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CALL FOR PAPERS
Americas Conference on Information
Systems
(AMCIS), The El Conquistador Resort and Convention Center,
Puerto Rico,
13-15 August 2015 (http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/).
Minitrack: Crowdsourcing and Virtual Collaboration: Oceans
of Potential
Internetworking on a global scale
has introduced
opportunities to access millions of people with broad diversity
of knowledge,
skills, and perspectives. Crowdsourcing can be thought of as
methods of
tapping into this opportunity to produce value. Crowdsourcing is
a new
and novel approach to tackling problems and creating new value.
We have
already seen many novel and interesting approaches to
crowdsourcing, including
application to astronomy, genealogy, startup funding, creative
design,
business process design, research, prediction, and many other
areas. Yet
the usefulness and potential of crowdsourcing through virtual
collaboration
has only begun to be uncovered. However, the significance of
these communities
is evident by the impact they have on information and content
generation
as well as transmission, and socialization. For example,
Wikipedia is quickly
becoming a primary source of information in a variety of
domains.
The cross-disciplinary nature of the
IS
discipline and its unique ability to view technology in novel
ways gives
it strong potential to make big waves in the crowdsourcing
domain. We encourage
full paper and research-in-progress submissions ranging from
exploratory
to confirmatory work. All methods of research are encouraged,
including
design science, empirical, and theoretical research. Potential
topics include,
but are not limited to the following:
· Crowdsourcing
knowledge management
· Visualization
of crowd-based structure or output
· Barriers
to adoption and switching costs
· Social
and political impact case studies
· Community-sourced
credibility assessment
· Platforms,
tools, and technologies
· Better
crowdsourcing methods and models
· Innovative
crowdsourcing opportunities
· Mobile
factors
· Human
and community factors
· Crowdsourcing
markets and economic models
· Collaboration
among and between individuals of the crowd
· Labor
and work organization within virtual crowdsourcing communities
We encourage authors to not be
limited
by this list, but to seek to submit IS research that
demonstrates broad
new or existing potential in the crowdsourcing domain.
Important dates:
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin
February 25, 2015: Deadline for
AMCIS manuscript
submissions
Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors
notified
about the disposition of their papers
Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Deadline for camera-ready revisions
May 5, 2015: Final decisions on
AMCIS 2015
program are made
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Nathan Twyman, Missouri University
of Science
and Technology, Missouri, USA
Tim Olsen, Gonzaga University,
Washington,
USA
Ulrich Bretschneider, University of
Kassel,
Germany
Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Jan Marco Leimeister, University of
St.
Gallen, Switzerland
Background Literature
Dissanayake, I; Zhang, J; Gu, B
(2014):
Virtual Team Performances in Crowdsourcing Contests, in: Proceedings
of
the Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems,
Savannah,
GA, USA.
Doan, A; Ramarkrishnan, R; Halevy, A
(2011),
"Crowdsourcing Systems on the World Wide Web", Communications
of
the ACM 54 (4): 86–96
Leimeister, J M; Huber, M;
Bretschneider,
U; Krcmar, H (2009): “Leveraging Crowdsourcing:
Activation-Supporting
components for IT-based ideas competition”, Journal of
Management Information
Systems (JMIS) 26(1): 197-224
Nunamaker, J; Reinig, B; Briggs, R
(2009),
“Principles for Effective Virtual Teamwork”, Communications
of the
ACM 52 (4): 113-117
Porter, C; Devaraj, S; Daewon, S
(2013),
“A Test of Two Models of Value Creation in Virtual Communities”,
Journal
of Management Information Systems 30 (1): 261-292
Xiao, L (2014), “Effects of
Rationale
Awareness in Online Ideation Crowdsourcing Tasks”, Journal
of the Association
for Information Science and Technology 65 (8): 1707-1720
Zhao, Y; Zhu, Q., (2014) “Evaluation
on
Crowdsourcing Research: Current Status and Future Direction”, Information
Systems
Frontiers 16 (3): 417-434
Dr. Ulrich Bretschneider
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