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  Electronic Markets - The International Journal on
  Networked Business 

  Call for Papers 

  for the Focus Theme Section on

  'Service-orientation in Electronic Markets' 


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Guest Editors:

* Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Witold Abramowicz, University of Poznan, Poland
* Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University, USA

Service-orientation has emerged as one of the silver bullets in management
and computer science fields. It combines research on economic services,
which in opposition to physical goods, are immaterial in nature. While
theories from the organizational and marketing science usually capture the
nature of these products, engineering disciplines focus on shaping and
developing these information goods, and the information systems field
focuses on integrating services perceived as encapsulated application
functionalities with standardized interfaces. These research streams also
converge in the new interdisciplinary area of service science, which
integrates the principles, design, and management of economic and technical
services. Service science is interested in new forms of value creation using
services for organizations, industry structures, consumers, societies and so
forth.

The purpose of this special issue is to analyze the linkage between
service-orientation and electronic markets. Among the relevant questions are
how service oriented solutions provide value to electronic markets, how
electronic Markets improve the effectiveness of service industries such as
education, healthcare, legal, logistics, and others. In fact, service
orientation and electronic markets, are interdependent and closely linked.
First of all, electronic markets are coordination services that provide
platforms for the economic exchange of information on goods or services and
value. Second, electronic markets are intra- and inter- organizational in
nature, and service-oriented business processes, architectures and
infrastructures are commonly regarded as enablers for the interoperability
between organizations. Third, service-oriented concepts rely on
intermediaries that support the bundling of basic services towards more
comprehensive services and that operate key architecture elements, such as
registries and/or repositories. Possible topics include, but are not limited
to:
	
* Services and service-oriented platforms for service orchestration and
provisioning
* Services of electronic markets (e.g. payment, logistics, security, trust,
etc.)
* Service science and electronic markets
* Service governance issues in electronic markets
* Service-orientation and value chain management
* Business assessment of service-orientation (cost, benefits, performance)
* Quality of services in electronic markets
* Configuration, personalization and evaluation of business services
* Management and customization of services
* Concepts for service operation in/for electronic markets
* Industrialization und standardization of services
* Services modeling and simulation in/for electronic markets
* Service pricing and revenue strategies
* Business models of electronic service markets
* Core mechanisms of B2B electronic markets of services
* Service directories and electronic markets

All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets'
publication standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical
or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes .) is
welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by April, 30, 2010. All papers must
be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would like to
discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact us.

Contact addresses:
editors@electronicmarkets.org
Rainer.Alt@uni-leipzig.de
Witold.Abramowicz@kie.ue.poznan.pl
Haluk.Demirkan@asu.edu

Papers must be submitted via the electronic submission system. Instructions
are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:
* Submission deadline: April, 30, 2010
* Feedback to authors: June, 24, 2010
* Revision deadline: August, 26, 2010

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business is a
leading scientific journal published by Springer. 

Editorial Office:
c/o Information Systems Institute 
University of Leipzig
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 9733600
Fax +49 341 9733612
editors@electronicmarkets.org
www.electronicmarkets.org


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