[AISWorld] Call for Papers: AMCIS 2022 Mini-Track: Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments

[Zhengzhi GUAN (Alumni)]

Dear all,

We would like to invite submissions to the Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2022 to be held in Minneapolis.

Virtual communities are reshaping the way we communicate and collaborate with one another, shifting us from spatial- and temporal-confined interactions towards fluid peer-to-peer marketplaces and other firm-market hybrids. The virtual collaboration paradigm has sprung up to facilitate both individuals and/or organizations in pooling resources for the pursuit of mutual goals. For instance, we crowdfund innovation from Kickstarter, staff projects through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, incubate products from open-source designs acquired through micro-manufacturers like FirstBuild, organize virtual meetings using WebEx, and work with team members via Asana. As virtual communities redefine the boundaries and structures of human collaborations, comprehending human behaviors in digital environments and deriving design considerations for digital services that optimize collaborative processes is imperative for realizing collaboration in the virtual space.

This mini-track embraces both retrospective and progressive views on behavioral and design issues related to virtual collaborative environment. Particularly, we are interested in research that unravels the interplay of human behaviors and virtual collaborative environment at the individual, group, organization, and societal levels as well as the intersection across levels. Contributions to this mini-track should expand our knowledge on how technologies govern and shape human behaviors in virtual communities as well as how such technology-mediated human behaviors, in turn, inform the design of virtual collaborative platforms. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions that explore how digital services can be designed to appropriate and create value in virtual collaborative environments, especially those that subscribe to inter-disciplinary perspectives and/or adopt mixed methods.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  *   Influence of individual and collective behaviors on the design and usage of virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Influence of virtual collaborative platform on individual behaviors, group dynamics, as well as organizational norms and policies
  *   Influence of political and socio-economic factors on human behaviors associated with virtual collaboration
  *   Patterns of human/human-machine interactions and how digital services can be leveraged to support such interactions
  *   Role of individual behaviors in shaping collective outcome in virtual collaborative environment
  *   Data-driven design of virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Design of business processes and workflow in virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Design of communication interfaces and digital assistants in virtual collaborative environment
  *   Design of recommendation systems in virtual collaboration platforms
  *   Design of reputation systems on virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Design of assessment tools on collaborative outcome and individuals’ contributions in virtual collaboration environment.
  *   Design modalities, principles, and processes for virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Evaluation of system design for virtual collaborative platforms
  *   Virtual collaboration for ongoing pro-social project management
  *   Virtual collaboration in support of emergency crisis management （e.g. Virtual collaboration in response to COVID-19）
  *   Swift transition between traditional collaboration and virtual collaboration in post-pandemic period
  *   Virtual collaboration for open strategizing and open innovation
  *   Virtual collaboration, management and practices for emerging virtual commerce


Mini-track Contributions:
The virtual community is rapidly shaping up to be a revolutionary interworking phenomenon by disrupting conventional channels of human interaction. Consequently, an in-depth appreciation of the interactions among individuals, groups, and organizations in virtual communities as well as the interplay of human behaviors and virtual collaborative environment constitutes an increasingly important area of research in information systems. The ‘Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments’ mini-track thereby contributes to the ‘Virtual Communities and Collaboration’ track by providing a forum for the exchange of research ideas and business practices on both behavioral and design research associated with virtual communities based on collaborative platforms. It aims to expand our knowledge on the interplay between digital services and human behaviors in virtual collaborative environments, which in turn contributes to the purposeful and targeted design of platforms for supporting virtual collaborative practices.

Important Date
The submission is expected to open on January 15, 2022.
Please refer to the conference official website for details (https://amcis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/).
Looking forward to your submissions.

Best regards,
Zhengzhi Guan
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