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JOCEC Special Issue on Crowdsourcing and Gig Economy
We are pleased to announce that Journal of Organizational
Computing and Electronic Commerce (JOCEC) will publish a special
issue dedicated to academic research on crowdsourcing and gig
economy, focusing on the three critical aspects of crowdsourcing
and gig economy, including: (1) crowdsourcing; (2) digitalization
and future of work; and (3) gig worker and work conditions in the
gig economytpdel.
This special issue is open to all researchers, and papers will be
submitted to a regular JOCEC review process under the guidance of
the special issue editors. All authors are encouraged to look at
prior published JOCEC research articles for reference and
presentation style.
Authors are highly encouraged to submit an extended abstract in
August 2021 for an initial screening of fit by the editors, but
the extended abstract submission is not mandatory for the full
paper submission to the special issue. Authors are also encouraged
to submit your work to the 2022 HICSS Minitrack on Crowdsourcing
and Digital Workforce in the Gig Economy. Submitting to the
minitrack is a great way to get early feedback as you prepare your
work for the JOCEC special issue. Extended version of the papers
presented at the HICSS minitrack in January 2022 will be invited
to be fast tracked to the JOCEC special issue. For more
information about the HICSS minitrack, please refer to the
website:
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#crowdsourcing-
and-digital-workforce-in-the-gig-economy-minitrack
Aims and Objectives
Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services and
content by soliciting voluntary contributions in the form of an
open call from a large network of individuals rather than from an
organization’s employees or suppliers. For organizations,
crowdsourcing provides an online marketplace, such as Amazon
Mechanical Turk and Upwork, to tap into the labor and intelligence
of the crowd. Studies on the technical systems and collective
intelligence are informative, but our understanding of the
crowdsourcing phenomenon cannot be complete without a
comprehensive understanding of the crowd itself, the work made
available on the digital platform, and its institutional,
regulatory, ethical, and societal impacts.
More broadly, crowdsourcing contributes to the growth of the gig
economy, the labor market characterized by the prevalence of
short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent
jobs, enabled by on-demand apps such as Uber, Lyft, Instacart,
Postmates, DoorDash, Grubhub, and TaskRabbit. Economists estimate
that the portion of U.S. workers earning a living as independent
contractors, freelancers, temps, and on-call employees jumped from
10% in 2005 to nearly 16% in 2015, and the trend continues to
grow, with predictions of independent workers comprising half of
the American workforce by 2028. Yet, our understanding of the
emerging workforce and work conditions in the gig economy is still
in its incipient stage.
Thus, this special issue focuses on the three critical aspects of
crowdsourcing and gig economy, including: (1) crowdsourcing; (2)
digitalization and future of work; and (3) gig worker and work
conditions in the gig economy.
The articles published in this special issue could include, but
are not limited to, the following areas:
* Crowdsourcing and impacts on organizations
* Crowdsourcing participation and motivation
* Digital platforms for crowdsourcing
* Digital workforce and professional development
* Ethical issues in crowdsourcing
* Institutional practices and policies for crowdsourcing
* Management and practice of work in hyper-digital environments
* Management of gig work and gig workers
* Organizational opportunities and challenges in the gig economy
* Regulatory concerns and challenges in the gig economy
* Technology and gig economy
* Work design and future of work
* Digital platform design and governance
Relevant dates are as follows:
August 31, 2021: Extended abstract submission due (Optional)
January 5, 2022: JOCEC Workshop on Reimagining, Redefining, and
Reconceptualizing
IS Research at HICSS-55
March 1, 2022: Special Issue full paper submission deadline
July 1, 2022: First round decisions to authors
October 1, 2022: Second round submission due
December 1, 2022: Second round decision to authors
February 1, 2022: Third and final round submissions due
March 1, 2022: Third and final round decisions to authors.
Submission of extended abstract (August 1, 2021 – August 31, 2021)
Submission of an extended abstract is not mandatory for the full
paper submission to the special issue, but it is highly
encouraged. Extended abstracts are limited to 1500 words or 6
double-spaced pages. The page length includes the cover page
(containing the title, abstract, and keywords), all text, figures,
tables, and appendices, with an exception of references. Extended
abstracts will be reviewed by the special issue editors for the
paper’s fit for the special issue themes. Authors of selected
submissions will be invited to attend the JOCEC workshop to be
held at the 2022 Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences (HICSS-55) in Kauai, Hawaii, January 4–7, 2022.
Constructive feedback will be provided to authors at the workshop.
About the Journal and Submission Guidelines
Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
(JOCEC) disseminate and simulate original research about the
relationships between computer/communication technology and the
design, operations, and performance of organizations The aim of
JOCEC is to publish quality, fresh, and innovative work that will
make a difference for future research and practice rather than
focusing on well-established research areas. For more journal
information and submission guidelines, please refer to the
journal’s websites listed below:
URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hoce20/current
URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=hoce20&page=
instructions
2 The articles published in this special issue could include, but
are not limited to, the following areas:<AUTHORS>
Special Issue Editors
K. D. Joshi, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (
kjoshi@unr.edu)
Xuefei (Nancy) Deng, California State University, Dominguez Hills,
USA (
ndeng@csudh.edu)
Daniel E. O’Leary, University of Southern California, USA
(
oleary@usc.edu)
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