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Call for Papers
A Series of Special Issues of
Electronic
Commerce Research and
Applications (ECRA) on Social
Commerce
(http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/ecra2011_special_issue_social_commerce.pdf)
The primary goal of this special
issue
of ECRA is to foster research in
the intersection between social
networking
and e-commerce, on how social
networking has been enhancing and
expanding
e-commerce, on how e-commerce
broadens the applications and
utilizations
of social media, and on how
recent technological and marketplace
developments
seem to be leading to
social commerce. Research
contributions
involving emerging technologies,
current issues and future
perspectives
that will shape social commerce
practice and development are
encouraged
and welcome. This special issue
aims to bring together scholars who
can
offer new and visionary
perspectives on a broad spectrum of
key
subjects related to social
commerce.
Editors
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This special issue series will be
co-edited
by:
• Lina Zhou, University of Maryland
Baltimore
County (zhoul@umbc.edu)
• Ping Zhang, Syracuse University (pzhang@syr.edu)
• Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, FHS St.
Gallen,
University of Applied
• Sciences, Switzerland. (hansdieter.zimmermann@fhsg.ch)
The Sponsoring Editor for this
special
issue is Rob Kauffman, ECRA’s
Editor-in-Chief. (rob7585@gmail.com)
Topics
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The special issue welcomes all types
of
research perspectives and
methodologies, such as design
science,
behavioral science, behavioral
economics, and management and
strategy,
as well as theory, analytical
modeling, empirical methods, and
interdisciplinary
approaches. Relevant
topics include but not limited to:
• Trust and diffusion in social
commerce
contexts
• User modeling and personalization
in
social commerce
• Consumer behavior in social
commerce
• Culture issues involved in social
commerce
and social shopping
• Social media collaboration,
user-generated
content
• Drivers of accessibility in social
commerce networks
• Technological developments and
platforms
for social commerce
• Applications that enhance the
social
commerce experience
· Social
recommender systems, and the role of social media in
e-marketing
· Data
mining and living analytics in social media social for
business and consumer insights
• Privacy, security and fraud
detection
in social commerce
· Social
business strategy, adoption and diffusion issues, growth and
barriers to success
· Prospective
and retrospective assessment of the business value of
social
commerce systems
· Digital
couponing, group-buying and business models of social
commerce
· Gamification,
behavioral economics approaches, and location-based
social commerce
Timeframe
=========
The final deadline for first
submissions
of full papers is February 15,
2012, and the submission window is
open
from now up to the deadline.
Authors are encouraged to submit
abstracts
to the special issue editors
prior to October 15, 2011 as a means
to
gauge their interest and get
suggestions on developing a special
issue
paper. Papers will be assigned
for review as they are received, and
acceptance
decisions will be made on
a rolling basis over time, as
appropriate
to the development of high
quality research for publication.
Submission
==========
All papers should be submitted to the
submission system at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ecra,
via the ‘Social Commerce Special Issue’ tab
at the ‘Article Type‘ step in the
submission
process. Authors should
follow Electronic Commerce Research
and
Applications’ format at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621289/authorinstructions.
For More Info
=============
Contact any of the co-editors if you
have
questions. Or for more details on
background, submission guidelines,
and
review process, visit
http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/ecra2011_special_issue_social_commerce.pdf
________________________________________________________________
Dr. Hans-Dieter Zimmermann
Fon +41 71 228 76 53
Fax +41 71 228 63 39
Web http://www.fhsg.ch
FHS St.Gallen, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Institut IPM-FHS | Teufener Strasse 2 | 9000 St.Gallen |
Switzerland
FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz