[AISWorld] AMCIS 2023 CFP Mini-Track: Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative Environments

[Gordon Guan]

*Call for Papers*

*Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023*

Panama City, August 10-12, 2023

Track: *Virtual Communities and Collaboration*

Mini-Track: *Value Appropriation and Creation in Virtual Collaborative
Environments*


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) 2023 *to be held in Panama City.



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 environments.
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 platforms 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 on virtual
collaborative platforms

§  Data-driven design of virtual collaborative platforms

§  Design of business processes and workflow in virtual collaborations

§  Design of communication interfaces and digital assistants on virtual
collaborative platforms

§  Design of recommendation systems on virtual collaborative platforms

§  Design of reputation systems on virtual collaborative platforms

§  Design of assessment tools on collaborative outcome and individuals’
contributions on virtual collaborative platforms

§  Design modalities, principles, and processes for virtual collaborative
platforms

§  Evaluation of system design for virtual collaborative platforms

§  Virtual collaboration for ongoing pro-social movement

§  Virtual collaboration in support of emergency crisis management

§  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

§  Virtual collaboration for social movement (e.g. social media protest)



*Important Dates:  *

January 6, 2023: Manuscript submissions begin
March 1, 2023: Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST
May 9, 2023: TREOs, PDS and Panels submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST


*Mini-Track Chairs*

Zhao Cai

Associate Professor in Information Systems

Nottingham University Business School China

Email: Zhao.Cai at nottingham.edu.cn


Fangfang Hou

Assistant Professor at Department of Intelligent Operations and Marketing

International Business School Suzhou

Email: fangfang.hou at xjtlu.edu.cn


Zhengzhi Guan

Post-doc Researcher

University of Science and Technology of China

Email: zhengzhi.guan at gmail.com