PACIS 2014 will take place at Chengdu, China on June 24-28, 2014. We cordially invite you to submit a paper to our track titled “IT-enabled Innovation in Online Markets and Financial Services.” The conference accepts completed research papers (12 page single-spaced) and research-in-progress papers (7-page single-spaced) with a submission deadline of February 15, 2014. Please visit http://pacis2014.org/initial.php for more information and submission guidelines.

 

 

Track Description: IT-enabled Innovation in Online Markets and Financial Services

 

Track Co-chairs:

Chen, Dongyu, Fuzhou University

Lin, Mingfeng, University of Arizona

Liu, De, University of Kentucky

Zheng, Haichao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

 

 

Information technologies continue to fundamentally transform many traditional industries and markets. Examples include online peer-to-peer or social lending, crowd funding in financial services, online labor markets, online markets for open innovation, online exchanges for healthcare services, O2O and smart shops, and many more. These innovations and transformations provide rich contexts for IS researchers to investigate a variety of research topics using different research methods. This track aims to bring together scholars who are interested in understanding the technological, economical, managerial, and behavioral issues in these innovative online markets and services and stimulate further research and collaboration. 

 

Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 

Electronic / mobile payments

Online peer-to-peer lending / social lending

Crowd funding

Crowdsourcing / online labor markets

Algorithmic markets / algorithmic trading / high frequency trading

Auction-based online markets

Online health exchanges/services

Internet-based credit scoring and risk management

Open innovation

Internet banking / online banking

Electronic money market

Supply chain finance

Prediction markets