<font face="Vorgabe Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif" size="2"><font size="2" face="Arial">CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>18th Americas Conference on Information Systems <br>Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Minitrack: Business Models for the Digital Economy</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">(</font><a href="http://www.amcis-businessmodels.hdzimmermann.net/"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://www.amcis-businessmodels.hdzimmermann.net/</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">)</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">DESCRIPTION </font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">This minitrack serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and innovative approaches of business models beyond e-commerce for coping with the challenges of the digital economy. We consider an economy based on the digitization of information and the respective information and communication infrastructure as digital economy. This new type of economy implies not only technological, but also and especially structural and process-related challenges and potential. The way in which economic value is created will change fundamentally in the digital economy and thus transform the structure of economies and societies.</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">This evolution will radically alter processes and structures within and between industries leading to the digital economy. All of these developments characterize the emerging digital economy and cause new challenges businesses have to cope with. This clearly will have a major impact on how business models have to be designed. Therefore this minitrack addresses all topics concerned with the analysis, design, development, implementation, and control of future business models for the creation of economic value in the digital economy from a communication, organizational, business, economic, and managerial perspective applying a theoretical, conceptual, or practical approach.</font><br><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">SUGGESTED TOPICS</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Challenges and foundations of the digital economy</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Analytical and architectural frameworks for new business models</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Design approaches/methods for new business models</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Models and modeling techniques/approaches for new business models</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Industry perspectives on business models</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Challenges of converging industries:</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> Financial industry (e.g., emerging intermediaries, private/retail banking, insurance)</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> Media industry (e.g., publishing, music business)</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> Telecommunications (e.g., mobile network operators)</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">A business model perspective on </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> Mobile Business </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> ‘Ubiquitous Commerce’</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> ‘Collaborative Commerce’</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> Social Commerce</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Social Media and Social Networks based business models</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Trust and new business models.</font><br><p><font size="2" face="Arial">IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>January 2, 2012 Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions<br>March 1, 2012 Deadline for paper submissions<br>April 2, 2012 Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date<br>April 20, 2012 For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due<br><br>SUBMISSION SITE</font></p><p><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012</font></a></p><p></p><p><font size="2" face="Arial">CHAIRS' CONTACT INFORMATION</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Hans-Dieter Zimmermann</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Hans-Dieter.Zimmermann@fhsg.ch</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Institute for Information and Process Management IPM</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">FHS St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Ian MacInnes</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">imacinne@syr.edu</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Associate Dean for Academic Affairs</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">School of Information Studies</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Syracuse University</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Syracuse, NY 13244, USA</font><br><br></p></font><br>
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