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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">First CALL FOR PAPERS</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Mini-Track "Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">20th Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">August 7-10, 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">AMCIS 2014 website </font><a href=http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</font></a>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Mini-Track website </font><a href="http://www.virtual-community.org/"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial">http://www.virtual-community.org</font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">=== SCOPE ===</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities (VCC) have
emerged as high activity domains on the Internet. VCC are designed for
a variety of purposes, ranging from VCC for Creation (Wikipedia), for Work
(TopCoder, odesk), or for Funding (Sell-a-Band, Kickstarter, etc.). The
significance of these communities is evident by the impact they have on
information and content generation as well as transmission, and socialization.
For example, today, Wikipedia is quickly becoming a primary source of information
in a variety of domains. Crowdsourcing is also becoming more and more attractive
for firms. By practicing Crowdsourcing firms tend to get access to services,
ideas, or content from a large group of people via VCC. In this vein, firms’
traditional Make-Or-Buy decisions turn to the management and integration
of globally distributed resources. For example, firms source the generation
of innovations or the work on tasks through VCC as the examples of Dell’s
Ideastorm or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk illustrate. Within the field of
IS researchers are interested in studying interaction patterns, social
structures, transaction processes, management aspects, business models,
and design aspects of information systems and services for VCC. Other related
issues are trust, network effects as well as transaction costs. Also, the
operational mechanisms of VCC are of interest to practice. In this vein,
research that unlocks the value of "Wisdom of Crowds" or "Collective
Intelligence" can be very insightful.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">=== SUGGESTED TOPICS ===</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Despite the increasing popularity of VCC,
several questions relating to VCC remain largely unexplored. We call for
papers on all aspects of VCC. We welcome empirical, conceptual and theoretical
work. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Social, political and economic impact of
VCC </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Community models, platforms, services,
and interactions in VCC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Management of VCC </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* VCC-related business models </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Innovation and content generation in VCC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Collaboration among and between VCC members
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Case studies and empirical studies, best
practices and lessons learned </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Typologies and taxonomies of VCC </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Labor and work organization within VCC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Individual and group behaviors inVCC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Worker performance, attitudes, motivation
and satisfaction within VCC</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Ethical issues associated with VCC</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">=== IMPORTANT DATES ===</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* January 5, 2014: AIS Review System will
begin accepting submissions for AMCIS 2014 </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* March 1, 2014: Submission deadline (No
submissions will be accepted after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March
1, 2014)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* April 4, 2014: Authors will be notified
as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally accepted, or
rejected </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* April 18, 2014: Authors must have their
revised submissions submitted</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* April 25, 2014: Authors must have their
camera-ready, final papers submitted </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">=== MINI-TRACK CHAIR INFORMATION ===</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Information
Systems, Kassel University, Germany and Institute of Information Management,
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Prof. Balaji Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Sam and
Irene Black School of Business, Penn State University, Erie, Pennsylvania
(USA)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Dr. Ulrich Bretschneider (Primary Contact),
Information Systems, Kassel University, Germany (bretschneider@uni-kassel.de)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">* Dr. Ivo Blohm, Institute of Information
Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland</font>