ABSTRACT

 CALL FOR PAPERS
Diffusion of Internet, web services and pervasive technologies will result in industry wide and organizational transformation with far reaching micro- and macro economic effects. The transformation is triggered by new and pervasive ICT infrastructures, products and services that enable continually new product- and process-innovations. Recent innovations in new business practices such as Zero Latency Business, Mass Customisation, Product Modularisation, Enterprise Application Integration, collaborative supply Chain Management, Mobile Commerce, Customer Integration in product development and distribution are just few examples of deep changes the Internet and Mobile Technologies have created. Internet and Mobile Technologies affect all facets of production, distribution and usage of information goods and significantly transform development-, production- and distribution of physical goods in ‘Old-Economy’ industries.

The impact of Internet based technologies is seen clearly in emerging corporate strategies. These strategies recognize new competitive challenges within existing value chains that will dissolve or be totally reassembled. Competition is shifting from an inter-company level to a competition over strategic partners and architectural control. This we call competition within and between emerging Value Webs- new value chain arrangements. Value Webs consist of networks of partners and competitors which collaborate across and within various stages of value chain. These interactions are enabled and constrained by ICT capability where value extraction draws upon specific architectural responsibility and control.

Information Systems researchers have recently directed their attention to specific 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. Accordingly inter-organizational cooperation is often discussed in terms of B2B-Marketplaces, Supply Chain Management, Virtual Organizations, or Strategic Alliances etc. Also new types of collaborative communities, e.g. on-line communities or communities of practice, are emerging which fundamentally have changed the relationships between producer and consumers. Information and Communication Technologies both enable and constrain these and other types of Value Web arrangements. Recently, the impact and potential of Mobile Technologies has attracted increased attention in shaping new value creation networks (see e.g. several tracks in conferences like ICIS etc. and special editions of journals like Electronic Markets, etc.) due to the need to reconfigure large portions of the value chains that will deliver mobile services. All these aspects and research topics describe a paradigm shift in value creation and extraction in the age of the internet.

Since the research in Value Webs requires multidisciplinary research 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 primarily empirical and conceptual research. The topics covered in the Mini-track include, but are not restricted to the following subjects:

 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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 IMPORTANT DATES

• Authors submit papers to the file submission website in publication format.
  (Papers must be double column, single space and no more than 10 pages long.)
  
  Do not submit papers directly to the Minitrack Chairs. All papers must be uploaded into the website to be reviewed for the conference. The website will be open approximately mid-April. Additional instructions will be available at that time. Check the conference website for details.
  
  
• The deadline for uploading papers is June 15th 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
  
• After papers are uploaded, they are converted to pdf and then sent to authors for ‘approval’ prior to being released to the Minitrack chair for the review process.
• Papers will then be reviewed through the system.
  
• Acceptance decisions will be made by August 15th. (Accept/Reject or Accept with Required Revisions)
  
• Papers accepted with required revisions must be revised by authors by September 15, and reviewed by the Minitrack Chair before final acceptance is made.
  
• Final version of papers must be uploaded by October 1st, 5:00pm Pacific Time.
  
• Authors must register for the conference by October 1st.

The paper must contain original results and not have been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance for HICSS-38. Manuscripts that have already appeared in publication will not be considered for this conference.

 Mini-Track Chairs: