled work systems 
.	Intra-organizational collaboration with AI-enabled agents
.	(Group) Collaboration and value (co-)creation in human-AI teamwork
settings
.	Human-AI teamwork's implications for organizational roles,
practices, and structures
.	Efficient and human-centered design of human-AI collaboration
.	Dark side of human-AI collaboration
.	AI technologies' potential for customer interaction 
.	Algorithmic hiring and management
.	Standardization and semantic interoperability of data for AI/by AI
.	AI in interorganizational and cross-industry data platforms/spaces 

Submission
Electronic Markets is a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journal
(IF 6.017 in 2021) in the area of information systems. We encourage original
contributions with a broad range of methodological approaches, including
conceptual, qualitative and quantitative research. Please also consider
position papers and case studies for this special issue. All papers should
fit the journal scope (for more information, see
www.electronicmarkets.org/about-em/scope/) and will undergo a double-blind
peer-review process. Submissions must be original, not published, or under
review elsewhere. They must be submitted via the journal's submission system
(elma.edmgr.com) and comply with the journal's formatting standards. The
preferred average article length is approximately 10,000 words, excluding
references. Instructions, templates and general information are available at
www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/general-information/. If you would like to
discuss any aspect of this special issue, you may either contact the guest
editors or the Editorial Office.

Important deadline
* Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023


References
Bailey, D., Faraj, S., Hinds, P., von Krogh, G., & Leonardi, P. (2019).
Special issue of organization science: Emerging technologies and organizing.
Organization Science, 30(3), 642-646. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1299


Berente, N., Gu, B., Recker, J., & Santhanam, R. (2021). Special issue
editor's comments: Managing artificial intelligence. MIS Quarterly, 45(3),
1433-1450.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352400557_Managing_Artificial_Intel
ligence  

Janiesch, C., Zschech, P., & Heinrich, K. (2021). Machine learning and deep
learning. Electronic Markets, 31(3), 685-695.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00475-2  


Best regards,
Rainer Alt, Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Ramona Coia

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