Internet and the Digital Economy

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TRACK
INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

INTERNET & The Information Superhighway:

One aspect of information technology that is highly visible to the public, political leaders, managers, scientists, and professionals is the Information Superhighway (ISH) -- a system of high-capacity, public-access computer communication networks. The most visible and widely-used implementation of the ISH concept is the Internet, which is undergoing exponential growth in usage in academe, business, and among the public at large. The purpose of this session is to report research on both the Internet as an existing manifestation of the ISH and the ISH itself. Although much has been written on the Internet, as one can see by visiting any bookstore, there is a pressing need for substantive research on both the Internet and the ISH. We invite papers reporting both theoretical and empirical research on a variety of relevant topics. These topics include but are not limited to the following:

- An analysis of Internet applications and/or users (e.g., business, personal, educational, professional)

- Industrial impact of the ISH

- The economics of the Internet and the ISH

- New technologies (e.g., mobile communications) and the ISH

Minitrack Coordinators:

Robert W. Blanning
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37203
phone: 615-322-2534
fax: 615-343-7177
Blannirw@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

David R. King
Comshare
555 Briarwood Circle
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
phone: 313-994-6132
fax: 313-994-5895
dave@comshare.com

Electronic Commerce:

Global information infrastructures are rapidly becoming a reality. Such worldwide networks help companies to operate not only on a local or regional level, but also on a global level. Especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) this would offer tremendous opportunities to do global business electronically.

Electronic commerce (aka: digital commerce) includes all aspects of the conduct of commerce (i.e., doing business in the broadest sense) which are essentially mediated by computer and communications systems. This includes all phases of commercial activity, including marketing, opportunity finding, sales, negotiation, contract formation, monitoring of contracts, customer support, etc.

The purpose of this mini-track on electronic commerce is to attract leading-edge research and foster discussion on electronic commerce, especially conceptual, technological, theoretical and case studies.

- electronic contracting
- electronic auctions
- formal languages for business communication
- linguistic and logical aspects of electronic commerce
- electronic markets
- electronic negotiation and distance negotiation
- EDI and open edi
- electronic shopping
- electronic marketing
- electronic agents in commerce
- electronic agencies
- electronic interactions with governmental regulatory bodies
- electronic money
- electronic negotiable instruments

SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO:

Prof. Ronald M. Lee
Erasmus University Research Institute for Decision and Information Systems
Erasmus University
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: 31 (10) 408 26 01
Fax: 31 (10) 452 61 34
rlee@fac.fbk.eur.nl
http://www.euridis.fbk.eur.nl/Euridis/welcome.html

Prof. Steven O. Kimbrough
University of Pennsylvania
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366
Tel: (215) 898-5133
Fax: (215) 898-3664
kimbrough@wharton.upenn.edu

Virtual Collaboration:

This minitrack focuses on the design, implementation, use, and evaluation of systems that enable groups to collaborate and work together across the Internet (or intranets). These systems could be designed to support project teams or task forces solve problems, build communities of people with similar interests, support distance education, and so on.

We are interested in a wide variety of applications and research approaches, particularly those that are likely to promote discussion. All papers should clearly answer the question "What's interesting here?" Potential papers include, but are not limited to:

- Conceptual/theory development papers that are well focused, logically argued, and have the potential to change current practice;
- Field studies that develop new insight that has the potential to change current practice or lead to new theories; and
- Experimental papers that are theoretically motivated, yet whose findings have the potential to interest practitioners;
- System design and development papers that move beyond the description of systems and their use to build new concepts for the design and use of future systems in organizational settings.

Alan Dennis
Management Department
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602 USA
(706) 542-3902
FAX: (706) 542-3743
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu

Electronic Marketing

Marketing scholars and marketing practitioners have traditionally focused on the "STP" (segmentation, targeting and positioning) and "4Ps" (product, promotion, price, place) of marketing. While those aspects of marketing remain excellent guidelines for analysis, electronic markets and electronic marketing are creating a whole new framework in which these constructs can, and are, being pursued. For example, many service products could be developed, positioned, priced, promoted, delivered and serviced on the Internet, to narrowly segmented target markets. The entire marketing function, from concept to delivery and payment, is conducted in the new "transaction space" of the Internet (or another of the "new media").

The purpose of this mini track on electronic marketing is to engage marketing scholars and practitioners in a leading-edge discussion of electronic markets and marketing. Both actual core studies and theoretical approaches are sought.

Professor Richard W. Oliver
Vanderbilt University
OGSM, 401 21st Ave. S.
Nashville, TN 37203
USA
(615) 322-3493
FAX: (615) 343-7177
oliverrw@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

The Virtual Workplace:

The Virtual Workplace provides a forum for practitioners, researchers and policy makers for exchange ideas on the adoption of the leading- edge information technologies related to the virtual workplace and the impact of these technologies on individuals, groups, organizations, societies, and nations.

Papers are invited that are drawn from a variety of disciplines discussing a range of topics on virtual corporations, virtual groups, virtual communities, and teleworking. We are interested in provocative, analytical, empirical, or case-based studies that are written to advance our understanding of the relationships among the new computer and communication information technology, people, and organizations with regard to virtual workplaces in the world.

Authors are invited to submit manuscript proposal pertaining to, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Factors affecting the growth of the virtual workplace
- Criteria for identifying industry, organizations, occupations, societies most suited for virtual workplace
- Multi-social and cross-cultural issues concerning virtual workplaces
- The economics of the virtual workplace
- Managing human and organizational resources in the virtual workplace environment
- Work performance evaluation and career success in the virtual workplace environment
- Understanding and managing virtual corporations, projects, products, and programs
- The impact on organizational communication
- The impact on the quality of personal/family life and worklife
- The expected and unexpected consequences of the virtual workplace
- The legal and ethical issues concerning the virtual workplace

Please submit your paper to:

Magid Igbaria
Programs in Information Science
The Claremont Graduate School
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 621-8209
igbariam@cgs.edu
http://www.cgs.edu/~igbariam/

Margaret Tan
Department of Decision Sciences
The National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
Phone: 65-772-3157
fbatanm@nus.sg

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