---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Reminder: B2C mini-track at We-B: Perth, Australia - Nov 29-30, 2001 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:32:20 +1000 From: Stephen Burgess Stephen.Burgess@VU.EDU.AU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Call for Papers
Mini-track: We-B2C: Current Practice and Future Implications
(apologies for cross-postings)
Conference: 2nd International We-B Conference, Perth, Western Australia November 29-30, 2001 http://www.we-bcentre.com/conf2001/webconferenceINDEX.htm
Mini-Track Chairs: Andrew Wenn, School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Australia (Andrew.Wenn@vu.edu.au)
Stephen Burgess, School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Australia (Stephen.Burgess@vu.edu.au)
Carmine.Sellitto, School of Information Systems, Victoria University, Australia (Carmine.Sellitto@vu.edu.au)
The second We-B (Working with e-Business conference) will be held in Perth, Western Australia, during November 29-30, 2001 under the auspices of the We-BCentre of Edith Cowan University. This year, the We-B conference is proud to incorporate the 2nd Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference as a major stream on Day One.
This is an international conference for academics and industry specialists working in e-business, e-government and related fields. This will be held at the prestigious Hotel Rendezvous, Scarborough Beach immediately following the 7th ANZSYS Systems in Management Conference at the same venue, and leaves a weekend break for those travelling on to ACIS at Coff's Harbour, NSW. Visit our Web site for activities and events at http://www.we-bcentre.com/conf2001/
Conference Theme The theme of the conference is "Working for excellence in the e-conomy". The conference will draw participants from national and international organisations.
The mini-track, We-B2C: Current Practice and Future Implications, is part of the major track theme, Developments in B2B and B2C Trading. This mini-track of the conference will consider papers in any aspect of working with business-to-consumer (B2C) e-business. Selection of papers will be on the basis of merit and expected interest. The topics below are for guidance and are not intended as an exhaustive prescriptive list:
- Emerging B2C business models - Security in the B2C environment - B2C trading: access issues for consumers - SMEs and B2C - 'B' and 'C' uptake of B2C - Issues in global B2C expansion
Call For Papers Submission may be a paper, a panel presentation, or a work-in-progress. The word limit for papers is 3,500 words for a full paper, or 1,500 words for a work-in-progress. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30th, 2001.
For each submission, the first page should contain the title, abstract and the contact information of the main author (name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and fax number). Then, the second page should contain ONLY the title and abstract - no mention of the author.
For the debates and panels, we require a description in three pages. The first contains the title, theme and an abstract showing its theoretical, practical or methodological interest. The second page presents the names, Affiliation and reasons for inclusion of proposed participants. The third page outlines the structure of the debate that should last no more than 1 hour and a half.
Instructions to Authors All submitted papers must represent completed and original work and must not have been published to a previous conference or journal. Except for panel, all submitted papers will be blind reviewed by three people of the program committee.
Submissions to this mini-track should be directed as an e-mail attachment to one of the mini-track chairs:
Andrew.Wenn@vu.edu.au Stephen.Burgess@vu.edu.au Carmine.Sellitto@vu.edu.au
Submissions must be prepared in RTF or a recent version of MS Word. The papers must be written in English.
Important Dates Debate and Panel Proposals June 30, 2001
Paper Submissions June 30, 2001
Notice of Acceptance August 30, 2001
Camera-Ready Copy Due September 20, 2001
We-BCentre We-Bcentre.com is the research arm of Australia's leading school of MIS at Edith Cowan University (ECU) Western Australia. The Centre provides a structure for University academics to conduct research, educate and train, and conduct various consulting activities in e-business related fields. http://www.we-bcentre.com
We-Bcentre.com has grown out of a need to investigate various aspects of e-commerce and e-business; in particular, helping organisations to operate more efficiently, informing organisations of the experience of others to enhance their prospects for success and improving their profits through improved communications and expansion of services and products to the global marketplace.
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