<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">===========================================================================================<br><b> <br> Extended Deadline: CfP Pre-ECIS Workshop on the Digitization in Business Models and Entrepreneurship (DiBME 2013)<br><br> </b></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Deadline for submission: <b>March 20 (extended)</b>, 2013</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Workshop: June 5, 2013, prior to ECIS at Utrecht, Netherlands</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>===========================================================================================<br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>Rapid developments in ICT have fostered challenges and changes to existing firms and have also brought up new opportunities for IT-driven startups. The business model concept has rapidly been gaining attention in research and practice as a unit of analysis to understand and model such developments. This workshop tries to foster the discussion around the topic of business models and the contributions it might bring to the IS discipline.<br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please find further details at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.dibme.org/">www.dibme.org</a></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br><br>Topics<br>===========================<br><br>Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (max. 14 pages) and research-in-progress (max. 6 pages) to this ongoing discussion. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:<br><br>- Behavioral research on business models in IT contexts<br>- The use of the business model concept by IT-driven startups<br>- Development/evaluation of new business models in the era of social media, smartphones, and online services<br>- Evaluation and simulation of new or existing business models<br>- Industry-specific classification schemes of business models (e.g. social media business model types)<br>- Interplay of different business model components and their configuration<br>- Development of tools and languages for the description and simulation of business models<br>- Impacts of new developments in ICT on business models<br>- Innovation of business models through IT<br>- Understanding the business model changes of software companies switching from on premise to cloud products and services<br>- Interrelationships of 'fit' between IT, organization, business model, and performance<br>- The decision and strategy making in IT startups<br>- The impacts of management team IT education in entrepreneurial ventures<br>- IT adoption in Startups<br><br><br>Important Dates<br>===========================<br><br>- Deadline for submission: <b>March 20 (extended)</b>, 2013 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)<br>- Notification for acceptance: Latest by April 12, 2013<br>- Deadline for camera-ready version: April 26, 2013<br>- Workshop: June 5, 2013, prior to ECIS at Utrecht, Netherlands<br><br>Registration for the workshop is done via the ECIS registration process. The fee including catering is 140 Euro. For all accepted papers one of the authors is required to register and present.<br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit the extended and revised versions of their work to a <b>special issue on business models in the Information Systems Journal (ISJ).</b><br><br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Types and Form of Submissions<br>===========================<br><br>Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (max. 14 pages) or research-in-progress (max. 6 pages) as PDFs. We welcome all types of rigorous research: literature reviews, conceptual articles, qualitative and quantitative articles.<br><br>Submissions must be original, and not submitted to, or accepted by, any conference or journal. A separate cover sheet should be enclosed containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and the contact and address details. This is the only place where the names of the authors should appear.<br><br>All text in manuscripts should be 12-point, Times New Roman, 1.5-spaced, Left-aligned and roughly follow the guidelines suggested by MISQ. Borders should be 2 cm on each side. The maximum number of pages given above refers to the entire contents of manuscripts (e.g., title, tables, figures, appendix) accept references.</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br><br><br>Organizers<br>===========================</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><font face="Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>- Chair: Daniel Veit, University of Augsburg<br>- Program Chair: Thomas Hess, LMU Munich<br>- Scientific Chair: Christoph Zott, University of Navarra<br>- Org. Chair: Dennis M. Steininger, University of Augsburg<br><br>Program Committee:<br>- Mutaz M. Al-Debei, University of Jordan<br>- Alexander Benlian, Technische Universität Darmstadt<br>- Peter Buxmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt<br>- Eric Clemons, University of Pennsylvania<br>- Jonas Hedman, Copenhagen Business School<br>- Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn<br>- Jan Marco Leimeister, University of Kassel<br>- Peter Loos, Saarland University<br>- Adamantia Pateli, Ionian University<br>- Saonee Sarker, Washington State University<br>- Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University<br>- Martin Spann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich<br>- Tim Weitzel, University of Bamberg<br>- Michael Woywode, University of Mannheim<br><br><br>Please find further details at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.dibme.org/">www.dibme.org</a><br></font></span></div></body></html>