Collections and calls for papers

Special Issue on "AI-based assistants and platforms"

The Topical Collection on “Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants and Platforms” focuses on assistant systems (e.g. chatbots, recommenders) that are based on artificial intelligence and the interaction wit...

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Closed

Special Issue on "AI-enabled information systems, Teaming up with intelligent agents in networked business"

Theme Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies promise new ways to solve (existing) problems, resulting in new paths toward business value. While the understanding of what constitutes AI technologies has co...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics in travel, tourism and leisure"

The papers in this collection address a wide range of topics related to AI and robotics in the THL domain. Overall, the research presented in this collection provides constructive discussions regarding the v...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Blockchain and electronic commerce"

Theme Blockchains present opportunities to establish data security and trust and creates a new smart ecosystem as a decentralized infrastructure. Blockchain-related technologies play a vital role in the sust...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Business model innovation: Tools and innovation patterns"

This collection bundles a series of papers on business model tooling. Business model tools are methods, frameworks or templates to facilitate communication and collaboration regarding Business Model analysis...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Cyberspace governance in the AI era"

Cyberspace has offered unprecedented opportunities for the advancement of electronic markets and digital platforms, ranging from cultivating networked business endeavors and facilitating efficient knowledge ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Special Issue on "Data economy in a globalized world, Opportunities and challenges for public and private organizations"

Theme Because of digitalisation and the intensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), public and private organisations are generating, collecting and analysing massive amounts of data. F...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Data science and business analytics"

A collection of articles about Data Science and Business Analytics covering questions from whether paid search is overrated to how to enhance energy efficiency in the residential sector with smart meter data...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Design science research in the networked economy"

This collection reports on DSR projects conducted in the research field of electronic markets, specifically the networked economy. The goal of design science research (DSR) is to generate prescriptive knowle...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Designing Data Ecosystems: Foundations, configurations and value"

As data becomes more available in all areas of society and industry, organizations increasingly share data beyond their boundaries with external parties. Data ecosystems are among the most promising concepts...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Digital healthcare services"

Digitalization is playing an increasingly significant role in practically all areas of society. The domain of healthcare has been moving into the digital world relatively late and only recently has started w...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Digital transformation and service"

A collection on digital transformation and service: Technological developments such as Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence continue to drive the digital transformati...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Digitization of the individual"

This collection seeks to address the conceptualization of and issues surrounding the digitization of the individual. As our lives become immersed by powerful digital devices and services, questions of implic...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Electronic markets in emerging markets"

Electronic markets and networked business is one of most challenging areas for industry and research communities. Electronic markets have evolved from the classic article on the Electronic market hypothesis ...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Enterprise and organizational applications of distributed ledger technologies"

Theme Among other promising technologies, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), often referred to as Blockchain, promise to be one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of the internet’s ...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) for online marketplaces"

Theme Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) refer to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of an investment in a corporate entity (Friede et al. 2015; Ketter et ...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Explainable and responsible artificial intelligence"

Theme Today’s algorithms already reached or even surpassed the task performance of humans in various domains. Especially, AI plays a central role for the interaction between organizations and individuals suc...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Financial technology (fintech), The continuing revolution in financial services"

Theme This call for papers focuses on financial technology (fintech) and its role in the continuing revolution in financial services. Fintech comprises the transformation of business processes, strategies an...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Fintech and Decentralized Finance"

This special issue seeks to explore recent trends and new challenges posed by the novel technologies and applications to foster innovative financial applications. The aim is to receive contributions which br...

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Closed

Special Issue on "FinTech and the transformation of the financial industry"

“FinTech” is a rather simple and obvious combination of an application domain (“financial”) and “technology”. This collection covers diverse aspects in the broad FinTech universe. Seven of the eight papers i...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Hybrid intelligence in business networks"

This collection bundles papers on Hybrid Intelligence in Business Networks. Although a considerable amount of exploration has been conducted regarding the collaboration between human intelligence and artific...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Internet of things for electronic markets"

A collection on the Internet of Things (IoT) for electronic markets. IoT enables smart interconnection among devices through the Internet. Nowadays, IoT devices are used in manufacturing, logistics, transpor...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Potential and limits of blockchain technology for networked businesses"

This collection explores descriptive, explanatory and design research questions on Blockchain technology. New ways to organize economic activities are emerging, facilitated by Blockchain technology or the br...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Recommendation systems (RS) in electronic markets"

This collection focuses on the use of recommendations or suggestions from the marketplace in order to capture value. The business value of a recommendation or suggestion is that it helps e-businesses (includ...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Research advances in multi-sided platforms"

This collections focuses on multi-sided platforms (MSPs). MSPs have been around for several centuries. Only recently, however, MSPs have become prominent in the economy. MSPs connect two or more interdepende...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Service research in the digital era"

The digital transformation characterizing business and society has opened up a whole new world of possibilities. The vast amount of online information facilitates data access and gathering, trend analysis, p...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

Special Issue on "Smart cities, Smart governance models for future cities"

This collection focuses on new, innovative approaches to smart governance models for future cities that may improve existing processes and models of governance and will change/improve the interaction and com...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Smart e-commerce integration with recommender systems"

This collection focuses on the interdiscipilinary area of smart e-commerce technologies, systems and services - a rapidly developing area. Assisted by cloud computing, the Quality of Service (QoS) and Qualit...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Smart services, The move to customer-orientation"

A collection that covers typical service industries such as banking, healthcare, education or travel. These service industries have shown that value is created in the interaction between service providers an...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Smart Tourism 2.0: Perspectives with geospatial data and AI"

This special issue seeks to offer comprehensive insights into tourism supply, demand, and markets, through a spatial-temporal-psychological (STP) lens in the digital era. Smart tourism refers to tourism supp...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 October 2024

Special Issue on "Social Information Systems Minitrack, HICCS 51"

A collection of articles about Social Information Systems, originally submitted for the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. This collection includes an article on how customer-oriented m...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Social Welfare Computing, Understanding the complex societal impacts of online platforms, minimizing harm, maximizing benefits, and continuing innovation"

Theme After the first special issue on Social Welfare Computing in Electronic Markets' issue 32/2, this second special issue aims to continue the discussion of regulatory policy to minimize the harm caused b...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Standardization for platform ecosystems"

In the coming years, various technological developments such as cloud computing, internet of things, big data, and artificial intelligence are expected to further drive the digital transformation of economie...

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Closed

Special Issue on "Supply Chain Automation"

Supply chain (SC) management is undergoing a significant transformation that is primarily driven by advances in digital technologies. In particular, by integrating diverse technologies, higher automation lev...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Special Issue on "Sustainability in business models in the network economy"

This article collection sets out to address the trend that the network economy is increasingly assessed form the perspective of the Circular Economy. The topics discussed in this collection on ‘Sustainabilit...

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Closed

Special Issue on "The cultural impact in platform competition"

This collection focuses on how the diversity of global consumers' cultural backgrounds can, on the one hand, enrich the utility of user-generated content (UGC) on multinational social media platforms and, on...

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Closed

Special Issue on "The dark sides of AI"

A collection addressing the downsides of AI technology in digital networked business. This collection offers six papers that focus on challenges of AI technology. In the twenty-first century, artificial inte...

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Closed

Special Issue on "The future of shared services"

This collection thematises the future of shared services. The contained article deals with value co-creation practices in business-to-business platform ecosystems.

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Closed

Special Issue on "Trust in artificial intelligence"

Theme Electronic markets for trading physical, as well as digital, goods offer a wide variety of services based on Artificial Intelligence technologies, as smart market services. Smart market services genera...

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Closed