[AISWorld] The International Workshop on E-business and New Manufacturing and New Services

[Dongyu Chen]

The International Workshop on E-business and New Manufacturing and New
Services

Call for Papers

Theme: Upgrading Manufacturing and Services with E-Business
Venue: School of Business, Soochow University, China
Co-Organizer: Soochow University, Suzhou

Date: June 20-21, 2015

E-business continues to fundamentally transform traditional industries and
markets and creates unprecedented service and manufacturing innovations.
Examples in service domains include online peer-to-peer lending, crowd
funding, open innovation, healthcare exchanges, O2O, and so forth (e.g.,
Angst and Agarwal 2009, Leimeister, Huber et al. 2009, Herzenstein,
Sonenshein et al. 2011, Duarte, Siegel et al. 2012, Zhang and Liu 2012).
E-business has also created opportunities as well as challenges for
manufacturing industries. For example, today’s manufactures have to decide
if the firm should offer products through e-business channels and, if so,
how the operations for the e-business channels would differ from the
traditional channels. Besides, the e-business has opened up opportunities
for manufacturers to share and receive real-time information, streamline
relationships with suppliers and customers, and increase the speed,
flexibility and efficiency of the production process. These e-business
related innovations provide rich contexts for researchers to investigate a
variety of research questions. This conference aims to discuss the
technological, economical, managerial, and behavioral issues of these
service and manufacturing innovations in e-business platforms. This
conference will include a number of keynote speeches from leading academics
and executives, as well as practitioner-oriented roundtable discussions on
e-business, supply chain and service innovations.  The papers will be peer
reviewed and will be selected on the basis of their quality and relevance
to the theme of this special issue. Papers using different methodologies,
such as mathematical modeling, empirical research, experiments, and case
studies are invited. Outstanding papers will be recommended to be published
in the Electronic Commerce Research.  Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to

1.Internet Finance (including peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding)
2.Cloud computing and big data for services and manufacturing
3.Open innovations for e-business
4.Online to Offline Marketing
5.Information sharing in e-business environment
6.Manufacturing and re-manufacturing strategies for e-business
7.Distribution channels and product variety of e-business
8.E-logistics management
9.Relationship governance in supply chains in e-business environment

Only the authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to attend this
meeting.

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Chris Westland (University of Illinois - Chicago, USA)
Dr. Weixuan Xu (Chinese Academy of Science, China)

General Co-Chairs:
Wenji Sun
Chris Westland
Xin Luo
Fujun Lai

Organizing Committee Co-chairs:
Dongyu Chen
Xiangzhong Han
Jiaseng Sun
Qunwei Wang
Yaoyu Wang

Important Dates:
Manuscript submission deadline: May 31, 2015
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: June 15, 2015

About Suzhou (Soochow):
Suzhou, formerly romanized as Soochow, is about half hour away from
Shanghai. It locates on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the
shores of Lake Tai. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou has over 2,500 years of
history, with an abundant display of relics and sites of historical
interest. At around 100 AD, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, it became one
of the ten largest cities in the world. The city's canals, stone bridges,
pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens have contributed to its status
as one of the top tourist attractions in China. Suzhou is often dubbed the
"Venice of the East" or "Venice of China.

Suzhou is famous for its Classical Gardens, collectively a UNESCO World
Heritage Site. The Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden are
among the four most famous classical gardens in China. The Canglang
Pavilion, Lion Grove Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering
Garden, respectively representing the garden styles of the Song, Yuan,
Ming, and Qing dynasties, are called the four most famous gardens in Suzhou.
Hanshan Temple (Cold Mountain Temple; Chinese: 寒山寺) is a Buddhist temple
and monastery in Suzhou. It is near Fengqiao (Maple Bridge; Chinese: 枫桥),
about 5 km (3 mi) west of the old city of Suzhou. The Hanshan Temple is
famed in East Asia because of the well-known poem "A Night Mooring near
Maple Bridge" (枫桥夜泊) written by Zhang Ji (张继).

Within the city of Suzhou, there are areas featuring canals. Both
800-year-old Pingjiang Road (平江路) and 1,200-year-old Shantang Street are on
the list of China's "National Historic and Cultural Streets", and both
feature elegant bridges, flowing waters and unique architecture.