[AISWorld] Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce on Digital Collaboration

[Souren Paul]

Digital Collaboration

A Special Issue of the *International Journal of Electronic Commerce*



Organizations engage in business process, structural, and technological
redesigns as they take advantage of the opportunities enabled by technology
innovation. Often these changes result in new forms of interaction and
relationships, leading to changes in how, when, with whom, and where
interaction occurs, facilitating new ways of working together, new
organizational forms, and new opportunities between individuals, groups,
organizations, and even societies. A key domain of opportunities created by
this evolution (and sometime revolution) is digital collaboration, the use
of information and computing technologies to enable a joint work towards a
common goal (Zwass 2003).

Research in the digital collaboration domain has also evolved, reflecting
the underlying realities formed through technological and social
innovation.  This work includes research on facilitating technologies such
as group support systems, email, video conferencing, social media, and
virtual worlds, and research on resulting relationships and collaboratories
such as virtual teams, virtual communities, business-to-business,
business-to-consumer, and consumer-to-consumer exchanges.  As new
innovations in both technology and social structure emerge, new research is
needed to understand how these changes influence the nature and manner of
exchange, expectations for collaboration, and ultimately how value is
developed and maintained and even expanded.

Digital collaboration research has often focused on the intersection of
technology innovation and human interaction, examining in detail the
influence of one factor on the other.  We see how participant
characteristics influence the manner in which the technologies underlying
digital collaboration are applied and exploited (Xu-Priour, et al. 2017;
Pan, et al 2016; Luarn, et al. 2015).  Alternatively, we also see the
manner in which technology capabilities influence how participants engage
and interact in digital collaboration (Tsekouras 2016; Choi and Im 2015;
Drossos, et al. 2013; Jensen, M. M., Thiel, S. K., Hoggan, E., and Bødker,
S. 2018). While these approaches to research on digital collaboration have
served well to understand key issues in the development and application and
use of technology, innovative approaches and perspectives are needed and
encouraged to develop new and deeper understanding regarding the symbiotic
relationship between the social, technological, and organizational blending
that underlie modern digital collaboration.  Participants no longer respond
to technology, but participate in its creation and application in social
collaborative contexts, often beyond the intention of technology designers
(Leonardi 2011; Orlikowski and Scott 2008).  These developments in our
understanding regarding technology, social, and organizational interaction
provide new avenues for fruitful discovery of new theory and deeper
insights on the relationships between these elements and within new
contexts.

This Special Issue aims to invoke and encourage research efforts focused on
new frontiers in digital collaboration. We solicit high-quality scholarly
contributions on digital collaboration that are worthy of publication in
the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Research meeting this call could include, but are not limited to, the topic
areas listed below:


   - Understanding new methods and approaches to digital collaboration
   between individuals, teams, organizations, and other forms of social
   organizing
   - Understanding facilitation and interventions in digital collaboration
   to improve outcomes such as performance, quality, and affect
   - Understanding how intelligence augmented digital collaboration can
   influence interactions within and across groups, organizations, and
   society
   - Understanding the interaction between technological capabilities and
   social structures during digital collaboration that result in new
   technological, social, and organizational innovations
   - Understanding individual, group, community, and relational
   characteristics that influence digital collaboration behavior and outcomes
   (e.g., social capital, status, leadership, trust, deception)
   - Understanding task, work, and interaction designs that enable or
   constrain digital collaboration
   - Understanding relevant contextual characteristics that influence
   digital collaboration (e.g., location, timing/synchronicity, emergency
   situations)
   - Understanding how new environmental relationships between content
   producers and consumers may shape and influence digital collaboration,
   learning, and innovation
   - Understanding how culture (e.g. national, demographic, and
   organizational) and social identities may influence digital collaboration



Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue should contain original material
not under review elsewhere.  Please send your submission to
souren.paul at gmail.com with “IJEC Special Issue” as the subject.  Please
follow the journal format described at
http://www.ijec-web.org/information-for-contributors/. Manuscripts should
not exceed 40 pages*. *An online appendix may be included in a separate
file. The review process is double-blind with the following milestones:



Submissions Due:  January 14, 2019
First Round Reviews Completed: March, 2019
Second Round Reviews Completed:  June, 2019
Final Decision on Submissions: September, 2019
Targeted Publication Date:  December2019/January 2020



Guest Editors

Souren Paul
Nova Southeastern University
Souren.paul at gmail.com



Robert M. Fuller
University of Tennessee
rmfuller at utk.edu



Lina Zhou
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
lzhou8 at uncc.edu



Editor-in-Chief

Vladimir Zwass
Gregory Olsen Endowed Chair and
University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and MIS
Farleigh Dickinson University



References

Choi, K., and Im, I. 2015. “Comparative Analysis of the Use of Mobile
Microblogging and Nonmobile Online Message Board for Group
Collaboration”. *International
Journal of Electronic Commerce 19*(4), pp. 112-135.

Drossos, D., Gialgis, G., Vlachos, P., Zamani, E., and Lekakos, G. 2013.
“Consumer Responses to SMS Advertising: Antecedents and Consequences.”
*International
Journal of Electronic Commerce 18*(1).

Jensen, M. M., Thiel, S. K., Hoggan, E., and Bødker, S. 2018. “Physical
Versus Digital Sticky Notes in Collaborative Ideation”. *Computer Supported
Cooperative Work*, pp. 1-37.

Leonardi, P. 2011. “When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies:
Affordance,

Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies”. *MIS
Quarterly 35*(1),

147-167.

Luarn, P., Yang, J., and Chiu, Y. 2015. “Why People Check in to Social
Network Sites.” *International Journal of Electronic Commerce 19*(4), pp.
21-46.

Orlikowski, W., and Scott, S. 2008. “Sociomateriality: Challenging the
separation of

technology, work and organization”. *The Academy of Management Annals 2*(1),
pp. 433-474.

Pan, Y., Wan, Y., Fan, J., Liu, B., and Archer, N. 2016, “Raising the
Cohesion and Vitality of Online Communities by Reducing Privacy
Concerns.” *International
Journal of Electronic Commerce 21*(2), pp. 151-183.

Tsekouras, D. 2016. “The Effect of Rating Scale Design on Extreme Response
Tendency in Consumer Product Ratings.” *International Journal of Electronic
Commerce 21*(2), pp. 270-296.

Xu-Priour, D.L., Cliquet, G., and Palmer, A. 2017. “The Influence of
Buyers’ Time Orientation on Online Shopping Behavior: A Typology”.
*International
Journal of Electronic Commerce 21*(3), pp. 299-333.

Zwass, V. 2003. “Electronic Commerce and Organizational Innovation: Aspects
and Opportunities”. *International Journal of Electronic Commerce 7*(3),
pp. 7-37.