ABSTRACT
Value Webs are networks of partners who collaborate within different stages of interlinked value chains enabled by ICT. The Mini-Track wants to discuss the use and impacts of emerging technologies in interlinked value chains to support inter-business and inter-personal processes and relationships from technological, social and economical perspectives.

MINI-TRACK CHAIR
Prof. Dr. Helmut A.O. Krcmar
Chair for Information Systems
Technische Universität München
Email: krcmar@in.tum.de

CALL FOR PAPERS
Diffusion of internet technologies will result in further far reaching micro- and macro economic effects. It is based on innovative ICT infrastructures, products and services and in itself induces new product- and process-innovations. Recent trends in science and practice such as Zero Latency Businesses, Mass Customisation and Modularisation of products and services, Enterprise Application Integration, Supply Chain Management, Customer Integration in product development and distribution make obvious the changes the Internet is causing. These new circumstances caused through Internet technologies affect production, distribution and usage of information goods. In addition they affect also development-, production- and distribution of physical goods in traditional, 'Old-Economy' industries.

Therefore the application of Internet technologies has high impact on corporate strategies and leads to new competitive challenges of companies within existing or newly emerging or dissolving or reassembling value chains. Competition is shifting from an inter-company level to a competition of strategic partners, thus towards a competition of new Value Webs. Value Webs are networks of partners who collaborate within different stages of interlinked value chains enabled by ICT.

Information Systems researchers have recently directed their attention to some examples of these Net-Enabled Value Webs (see e.g. 2002 volumes 2 & 3 of Information Systems Research). Net Enabled Value Webs can execute transactions, rapidly exchange information, and innovate through new business processes and at an unprecedented pace. Given a new dimension of the use of electronic networks, inter-organizational cooperation is nowadays often discussed in terms of B2B-Marketplaces, Supply Chain Management, Virtual Organizations or Strategic Alliances etc. But also new types of collaborative communities, e.g. on-line communities or communities of practice, might change the relationships between producer and consumer throughout value chains. Information and Communication Technologies may support or hinder these and other types of Value Webs. All these aspects and research topics have to be put in a wider context in order to be able to describe and analyse the new paradigm shift of the internet economy.

Since the nature of the research object requires multidisciplinary research efforts involving applied computer and information sciences (such as Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Ontologies) and social sciences (such as Economics, Management Science), the Mini-track addresses empirical and conceptual research. The topics covered by the Mini-Track include, but are not restricted to the following subjects:

- Architectures for Value Webs
- Infrastructures for Value Webs
- Application Integration within Value Webs
- New Technologies Enabling Value Webs
- Standards and Ontologies for Inter- and Intra-organizational Collaboration in Value Webs
- Customer Integration in Value Webs
- Case Studies of Value Webs
- Methods for Supporting Creation and Adaptation of Value Webs
- Methods for Supporting Product Development in Value Webs
- Reference Models for Value Webs in Different Industries
- Supply Chain Managements and Value Webs
- Marketplaces and Value Webs
- Social Aspects of Collaboration in Value Webs
- Business Models for Value Webs
- Interface, Product and Service Design for Collaboration in Value Webs
- Social, Political and Economic Impact of Value Webs
- New IT-enabled Services and Service Architectures in and for Value Webs in the Digital Economy

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2003 Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of appropriate content.
June 1, 2003 Full papers submitted to Mini-track Chair.
Contact Mini-Track chair for submission instructions.
August 31, 2003 Notice of accepted papers sent to authors.
October 1, 2003 Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher.
Authors must be registered for the conference by this date.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
1. Manuscripts should be 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams, in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format. The final paper will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.
2. Each paper must have a title page that includes the title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses
1. including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).
2. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper.
3. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
4. Do not submit the same manuscript to more than one Mini-track.
5. Papers should be submitted by email, to both Helmut Krcmar <krcmar@in.tum.de> and Jan Marco Leimeister <leimeister@in.tum.de> by the deadline noted above.

Mini-Track Chair:
Prof. Dr. Helmut A.O. Krcmar (Primary Contact)
Chair for Information Systems (I 17)
Technische Universität München
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching / Germany
Tel: +49-89/289-19530
Fax: +49-89/289-19533
Email: krcmar@in.tum.de

Jan Marco Leimeister (Assistant)
Chair for Information Systems (I 17)
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching
Germany
Phone: +49-179/6947796
Fax:+49-89/289-19533
url: www.winfobase.de
E-mail: leimeister@in.tum.de

CONFERENCE VENUE
Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii)
425 Waikoloa Beach Drive
Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738
Tel: 1-808-886-1234
Fax: 1-808-886-2900
www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com