-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Reminder Deadline - Call for Papers - Electronic Markets, Vol. 20, No 3 Datum: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:55:24 +0100 Von: Karen Heyden heyden@wifa.uni-leipzig.de An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Referenzen: 79F87F4DAF18F145B9ECB964932D27A909B20D0F@iwiex.ad-iwi.uni-leipzig.de

Dear colleagues,

Just a reminder for the upcoming Submission deadline for the call for papers of Electronic Markets with a focus theme section on 'Pricing in Electronic Markets and Networks'. The submission deadline is December 11, 2009. The detailed CfP is copied below.

Please do not hesitate to contact the editorial office (editors@electronicmarkets.org mailto:editors@electronicmarkets.org) should you have any queries.

With best regards,

Karen Heyden

Executive Editor

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Call for Papers

for the Focus Theme Section on

'Pricing in Electronic Markets and Networks'

Guest Editors of this focus theme section:

* Andreas Herrmann (Univ. of St. Gallen, Switzerland),

* Martin Spann (Univ. of Passau, Germany),

* David Sprott (Washington State Univ., USA).

Electronic media have tremendously changed the opportunities and challenges of pricing decisions. The interactive nature of ICT has promoted the use of interactive pricing mechanisms where the price is not solely posted by the seller but discovered through the interaction between sellers and buyers. Such interactive pricing mechanisms are now frequently used in B2B transactions (e.g., procurement auctions), the selling of advertisements in search engines (e.g., search key auctions) or in B2C and C2C transactions (e.g., eBay).

Further, the increased price transparency in electronic markets limits seller’s ability to price discriminate. Shopbots allow consumers to easily compare prices of different retailers and consumers can discuss and exchange price and product information in shopping communities or social networks. However, these numerous information sources may overload consumers’ ability to adequately process this information and hence make proper use of it in their decision making.

More pricing research is required to enhance our understanding of optimal pricing decisions, pricing mechanism design and buyers reaction to these pricing decisions in electronic markets and networks. This is the goal of this focus theme section.

Potential topics and research questions that this focus theme section would address include but are not limited to:

* Interactive and dynamic pricing

* Bidding behavior in auctions and auction design

* Pricing of electronic content and services

* Search engine marketing and entertainment shopping

* Effects of shopbots, recommender systems and social networks on pricing decisions

* Consumer decision making / behavioral pricing

* Pricing under network externalities

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets’ publication standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes …) is welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by 11. December 2009. All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.

Contact addresses: andreas.herrmann@unisg.ch, martin.spann@uni-passau.de, dsprott@wsu.edu or editors@electronicmarkets.org

Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:

* Submission deadline: 11. December 2009

* Feedback to authors: 31. January 2010

* Revision deadline: 24. February 2010

* Acceptance decision: 31. March 2010

* Issue: Vol. 20, No. 3, August 2010

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen

Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

Editorial Office:

Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

c/o Information Systems Institute

University of Leipzig

04109 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 9733600

Fax +49 341 9733612

E-mail: editors@electronicmarkets.org mailto:editors@electronicmarkets.org

http://www.electronicmarkets.org

Electronic Markets is published continuously online

and quarterly in print by Springer.

ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).