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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), The El Conquistador Resort and Convention Center, Puerto Rico, 13-15 August 2015 (<a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/</span></a>).<br>
<br>
Minitrack: <b>Crowdsourcing and Virtual Collaboration: Oceans of Potential</b><br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Internetworking on a global scale has introduced opportunities to access millions of people with broad diversity of knowledge, skills, and perspectives. Crowdsourcing can be thought of as methods of tapping into this opportunity to produce
value. Crowdsourcing is a new and novel approach to tackling problems and creating new value. We have already seen many novel and interesting approaches to crowdsourcing, including application to astronomy, genealogy, startup funding, creative design, business
process design, research, prediction, and many other areas. Yet the usefulness and potential of crowdsourcing through virtual collaboration has only begun to be uncovered. However, 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, Wikipedia is quickly becoming a primary source of information in a variety of domains.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The cross-disciplinary nature of the IS discipline and its unique ability to view technology in novel ways gives it strong potential to make big waves in the crowdsourcing domain. We encourage full paper and research-in-progress submissions
ranging from exploratory to confirmatory work. All methods of research are encouraged, including design science, empirical, and theoretical research. Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Crowdsourcing knowledge management<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Visualization of crowd-based structure or output<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Barriers to adoption and switching costs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Social and political impact case studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Community-sourced credibility assessment<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Platforms, tools, and technologies<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Better crowdsourcing methods and models<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Innovative crowdsourcing opportunities<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Mobile factors <o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Human and community factors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Crowdsourcing markets and economic models<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Collaboration among and between individuals of the crowd<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Labor and work organization within virtual crowdsourcing communities<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We encourage authors to not be limited by this list, but to seek to submit IS research that demonstrates broad new or existing potential in the crowdsourcing domain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Important dates:<br>
<br>
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">February 25, 2015: Deadline for AMCIS manuscript submissions
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers<br>
Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Deadline for camera-ready revisions <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minitrack Co-chairs: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nathan Twyman, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tim Olsen, Gonzaga University, Washington, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ulrich Bretschneider, University of Kassel, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Background Literature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dissanayake, I; Zhang, J; Gu, B (2014): Virtual Team Performances in Crowdsourcing Contests, in:
<i>Proceedings of the Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems</i>, Savannah, GA, USA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doan, A; Ramarkrishnan, R; Halevy, A (2011), "Crowdsourcing Systems on the World Wide Web",
<i>Communications of the ACM</i> 54 (4): 86–96<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leimeister, J M; Huber, M; Bretschneider, U; Krcmar, H (2009): “Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting components for IT-based ideas competition”,
<i>Journal of Management Information Systems</i> (JMIS) 26(1): 197-224<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nunamaker, J; Reinig, B; Briggs, R (2009), “Principles for Effective Virtual Teamwork”,
<i>Communications of the ACM </i>52 (4): 113-117<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Porter, C; Devaraj, S; Daewon, S (2013), “A Test of Two Models of Value Creation in Virtual Communities”,
<i>Journal of Management Information Systems</i> 30 (1): 261-292<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xiao, L (2014), “Effects of Rationale Awareness in Online Ideation Crowdsourcing Tasks”,
<i>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</i> 65 (8): 1707-1720<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zhao, Y; Zhu, Q., (2014) “Evaluation on Crowdsourcing Research: Current Status and Future Direction”,
<i>Information Systems Frontiers</i> 16 (3): 417-434<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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