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The Workshop on e-Business (WeB) 2021

Call for Papers

December 11, 2021, Virtual Conference

Conference Website: http://2021.ebizworkshop.org/

(in conjunction with International Conference on Information Systems)

The Workshop on e-Business (WeB) is a premier annual one-day conference on e-Business and e-Commerce held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions for e-Business.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 20th Workshop on e-Business (WeB) will be held virtually, on December 11, 2021.

The theme of WeB 2021 is “From Grand Challenges to Everlasting Solutions: Digital Transformation in the Age of COVID-19”. The past decade has witnessed an unrelenting exponential growth in digital and e-Business technologies that transform how we interact, live and work – from communication to entertainment to employment. Adoption of these technologies has never been more important than in current times. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the physical world, many business industries, ranging from retail, restaurant, finance to education, were compelled to swiftly migrate into remote / digital environments in order to survive. As the world has started to slowly recover from this unprecedented event, the sustainability and the longevity of such rapid digital transformation is now a matter of debate. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for IS academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions related to e-Business, digital transformation, and IT-enabled recovery in the post-pandemic era.

We invite original research articles with a broad coverage of topics on consumers, citizens, businesses, industries and governments, ranging from technical to strategic issues. Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

* Digital transformation * Digital recovery * Digital inclusion * Innovative e-Business models for crisis management * Artificial intelligence enabled business applications * Artificial intelligence and model biases * Social, ethical, policy, and privacy issues related to e-Business * Mobile business and applications * The future of e-business in the post-pandemic age * Research methods/methodology and agendas related to e-Business

Important Dates:

* Submission Deadline: Sep. 30, 2021 * Notification of Acceptance: Nov.15, 2021 * Final Version Due: Nov. 30, 2021

Submission Guidelines:

All papers must be submitted online via the EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=web2021), and will undergo blind reviews. We solicit both completed research and research-in-progress submissions. Complete research papers should be no more than 12 pages in length, including abstract, figures, tables, and references. Research-in-progress papers should not exceed 7 pages.

All texts (excluding title and section headings) must be in 12-point Times New Roman font. The paper must be single-spaced with 1-inch margin. Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word. The first page of the paper should include the title and the abstract. Please do not disclose any author information in the manuscript. Authors of the accepted papers will present their work in the workshop.

Post-conference Publication

With the authors’ consent, accepted conference papers will be published as a Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) by Springer.

Organizing Committee:

Honorary Chairs:

Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA

Michael J. Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Conference Co-Chairs:

Shaokun Fan, Oregon State University, USA

Noyan Ilk, Florida State University, USA

Zhe “Jay” Shan, Miami University, USA

Kexin Zhao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Publicity Chairs

Prasanna Karhade, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Xiao Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Advisory Committee:

Kenny Cheng, University of Florida, USA

Ming Fan, University of Washington, USA

Karl Lang, City University of New York, Baruch College, USA

Jennifer Xu, Bentley University, USA

Han Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Bin Zhu, Oregon State University, USA

Shaokun Fan

Assistant Professor in Business Analytics

Dean's Fellowship in Excellence

College of Business | Oregon State University

488 Austin Hall | Corvallis, OR 97331

541-737-6065 | Shaokun.Fan@oregonstate.edumailto:Shaokun.Fan@oregonstate.edu

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