[AISWorld] CfP Electronic Markets: "Regulatory Competition and Global Governance in Digital Markets"

Tue Jun 11 04:25:50 EDT 2024

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Dear colleagues,

Electronic Markets is inviting submissions for a Special Issue on
“Regulatory Competition and Global Governance in Digital Markets”. Please
find further details below.

Call for Papers: “Regulatory Competition and Global Governance in Digital
Markets”
Submission deadline: April 01, 2025

Guest Editors
* Douglas Arner, University of Hong Kong, China, douglas.arner at hku.hk 
* Jianqing Chen, University of Texas, USA, chenjq at gmail.com
* Lars Hornuf, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany,
lars.hornuf at tu-dresden.de
* Daniel Schnurr, University of Regensburg, Germany, daniel.schnurr at ur.de

Theme
In recent years, the European Union has famously started to regulate digital
markets, in particular by taking the reins on data, digital platforms, and
artificial intelligence (Fast et al., 2023; Johnson et al., 2023; Paul,
2023; Peukert et al. 2022). The General Data Protection Regulation
(Dorfleitner et al. 2023; Engelmann et al. 2018), the Data Governance Act,
the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the Data Act, and most
recently the AI Act will significantly impact whether and how companies do
business in Europe. Regulations of digital technologies and markets (De
Vaujany, 2018; Easley et al. 2018) have also been implemented in China and
the United States or are expected to be implemented there (e.g., Li & Wang,
2024). This emerging global governance landscape for the digital economy
raises the question of how competition among private and public regulators
(Kokshagina et al., 2023) and entire jurisdictions will affect the strategic
choices of companies, the development and diffusion of innovative
technologies, and thus ultimately the welfare and wellbeing of societies. 

Diverging regulatory rules and standards can allow companies in digital
markets to strategically choose their location in regions in order to
benefit from better regulations or to engage in regulatory arbitrage. A
highly illustrative example of regulatory arbitrage is corporate law, where
companies may choose the limited liability status in a jurisdiction with the
lowest minimum capital requirement. Other traditional areas in which firms
are allowed to choose from a variety of different legal regimes include
contract law, bankruptcy law and the rules governing the proceedings of an
arbitration court. As of today, it is largely unclear which regulation
attracts digital businesses and how governments will then adapt their
regulations. The special issue invites conceptual, theoretical, and
empirical contributions that address, but are not limited to, the mentioned
topics below. Submissions should provide novel insights and contribute to
the academic discourse on regulatory competition and global governance in
the digital economy, offering both theoretical depth and practical
relevance. 

Central issues and topics
Possible topics and exemplary questions of submissions include, but are not
limited to: 
•	How does regulatory competition affect digital technologies, digital
markets, and the well-being of societies? 
•	Does competition among regulators leads to a "race to the top" or
"race to the bottom" in digital markets (Smuha 2021)? 
•	What drives legal arbitrage in data, digital platforms, and
artificial intelligence business models? 
•	How does regulatory competition affect data-driven innovation and
the diffusion of digital technologies? 
•	When developing artificial intelligence, do companies actually
choose locations where AI systems require less protection or liability is
laxer? 
•	Do digital platforms and their users benefit from stricter content
regulations and more stringent neutrality obligations? 
•	Which institutions can facilitate the development of standards and
governance mechanisms in a global digital economy with diverging interests
and values? 
•	What forms of governance and (self-)regulation can promote data
sharing (Otto & Jarke, 2019)? 
•	Is there empirical evidence for a Brussels effect when it comes to
the regulation of digital technologies? 
•	How does regulatory competition affect the enforcement of data
protection and privacy rules? 

Submission
Electronic Markets is a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journal
(IF 8.5 in 2022) in the area of information management and information
systems. Submissions should be original, unpublished, and not under
consideration at any other journal. Both quantitative and qualitative
research methods are welcome, provided the research exhibits strong
methodological rigor. Contributions can take the form of conceptual and
theoretical development papers, empirical hypothesis testing, position
papers, case-based studies, and more. All papers which pass the desk-reject
phase will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Submissions must be
made via the journal's submission system
(https://www.editorialmanager.com/elma/) and comply with the journal's
formatting standards. Authors should clearly indicate that their submission
is intended for the special issue on Smart Tourism. The preferred average
article length is approximately 10,000 words, excluding references.
Instructions, templates, and general information are available at
https://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/general-information/. If you would
like to discuss any aspect of this special issue, you may either contact the
guest editors or the Editorial Office. 

Important deadlines

•	Submission deadline: April 1, 2025
•	Planned publication of special issue: Autumn 2025 

In addition, an optional paper development workshop (PDW) will be organized
at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany: 
•	Submission deadline for PDW: October 31, 2024
•	PDW at TU Dresden: January 31, 2025

References
Dorfleitner, G., Hornuf, L., & Kreppmeier, J. (2023). Promise not fulfilled:
FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR. Electronic Markets, 33, 33.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-023-00622-x

Engelmann, S., Grossklags, J., & Papakyriakopoulos, O. (2018). A democracy
called Facebook? Participation as a privacy strategy on social media. In
Privacy Technologies and Policy: 6th Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2018,
Barcelona, Spain, June 13-14, 2018, Revised Selected Papers 6 (pp. 91-108).
Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02547-2_6 

Fast, V., Schnurr, D., & Wohlfarth, M. (2023). Regulation of data-driven
market power in the digital economy: Business value creation and competitive
advantages from big data. Journal of Information Technology, 38(2), 202-229.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962221114394

De Vaujany, F. X., Fomin, V. V., Haefliger, S., & Lyytinen, K. (2018).
Rules, practices, and information technology: A trifecta of organizational
regulation. Information Systems Research, 29(3), 755-773.
https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2017.0771

Easley, R. F., Guo, H., & Krämer, J. (2018). From net neutrality to data
neutrality: a techno-economic framework and research agenda. Research
Commentary. Information Systems Research, 29(2), 253-272.
https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2017.0740

Johnson, G. A., Shriver, S. K., & Goldberg, S. G. (2023). Privacy and market
concentration: Intended and unintended consequences of the GDPR. Management
Science, 69(10), 5695-5721. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4709

Kokshagina, O., Reinecke, P. C., & Karanasios, S. (2023). To regulate or not
to regulate: unravelling institutional tussles around the regulation of
algorithmic control of digital platforms. Journal of Information Technology,
38(2), 160-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962221114408

Li, Z., & Wang, G. (2024). Regulating Powerful Platforms: Evidence from
Commission Fee Caps. Information Systems Research, forthcoming.
https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2022.0191

Otto, B., & Jarke, M. (2019). Designing a multi-sided data platform:
findings from the International Data Spaces case. Electronic Markets, 29(4),
561-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-019-00362-x 

Peukert, C., Bechtold, S., Batikas, M., & Kretschmer, T. (2022). Regulatory
spillovers and data governance: Evidence from the GDPR. Marketing Science,
41(4), 746-768. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2021.1339

Paul, R. (2023). The politics of regulating artificial intelligence
technologies: A competition state perspective. Handbook on Public Policy and
Artificial Intelligence, 
Regine Paul, Emma Carmel and Jennifer Cobbe (eds.), Cheltenham Spa: Edward
Elgar, forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4272867 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4272867 

Smuha, N. A. (2021). From a ‘Race to AI’ to a ‘Race to AI regulation’:
Regulatory competition for artificial intelligence. Law, Innovation and
Technology, 13(1), 57-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2021.1898300

Best regards,
Rainer Alt, Mathias Klier, Maria Madlberger, Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Ramona
Coia

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