[AISWorld] Call for Minitrack Proposals: Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) Track, AMCIS 2024

[Chen, Langtao]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite minitrack proposals to the Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) track for AMCIS 2024, which will be held on August 15-17, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The goal of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track is to disseminate research and extend our knowledge of how collaboration manifests in virtual communities. Virtual communities constitute groups of individuals who interact and pursue mutual goals within computer-mediated environments. They are prevalent across digital spaces, ranging from crowd platforms to social media to virtual worlds, among others. Organizations are leveraging the collective wisdom of virtual communities to improve business processes and bolster firm performance. Consequently, there is a necessity for researchers and practitioners to address cognitive, behavioral, social, and technical issues in such virtual collaborative environments. Research areas range from design issues in collaborative environments to the sense of community and engagement in virtual communities, as well as the impact of virtual communities and collaboration in various domains. This track aims to solicit contributions from a range of ontological and epistemological perspectives to not only deepen our understanding of virtual communities and collaboration but also enhance the theoretical foundation for research, share insightful empirical findings related to these venues, and provide guidance to practitioners.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Individual and group behaviors, processes, and governance mechanisms in virtual communities and collaboration
- Design, development, deployment, and evaluation of virtual communities in business, educational, and governmental settings
- Collaboration for knowledge sharing and learning within virtual communities
- Ethics, privacy, security, and trust issues in virtual communities and collaboration
- Value creation and capturing in virtual communities associated with crowd platforms, social media, and virtual worlds
- Individual, organizational, and societal impacts of social collaboration in virtual communities
- Big data and social analytics of virtual communities and collaboration
- Practical implications of augmented, mixed, and virtual reality in collaborative contexts
- Theoretical and/or methodological advances in virtual communities and collaboration

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2024; b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2024 website (see https://amcis2024.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/).

To submit a minitrack proposal via PCS, you will need to include the following information: a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2024 website (up to 150 words); d) a call for papers for your minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/

Important Dates:
* September 25, 2023: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions for AMCIS 2024
* October 16, 2023: Minitrack submissions are due
* October 30, 2023: Minitrack decisions should be completed and disseminated
* January 5, 2024: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2024 begin

We look forward to receiving your minitrack proposals to the VCC track for AMCIS 2024. If you have any questions about the track, please contact the track co-chairs:
* Fiona Nah, City University of Hong Kong, fiona.nah at cityu.edu.hk<mailto:fiona.nah at cityu.edu.hk>
* Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School, ct.digi at cbs.dk<mailto:ct.digi at cbs.dk>
* Langtao Chen, The University of Tulsa, langtao-chen at utulsa.edu<mailto:langtao-chen at utulsa.edu>

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Best,
Langtao

Langtao Chen
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Business Information Systems
Collins College of Business
The University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104
langtao-chen at utulsa.edu<mailto:langtao-chen at utulsa.edu>