Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the MCIS 2010 conference (http://www.mcis2010.org) and particularly to our track on Information Economics and Business.  A description of the track is included below.

 

Important dates:

Deadline for all submissions: May 15, 2010

Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2010

Camera-ready versions: July 15, 2010

Conference: September 12-14, 2010

 

5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems - MCIS 2010

Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2010

Track proposal

 

Track title: Information Economics and Business

 

 

Track description:

 

Information is a constant challenge to economic theory and business practice. It is ubiquitous and still hard to find on demand, over-abundant and still insufficiently available to decision-makers, subject to private ownership while it is, by nature, meant to be free. The increased digitization of information and the rise of the Internet as key medium that  accommodates it as both "stocks" and "flows" account for a wide range of innovative developments in managing information at large. The Economics of Information, born as a stand-alone discipline in the pre-digital phase of the post-industrial age, is now facing the challenge of shaping the underlying rationalities applicable to dealing with information across organizations, markets, communities and networks.

 

Organizational boundaries are blurred when it comes to information systems.  Technologies that were conceived in the public domain find their way to organizational applications. Systems that were previously well-defined products are turning more and more into service models which are provided by external suppliers.  How do companies monetize previously non-marketable technologies or information resources?  How do decision makers evaluate such systems and resources?  Are the known business models sufficient or are new models needed to sustain the technological and cultural changes brought about by the advent of creative industries and the rise of the creative class?  These are some of the questions that this track wishes to address.

 

We invite submissions of papers (academic and practical, full research and research-in-progress) dealing with, but not limited to, the following:

IS investment decisions

IS performance and ROI

New information business models

Information markets

Innovative pricing of digital goods

The value of information

Web 2.0-based collaborative economy

Proprietary vs. Open Source Software

Digital information: fee or free ?

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

 

Daphne Raban and Horatiu Dragomirescu

 

 

Daphne Raban, Ph.D.
School of Management and C.R.I.
University of Haifa
draban@gsb.haifa.ac.il
http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~draban/home

http://ci.haifa.ac.il