-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: special issue-Electronic Commerce in the Asia-Pacific Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 16:19:00 +0800 From: Jian jian.mou@xidian.edu.cn To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Electronic Commerce Research-Springer (2017 impact factor 1.489)

Electronic commerce in the Asia-Pacific has developed rapidly over the past 20 years. The Asia-Pacific Region now hosts many of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba, Taobao and JD.com. The region is also reinventing business models and innovating in e-commerce through competitors such as Meituan, Pinduoduo and Tencent. It has become a major player in electronic payments technologies with Ant Financial, WeChat Wallet and Alipay. Softbank and Alibaba investments are funding innovation in many new technologies outside of Silicon Valley.

E-commerce players in the Asia-Pacific Region face challenges - they must address many more cultures, logistics challenges and buyer preferences than their Western counterparts. In facing these challenges, they have innovated their path to success in ways that prepare them to enter nearly any market in the world. They have accumulated Global data repositories that provide them a unique competitive advantage in competing in global markets. They have pro-actively innovated in mobile commerce, social commerce and cross-border e-commerce.

Our special issue seeks the submission of high-quality papers on topics addressing the many substantial challenges to e-commerce in the Pacific Asia Region. We have listed a number of potential research topics. Submissions are not limited to this list, and we invite high quality, innovative and novel investigations of all e-commerce topics concerning the Asia-Pacific.

Editors. This special issue will be co-edited by: * Jian Mou (jian.mou@xidian.edu.cn mailto:jian.mou@xidian.edu.cn ), Xidian University

!$ TaeHo Hong (taeho.hong@gmail.com mailto:taeho.hong@gmail.com ), Pusan National University

!$ Chul Ho Lee (irontigerlee@gmail.com mailto:irontigerlee@gmail.com ), KAIST

Topics. The special issue will be devoted to the exploration of strategic, managerial, organizational, technical, security, privacy and policy challenges with regard to information services under e-commerce. We seek high-quality, unpublished contributions addressing electronic commerce on the following and related topics:

!$ Success factors in e-commerce !$ Policy issues e-commerce regulation

!$ Consumer reviews and recommendation systems

!$ Mobile technologies !$ Logistics challenges !$ Big data, machine learning and cloud platforms

!$ Communication and collaboration ib platforms

!$ Economic and business innovation !$ Trust, privacy and security issues * Service and e-commerce

* Localization based service and e-commerce

* Cross-cultural issues in e-commerce

* Emerging issues in e-commerce under Pacific Asia.

Submission Deadline. The submission deadline for full papers is November 1, 2019. Authors are encouraged to submit as soon as possible. Authors may find the submission link form Electronic Commerce Research official website, or click https://www.editorialmanager.com/elec/default.aspx https://www.editorialmanager.com/elec/default.aspx.

The authors should click Submit New Manuscript in the submission system, and then in Select Article Type, you should choose S.I.: Electronic Commerce in the Asia-Pacific to start your submission. Review Process. The special issue editors will return first reviews and AE reports no later than 60 days from the date of submission. We will use a developmental reviewing approach for this special issue, with the aim of helping special issue authors to achieve very high quality final publications. Second and third round reviews, as needed, will be completed on an expedited basis, if authors are able to turn their revisions around quickly. We also will provide special issue authors with an indication as early as possible of rejection for the special issue, including decisions based on a first reading by the special issue editors. Inappropriately targeted or under-developed papers will be returned immediately to the authors.

Publication Date: TBD For Authors: Interested authors should feel free to direct questions to the special issue editors.