[AISWorld] Call for Paper for AMCIS 2024 Minitrack: Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments

[Dr. Zhengzhi GUAN]

Call for Paper for AMCIS 2024 VCC Mini-Track: Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments

Virtual communities have emerged as a game-changing collaboration paradigm that facilitates interactions among individuals, groups, and organizations in the pursuit of mutual goals. As virtual communities reshape the boundaries and structures of human collaborations, comprehending human behaviors in online environments and deriving design considerations for digital services that optimize collaborative practices is imperative for realizing collaboration in the virtual space. 

This mini-track provides a forum for the exchange of research ideas and business practices on the interplay of human behaviors and virtual collaborative environments at the individual, group, organization, and societal levels. It aims to expand our knowledge on how technologies govern and shape human behaviors in virtual communities as well as how such technology-mediated human behaviors, in turn, inform the design of virtual collaborative environments. We are particularly interested in research that sheds light on how digital services contribute to value appropriation and creation in virtual collaborative environments.

*Influence of individual and collective behaviors on the design and usage of virtual collaborative platforms

*Influence of virtual collaborative platforms on individual behaviors, knowledge sharing and diffusion, as well as organizational norms and policies

*Patterns of human/human-machine interactions and how digital services can be leveraged to support such interactions

*Role of individual behaviors in shaping collective outcome on virtual collaborative platforms

*Design of knowledge sharing and diffusion in virtual collaborations

*Design of business processes and workflow in virtual collaborations

*Design of communication interfaces and digital assistants on virtual collaborative platforms

*Evaluation of system design for virtual collaborative platforms

*Virtual collaboration for knowledge sharing and diffusion

*Virtual collaboration, management and practices for emerging virtual commerce

*Antecedents, consequences and mechanism of social entrepreneurship in virtual communities/virtual collaborative environments.

Important Dates

January 5, 2024: Manuscript submissions begin

March 1, 2024: Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST

May 8, 2024: TREO, PDS, Workshop, and Panel submissions are due at 10 a.m. EDT

Track Chairs:

Zhengzhi GUAN BNU-HKBU, United International College, zhengzhiguan at gmail.com

Boying Li, Nottingham University Business School (China), boying.li at nottingham.edu.cn

Fangfang Hou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, fangfang.hou at xjtlu.edu.cn