Subject: EM: Call for Papers

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:28:24 +0100

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EM: Electronic Markets: Vol. 10, Issue 4

Editor-in-Chief:  Beat F. Schmid

Guest Editors:
Ulrike Lechner
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
Yao-Hua Tan

Dear Colleagues:

EM - Electronic Markets: The International
Journal of Electronic Commerce & Business Media
is a key forum for advancing the understanding
and practice of electronic markets and commerce.

The objective in this issue is to explore community
building and community development, i.e., community
management as a key success factor in the digital
economy. It differentiates business models in the
digital economy from traditional ones.

These communities may be constituted as Internet
shops, portal sites, groupware systems,
electronic auctions or billboards.
Product-centered communities as well as communities
of interest are relevant for electronic marketing,
as for example the reader communities at Amazon.com,
The Well, or Dreamworks. Another example are
communities that form value chains, such as single
product manufacturing consortia or flexible
consumer-driven organization of global supply chains.
Further examples are topic and technology oriented
communities such as Open-EDI trading communities,
Open Trading on the Internet (OTP), or EDI/XML,
in addition to the community-oriented programming
of Linux.

As the mentioned examples show, online communities
differ in their orientation. The features, that
all types of  communities share are common
interests, practices, languages and ontologies
with common semantics as well as normative issues.

The new type of online community is driven by
platforms that make use of the new digital media.
Moreover, there is a close connection between
platform design, community management, and business
models. The successful business model is the one
that recognizes and structures the goals and values
of the community and the successful platform is
the one that supports these with services. For
example, in the setting of supply chain management,
services and quality of these services are essential
values, whereas in the case of online selling
communities, rating systems or recommendation
systems are pivotal.

We are calling for papers that address communities,
their platforms and community-related business
models as critical success factors in the digital
economy. In particular strategies, frameworks,
platforms and visions that support the management
of communities are of interest. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to:

1. Community-related business models
2. Design principles for community platforms
3. Case studies and topologies of online
communities
4. Best practices and lessons learned

Some of the papers will be culled from two
minitracks of HICSS 2000 "Communities in
Electronic Commerce: Concepts, Models and Formal
Aspects" and "Community Supporting Platforms".

EM accepts short papers up to 2500 words, or long
papers up to 5000 words. Please refer to the
Contributors' section for more information at
http://www.electronicmarkets.org

The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2000.

Regarding Electronic Markets in general or other
topics, please contact Brigette Buchet, Executive
Editor at [email-masked].

For more information or to submit a paper, please
contact any one of the Guest Editors listed below:

[email-masked]
Katarina [email-masked]
[email-masked]

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Editorial Office:                ¦  Editor-in-Chief:
                                 ¦  Professor Beat F. Schmid
mcm institute for Media and      ¦
Communications Management        ¦  Executive Editor:
University of St.Gallen          ¦  Brigette Buchet
Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8      ¦  Assistant Editors:
CH-9000 St.Gallen                ¦  Johannes Haus
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Phone 0041/71/224 27 74          ¦ eMail: [email-masked]
Fax   0041/71/224 27 71          ¦ http://www.electronicmarkets.org
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